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CKCC Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:25:36 +0000

CKCC - Scholarly Letters

Summary

The CKCC service is build around a corpus of 20.000 letters of scholars who lived in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-century Dutch Republic (CKCC) investigates the circulation of knowledge in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. A multi-disciplinary project team consisting of historians, literature researchers, linguists and computer scientists works together in this project and created a web-based Humanities’ Collaboratory on Correspondences. This project, is carried out thanks to a NWO Medium investment subsidy and with CLARIN subsidies to make the resources available withing the CLARIN domain.

Background

A consortium of Dutch universities and cultural heritage institutions is building a web-based collaboratory (an online space for asynchronous collaboration) around a corpus of 20.000 letters of scholars who lived in the 17th-century Dutch Republic to answer the research question: how did knowledge circulate in the 17th century? Hereto, it will be necessary to analyze this large amount of correspondence systematically. CKCC is a content processing workflow that consists of iterative cycles of conceptual analysis, enrichment with several layers of annotation and visualization, based on this (extendable) corpus. With advice from CLARIN-EU in the first stage of the project a demonstrator was developed which implements techniques of keyword extraction. The second stage consists of evaluating existing more complex tools en techniques that can tackle one or more aspects of the targeted grammatical, content-related, and network complexity analysis, annotation, and visualization. The phase shall identify a set of tools that can be readily utilized in CKCC, as well as tools that need to be adapted or extended to the needs of CKCC; in short, by the end of this phase resources, requirements and risks shall become clear.

Contacts

Project leader: prof. dr. W.W.Mijnhardt (Universiteit Utrecht, Descartes Institute)  
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact : ckcc@huygens.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://vimeo.com/48151361
Manual: http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/?page_id=899
Tool/Service link: (ePistolarium) http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/epistolarium/
Data link:
- In VLO: http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?2&fq=collection:CKCC
- In EASY DANS: https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:55049 (pi: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-scpm-ji)
Publications:
- D. Roorda, C. van den Heuvel, Annotation as a New Paradigm in Research Archiving. Two Case studies: Republic of letters- Hebrew Text Database. ASIST 75th Anniversary Conference, Baltimore 28-30 October 2012
- Wittek, P. and Ravenek, W. (2011), “Supporting the Exploration of a Corpus of 17th-Century Scholarly Correspondences by Topic Modeling”. In: B. Maegaard (Ed.), Supporting Digital Humanities 2011: Answering the unaskable. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

French

Dutch

English

German

Multiple languages

Research domain

Cultural Sciences

History

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

CSV

XML

TEI

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

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

Web-sites: https://diecreoltaal.wordpress.com/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://diecreoltaal.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/manualnehol.pdf
Data Link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:TLA:+NEHOL
Data link (IMDI Browser): https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/?openpath=MPI1475545%23
Publications:
- Muysken, P, van Rossem, C and van Sluijs, R. 2017. Variation in Preposition Use in the Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (VIDC) Cluster. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 133–149. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.12. License: CC-BY 4.0

NOTE: Part/copy of this project's data is hosted at the Meertens Institute, which also serves a metadata record for this (DB 2-11-2020)

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Negerhollands

Research domain

History

Linguistics

historical linguistics

Pidgin and Creole Studies

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Gloss

Orthographic

orthographic representation

normalized orthographic representation

Morphological

lemma

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

extended part of speech (inflection)

Format

Textual data

CSV

D-LUCEA

Erica Renckens — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:31 +0000

D-LUCEA: Database of the Longitudinal Utrecht Collection of English Accents

Summary

The LUCEA database is a database of existing speech recordings of L1 and L2 speakers of English. The recorded speakers are students from an international student community where English is used as lingua franca. These students are being recorded longitudinally throughout their 3-year period on campus, using read and spontaneous speech in L1 and in L2 English (or in L1 English only). The database is of interest for research and development in linguistics, language education (pronunciation training), speech technology (foreign accent detection, language recognition, speech recognition), and sociophonetics.

Background

The LUCEA Database consists of speech recordings of students at the University College Utrecht (UCU), the international honours college of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. At UCU, English is the language of instruction and also the social lingua franca. So far, 72 (cohort 2010) and about 70 (cohort 2011) students have been recruited, as well as 17 exchange students who are native speakers of English. All speaker groups are about 70% female and 30% male. For the 2010 students, 3 recordings are available. For the 2011 students and for the exchange students, 1 recording is available.

Each recording consists of approx 20 minutes of speech, half of which is read (English read texts and sentences, and L1 read text for 2011 cohort) and half of which is spontaneous (2 minutes English monologue on informal topic, 2m monologue in L1 on informal topic, 2m English monologue on formal topic, 3m English conversation with interviewer). Each recording is made using a strict protocol describing the exact location of microphones, speakers’ instructions, recording procedure, etc.
The speech recordings are not yet annotated nor transcribed. The transcripts of the read texts are available in PDF. The metadata scheme developed in this project allows future additions of annotations.

The recordings are part of the larger and ongoing LUCEA project in which the recruited students are being followed throughout their 3-year period on the UCU campus. This will result in about 900 recording sessions. At present, about 280 [(72+65+55) + (~70) + (17)] recordings are available.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr Hugo Quené (Utrecht University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Links

Web-sites: http://lucea.wp.hum.uu.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Tool/Service link: soon on http://corpus1.mpi.nl/
Data Link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?q=D-LUCEA
Publications:
- Orr, R and Quené, H. 2017. D-LUCEA: Curation of the UCU Accent Project Data. In:Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 181–193. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.15. License: CC-BY 4.0
- Orr, R., H. Quene, R. Beek, T. Diefenbach, D. van Leeuwen, M. Huijbregts (2011), An international English speech corpus for longitudinal study of accent development, Proceedings Interspeech 2011, pp. 1889-1892.
- Orr, R., Huijbregts, M., Beek, R. van, Teunissen, L., Backhouse, K., Leeuwen, D. van (2014), Semi-automatic annotation of the UCU accents speech corpus. LREC 2014: 1483-1487.
- Quené, H. & Orr, R. (2014), Long-term convergence of speech rhythm in L1 and L2 English. Speech Prosody 2014.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

English

Research domain

Linguistics

Phonetics

Acquisition

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Orthographic

Orthographic Transcription

Format

Textual data

CSV

XML

Media data

wav

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