Showcases

Demonstration workflow presented at the official launch of the EOSC Portal. Illustrates how a researcher can find language datasets and process them with CLARIN tools.

The Portal for the Presentation of Slovene Language Resources and Tools is a library of video tutorials that present the purpose, content, and structure of various freely available digital language resources and tools for Slovene. 

plWordNet is a lexico-semantic network which reflects the lexical system of the Polish language.It is now the largest wordnet in the world and is still growing.

Showcase: Lärka - “LÄR språket via KorpusAnalys”, Språkbanken's platform designed for learning Swedish based on principles of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

The Old Bailey Corpus (OBC) is a sociolinguistically, pragmatically and textually annotated corpus based on a selection of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, the published version of the trials at London's Central Criminal Court. 

DiaCollo is a software tool for the discovery, comparison, and interactive visualization of the typical word combinations for a user-specified target term. Characteristic word combination profiles based on various underlying text corpora can be requested for a particular time period, as well as direct comparisons between different time periods. In addition to traditional static tabular display formats, a number of intuitive interactive online visualizations for query result data are also available.

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).

Corpora of spontaneous conversational speech are an important source of primary data for research in the humanities. Spokes is a multimedia search engine for a unique corpus of conversational Polish, which has been developed by the University of Łódź as part of the Polish CLARIN Infrastructure.

Poly-GrETEL is an online tool which enables syntactic querying in parallel treebanks. It is based on the monolingual GrETEL environment (http://gretel.ccl.kuleuven.be/gretel-2.0).

GrETEL is a query engine in which linguists can use a natural language example as a starting point for searching a treebank with limited knowledge about tree representations and formal query languages. Instead of a formal search instruction, it takes a natural language example as input. This provides a convenient way for novice and non-technical users to use treebanks with a limited knowledge of the underlying syntax and formal query languages. By allowing linguists to search for constructions similar to the example they provide, it aims to bridge the gap between descriptive-theoretical and computational linguistics.

OpenSoNaR is an online system that allows for analyzing and searching the large scale Dutch reference corpus SoNaR. Due to the size of the corpus (500 million words), accessing the information contained in the dataset has proven to be difficult for less technically inclined researchers. OpenSoNaR facilitates the use of the SoNaR corpus by providing a user-friendly online interface.

The Austrian Baroque Corpus is a digital collection of printed German language texts dating from the Baroque era, now freely available through the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. The collection holds several texts specific to the memento mori genre written by, or ascribed to, Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1710), who was a renowned Augustinian monk, and a widely read author throughout Europe at his time.

This showcase is an example of how language technology can be exploited in research within the humanities. The resource that this case is based on is Gesta Danorum written about 1200 by the Danish historian, Saxo. Gesta Danorum is written in High Latin and describes in 16 books the period of time from King Dan to Canute VI of Denmark.

Although there are several online Estonian dictionaries, both monolingual and bilingual, they are sometimes difficult to find and their simultaneous use is definitely complicated. The idea behind "keeleveeb" (it translates "language web" in English) is to carry out a query over many language resources — dictionaries and corpora.

The web application WebMAUS allows the user to automatically align speech recordings to their corresponding text form. Two input files need to be uploaded by the user: a media file containing a recorded speech signal and a file containing some textual encoding of the words spoken in the recording. In case the latter is a simple text, the contents are text-normalized and tokenized into a chain of words. The application then produces a phonological pronunciation encoding of the content in SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet), that basically reflects the standard citation pronunciation of the content. Based on this phonological form, a statistically weighted graph of all possible realisations (pronunciation variants) within the selected language is created based on a machine-learned expert system. Finally this graph is aligned to the speech signal using standard techniques from automatic speech recognition. The result of this process is an orthographic and a phonetic alignment (segmentation and labelling, S&L) of the recorded speech, which is then rendered into the desired target format (BPF, Emu, TextGrid) and returned to the user via the web browser.

People do not always stay in the place where they were born. The website "Migration in The Netherlands in the 20th century" presents maps that show the dispersion of people during the 20th century at the level of municipalities. The maps show the distances people move from their ancestors, for several generations. This is important to understand the dispersion of, for instance, dialects, family names, traditions and cultural expressions. Per municipality it is shown where the ancestors of the current residents came from, and where descendants of the inhabitants of a century ago were born and where they live nowadays.

WordTies is a web interface developed to visualize monolingual wordnets as well as their alignments with wordnets in other languages. Wordnets are a kind of lexical-semantic dictionaries where concepts are related to other concepts in language via semantic relations. In the WordTies browser, these semantic relations are made available in a more intuitive and graphical fashion compared to what is found in most other wordnet browsers.