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SHEBANQ Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:59:15 +0000

SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup

Summary

The WIVU Hebrew Text Database contains the Hebrew text of the Old Testament enriched with many linguistic features at the morpheme level up to the discourse level.

Background

The WIVU (Werkgroep Informatica Vrije Universiteit) Hebrew Text Database contains the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) version of the text of the Hebrew Bible. Portions of other Semitic languages are included as well: the Aramaic sections of the Old Testament, two Syriac versions, and annotated portions of the Syriac and Aramaic translations. All these texts have been enriched with features that primarily result from linguistic analysis. The database can be queried by means of a language that is optimized to deal with data that is modeled as objects + features. SHEBANQ builds a bridge between the linguistically annotated Hebrew Text corpus and biblical scholars by (1) making this text, including its annotations, available to scholars; (2) demonstrating how queries can function to address research questions; the query saver and the metadata added to them will be a growing repository of valuable best practices of what queries are used in addressing research questions and how they contribute to answering these questions; (3) giving textual scholarship a more empirical basis, by creating the opportunity that claims made in scholarly articles (e.g.: “this syntactic pattern is not attested elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible”) can be accompanied by the unique identifiers that refer to the saved queries that have led to the claim. The WIVU database is a resource under long-term development. New features are being added, new corrections are being made over time.

Contacts

Project leader:  Prof. Dr. W.T. (Wido) van Peursen (VU University)
CLARIN center: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Help contact : dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/help
Tool/Service link: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/record?q=SHEBANQ&docId=http_58__47__47_rest...
Data link (EASY): https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:58245 (Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71)
Publications:
- Roorda, D. (2015). The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory - Sharing - Experiences http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01866
- Roorda, D. (2014). LAF-Fabric: a data analysis tool for Linguistic Annotation Framework with an application to the Hebrew Bible, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Volume 4, December 2014, pp. 105-109 http://www.clinjournal.org/sites/default/files/08-Roorda-etal-CLIN2014.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0286

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

DANS

Language

Aramaic

Hebrew

Syriac

English

Research domain

Religion Studies

Computational Linguistics

Linguistics

Syntax

historical linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Translational

Gloss

Orthographic

orthographic representation

transliteration

Morphological

lemma

stem

inflection class

derivational affix boundaries

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

extended part of speech (inflection)

gender

Syntactic

constituent structure

constituent labels

dependencies

dependency labels (grammatical relations)

Format

Textual data

LAF

GrAF

XML

RDF

@PhilosTEI Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:55:48 +0000

@philosTEI - TICCLing Philosophy

Summary

A multi-lingual, multi-script corpus of 18th-20th century philosophical texts. Used for the demonstration of an open source, web-based, user-friendly workflow from digital images of text to TEI, which enables building digital philosophy corpora.

Background

This test case corpus contains at least the following books and articles (maybe more will follow):

Wolff (1740) (Latin)
Bolzano (1837) (German)
Frege (1879) (German)
Tarski (1936) (Polish)

Philosophy and philosophy-informed intellectual history can profit immensely from teaming up with computer scientists and applying computational methods. A new empirical, datadriven and collaborative computational methodology can scale up our research and help making it more efficient and objective. The @PhilosTEI tool is able to build appropriate high quality, easily accessible, large-scale corpora of multi-script texts in a sustainable format (TEI) which are multi-language and from different historical periods in a reliable, efficient, user-friendly, sustainable and cost-cutting way.

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. Arianna Betti (VU University Amsterdam)
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact : t.b.a.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/philostei

Links

Web-sites: http://www.axiom.humanities.uva.nl/PhilosTEI.html
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): t.b.a.
Manual: t.b.a.
Tool/Service link: t.b.a.
Data link: t.b.a.
Publications: t.b.a.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

Latin

Polish

German

Research domain

History

Philosophy

Resource tags

data

corpus

service

web-application

multi-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Orthographic

orthographic representation

normalized orthographic representation

Gloss

Format

Textual data

XML

TEI

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

NEHOL

Erica Renckens — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:10:06 +0000

NEHOL: Negerhollands Database

Summary

Negerhollands, the now extinct Dutch-derived creole of the Virgins Islands, is unique in that there is a rich digitized corpus of historical as well as almost contemporary texts available that hardly have been studied. The language emerged around 1700 and the last known speaker died in 1987. This database contains a rich digitized corpus of historical as well as almost contemporary texts (1742-1936) in Negerhollands. These data were carefully edited and digitized in a previous NWO project. A considerable and representative part of the database is annotated, which enables the user to make advanced search queries.

Background

NEHOL is a digitally accessible and searchable database with the Dutch-lexifier Creole language Negerhollands, in the same format as the parallel SUCA (SUriname Creole Archive) corpus, coordinated by Margot van den Berg (Radboud University Nijmegen). The NEHOL project was coordinated by Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen), and technically supported by the TLA (‘The Language Archive’) unit at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.
The majority of the data included in the database have been digitalized and carefully edited in a previous NWO financed project from the first part of the ‘90s, carried out by Cefas van Rossem and Hein van der Voort. This mostly concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth century documents written by Moravian missionaries and discovered by dr. Peter Stein in the Archiv der Brüder-Unität in Herrnhut (Germany). Other documents digitalized in the previous project mainly consist of primers, hymn books and documents from the Danish Lutheran mission. This project also resulted in the publication of Die Creol Tael (Van Rossem & Van der Voort 1996), a comprehensive book discussing and exemplifying the broad variety of Negerhollands sources and their different varieties of the language.
All documents included in NEHOL have been checked with copies of the original manuscripts for errors, as it was not feasible to do this for all the data in the previous project. Additional sources have been digitalised for NEHOL, of which the 1926 publication by De Josselin de Jong, containing 58 pages of basilectal Negerhollands data plus a wordlist, is the most important. The main feature of NEHOL is that a considerable and representative part of the database is annotated, which enables the user to make advanced search queries. The annotations consist of three lines: 1) a morphological line, containing a standardised lemma for each lexical and functional item to overcome spelling variation in search queries; 2) a line with glosses, providing information on the meaning of content words and the grammatical properties of function words; 3) a line containing Part of speech tags

Contacts

Project leader: Prof. dr. P.C. Muysken (Radboud University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Meertens Institute
Help contact : http://tla.mpi.nl/contact/

Links