CLARIN-NL - Communication & Media Studies

Computational Linguistics

History

Literary Studies

Philosophy

Linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

Annotations

No Annotation

Format

Textual data

PDF

NISV Academia Collection

Jan Odijk — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:00:23 +0000

NISV Academia Collection

Summary

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) Academia collection contains audiovisuele sources that can be used in higher education in the Netherlands.

Background

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) Academia collection contains audiovisuele sources that can be used in higher education in the Netherlands. This unique selection from the NISV's archives has been made available and has been described by means of metadata specifically for education and science. These data are accessible only to education and research organisations that have an Academia License.

Contacts

Project leader: Johan Oomen  
CLARIN center: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV)
Help contact

helpdesk@clarin.nl Links

Web-sites: https://www.academia.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: [ref to end-report]
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:Nederlands+Instituut+v...
Publications:

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

NIBG

Language

Dutch

Research domain

History

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

Annotations

No Annotation

Format

Media data

OpenConvert

Jan Odijk — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:29:10 +0000

Title

Summary

The OpenConvert tools convert to TEI or FOLiA from a number of input formats (alto, text, word, HTML, ePub). The tools are available as a Java command line tool, a web service and a web application.

Background

The OpenConvert Tools were created by INL in the OpenConvert project. The OpenConvert tools convert to TEI or FOLiA from a number of input formats (alto, text, word, HTML, ePub). The tools are available as a Java command line tool, a web service and a web application. Furthermore, as a proof of concept, the website currently provides two annotation tools: a simple Tokenizer for TEI files and a modern Dutch part of speech tagger.

Contacts

Project leader: Jan Theo Bakker 
CLARIN center:
Help contact : helpdesk@clarin.nl

Links

Web-sites: n.a.
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/openconvert/web/help.html
Tool/Service link:
- web application: http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/
- web services: see http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/openconvert/web/help.html
- command line tools: https://github.com/INL/OpenConvert
Publications: n.a.

Research domain

Religion Studies

Computational Linguistics

History

Literary Studies

Philosophy

Linguistics

Language

Dutch

Language independent

Country

Netherlands

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

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

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Dutch

Dutch Sign Language

Research domain

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

AVResearcherXL

Erica Renckens — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:50:03 +0000

AVReseracherXL: Exploring audiovisual metadata in historical context

Summary

AVResearcherXL is a tool for exploring radio and television programme descriptions, television subtitles and general newspaper articles. The interface searches across the catalogue "iMMix" of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and a selection of newspapers of KB Royal Archive of the Netherlands.

Background

By the end of 2014, the data used by AVResearcherXL are: iMMix

932,035 broadcasts indexed
18,124 broadcasts with subtitles
1 January 1900 is the date of the first broadcast in the index
26 October 2013 is the date of the last broadcast in the index

KB newspapers

25,811,413 articles indexed
16,294,029 articles are of type "artikel"
8,483,542 articles are of type "advertentie"
630,929 articles are of type "illustratie met onderschrift"
402,913 articles are of type "familiebericht"
1 January 1900 is the date of the first article in the index
30 November 1994 is the date of the last article in the index

AVResearcherXL is financially supported by CLARIN-NL within the QuaMeRDES-project and by CLARIAH-SEED within the Research Instruments for Media Studies-project. AVResearcherXL is an extended version of MeRDES, the tool developed in 2012 by the NWO-CATCH project BRIDGE. MeRDES was further developed into AVResearcher by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in 2013. AVResearcherXL is a collaborative project of Centre for Television in Transition (Utrecht University), Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The partners worked together with Dispectu for the development of the interface and back-end, and with Frontwise for the styling of the interface.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr. Jasmijn van Gorp (Utrecht University)  
CLARIN center: The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Help contact : j.vangorp@uu.nl or ebaaren@beeldengeluid.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://avresearcher.clariah.beeldengeluid.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/QuaMeRDES_M2_demonstrationscena...
Manual: http://avresearcher.clariah.beeldengeluid.nl/#help
Tool/Service link: http://avresearcher.clariah.beeldengeluid.nl/ or github
Publications:
- Bron, M., Gorp, J. van, Nack, F., Rijke, M. de, Vishneuski, Andrei & Leeuw, J.S. de (2012). A Subjunctive Exploratory Search Interface to Support Media Studies Researchers. SIGIR '12: 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval Portland, Oregon: ACM.
- Huurnink, B., Bronner, A., Bron, M., Gorp, J. van, Goede, B. de & Wees, J. van (2013). AVResearcher: Exploring Audiovisual Metadata. DIR 2013: Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Conference Delft: DIR.

Research domain

History

Language

Dutch

Resource tags

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Tool task

analysis

corpus exploration

browse

visualisation

CLARIN centre

NIBG

Country

Netherlands

test standard

root — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:58:57 +0000

test text

Research domain

Religion Studies

Speech recognition

Computational Linguistics

History

Linguistics

Used by

Meertens/HuC

Standard status

neutral

TTNWW

root — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:01:54 +0000

TTNWW - TST Tools voor het Nederlands als Webservices in een Workflow

Summary

TTNWW integrates and makes available existing Language Technology (LT) software components for the Dutch language that have been developed in the STEVIN and CGN projects. The LT components (for text and speech) are made available as web-services in a simplified workflow system that enables researchers without much technical background to use standard LT workflow recipes.

Background

The web services are available in two separate domains: "Text" and "Speech" processing. For "Text", workflows for the following functionality is offered by TTNWW:

Orthographic Normalisation using TICCLops (version CLARIN-NL 1.0)
Part of Speech Tagging, Lemmatisation, Chunking, limited Multiword Unit Recognition, and Grammatical Relation Assignment by Frog (Version 012.012)
Syntactic Parsing (including grammatical relation assignment, limited named entity recognition, and limited multiword unit recognition) by the Alpino Parser (version 1.3)
Semantic Annotation
Named Entity Recognition
Co-reference Assignment

For "Speech", the following workflows are offered:

Automatic Transcription of speech files using a Netherlands Dutch acoustic model
Automatic Transcription of speech files using a Flemish Dutch acoustic model
Conversion of the input speech file to the required sampling rate, followed by automatic transcription

The TTNWW services have been created in a Dutch and Flemish collaboration project building on the results of past Dutch and Flemish projects. The web services are partly deployed in the SURF-SARA BiG-Grid cloud or at CLARIN centres in the Netherlands and at CLARIN VL University partners.

The architecture of the TTNWW portal consists out of several components and follows the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The TTNWW GUI front-end is a Flex module that communicates with the TTNWW web-application which keeps track of the different sessions and knows which LT recipes are available. TTNWW communicates assigments (workflow specifications) to the WorkflowService that evaluates the requested workflow and requests the DeploymentSevice to start the required LT web-services. After initialization of the LT web-services, the workflow specification is sent to the Taverna Server, that takes further care of the workflow.

To facilitate the process of wrapping applications that were originally designed as standalone applications into web services, the CLAM (Computational Linguistics Application Mediator) wrapper software allows for easy and transparent transformation of applications into RESTful web services. The CLAM software has extensively been used in the TTNWW project for both text and speech processing tools. With the exception of Alpino and MBSRL all web services work operate on CLAM wrappers.

Given the number of web services involved in the TTNWW project and possibilities offered by the cloud environment the preferred method of delivering the web service installations was delivery of complete virtual machine images by the LT providers. These could be directly uploaded into the cloud environment and thus relieving the CLARIN centres nd LT providers from the original foreseen task of running the webservices themselves. A potential advantage of this method, that has not been exploited in the project yet, is that these images may be also be delivered directly to the end user so these can be run in a local configuration using virtualization software such as VMWare of VirtualBox.

The workflow engine used in the project was Taverna. But build on top of this was a a number of selectable task recipes, following a task oriented approach in line with the premises that users with no or little technical expertise should be able to use the system. In this context, tasks are understood in terms of end results of processes such as semantic role labelling, pos tagging or syntactic analysis and ready-made workflows are constructed that can be readily used by the end user. Contacts

Project leader: Marc Kemps-Snijders (NL), Ineke Schuurman (VL)  
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute (portal) and others (web-services).
Help contact : n.a.

Links

Web-sites: n.a.
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://yago.meertens.knaw.nl/apache/TTNWW/assets/TTNWW.pdf
Tool/Service link: http://yago.meertens.knaw.nl/apache/TTNWW/
Publications: n.a.

Research domain

History

Oral History

Linguistics

Morpho-syntax

Orthography

Discourse

Semantics

Syntax

Language

Dutch

Resource tags

service

speech processing

text processing

web-application

web-service

Tool task

parsing

audio-visual processing

speech recognition

speech transcription

up/down sampling

text processing

chunking

co-reference assignment

grammatical relation assignment

multiword unit identification

orthographic normalisation

POS tagging

tokenization

lemmatisation

NE recognition

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Country

Netherlands

WAHSP/BILAND/TexCavator

root — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:37:11 +0000

WAHSP/BILAND: web application for (bilingual) historical sentiment mining in public media

Summary

WAHSP/BILAND is a research tool for historians that uses textual data of news media from the period 1863-1940 of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin as input material. One can search with single query terms or with combinations thereof. Apart from showing the articles that match the query, the results can be visualized by word clouds of single articles together with sentiment words highlighted, or by a word cloud of the whole result set together with newspaper statistics derived from their metadata. The WAHSP and BILAND applications have been succeeded by the TexCavator application. Links below are to TexCavator.

Background

WAHSP/BILAND enables historians to collect and process large bi-lingual (Dutch and German) sets of opinionated text-data from news media and extract discourse identity and intensity patterns in two different countries with different scripts (e.g. Latin and Gothic). This tool offers a unique opportunity for non-technical humanities researchers to perform a new kind of historical e-research for studying changing opinions, notions and perceptions regarding public health and policy issues.
The text mining tools for opinion/sentiment extraction that form the technological base for WAHSP/BILAND have been developed within the NTU/STEVIN DuOMAn project. The technology includes algorithms and tools for identification of polarity (positive/support or negative/criticism), sources (opinion-holders), frequency of items and specific targets of discourses. The tools and subjectivity lexicons are implemented as modules of ‘Fietstas’ 2, an web service for text analysis. Fietstas also provides other essential text processing modules (morphological normalization, format and encoding reconciliation, named entity recognition and normalization, etc.) and visualization modules (interactive word clouds and timelines). Fietstas has been developed and is being used for processing of large-scale datasets in the context of several projects, such as DuOMAn. A text translation service based on Machine Learning can be used to translate existing lexicons and documents between Dutch and German (both directions).
The web application uses this functionality of Fietstas to leverage interactive creation, expansion and refinement of lexicons specific to the user’s research questions and needs. For BILAND new bilingual and biscriptural lexicons have been developed. The application uses the visualization features of Fietstas to allow users to examine the research domain along the dimensions of time, context, and the identity and frequency of the discourse. WAHSP/BILAND is meant to be generic and testable in all domains, where analysis of topics, contexts and attitudes in large volumes of text is needed.

Contacts

Project leader: prof. dr. Toine Pieters (Utrecht University)  
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact : t.pieters@uu.nl

Links

Web-sites: WAHSP/BLAND has been succeeded by TexCavator: http://texcavator.surfsaralabs.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://texcavator.surfsaralabs.nl/static/endusermanual.pdf
Tool/Service link: TexCavator: http://texcavator.surfsaralabs.nl/
Publications:
Souce Code: https://github.com/UUDigitalHumanitieslab/texcavator/

Research domain

History

Language

Dutch

German

Resource tags

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

multi-lingual

Tool task

analysis

Analysis of Concepts across time

corpus exploration

visualisation

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Country

Netherlands

Germany

WIP

root — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:29:52 +0000

WIP: War in Parliament

Summary

An advanced search engine for the OCR-ed scanned image collection of proceedings of the Dutch Hansard (Handelingen der Staten-Generaal 1930-1995). These proceedings are available as a fully annotated semi-structures dataset for historical and social science research. The output of the search engine can be restricted by speaker name, party, date range, and other criteria.

Background

References to the Second World War (WW II) have shaped political debate in the Netherlands for many decades. However, we have no systematic knowledge of why, how often, when, by whom or from which political party, and in which context, these references were made. Nor do we know the meanings politicians ascribed to the war years, the lessons the war was supposed to teach, and how all of this influenced political decision-making. WIP helps answering these questions and will help us better understand the complex legacies of WW II.
The WIP project bridges the gap between historical and social science practices and the possibilities offered by using large corpora and language resources, in particular Clarin tools for Dutch. The dataset - de Handelingen der Staten-Generaal (Dutch Hansard) - are made compliant with Clarin, ISOCAT and ISO/TC 37/SC 4 standards. The search engine for this dataset uses an intuitive and powerful query language based on XPath, and its output can be fed directly into further analysis programs like SPSS. Integrating this technology with important historical research questions will directly contribute to new and innovative ways of writing about history.
The search engine results can be exported in a CSV-format (comma seperated values). This makes it easy to calculate statistics offline from a result set and apply further filters.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr. Hinke Piersma (NIOD) 
CLARIN center: DANS
Help contact : maartenmarx@uva.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://wip.politicalmashup.nl/
User scenario's (screencast): http://youtu.be/tEqAIH2o2rc demo: http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/WIP%20demoscenario.pdf
Manual: http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/WIP%20manual.pdf
Tool/Service link: http://wip.politicalmashup.nl/
Publications:
- Marx, M. (2011), Oorlog in de Kamer, NRC, March 3, 2011
- ‘Waarom politici graag over de oorlog praten’, NRC-Handelsblad, 25 februari 2011
- ‘Zoekmachine vindt relevante WO2-verwijzingen in Handelingen der Staten Generaal. Dat doet denken aan de oorlog’, in: E-data & research, Jaargang 6, nummer 2, oktober 2011 http://www.edata.nl/0602_011011/pdf/0602_011011_1.pdf
- ‘NIOD ontwikkelt zoekmachine die verwijzingen naar de oorlog opspoort’, in: Informatie Professional. Vakblad voor informatiewerkers, nr. 11 (2011)
- L. Buitinck en M. Marx (2012), ‘Two-stage named entity recognition using averaged perceptrons’, in: Proc. NLDB 2012, pp. 171-176

Research domain

History