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

Cornetto Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:49:32 +0000

Cornetto: Combinatorial and Relational Network as Toolkit for Dutch Language Technology

Summary

The data used in the Cornetto lexical resource (92K lemma's and almost 120K word meanings) are not available anymore. The best alternative data set is the Open Dutch WordNet. This data set consists of 116.992 synsets, form which 95.356 from WordNet 3.0.

Background

Open Source Dutch WordNet is a Dutch lexical semantic database. It was created by removing the proprietary content from Cornetto (http://dev.clarin.nl/node/1944) , and by using open source resources to replace this proprietary content. Open Source Dutch WordNet contains 116,992 synsets, of which 95,356 originate from WordNet 3.0 and 21,636 synsets are new synsets. The number of English synsets without Dutch synonyms is 60,743, which means that 34,613 WordNet 3.0 synsets have been filled with at least one Dutch synonym.

This project has been co-funded by the Nederlandse Taalunie (http://taalunie.org/).The Nederlandse TaalUnie and the Free University of Amsterdam share the ownership of Open Source Dutch WordNet.

Contacts

Project leader: Prof. dr. Piek Vossen (VU University Amsterdam)  
CLARIN center: Institute for Dutch Lexicology
Help contact :

Links

Web-sites: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/odwn/
User scenario's (use-cases): http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/odwn/demo/
Manual:
Tool/Service link: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/odwn/
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/record?fq=collection:TST-Centrale&docId=htt...
Data link: (Open Dutch Wordnet) http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/odwn/data/
Publications:
- Vossen, P., I. Maks, R. Seegers and H. van der Vliet (2008). Integrating Lexical Units, Synsets, and Ontology in the Cornetto Database. In Proceedings of LREC-2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
- Vossen, P., I. maks, R. Segers, H. van der Vliet, M.F. Moens, K. Hofmann, E. Tjong Kim Sang, M. de Rijke (2013), Corntto: a lexical semantic database for Dutch, Chapter in: P. Spyns & J. Odijk (eds): Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch, Results by the STEVIN-programme, Publ. Springer series Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing, ISBN 978-3-642-30909-0.