CLARIN-NL - EAF

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

LAISEANG

Erica Renckens — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:30:22 +0000

LAISEANG: Language Archive of Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea

Summary

The LAISEANG corpus contains an unrivaled collection of multimedia materials and written documents from over 50 languages in Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea.

Background

The geographical region of insular South East Asia and New Guinea is well-known as an area of mega-biodiversity. Less well-known is the extreme linguistic diversity in this area: over a quarter of the world’s 6000 languages are spoken here. As small minority languages, most of these will cease to be spoken in the coming few generations. The LAISEANG corpus ensures the preservation of unique records of languages and the cultures encapsulated by them in the region. The language resources have been gathered by twenty linguists at, or in collaboration with Dutch universities over the last 40 years, and are compiled and archived in collaboration with The Language Archive (TLA) in Nijmegen. The resulting archive constitutes an unrivaled collection of multimedia materials and written documents from over 50 languages in Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea. Through the archive, future speaker communities and researchers are able to plumb the materials for answers to their own questions, even if they do not themselves know the language, and even if the language dies.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr. Marian Klamer (Leiden University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact:  https://tla.mpi.nl/contact/

Links

Web-sites: https://tla.mpi.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Data link (IMDI browser): http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/viewcontroller?request=view&nodeid...
Data Link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:TLA:+LAISEANG:+Insular...
Publications:
- Klamer, M, Trilsbeek, P, Hoogervorst, T and Haskett, C. 2017. Creating a Language Archive of Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 113–121. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.10. License: CC-BY 4.0

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Multiple languages

Research domain

Linguistics

Language Documentation

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

multi-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Translational

translation

Gloss

Orthographic Transcription

Format

Textual data

Plain text

Praat TextGrid

XML

EAF

Media data

JPEG

wav

MP4

MP3

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

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Dutch

Dutch Sign Language

Research domain

Communication & Media Studies

Linguistics

Morpho-syntax

Acquisition

Specific Language Impairment Studies

Sign language

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

mono-lingual

multi-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Discourse

Orthographic

Orthographic Transcription

Phonetic / Phonological

phonetic representation

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

Format

Textual data

Plain text

PDF

CSV

Praat TextGrid

CHAT

XML

EAF

Media data

wav

MP4

DBD/TCULT

root — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:53:17 +0000

DBD - Dutch Bilingualism Database, TCULT - Talen en Culturen in Utrechtse Lombok en Transvaal

Summary

The CLARIN NL supported data sets are part of an already existing collection: Dutch Bilingualism Database housed at the MPI for Psycholinguistics that are both also CLARIN compatible. The addtional DBD / TCULT data were curated by the CLARIN DCS (http://dev.clarin.nl/node/1963) and delivered in February 2014.

Background

The original DBD data was collected, curated and digitised in a project led by Pieter Muysken from 2003-2008 and stored at the MPI for Psycholinguistics. The DBD is a rather substantial collection of data (over 1,500 sessions) from a number of projects and research programmes that were directed at investigating multilingualism and comprises data originating from Dutch, Sranan, Sarnami, Papiamentu, Arabic, Berber and 1Turkish speakers . At the basis of the collection is the research project TCULT[1] (1998-2002) in which intercultural language contacts in the Dutch city of Utrecht were studied. DBD established a first curation of the TCULT data and added many more bilingual data sets collected in the period 1985 – 2005.
See knaw project description and

Contacts

Project leader: Pieter Muyskens, Radboud University  
CLARIN center: MPI for Psycholinguistics
Help contact : n.a.

Links

Web-sites: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/projecten/TCULT.html
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: curation report, tcult project
Tool/Service link: archive link
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:TLA:+DBD
Publications: The Dutch Bilingualism Database, Boumans, L.P.C. ; Crevels, E.I., 2005, http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/41599

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Arabic

Berber

Papiamento

Sarnami

Sranan

Turkish

Dutch

Research domain

Linguistics

Acquisition

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Orthographic

Format

Textual data

CHAT

XML

EAF

Media data

wav

LESLLA

root — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:53:11 +0000

LESLLA - Low-educated/Illiterate Second Language Learners

Summary

LESLLA was curated by the DCS (delivered in August 2013). More info on the DCS: http://dev.clarin.nl/node/1963.

Background

The LESLLA corpus dates from 2003-2005 and contains speech of 15 low educated learners of Dutch as a second language. The learners are all women. Eight learners have a Turkish background, seven learners have a Moroccan background. From these learners, data were collected over time in three cycles, with an interval of 5 months. In each cycle the participants took part in three types of tasks: (1) production tasks, (2) perception tasks, and (3) a perception task with a metalinguistic component. The production tasks included open elicitation (14,000 utterances), closed completion (4,000 utterances) and imitation (6,000 utterances). Apart from the audio files, the data consist of orthographic transcriptions. For all 15 learners there are also metadata available.

Contacts

Project leader:  Ineke van de Craats, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Department of Linguistics, i.v.d.craats@let.ru.nl
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact : n.a.

Links