Add RunoVerse — Finnic oral poetry digital explorer

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RunoVerse is a web-based digital explorer for 439,746 lemmas from 292,092 Finnish and Estonian runosong (Kalevala-metric oral poetry) texts. It combines three major corpora (SKVR, Julkaisemattomat Runot, ERAB) into a single lemmatized, AI-translated, cross-lingually searchable platform with 70+ specialized analytical tools.

What makes it valuable for DH practitioners:

• Similarity analysis — 7 algorithms comparing poems and verses across the full 292K corpus
• Emotional geography — map 36 emotion families across 803 collection places
• Kalevala meter scansion — prosodic analysis of 2.34M Finnish verses (no other web tool does this)
• Cross-lingual comparison — 5,729 Estonian-Finnish cognate pairs, 28K cross-lingual verse pairs
• Treasure legends — first digital corpus viewer for 6,196 Estonian varandusemuistendid
• Dictionary integration — 64,000+ entries from 5 Estonian dialect dictionaries
• Semantic annotation — 704K+ wordforms annotated via GLiNER, GoEmotions, SetFit, NRC EmoLex

No login required. Free and open access.

Built by Kaarel Veskis (Estonian Literary Museum / University of Tartu).

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