CLARIN-NL - Discourse

Nederlab

Erica Renckens — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:40:19 +0000

Nederlab, online laboratory for humanities research on Dutch text collections

Summary

A user-friendly and tool-enriched open access web interface that aims at containing all digitized texts relevant for the Dutch national heritage and the history of Dutch language and culture (c. 800 - present).

Background

The Nederlab project aims to bring together all digitized texts relevant to Dutch national heritage, the history of Dutch language and culture (c. 800 -present) in one user-friendly and tool-enriched open access web interface, allowing scholars to simultaneously search and analyze data from texts spanning the full recorded history of the Netherlands, its language and culture. The project builds on various initiatives: for corpora Nederlab collaborates with the scientific libraries and institutions, for infrastructure with CLARIN (and CLARIAH), for tools with eHumanities programmes such as Catch, IMPACT and CLARIN (TICCL, frog).

Nederlab offers a large number of search options with which researchers can find the occurrence of a particular term in a particular corpus or subcorpus. It also offers visualization of search results through line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, or scatter graphs. Furthermore, this online lab will offer a large set of tools, like tokenization tools, tools for spelling normalization, PoS-tagging tools , lemmatization tools, a computational historical lexicon and indices. Also, the use of (semi-) automatic syntactic parsing, tools for text mining, data mining and sentiment mining, Named Entity Recognition tools, coreference resolution tools, plagiarism detection tools, paraphrase detection tools and cartographical tools is offered

The first version of Nederlab was launched in early 2015, it’ll be expanded until the end of 2017. Nederlab is financed by NWO, KNAW, CLARIAH and CLARIN-NL.

Contacts

Project leader: prof. dr. Hans Bennis, Meertens Institute  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute
Help contact: hennie.brugman@meertens.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://www.nederlab.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://www.nederlab.nl/onderzoeksportaal/?action=help
Tool/Service link: http://www.nederlab.nl/onderzoeksportaal/
Publications: http://www.nederlab.nl/wp/?page_id=12

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Cultural Sciences

History

Linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Lexical

Discourse

Orthographic

Morphological

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

Syntactic

Semantic

Format

Textual data

XML

Folia

TEI

DiscAn

Erica Renckens — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:45:41 +0000

DiscAN: Towards a Discourse Annotation system for Dutch language corpora

Summary

The DiscAn corpus is a collection of subcorpora of Dutch language that have been annotated at the level of discourse. These subcorpora form a set of Dutch corpus analyses of coherence relations and discourse connectives that have been compiled and annotated by researchers at several universities in The Netherlands and Belgium. In the DiscAn project, funded by CLARIN-NL, this set of corpus analyses has been standardized (both in terms of raw data – the texts – and analyses) and opened up for further scientific research.

Background

The six subcorpora included in the DiscAn corpus were all compiled with a focus on Dutch causal connectives. The compilers all selected examples of specific Dutch connectives from Dutch natural occurring language. They included some context; for some subcorpora only the two segments connected by the causal connective, for others a complete paragraph or more. In a later stage, the developers hope to include other corpora which have not focused on causal connectives, but also include coherence relations that are not explicitly marked by a connective, and subcorpora containing other coherence relations than just causal ones. Users of the DiscAn corpus should bear in mind that for now, the corpus only contains causal connective subcorpora. For that reason, certain research questions cannot currently be answered by the DiscAn corpus, such as questions comparing the number of occurrence of connectives between different discourse genres. The DiscAN corpus contains the following subcorpora on causal connectives:

Degand (2001): 143 cases of aangezien, want and omdat from newspapers (NRC Handelsblad 1994)
Pander Maat & Sanders (2000): 100 cases of dus and daarom from newspapers (Volkskrant 1994 and 1995)
Persoon (2010): 105 cases of omdat and want from Corpus of Spoken Dutch (CGN)
Pit (2003): 198 cases of doordat/omdat/want/aangezien from newspapers (Volkskrant 1995) and 107 cases of doordat/omdat/want from fiction texts
Sanders & Spooren (2009): 551 cases in total of omdat and want from newspapers, spontaneous conversations and chat interaction; 100 cases of omdat and 101 cases of want from newspapers (D-Coi); 100 cases of omdat and 100 cases of want from spontaneous conversations (CGN); 50 cases of omdat and 100 cases of want from chat interaction (VU-Chat-corpus and D-COI)
Stukker (2005): 286 cases of daardoor (94), daarom (94) and dus (98) from newspapers (Trouw 2001)

Contacts

Project leader: Prof. Dr. T.J.M. Sanders (Utrecht University)  
CLARIN center: Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact: https://tla.mpi.nl/contact/

Links

Web-sites: https://tla.mpi.nl/resources/discan-corpora/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/102488706/ANNIS_User_Guide_2.2.1.pdf (User Guide ANNIS2 architecture)
Tool/Service link: https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?5&openpath=node:1704649
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:TLA:+DiscAn ).
Publications: Vis, K., Sanders, J. & Spooren, W. (2012). Diachronic changes in subjectivity and stance – A corpus linguistic study of Dutch news texts. Discourse, Context & Media (Elsevier), 1(2-3), 95-102.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Linguistics

Discourse

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Discourse

coherence

Discourse Relations

causality marking

Format

Textual data

ANNIS

XML

EAF

VU-DNC

Erica Renckens — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:17:48 +0000

VU-DNC: VU Diachronic Newspaper Corpus

Summary

VU-DNC is a unique diachronic corpus of Dutch newspaper articles from five major Dutch newspapers from 1950/1951 and 2002 (2 MW). The VU-DNC has been annotated for quotations, which enables the researcher to differentiate between the words directly under responsibility of the journalist.

Background

VU-DNC contains two news subcorpora, one containing old newspaper texts from 1950 and 1951 from five major national Dutch newspapers, and one containing new newspaper texts from 2002 from the same five newspapers. The articles originate from the front page, domestic news, foreign news, financial news, culture, opinion, sports, and science sections from Algemeen Dagblad, NRC Handelsblad, de Telegraaf, Trouw and de Volkskrant (1950/1: 931,574 words, 3615 texts; 2002: 971,059 words, 3003 texts). The texts from 1950 and 1951 were scanned, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), from original paper copies; the 2002 texts were extracted from the international newspaper database LexisNexis.
The VU-DNC has been developed at the Department of Language and Communication, Faculty of Arts, of the VU University, under supervision of prof.dr. Wilbert Spooren, an accomplished researcher in discourse studies, with many years of experience in using and compiling corpora, such as the VU-chat-corpus. Kirsten Vis was responsible for the compilation of the VU-DNC, from the design and compilation criteria to the actual realization of the corpus.
The VU-DNC makes it possible to address a variety of research questions on diachronic change. From a historical perspective, developments over time within and between the five major newspapers can be better addressed, e.g. were the differences between the type of news events the major newspapers reported on greater in the more segregated society of the 1950s than they are now? From the perspective of communication and media studies, research questions into the diachronic changes in journalistic practice can be better addressed, for example questions regarding the framing of the news: do journalists nowadays use different framing devices than in 1950? From a (historical) linguistic perspective, research questions can be answered that address the recent linguistic developments in Dutch news, varied over type of article or section and/or newspaper. For example: has the language use in newspapers become more subjective, is there a difference in this development between hard news texts and other types of texts, and is it stronger in popular newspapers than in so-called ‘serious’ newspapers?

Contacts

Project leader:  Prof. dr. W. Spooren (VU University Amsterdam)
CLARIN center: Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL)
Help contact : n.a.

Links

Web-sites: https://portal.clarin.inl.nl/vu-dnc/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/record?fq=collection:TST-Centrale&docId=hdl...
Data link (INL): https://portal.clarin.inl.nl/vu-dnc/
Publications: Vis, K. (2011), Subjectivity in news discourse. A corpus linguistic analysis of informalization. PhD Dissertation, VU Amsterdam. http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/19775/dissertation.pdf?sequ... (pdf)

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Dutch Language Institute

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Communication & Media Studies

History

Linguistics

historical linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Discourse

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

extended part of speech (inflection)

gender

Format

Textual data

Plain text

CSV

XML

Media data

JPEG

VALID

Erica Renckens — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:07:03 +0000

VALID - vulnerability in language acquisition: language impairments in Dutch

Summary

An open access multimedia archive of language pathology data collected in the Netherlands, primarily on Dutch, audio files and transcripts. Currently, this corpus contains 5 different data sets. In the VALID data archive old, current and future data can be brought together.

Background

VALID, an open access multimedia language data archive, facilitates and promotes innovative research in the area of language impairment. There are a number of compelling reasons for exchanging and sharing this kind of data. Obviously, in a small country like the Netherlands a considerably smaller amount of language data is being collected than in much larger regions, especially so with respect to language disorders, a highly specific research domain. The combination of a wide range of language impairments in one data archive not only enhances the study of similar impairments but also advances comparisons between different disorders. Moreover, the inclusion of different age groups allows for quasi-longitudinal research designs. Finally, analysis of task properties and effects that are specific to pathological language groups can make a significant contribution to evidence-based research.

The following data sets define the launching platform for the VALID data archive, together with the BISLI data set that is currently being curated (FESLI):

The SLI RU-Kentalis database: the expression of spatial relations by children with SLI and normally developing children in their spoken language production
The UU SLI-Dyslexia project database: early language development in children at familial risk of dyslexia
The bilingual deaf children RU-Kentalis database: the bilingual language and communication development of young deaf children in Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) and Dutch (D)
The ADHD and SLI corpus UvA database: the language and executive functioning profiles of children with ADHD and children with SLI and TD children
The deaf adults RU database: the acquisition of morphosyntactic aspects of Dutch by deaf Dutch adults (late L1/early L2) and hearing Turkish and Moroccan-Arabic L2-learners of Dutch (late L2).

For all data sets concerned, written informed consent from the participants or their caretakers has been obtained. Informants or their caretakers have agreed to share their speech/language data and metadata, on the condition of anonymity, which will be ensured by the data providers and infrastructure specialists Contacts

Project leader: Dr. J. Klatter (Radboud University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact: j.klatter@let.ru.nl (coordinator)

Links

Web-sites: http://validdata.org/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Tool/Service link: http://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-8C315BC1-AD5E-4348-9A79-A41FE3DE1150 (CMDI top node)
https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?openpath=node:2102153 (metadata browser)
Publications:
- Bergmann, L, van Hout, R and Klatter-Folmer, J. 2017. SLI Diagnostics in Narratives: Exploring the CLARIN-NL VALID Data Archive. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 167–180. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.14. License: CC-BY 4.0
- Klatter, J., Hout, R. van, Heuvel, H. van den, Fikkert, P., Baker, A., Jong, J. de, Wijnen, F., Sanders, E. & Trilsbeek, P. (2014). Vulnerability in Acquisition, Language Impairments in Dutch: Creating a VALID Data Archive. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Proceedings (LREC) May 26-31, 2014, Reykjavik. pp. 357-364.
- Heuvel, H. van den, Sanders, E., Klatter, J., Hout, R. van, Fikkert, P., Baker, A., Jong, J. de, Wijnen, F. & Trilsbeek, P. (2014). Data curation for a VALID Archive of Dutch Language Impairment Data. In: Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2), pp. 127-135. DOI:10.1075/dujal.3.2.02heu