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affiziertes Objekt
(2020)
In diesem Beitrag werden neue, repräsentative Daten zur arealen Variation in Deutschland vorgestellt, die das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache im Rahmen der Innovationsstichprobe des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) in der Befragungsrunde 2017/2018 erhoben hat. Zum einen wurde die Dialektkompetenz abgefragt; überindividuell zeigt sich hier das bekannte Nord-Süd-Gefälle, beim individuellen Grad der Kompetenz der Dialektsprecher gibt es aber regional nur geringe Unterschiede. Zum anderen wurden die Bewertungen von Dialekten erhoben; hier werden Norddeutsch und Bayerisch besonders positiv, Sächsisch hingegen besonders negativ bewertet, wobei regionale Muster eine Rolle spielen. Auffällig ist ferner die bundesweit sehr einheitlich positive Bewertung des Hochdeutschen.
This chapter focuses on the formation of adverbs from a corpuslinguistic perspective, providing an overview of adverb formation patterns in German that includes frequencies and hints to productivity as well as combining quantitative methods and theoretically founded hypotheses to address questions that concern possible grammaticalization paths in domains that are formally marked by prepositional elements or inflectional morphology (in particular, superlative or superlative-derived forms). Within our collection of adverb types from the project corpus, special attention is paid to adverbs built from primary prepositions. The data suggest that generally, such adverb formation involves the saturation of the internal argument slot of the relation-denoting preposition. In morphologically regular formations with the preposition in final position, pronominal forms like da ‘there’, hier ‘here’, wo ‘where’ as well as hin ‘hither’ and her ‘thither’ serve to derive adverbs. On the other hand, morphologically irregular formations with the preposition – in particular: zu ‘to’ or vor ‘before, in front of’ – in initial posi-tion show traits of syntactic origin such as (remnants of) inflectional morphology. The pertaining adverb type dominantly saturates the internal argument slot by means of universal quantification that is part and parcel as well of the derivation of superlatives and demonstrably fuels the productivity of the pertaining formation pattern.
We present web services which implement a workflow for transcripts of spoken language following the TEI guidelines, in particular ISO 24624:2016 “Language resource management – Transcription of spoken language”. The web services are available at our website and will be available via the CLARIN infrastructure, including the Virtual Language Observatory and WebLicht.
The present paper outlines the projected second part of the Corpus Query Lingua Franca (CQLF) family of standards: CQLF Ontology, which is currently in the process of standardization at the International Standards Organization (ISO), in its Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 4 (TC37SC4) and its national mirrors. The first part of the family, ISO 24623-1 (henceforth CQLF Metamodel), was successfully adopted as an international standard at the beginning of 2018. The present paper reflects the state of the CQLF Ontology at the moment of submission for the Committee Draft ballot. We provide a brief overview of the CQLF Metamodel, present the assumptions and aims of the CQLF Ontology, its basic structure, and its potential extended applications. The full ontology is expected to emerge from a community process, starting from an initial version created by the authors of the present paper.
Corpus REDEWIEDERGABE
(2020)
This article presents the corpus REDEWIEDERGABE, a German-language historical corpus with detailed annotations for speech, thought and writing representation (ST&WR). With approximately 490,000 tokens, it is the largest resource of its kind. It can be used to answer literary and linguistic research questions and serve as training material for machine learning. This paper describes the composition of the corpus and the annotation structure, discusses some methodological decisions and gives basic statistics about the forms of ST&WR found in this corpus.
Der Weihnachtsbrief
(2020)
Entity framing is the selection of aspects of an entity to promote a particular viewpoint towards that entity. We investigate entity framing of political figures through the use of names and titles in German online discourse, enhancing current research in entity framing through titling and naming that concentrates on English only. We collect tweets that mention prominent German politicians and annotate them for stance. We find that the formality of naming in these tweets correlates positively with their stance. This confirms sociolinguistic observations that naming and titling can have a status-indicating function and suggests that this function is dominant in German tweets mentioning political figures. We also find that this status-indicating function is much weaker in tweets from users that are politically left-leaning than in tweets by right leaning users. This is in line with observations from moral psychology that left-leaning and right-leaning users assign different importance to maintaining social hierarchies.
In informal interaction, speakers rarely thank a person who has complied with a request. Examining data from British English, German, Italian, Polish, and Telugu, we ask when speakers do thank after compliance. The results show that thanking treats the other’s assistance as going beyond what could be taken for granted in the circumstances. Coupled with the rareness of thanking after requests, this suggests that cooperation is to a great extent governed by expectations of helpfulness, which can be long-standing, or built over the course of a particular interaction. The higher frequency of thanking in some languages (such as English or Italian) suggests that cultures differ in the importance they place on recognizing the other’s agency in doing as requested.
Effiziertes Objekt
(2020)
Einleitung
(2020)
A corpus-based academic grammar of German is an enormous undertaking, especially if it aims at using state-of-the-art methodology while ensuring that its study results are verifiable. The Bausteine-series, which is being developed at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), presents individual “building blocks” for such a grammar. In addition to the peer-reviewed texts, the series publishes the results of statistical analyses and, for selected topics, the underlying data sets.
Einleitung
(2020)
Globalisierungsdiskurs
(2020)
This chapter begins with a sketch of the specifics of our approach, an overview of the contents of the chapters on word formation and some methodological notes. It then discusses the general characteristics of word formations and of their overall inventory, comparing word formations to primary words. Furthermore, the chapter explores the relative frequencies of word formations in different vocabulary areas and traces the word formation profiles of individual parts of speech. Finally, it compiles the characteristic word formation rules for different parts of speech.
Der Beitrag untersucht vorhandene Lösungen und neue Möglichkeiten des Korpusausbaus aus Social Media- und internetbasierter Kommunikation (IBK) für das Deutsche Referenzkorpus (DEREKO). DEREKO ist eine Sammlung gegenwartssprachlicher Schriftkorpora am IDS, die der sprachwissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit über die Korpusschnittstellen COSMAS II und KorAP angeboten wird. Anhand von Definitionen und Beispielen gehen wir zunächst auf die Extensionen und Überlappungen der Konzepte Social Media, Internetbasierte Kommunikation und Computer-mediated Communication ein. Wir betrachten die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen für einen Korpusausbau aus Sozialen Medien, die sich aus dem kürzlich in relevanten Punkten reformierten deutschen Urheberrecht, aus Persönlichkeitsrechten wie der europäischen Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ergeben und stellen Konsequenzen sowie mögliche und tatsächliche Umsetzungen dar. Der Aufbau von Social Media-Korpora in großen Textmengen unterliegt außerdem korpustechnologischen Herausforderungen, die für traditionelle Schriftkorpora als gelöst galten oder gar nicht erst bestanden. Wir berichten, wie Fragen der Datenaufbereitung, des Korpus-Encoding, der Anonymisierung oder der linguistischen Annotation von Social Media Korpora für DEREKO angegangen wurden und welche Herausforderungen noch bestehen. Wir betrachten die Korpuslandschaft verfügbarer deutschsprachiger IBK- und Social Media-Korpora und geben einen Überblick über den Bestand an IBK- und Social Media-Korpora und ihre Charakteristika (Chat-, Wiki Talk- und Forenkorpora) in DEREKO sowie von laufenden Projekten in diesem Bereich. Anhand korpuslinguistischer Mikro- und Makro-Analysen von Wikipedia-Diskussionen im Vergleich mit dem Gesamtbestand von DEREKO zeigen wir charakterisierende sprachliche Eigenschaften von Wikipedia-Diskussionen auf und bewerten ihren Status als Repräsentant von IBK-Korpora.
Interaktionale Semantik
(2020)
Interaktive Emergenz und Stabilisierung. Zur Entstehung kollektiver Kreativität in Theaterproben
(2020)
I’ve got a construction looks funny – representing and recovering non-standard constructions in UD
(2020)
The UD framework defines guidelines for a crosslingual syntactic analysis in the framework of dependency grammar, with the aim of providing a consistent treatment across languages that not only supports multilingual NLP applications but also facilitates typological studies. Until now, the UD framework has mostly focussed on bilexical grammatical relations. In the paper, we propose to add a constructional perspective and discuss several examples of spoken-language constructions that occur in multiple languages and challenge the current use of basic and enhanced UD relations. The examples include cases where the surface relations are deceptive, and syntactic amalgams that either involve unconnected subtrees or structures with multiply-headed dependents. We argue that a unified treatment of constructions across languages will increase the consistency of the UD annotations and thus the quality of the treebanks for linguistic analysis.
Jesus in der Alltagssprache
(2020)
Der Beitrag stellt zunächst die drei grundlegenden methodischen Verfahren der Konversationsanalyse und der mittlerweile deren Vorgehen folgenden diskursiven Psychologie dar: die Transkription, die detaillierte Sequenzanalyse am Einzelfall und die (komparative) Analyse von Datenkollektionen. Nach einer Übersicht über grundlegende Befunde zur Organisation von Interaktionen wird auf drei psychologische Untersuchungsbereiche eingegangen: Die Konstitution von Identität in Gesprächen, die Rolle von Kognitionen in der sozialen Interaktion und die Erforschung von Psychotherapiegesprächen.
Am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) wurde im Programmbereich „Lexikografie und Sprachdokumentation“ ein neuartiges Wörterbuch entwickelt, das leicht verwechselbare Ausdrücke in ihrem aktuellen öffentlichen Sprachgebrauch deskriptiv beschreibt. Im Jahr 2018 erschien das elektronische Nachschlagewerk „Paronyme – Dynamisch im Kontrast“, das sich durch folgende drei Aspekte auszeichnet:
1) Erstens liegen mehrstufige kontrastive Beschreibungsebenen und flexible Darstellungsformen vor;
2) zweitens sind die Bedeutungserläuterungen kognitiv-konzeptuell angelegt, um einer langen Forderung nach einer stärker kognitiv ausgerichteten Lexikografie Rechnung zu tragen;
3) drittens werden Datengrundlagen und Analysemethoden genutzt, mit denen umfassend Paronyme ermittelt und diese anschließend erstmals empirisch ausgewertet werden konnten.
This article examines the language contact situation as well as the language attitudes of the Caucasian Germans, descendants of German-born inhabitants of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union who emigrated in 1816/17 to areas of Transcaucasia. After deportations and migrations, the group of Caucasian Germans now consists of those who have since emigrated to Germany and those who still live in the South Caucasus. It’s the first time that sociolinguistic methods have been used to record data from the generation who experienced living in the South Caucasus and in Germany as well as from two succeeding generations. Initial results will be presented below with a focus on the language contact constellations of German varieties as well as on consequences of language contact and language repression, which both affect language attitudes.
Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist die Entwicklung des graphentheoretischen Analysetools Laniakea, das zur Visualisierung von Phänomenen und Veränderungen in terminologischen Netzwerken entwickelt wurde. Wir führen theoretische Grundlagen, Designentscheidungen und technische Details der Implementierung des Tools aus. Darüber hinaus wird auch eine Beschreibung von Erfahrungen im Fokus des Beitrages stehen, die bei der Anwendung von Laniakea bei der Überarbeitung der terminologischen Ressourcen des Grammatischen Informationssystems grammis, gesammelt wurden.
Lexikonprojektion und Konstruktion: Experimentelle Studien zu Argumentalternationen im Deutschen
(2020)
Debates on lexicalist vs. constructionist modelling of argument alternations are typically based on data from single constructions, each including different types of verbs. Evidence from constructions with an identical set of verb types that systematically differ in their meaning is lacking, even though such evidence is imperative for specifically investigating the dependence of argument alternations on the interaction between construction and lexical meanings. We present two acceptability studies where verb lexeme meanings and constructions - specifically active voice, impersonal passive and the construction with man 'one' in German - vary systematically. Prima facie our results support a constructionist explanation, because each construction exhibits a unique acceptability cline. However, across constructions, an adequate explanation has to consider verb-based lexical meanings. The most plausible explanation is that the semantic features licensed by the construction are matched with the semantic features provided by the verb lexeme.
Providing online repositories for language resources is one of the main activities of CLARIN centres. The legal framework regarding liability of Service Providers for content uploaded by their users has recently been modified by the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. A new category of Service Providers, Online Content-Sharing Service Providers (OCSSPs), was added. It is subject to a complex and strict framework, including the requirement to obtain licenses from rightholders for the hosted content. This paper provides the background and effect of these changes to law and aims to initiate a debate on how CLARIN repositories should navigate this new legal landscape.
In der Diskussion um Methodologie und Methoden finden unterschiedliche
wissenschaftliche Arbeitsbereiche und Forschungsaktivitäten stets einen gemeinsamen Nenner. Ulrike Froschauer hat sich lange Jahre ausführlich und intensiv mit den Fragestellungen der Organisationssoziologie beschäftigt. Die vorliegenden Buchveröffentlichungen wie beispielsweise „Organisationen in Bewegung. Beiträge zur interpretativen Organisationsanalyse“ (2012) oder „Organisationen im Wechselspiel von Dynamik und Stabilität“ (2015) geben einen guten Zugang zu ihrem wissenschaftlichen Wirken. Das Arbeitsfeld unserer Forschungsgruppe ist ein anderes, nämlich das der Medienwissenschaft, speziell der Medienrezeptionsforschung. In den 1980er Jahren haben wir hierzu das integrationswissenschaftliche Modell der „Strukturanalytischen Rezeptionsforschung“ entwickelt und dieses über die Jahre hinweg an unterschiedlichen Forschungsorten in zahlreichen Einzelstudien weiter ausgearbeitet. Verbunden hat uns, die Wiener Organisationssoziologin Ulrike Froschauer und die Baseler Mediensoziolog_innen, das anhaltende Interesse an method(-olog-)ischen Fragen.
This paper discusses a theoretical and empirical approach to language fixedness that we have developed at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (‘Institute for German Language’) in Mannheim in the project Usuelle Worterbindungen(UWV) over the last decade. The analysis described is based on the Deutsches Referenzkorpus (‘German Reference Corpus’; DeReKo) which is located at the IDS. The corpus analysis tool used for accessing the corpus data is COSMAS II (CII) and – for statistical analysis – the IDS collocation analysis tool (Belica, 1995; CA). For detecting lexical patterns and describing their semantic and pragmatic nature we use the tool lexpan (or ‘Lexical Pattern Analyzer’) that was developed in our project. We discuss a new corpus-driven pattern dictionary that is relevant not only to the field of phraseology, but also to usage-based linguistics and lexicography as a whole.
In diesem Beitrag werden exemplarisch verschiedene potenzielle Gebrauchsmuster mit dem deutschen Lemma wissen gesammelt und ihre in der Fachliteratur vorgelegten interaktionslinguistisch-funktionalen Beschreibungen für einen Strukturierungsversuch genutzt. Im Zentrum steht ein multifunktionaler handlungsorientierter Ansatz zur Beschreibung von Interaktion im Gespräch. Der Beitrag greift dabei Überlegungen auf, die im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Lexik des gesprochenen Deutsch (= LeGeDe) zur Erstellung einer korpusbasierten lexikogra- fischen Ressource lexikalischer Besonderheiten des gesprochenen Deutsch in der Interaktion thematisiert wurden.
Schlüsselwörter: Muster, Lexik des gesprochenen Deutsch, Interaktion, Internetlexikografie
Objekte der Begeisterung
(2020)
We present a construction-based approach to German prepositional object (I’O) constructions occurring with the verb begeistern ,to thrill'. Traditionally, the preposition in such structures is analysed as a meaningless object marker that is lexically selected by the governing verb and not subject to variation. Drawing on a corpus study in the German reference corpus DeReKo, we show that our target verb occurs with four different PO prepositions (für ,lor‘,« ׳? ,at', von ,front' and über ,over‘) that can be analysed as markers o f schematic argument structure constructions in the Construction Grammar sense. We show that each construction comes with its own meaning and semantically coherent predicate restrictions. We argue that purely valency-based (lexical) approaches to argument structure fail to capture these generalisations. On the other hand, purely schema-based (constructionist) approaches to argument structure face the complcmentary problem o f accommodating item-specific restrictions and exceptions to the generalisations they embody. We suggest that the necessary synthesis can be formulated within an account that recognises both generalised constructions and item-specific valency properties.
Privacy by Design (also referred to as Data Protection by Design) is an approach in which solutions and mechanisms addressing privacy and data protection are embedded through the entire project lifecycle, from the early design stage, rather than just added as an additional layer to the final product. Formulated in the 1990 by the Privacy Commissionner of Ontario, the principle of Privacy by Design has been discussed by institutions and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, and mentioned already in the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC). More recently, Privacy by Design was introduced as one of the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), obliging data controllers to define and adopt, already at the conception phase, appropriate measures and safeguards to implement data protection principles and protect the rights of the data subject. Failing to meet this obligation may result in a hefty fine, as it was the case in the Uniontrad decision by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL). The ambition of the proposed paper is to analyse the practical meaning of Privacy by Design in the context of Language Resources, and propose measures and safeguards that can be implemented by the community to ensure respect of this principle.
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit kommunikativen Praktiken in audiovisuellen Webformaten am Beispiel von sogenannten „Let’s Plays“, in denen ein Videospiel im Internet für Zuschauende gespielt und kommentiert wird. An live ausgestrahlten Let’s Plays zeigen wir, wie Zuschauende mit Produzierenden während der Ausstrahlung interagieren und so integraler Bestandteil des entstehenden Produkts werden. Live ausgestrahlte Let’s Plays machen eine Trennung zwischen Produktion, Produkt und Rezeption, wie wir sie von traditionellen Medien kennen, obsolet. Wir sprechen daher von sogenannten Medienketten. Sie zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die drei genannten Elemente, aufgrund der gegebenen medialen Affordanzen ineinander übergehen, sich dynamisch beeinflussen oder gegenseitig hervorbringen.
Prosodische Morphologie
(2020)
Die Korpusanalyseplattform KorAP wird als Nachfolgesystem zu COSMAS II am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) entwickelt und erlaubt einen umfassenden Zugriff auf einen Teil von DeReKo (Kupietz et al. 2010). Trotz einiger noch fehlender Funktionalitäten ist KorAP bereits produktiv einsetzbar. Im Folgenden wollen wir am Beispiel der Untersuchung von Social-Media-Korpora einige neue Möglichkeiten und Besonderheiten vorstellen.
This chapter describes the resources that speakers of Polish use when recruiting assistance and collaboration from others in everyday social interaction. The chapter draws on data from video recordings of informal conversation in Polish, and reports language-specific findings generated within a large-scale comparative project involving eight languages from five continents (see other chapters of this volume). The resources for recruitment described in this chapter include linguistic structures from across the levels of grammatical organization, as well as gestural and other visible and contextual resources of relevance to the interpretation of action in interaction. The presentation of categories of recruitment, and elements of recruitment sequences, follows the coding scheme used in the comparative project (see Chapter 2 of the volume). This chapter extends our knowledge of the structure and usage of Polish with detailed attention to the properties of sequential structure in conversational interaction. The chapter is a contribution to an emerging field of pragmatic typology.
The present chapter investigates the relative order of attributive adjectives in German. Based on corpus data, our results corroborate previous findings that semantics is the most important factor in accounting for adjective order. Going beyond previous studies, we also consider coordinated structures (such as mit [[großem, verwildertem] Garten] ‘with (a) large, overgrown garden’), where both adjectives are of equal rank. While adjective order in embedded structures (mit [ schwierigem [ familiärem Hintergrund ]] ‘with (a) difficult domestic background’) can be predicted rather accurately on semantic grounds, we show that predictions can also be made for coordinated structures, albeit with lower accuracy. Using regression analysis, we examine how semantic factors interact with a number of other explanatory variables.
This contribution deals with right-dislocated complement clauses with the subordinating conjunction dass (‘that’) in German talk-in-interaction. The bi-clausal construction we analyze is as follows: The first clause, in which one argument is realized by the demonstrative pronoun das (‘this/that’), is syntactically and semantically complete; the reference of the pronoun is (re-)specified by adding a dass-complement clause after a point of possible completion (e.g., aber das hab ich nich MITbekommen. (0.32) dass es da so YOUtubevideos gab. (‘But I wasn’t aware of that. That there were videos about that on YouTube.’). The first clause always performs a backward-oriented action (e.g., an assessment) and the second clause (re-)specifies the propositional reference of the demonstrative, allowing for a (strategic) perspective shift. Based on a collection of 93 cases from everyday conversations and institutional interactions, we found that the construction is used close to the turn-beginning for referring to and (re-)specifying (parts of) another speaker’s prior turn; turn-internal uses tie together parts of a speaker’s multi-unit turn. The construction thus facilitates an incremental constitution of meaning and reference.
Making corpora accessible and usable for linguistic research is a huge challenge in view of (too) big data, legal issues and a rapidly evolving methodology. This does not only affect the design of user-friendly graphical interfaces to corpus analysis tools, but also the availability of programming interfaces supporting access to the functionality of these tools from various analysis and development environments. RKorAPClient is a new research tool in the form of an R package that interacts with the Web API of the corpus analysis platform KorAP, which provides access to large annotated corpora, including the German reference corpus DeReKo with 45 billion tokens. In addition to optionally authenticated KorAP API access, RKorAPClient provides further processing and visualization features to simplify common corpus analysis tasks. This paper introduces the basic functionality of RKorAPClient and exemplifies various analysis tasks based on DeReKo, that are bundled within the R package and can serve as a basic framework for advanced analysis and visualization approaches.
Russisch
(2020)
Silbenkurzwort
(2020)
Sprachentwicklungstest zum Kasus bei bilingualen Vorschulkindern: Sprachstand Deutsch (KT-DEU)
(2020)
Sprachentwicklungstest zum Kasus bei den bilingualen Vorschulkindern: Sprachstand Russisch (KT-RUS)
(2020)
Usually, weak inflection of an attributive or nominalized adjective occurs if the adjective is preceded by an inflected determiner: mit diesem technischen Aufwand (‘at great technical expense’). Otherwise, the inflection of the adjective is strong: mit technischem Aufwand. Following this rule of thumb, we would expect strong inflection of an adjective following another adjective whenever the determiner is missing: mit hohem technischem Aufwand. But many German speakers opt for a weak dative singular ending -en following the strong ending -em on the first adjective: mit hohem technischen Aufwand. This chapter shows which explanatory variables play a role in this variation within standard German.
Studying Lexical Dynamics and Language Change via Generalized Entropies: The Problem of Sample Size
(2020)
Recently, it was demonstrated that generalized entropies of order α offer novel and important opportunities to quantify the similarity of symbol sequences where α is a free parameter. Varying this parameter makes it possible to magnify differences between different texts at specific scales of the corresponding word frequency spectrum. For the analysis of the statistical properties of natural languages, this is especially interesting, because textual data are characterized by Zipf’s law, i.e., there are very few word types that occur very often (e.g., function words expressing grammatical relationships) and many word types with a very low frequency (e.g., content words carrying most of the meaning of a sentence). Here, this approach is systematically and empirically studied by analyzing the lexical dynamics of the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel (consisting of approximately 365,000 articles and 237,000,000 words that were published between 1947 and 2017). We show that, analogous to most other measures in quantitative linguistics, similarity measures based on generalized entropies depend heavily on the sample size (i.e., text length). We argue that this makes it difficult to quantify lexical dynamics and language change and show that standard sampling approaches do not solve this problem. We discuss the consequences of the results for the statistical analysis of languages.
For a long time, the lecture dominated performatively presented scientific communication. Given academic traditions, it is possible to make a connection between the lecture and classical rhetoric, a highly differentiated instrument of analysis. The tradition of the lecture has been perpetuated in the presentation of research results, first in the use of transparencies and subsequently through computer-based projections. Yet the use of media technology has also allowed new practices to emerge, including mediation practices hitherto neglected in the theory of rhetoric.
The lexicography of German
(2020)
This chapter discusses the main dictionaries of the German language as it is spoken and written in Germany, and also German as it is spoken and written in Austria, Switzerland, the eastern fringes of Belgium, and South Tyrol. It also briefly describes Pennsylvania German. Corpora and other language resources used in German dictionary-making are also presented. Finally, there is a discussion of some current issues in German lexicography, as well as future prospects.
Twenty-two historical encyclopedias encoded in TEI: a new resource for the Digital Humanities
(2020)
This paper accompanies the corpus publication of EncycNet, a novel XML/TEI annotated corpus of 22 historical German encyclopedias from the early 18th to early 20th century. We describe the creation and annotation of the corpus, including the rationale for its development, suggested methodology for TEI annotation, possible use cases and future work. While many well-developed annotation standards for lexical resources exist, none can adequately model the encyclopedias at hand, and we therefore suggest how the TEI Lex-0 standard may be modified with additional guidelines for the annotation of historical encyclopedias. As the digitization and annotation of historical encyclopedias are settling on TEI as the de facto standard, our methodology may inform similar projects.
Türkisch in Deutschland
(2020)
The newest generation of speech technology caused a huge increase of audio-visual data nowadays being enhanced with orthographic transcripts such as in automatic subtitling in online platforms. Research data centers and archives contain a range of new and historical data, which are currently only partially transcribed and therefore only partially accessible for systematic querying. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one option of making that data accessible. This paper tests the usability of a state-of-the-art ASR-System on a historical (from the 1960s), but regionally balanced corpus of spoken German, and a relatively new corpus (from 2012) recorded in a narrow area. We observed a regional bias of the ASR-System with higher recognition scores for the north of Germany vs. lower scores for the south. A detailed analysis of the narrow region data revealed – despite relatively high ASR-confidence – some specific word errors due to a lack of regional adaptation. These findings need to be considered in decisions on further data processing and the curation of corpora, e.g. correcting transcripts or transcribing from scratch. Such geography-dependent analyses can also have the potential for ASR-development to make targeted data selection for training/adaptation and to increase the sensitivity towards varieties of pluricentric languages.
In our paper, we present a case study on the quality of concept relations in the manually developed terminological resource of grammis, an information system on German grammar. We assess a SKOS representation of the resource using the tool qSKOS, create a typology of the issues identified by the tool, and conduct a qualitative analysis of selected cases. We identify and discuss aspects that can motivate quality issues and uncover that ill-formed relations are frequently indicative of deeper issues in the data model. Finally, we outline how these findings can inform improvements in our resource’s data model, discussing implications for the machine readability of terminological data.
Dieser Beitrag beschreibt, welche Schritte nötig sind, um die Daten des Archivs der Grafen v. Platen (AGP) für Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen (FDI) zugänglich zu machen: die Daten konvertieren, die Metadaten extrahieren, Daten und Metadaten indizieren sowie die Datenmodelle für Daten und Metadaten so ergänzen, dass sie die Bestände des Archivs sinnvoll erfassen. Zugleich wird begründet, weshalb man überhaupt solchen Aufwand treiben sollte: nämlich, damit die Daten einem größeren Publikum zur Verfügung stehen und überdies mit Werkzeugen bearbeitet werden können, die in den Infrastrukturen zur Verfügung stehen, und damit eine weitere Verlinkung und Kombination mit externen Ressourcen erfolgen kann, sodass ein deutlicher Mehrwert entstehen kann.
Vorwort
(2020)
Das Theonym Gott für den christlichen Gott weist im Frühneuhochdeutschen eine Reihe ungewöhnlicher grammatischer Eigenschaften auf, die in diesem Beitrag korpusbasiert untersucht werden. Zum einen hat es sich von seiner appellativischen Herkunft emanzipiert, wie beispielsweise am fehlenden Artikel deutlich wird, zum anderen nutzt es aber das für einen Namen ungewöhnliche es-Flexiv im Genitiv (Pauls, Gottes) und tritt, wie unbelebte Appellative, als Genitivattribut dominant nachgestellt auf (Haus __ Gottes). In der Schreibung bildet sich die Doppelmajuskel <GOtt> heraus, die es bis ins 18. Jh. visuell von der übrigen Lexik abhebt. Damit weist das Theonym im Frühneuhochdeutschen eine Sondergrammatik auf, in abgeschwächter Form besteht sie bis heute fort. Der Beitrag argumentiert dafür, dass es sich um ein Resultat besonderer kommunikativer Relevanz handelt.
Aus diesem Grunde haben wir uns empirisch der Frage genähert, wie oder ob bestimmte Gruppen heute überhaupt noch Wörterbücher nutzen und ob sie sie bewusst von anderen sprachbezogenen Daten im Web unterscheiden. Es sollten empirische Daten gesammelt werden, um zu erfahren, wie DaF-Lernende tatsächlich arbeiten (und nicht was sie dazu retrospektiv sagen), vor allem um eine bessere empirische Basis für den Unterricht zur Verfügung zu haben. Zentrale Fragen dabei waren:
• Wie nutzen DaF-Lernende heutzutage lexikografische Ressourcen?
• Welche Suchstrategien wenden sie an?
• Differenzieren sie zwischen den unterschiedlichen Ressourcen?
• Welche Strategien erweisen sich als besonders erfolgreich?
Terminologiearbeit im wirtschaftlichen Kontext geht von zwei Arbeitsphasen aus: einer umfassenden deskriptiven Phase, in der die Begriffsstruktur und der aktuelle Terminologiegebrauch erfasst, aber noch nicht bewertet werden, sowie einer präskriptiven Phase, in der der eigentliche Standardisierungseingriff erfolgt. In der Praxis wird die deskriptive Phase oft reduziert und der Schwerpunkt unmittelbar auf die Präskription gelegt. In unserem Beitrag diskutieren wir das Potenzial, das eine ausführliche deskriptive Terminologiearbeit zur Verbesserung der Wissenskommunikation im Rahmen des Wissensmanagements birgt. Am Beispiel eines wissenschaftlichen Projektes im Bereich Grammatik des Deutschen zeigen wir, wie diese eng an der Theorie orientierte Ausgestaltung der Deskription in der Praxis aussieht, welche Herausforderungen sie mit sich bringt und wie ihre Ergebnisse das Wissensmanagement unterstützen können.
The article focuses on the lexeme Ahnung. A lexicographic analysis shows the range of Information offered by Ahnung in selected dictionaries, aespecially monolingual DaF dictionaries, and displays how the Spectrum of meaning is represented in them. Corpus-based analyses from two samples from FOLK and DeReKo investigate exemplary form characteristics and, with regard to the written-language data, the occurrence in text types. Ahnung shows a slightly higher combinatorial potential in written-linguistic data than in spoken-linguistic data. A clear tendency to the connection keine Ahnung is however to be recognized in both data sets.