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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.
Das vorliegende "Verzeichnis grundlegender grammatischer Fachausdrücke" beruht auf einem Konsens, den das "Gremium für Schulgrammatische Terminologie" unter Berücksichtigung fachwissenschaftlicher, fachdidaktischer und unterrichtspraktischer Gesichtspunkte hergestellt hat. Ziel dieses Verzeichnisses ist es, Anhaltspunkte zu geben für die Konzeption von Lehrplänen und Schulbüchern für das Fach Deutsch. Das Verzeichnis bietet eine Grundlage zur Vereinheitlichung der Termini sowie des mit einem Terminus verbundenen Begriffsverständnisses.
Le bilinguisme en Moselle-Est. Un projet de documentation linguistique de la situation actuelle.
(2020)
Qui parle aujourd'hui quelle langue avec qui et à quelle occasion? Quelles idées les habitants de la Moselle germanophone associent-ils aux dialectes et aux langues? Comment le Platt lorrain est-il transmis? à quoi cela ressemble-t-il dans les différents coins de la Moselle ? Pour répondre à ces questions, le Leibniz- Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) a lancé un projet de documentation sonore pour la recherche linguistique.
Lean syntax: how argument structure is adapted to its interactive, material, and temporal ecology
(2020)
It has often been argued that argument structure in spoken discourse is less complex than in written discourse. This paper argues that lean argument structure, in particular, argument omission, gives evidence of how the production and understanding of linguistic structures is adapted to the interactive, material, and temporal ecology of talk-in-interaction. It is shown how lean argument structure builds on participants' ongoing bodily conduct, joint perceptual salience, joint attention, and their Orientation to expectable next actions within a joint project. The phenomena discusscd in this paper are verb-derived discourse markers and tags, analepsis in responsive actions, and ellipsis in first actions, such as requests and instructions. The study draws from transcripts and audio- and video-recordings of naturally occurring interaction in German from the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German (FOLK).
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.
Linguistic Variation and Change in 250 Years of English Scientific Writing: A Data-Driven Approach
(2020)
We trace the evolution of Scientific English through the Late Modern period to modern time on the basis of a comprehensive corpus composed of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the first and longest-running English scientific journal established in 1665. Specifically, we explore the linguistic imprints of specialization and diversification in the science domain which accumulate in the formation of “scientific language” and field-specific sublanguages/registers (chemistry, biology etc.). We pursue an exploratory, data-driven approach using state-of-the-art computational language models and combine them with selected information-theoretic measures (entropy, relative entropy) for comparing models along relevant dimensions of variation (time, register). Focusing on selected linguistic variables (lexis, grammar), we show how we deploy computational language models for capturing linguistic variation and change and discuss benefits and limitations.
Maske oder Mundschutz?
(2020)
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.
Im vorliegenden Beitrag gehen wir von der Prämisse aus, dass die Angemessenheit sprachlicher Formen nicht pauschal, sondern anhand des jeweiligen Kontexts zu beurteilen ist. Anhand einer Online-Fragebogenstudie mit durch weil eingeleiteten Nebensätzen untersuchen wir die Hypothese, dass Varianten, die nicht dem Schriftstandard entsprechen, in Kommunikationsformen, die sich weniger an standard- und schriftsprachlichen Normen orientieren, als (mindestens) ebenso angemessen oder zumindest unterschiedlich wahrgenommen werden wie eine schriftstandardsprachliche Variante. Wir untersuchen dies anhand von drei Aufgaben: Rezeption, Produktion und Assoziation zu bestimmten Medien und Textsorten. Wir können zeigen, dass die schriftnormgerechte Variante durchweg als am akzeptabelsten eingeschätzt wird. In allen drei Aufgaben finden sich aber auch eindeutige und übereinstimmende Effekte, die nahelegen, dass die verschiedenen Varianten in Abhängigkeit der Textsorte doch unterschiedlich eingeschätzt, produziert und assoziiert werden.
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
Nachruf auf Helmut Frosch
(2020)
Nachruf auf Ulrich Engel
(2020)
In der Berichterstattung über die Coronapandemie werden einige für den deutschen Allgemeinwortschatz neue Wörter sowie bekannte Wörter mit neuen Bedeutungen verwendet. Manche sind aus dem Englischen entlehnt, andere im Deutschen gebildet. Neben etwas älteren Lexemen stehen ganz neue, neben solchen aus bestimmten Fachsprachen solche, die außerhalb von Fachkontexten entstanden sind. Sie erscheinen uns alle erklärenswert, selbst, wenn wir sie für das Neologismenwörterbuch zunächst noch beobachten.
The majority of new words in dictionaries are included following a certain period of time during which they have become more frequent in use and established morphosyntactic and orthographic features consistent with the language system they are borrowed into. In case of borrowed new words, inclusion often takes place at a transitional state of assimilation to the language system, where delayed orthographic or phonetic change cannot be ruled out and the differentiation between standard-conforming and non-standard orthographic word forms of a lemma oftentimes depends on the proximity between the writing systems of the donor and the recipient language. Following a brief overview of loan words and their lexicographical description in the Neologismenwörterbuch, a specialized online dictionary for neologisms in contemporary German, this paper presents findings of an investigative case study on dictionary entries for a neologism borrowed from a logographic language system and discusses the potential of a corpus-based description of new loan words.
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.
Paronymie und Sprachwandel
(2020)
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren beim Bedeutungswandel von deutschen Paronymen (z. B. effektiv/effizient, virtuell/virtual, nicht ehelich/unehelich/außerehelich) eine Rolle spielen und wie sich diese im aktuellen Sprachgebrauch zeigen. Dabei können gerade Korpusanalysen unterschiedliche Tendenzen sprachlicher Entwicklung aufdecken. Als morphologische Alternativen können Paronyme durchaus das sprachliche Inventar bereichern und der Sprachgemeinschaft neue lexikalische Varianten zur Verfügung stellen. In anderen Fällen konkurrieren Paronyme stark miteinander und dadurch verändern sich Verwendungsweisen. Zusätzlich ist häufiger fehlerhafter Gebrauch ein wichtiger Impuls für semantische Veränderungen. Als Ergebnis beobachten wir semantische Angleichungen oder lexikalische Verdrängungen. Zahlreiche Ausdrücke haben sich in der jüngsten Sprachgeschichte semantisch, stilistisch oder diskursiv spezialisiert, um veränderten sprachlichen Bedürfnissen sowie neuen kommunikativen Situationen Rechnung zu tragen. Die Ursachen und Folgen des Wandels von paronymen Zweifelsfällen sind vielschichtig. In diesem Beitrag werden einige konkrete Ausdrücke näher beleuchtet, ihre gebrauchsorientierte Untersuchung, aber auch Möglichkeiten der lexikografischen Dokumentation werden erörtert.
Der Band leistet eine theoretisch begründete und empirisch validierte Entwicklung einer automatisierten Wortartenannotation (Part-of-Speech-Tagging) für Transkripte spontansprachlicher Daten des Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK), das über die Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch der Forschungsgemeinschaft öffentlich zugänglich ist. Dabei setzt er zwei Schwerpunkte: erstens die theoretische Aufarbeitung von Unterschieden von Transkripten gesprochener Sprache zu schriftsprachlichen Daten in Hinblick auf die Entwicklung eines Tagsets für das gesprochene Deutsch; zweitens die Darstellung der empirischen Arbeitsschritte zur Erstellung des automatisierten Part-of-Speech-Taggings, d. h. die Implementierung und Evaluierung für die Annotation des FOLK-Korpus. Der Band ist eine kritische Reflexion der Wortartentheorien im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und datengeleiteter Arbeit. Er gibt Einblicke über die Korpusaufbereitung von Transkripten gesprochener Sprache und stellt diese in Bezug zu Theorien über die Eigenheiten gesprochener Sprache.
According to Positioning Theory, participants in narrative interaction can position themselves on a representational level concerning the autobiographical, told self, and a performative level concerning the interactive and emotional self of the tellers. The performative self is usually much harder to pin down, because it is a non-propositional, enacted self. In contrast to everyday interaction, psychotherapists regularly topicalize the performative self explicitly. In our paper, we study how therapists respond to clients' narratives by interpretations of the client's conduct, shifting from the autobiographical identity of the told self, which is the focus of the client's story, to the present performative self of the client. Drawing on video recordings from three psychodynamic therapies (tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie) with 25 sessions each, we will analyze in detail five extracts of therapists' shifts from the representational to the performative self. We highlight four findings:
• Whereas, clients' narratives often serve to support identity claims in terms of personal psychological and moral characteristics, therapists rather tend to focus on clients' feelings, motives, current behavior, and ways of interacting.
• In response to clients' stories, therapists first show empathy and confirm clients' accounts, before shifting to clients' performative self.
• Therapists ground the shift to clients' performative self by references to clients' observable behavior.
• Therapists do not simply expect affiliation with their views on clients' performative self. Rather, they use such shifts to promote the clients' self-exploration. Yet, if clients resist to explore their selves in more detail, therapists more explicitly ascribe motives and feelings that clients do not seem to be aware of. The shift in positioning levels thus seems to have a preparatory function for engendering therapeutic insights.
This paper studies practices of indexing discrepant assumptions accomplished by turn-constructional units with ich dachte ('I thought') in German talk-in-interaction. Building on the analysis of 141 instances from the corpus FOLK, we identify three sequential environments in which ich dachte is used to index that an assumption which a speaker (has) held contrasts with some other, contextually salient assumption. We show that practices which have been studied for English I thought are also routinely used in German: ich dachte is a means to manage epistemic incongruencies and to contrast an incorrect with a correct assumption in narratives. In addition, ich dachte is also used to account for the speaker's own prior actions which may have looked problematic because they built on misunderstandings which the speaker only discovered later. Moreover, ich dachte-practices may also be used to create comic effects by reporting an earlier, absurd assumption. The practices are discussed with regard to their role in regaining common ground, in managing relationships, in maintaining the identity of a rational actor, and in terms of their exploitation for other conversational interests. Special attention is paid to how co-occurring linguistic features, and sequential and pragmatic factors, account for local interpretations of ich dachte.
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.
The 12th Web as Corpus workshop (WAC-XII) looks at the past, present, and future of web corpora given the fact that large web corpora are nowadays provided mostly by a few major initiatives and companies, and the diversity of the early years appears to have faded slightly. Also, we acknowledge the fact that alternative sources of data (such as data from Twitter and similar platforms) have emerged, some of them only available to large companies and their affiliates, such as linguistic data from social media and other forms of the deep web. At the same time, gathering interesting and relevant web data (web crawling) is becoming an ever more intricate task as the nature of the data offered on the web changes (for example the death of forums in favour of more closed platforms).
In order to satisfy the information needs of a wide range of researchers across a number of disciplines, large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation. This daunting set of tasks has coalesced into a number of key themes and questions that are of interest to the contributing research communities: (a) what sampling techniques can we apply? (b) what quality issues should we be aware of? (c) what infrastructures and frameworks are being developed for the efficient storage, annotation, analysis and retrieval of large datasets? (d) what affordances do visualisation techniques offer for the exploratory analysis approaches of corpora? (e) what legal paths can be followed in dealing with IPR and data protection issues governing both the data sources and the query results? (f) how to guarantee that corpus data remain available and usable in a sustainable way?
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.
As immigration and mobility increases, so do interactions between people from different linguistic backgrounds. Yet while linguistic diversity offers many benefits, it also comes with a number of challenges. In seven empirical articles and one commentary, this Special Issue addresses some of the most significant language challenges facing researchers in the 21st century: the power language has to form and perpetuate stereotypes, the contribution language makes to intersectional identities, and the role of language in shaping intergroup relations. By presenting work that aims to shed light on some of these issues, the goal of this Special Issue is to (a) highlight language as integral to social processes and (b) inspire researchers to address the challenges we face. To keep pace with the world’s constantly evolving linguistic landscape, it is essential that we make progress toward harnessing language’s power in ways that benefit 21st century globalized societies.
Prosodische Morphologie
(2020)
This article describes the development of the digital infrastructure at a research data centre for audio-visual linguistic research data, the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK) at the University of Hamburg in Germany, over the past ten years. The typical resource hosted in the HZSK Repository, the core component of the infrastructure, is a collection of recordings with time-aligned transcripts and additional contextual data, a spoken language corpus. Since the centre has a thematic focus on multilingualism and linguistic diversity and provides its service to researchers within linguistics and other disciplines, the development of the infrastructure was driven by diverse usage scenarios and user needs on the one hand, and by the common technical requirements for certified service centres of the CLARIN infrastructure on the other. Beyond the technical details, the article also aims to be a contribution to the discussion on responsibilities and services within emerging digital research data infrastructures and the fundamental issues in sustainability of research software engineering, concluding that in order to truly cater to user needs across the research data lifecycle, we still need to bridge the gap between discipline-specific research methods in the process of digitalisation and generic digital research data management approaches.
Historiquement, les variétés germaniques de la Moselle-Est (ancienne région Lorraine) font partie du continuum dialectal de l’allemand. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, leur utilisation (y compris celle de l’allemand standard) a été fortement réprimée et la francisation résolument poursuivie. Depuis quelques décennies maintenant, des efforts ont été faits pour élever les dialectes de la Moselle-Est au statut de langue indépendante afin de marquer une distance par rapport à la langue allemande, de permettre leur identification et de pouvoir les réutiliser. Le paysage linguistique donne une bonne indication de la manière dont coexistent les différents groupes linguistiques et une indication sur le statut de leurs langues. Dans le cadre d’une analyse qualitative, les contextes d’apparition, les fonctions et les auteurs des éléments linguistiques visibles dans l’espace public en allemand standard et dialectal seront discutés pour la Moselle-Est. Il s’avère qu’ils constituent des exceptions notables, distribuées de manière significative. L’allemand (standard) apparaît dans les inscriptions historiques ainsi que dans le domaine des relations internationales, et est donc implicitement exogénéisé. En revanche, on trouve le dialecte (appelé « platt ») dans des contextes ayant des références locales et portant sur des aspects identitaires.
This paper reports on recent developments within the European Reference Corpus EuReCo, an open initiative that aims at providing and using virtual and dynamically definable comparable corpora based on existing national, reference or other large corpora. Given the well-known shortcomings of other types of multilingual corpora such as parallel/translation corpora (shining-through effects, over-normalization, simplification, etc.) or web-based comparable corpora (covering only web material), EuReCo provides a unique linguistic resource offering new perspectives for fine-grained contrastive research on authentic cross-linguistic data, applications in translation studies and foreign language teaching and learning.
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.
Die vorgestellte Studie untersucht die Anteile unterschiedlicher Redewiedergabeformen im Vergleich zwischen zwei Literaturtypen von gegensätzlichen Enden des Spektrums: Hochliteratur – definiert als Werke, die auf der Auswahlliste von Literaturpreisen standen – und Heftromanen, massenproduzierten Erzählwerken, die zumeist über den Zeitschriftenhandel vertrieben werden und früher abwertend als „Romane der Unterschicht” (Nusser 1981) bezeichnet wurden. Unsere These ist, dass sich diese Literaturtypen hinsichtlich ihrer Erzählweise unterscheiden, und sich dies in den verwendeten Wiedergabeformen niederschlägt. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt auf der Dichotomie zwischen direkter und nicht-direkter Wiedergabe, die schon in der klassischen Rhetorik aufgemacht wurde.
Dieser Sammelband vereinigt die wichtigsten und innovativsten Beiträge aus der Sektion Wahrnehmungsdialektologie des 6. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD); er soll einen Eindruck über den aktuellen Forschungsstand der Disziplin verschaffen. Das Ziel ist es, einen multiperspektivischen Zugang zur aktuellen wahrnehmungsdialektologischen Forschung zu ermöglichen. Das thematische Spektrum ist breitgefächert, neben den Schwerpunkten Dialektgebrauch, -bewertung und -wahrnehmung stehen auch theoretisch-modellbildende Ansätze im Fokus: Welche Konzepte gibt es, um die Begriffe Laie und Wissen in der Wahrnehmungsdialektologie zu definieren? Wie können die Methoden der traditionellen Dialektologie sinnvoll mit wahrnehmungsdialektologischen Methoden verknüpft werden? Welche Bedeutung haben Spracheinstellungen für den Sprachwandel? Wie bewerten Sprecherinnen und Sprecher des Deutschen regionale Varietäten, und welche Konzeptualisierungen liegen diesen zugrunde? Welche Auswirkungen haben politische Grenzen auf die dialektale Sprechweise und deren Wahrnehmung?
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 paper analyses the variation we find in the realization of finite clausal complements in the position of prepositional objects in a set of Germanic languages. The Germanic languages differ with respect to whether prepositions can directly select a clause (North Germanic) or not and instead need a prepositional proform (Continental West Germanic). Within the Continental West Germanic languages, we find further differences with respect to the constituent structures. We propose that German strong vs. weak prepositional proforms (e.g. drauf vs. darauf) differ with respect to their syntax, while this is not the case for the Dutch forms (ervan vs. daarvan). What the Germanic languages under consideration share is that the prepositional element can be covert, except in English. English shows only limited evidence for the presence of P with finite clauses in the position of prepositional objects generally, but only with a selected set of verbs. This investigation is a first step towards a broader study of the nature of clauses in prepositional object positions and the implications for the syntax of clausal complementation.
This technology watch report discusses digital repository solutions, in the context of the research infrastructure projects CLARIAH-DE, CLARIN, and DARIAH. It provides an overview of different repository systems, comparing them and discussing their respective applicabilities from the perspectives of the project partners at the time of writing.
As part of a larger research paradigm on understanding client change in the helping professions from an interprofessional perspective, this paper applies a conversation analytic approach to investigate therapists’ requesting examples (REs) and their interactional and sequential contribution to clients’ change during the diagnostic evaluation process. The analyzed data comprises 15 videotaped intake interviews that followed the system of Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis. Therapists’ requesting examples in psychodiagnostic interviews explicitly or implicitly criticize the patient’s prior turn as insufficient. They also open a retro-sequence and in the following turns provide for a description that helps clarify meaning and evince psychic or relational aspects of the topic at hand. While the therapist’s prior request initiates the patient’s insufficient presentation, the patient’s example presentation is regularly followed by the therapist’s summarizing comments or by further requests. Requesting examples thus are a particular case of requests that follow expandable responses regarding the sequential organization; yet, given that they make examples conditionally relevant, they are more specific. With the help of this sequential organization, participants co-construct common knowledge which allows the therapist to pursue the overall aim of therapy, which is to increase the patients’ awareness of their distorted perceptions, and thus to pave the way for change.
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)
Shutdown, Lockdown und Exit
(2020)
Signposts for CLARIN
(2020)
An implementation of CMDI-based signposts and its use is presented in this paper. Arnold et al. 2020 present Signposts as a solution to challenges in long-term preservation of corpora, especially corpora that are continuously extended and subject to modification, e.g., due to legal injunctions, but also may overlap with respect to constituents, and may be subject to migrations to new data formats. We describe the contribution Signposts can make to the CLARIN infrastructure and document the design for the CMDI profile.
Silbenkurzwort
(2020)
„Revolutionen sind die Lokomotiven der Geschichte“, lautet ein berühmter Ausspruch von Karl Marx. Kann man dies auch auf die Sprachgeschichte übertragen? Und was sind deren Lokomotiven? Eine neuere These besagt, dass Pandemien, Kriege und andere “revolutionäre” Ereignisse mit starker Auswirkung auf die Demografie sprachhistorisches Geschehen in Gang setzen können.
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience a variety of symptoms sometimes including atypicalities in language use. The study explored diferences in semantic network organisation of adults with ASD without intellectual impairment. We assessed clusters and switches in verbal fuency tasks (‘animals’, ‘human feature’, ‘verbs’, ‘r-words’) via curve ftting in combination with corpus-driven analysis of semantic relatedness and evaluated socio-emotional and motor action related content. Compared to participants without ASD (n=39), participants with ASD (n=32) tended to produce smaller clusters, longer switches, and fewer words in semantic conditions (no p values survived Bonferroni-correction), whereas relatedness and content were similar. In ASD, semantic networks underlying cluster formation appeared comparably small without afecting strength of associations or content.
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.
Studenten, StudentInnen, Studierende? Aktuelle Verwendungspräferenzen bei Personenbezeichnungen
(2020)
Im Beitrag werden Meinungen und Einstellungen zur geschlechtergerechten Sprache dargestellt. Dazu werden verschiedene Möglichkeiten für die Bezeichnung von Personen, die studieren, in den Blick genommen. Diese werden zunächst beschrieben und ihre Frequenzen im Deutschen Referenzkorpus ausgewertet. Anschließend werden explizit die Meinungen und Einstellungen behandelt. Dafür werden die Daten der Deutschland-Erhebung 2008 und der Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 ausgewertet. In der aktuellen Erhebung wurden laienlinguistische Verwendungspräferenzen von Personenbezeichnungen erhoben; präferiert wird von den meisten Befragten die Partizipialform (den Studierenden). Die Verwendungspräferenzen hangen vor allem mit dem Alter der Befragten und ihrer politischen Orientierung zusammen. Insgesamt zeigt sich jedoch, dass das Thema der geschlechtergerechten Sprache für die meisten Befragten nur eine untergeordnete Rolle spielt.
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.
T-Shirt Lexicography
(2020)
This article presents a study of graphic inscriptions on garments such as T-shirts, inscriptions that resemble entries in general monolingual dictionaries of German. Referred to here as "T-shirt lexicography," the collected material is analyzed in terms of its form, content, and function, focusing on lexicographical aspects. T-shirt lexicography is an example of vernacular lexicography inasmuch as different lexicographical traditions are assumed (correctly as well as erroneously) by the (unknown) authors, but also adapted to their specific needs.
Text und Sprache digital
(2020)
The CMDI Explorer
(2020)
We present the CMDI Explorer, a tool that empowers users to easily explore the contents of complex CMDI records and to process selected parts of them with little effort. The tool allows users, for instance, to analyse virtual collections represented by CMDI records, and to send collection items to other CLARIN services such as the Switchboard for subsequent processing. The CMDI Explorer hence adds functionality that many users felt was lacking from the CLARIN tool space.
This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.
This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.
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.
This paper presents the corpus-based lexicographical prototype that was developed within the framework of the project Lexik des gesprochenen Deutsch (=LeGeDe) as a thirdparty funded project. Research results regarding the information offered in dictionaries have shown that there is a necessity for information on spoken lexis and its interactional functions. The resulting LeGeDe-prototype is based on these needs and desiderata and is thus an innovative example for the adequate representation of spoken language in online dictionaries. It is available online since September 2019 (https://www.owid.de/legede/). In the following sections, after first focusing on the presentation of the project’s goals, the data basis, the intended end user, and the applied methods, we will illustrate the microstructure of the prototype and the information provided in a dictionary entry based on the lemma eben. Finally, we will summarize innovative aspects that are important for the implementation of such a resource.
We present recognizers for four very different types of speech, thought and writing representation (STWR) for German texts. The implementation is based on deep learning with two different customized contextual embeddings, namely FLAIR embeddings and BERT embeddings. This paper gives an evaluation of our recognizers with a particular focus on the differences in performance we observed between those two embeddings. FLAIR performed best for direct STWR (F1=0.85), BERT for indirect (F1=0.76) and free indirect (F1=0.59) STWR. For reported STWR, the comparison was inconclusive, but BERT gave the best average results and best individual model (F1=0.60). Our best recognizers, our customized language embeddings and most of our test and training data are freely available and can be found via www.redewiedergabe.de or at github.com/redewiedergabe.
Towards Comprehensive Definitions of Data Quality for Audiovisual Annotated Language Resources
(2020)
Though digital infrastructures such as CLARIN have been successfully established and now provide large collections of digital resources, the lack of widely accepted standards for data quality and documentation still makes re-use of research data a difficult endeavour, especially for more complex resource types. The article gives a detailed overview over relevant characteristics of audiovisual annotated language resources and reviews possible approaches to data quality in terms of their suitability for the current context. Conclusively, various strategies are suggested in order to arrive at comprehensive and adequate definitions of data quality for this particular resource type.
This paper describes the development of a systematic approach to the creation, management and curation of linguistic resources, particularly spoken language corpora. It also presents first steps towards a framework for continuous quality control to be used within external research projects by non-technical users, and discuss various domain and discipline specific problems and individual solutions. The creation of spoken language corpora is not only a time-consuming and costly process, but the created resources often represent intangible cultural heritage, containing recordings of, for example, extinct languages or historical events. Since high quality resources are needed to enable re-use in as many future contexts as possible, researchers need to be provided with the necessary means for quality control. We believe that this includes methods and tools adapted to Humanities researchers as non-technical users, and that these methods and tools need to be developed to support existing tasks and goals of research projects.
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our primary communication tool. In this short paper, we present three inter-connected resources that are designed to capture and illustrate these effects on a subset of the German language: An RSS corpus of German-language newsfeeds (with freely available untruncated frequency lists), a continuously updated HTML page tracking the diversity of the vocabulary in the RSS corpus and a Shiny web application that enables other researchers and the broader public to explore the corpus in terms of basic frequencies.
In Theaterproben entwickeln Beteiligte gemeinsam eine Inszenierung, die zur Aufführung gebracht wird. Ein wesentliches Mittel dazu ist das Vorspielen von Teilen des Stücks und das anschließende Besprechen. Dies geschieht üblicherweise in Rollenteilung: Die Schauspielenden führen Teile des Stücks vor, während die Regie zuschaut und gegebenenfalls interveniert, woran sich Besprechungen anschließen können. Dieser Teil von Theaterproben, in dem abwechselnd vorgespielt und besprochen wird, haben wir Spielprobe genannt (siehe Einleitung zu diesem Themenheft). Eine wesentliche interaktionsorganisatorische Aufgabe von Spielproben besteht für die Beteiligten darin, Schauspielaktivitäten und Besprechungsaktivitäten miteinander zu verzahnen. Dies geschieht durch Transitionspraktiken, die das Spiel entweder unterbrechen oder wieder eröffnen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Transitionspraktiken in Spielproben als ein konstitutives Moment ihrer interaktiven Organisation. Fokussiert werden Praktiken, die das Spiel unterbrechen, so genannte Interventionen. Nach einer detaillierten Fallanalyse, die eine prototypische Transition vom Spiel ins Besprechen und zurück ins Spiel veranschaulicht (Kap. 4.1/4.2), widmet sich der Rest des Beitrags der Analyse einer Kollektion von Interventionen. Es zeigt sich, dass Interventionen normativen Orientierungen unterliegen und verwendete Praktiken hinsichtlich verschiedener Dimensionen (etwa Ursache/Grund der Intervention) systematisch variieren.
The paper presents a discussion on the main linguistic phenomena of user-generated texts found in web and social media, and proposes a set of annotation guidelines for their treatment within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. Given on the one hand the increasing number of treebanks featuring user-generated content, and its somewhat inconsistent treatment in these resources on the other, the aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to provide a short, though comprehensive, overview of such treebanks - based on available literature - along with their main features and a comparative analysis of their annotation criteria, and (2) to propose a set of tentative UD-based annotation guidelines, to promote consistent treatment of the particular phenomena found in these types of texts. The main goal of this paper is to provide a common framework for those teams interested in developing similar resources in UD, thus enabling cross-linguistic consistency, which is a principle that has always been in the spirit of UD.
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.
This article explores a sequence organizational phenomenon that results from the use of a loosely specifiable turn format (viz., That’s + wh-clause) for launching (next) sequences while at the same time connecting back to a prior turn. Using this practice creates a sequential juncture, i.e., a pivot-like nexus between one sequence and a next. In third position, such junctures serve to accomplish seamless sequential transitions from one sequence into a next by presenting the latter as locally occasioned. The practice may, however, also be deployed in second position to launch actions that have not been made relevant or provided for by the preceding action and exhibit response relevance themselves. The sequential junctures then become retro-sequential in character: They transform the projected trajectory of the sequence in progress and create interlocking sequential structures. These findings highlight that sequence is practice, while pointing to understudied interconnections between tying and sequentiality. Data are in English.
Türkisch in Deutschland
(2020)
This article deals with narratives of traumatic experiences of parental violence in childhood, told by adult narrators in the context of clinical adult attachment interviews. The study rests on a corpus of interviews with 20 patients suffering from fibromyalgia, who were interviewed in the context of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Nine of the patients reported repeated experiences of parental violence. The article focuses on extracts from two interviews, which provide for a maximal contrast concerning the practices of telling experiences of violence and which are ‘clear cases’ of the practices that are characteristic of the whole corpus. The main differences between the different ways of telling concern:
• With respect to the ascription of guilt and responsibility, parental violence is portrayed as legitimate pedagogic action versus as being evil-minded and guilty without rational justification.
• With respect to the process of the telling, we find narrative trajectories over which an initial vague gloss is increasingly unpacked by reports of highly violent actions versus narratives in which violence is overtly stated and morally ascribed from its very first mention.
In this article, we describe a user support solution for the digital humanities. As a case study, we show the development of the CLARIN-D Helpdesk from 2013 into the current support solution that has been extended for several other CLARIN-related software and projects and the DARIAH-ERIC. Furthermore, we describe a way towards a common support platform for CLARIAH-DE, which is currently in the final phase. We hope to further expand the help desk in the following years in order to act as a hub for user support and a central knowledge resource for the digital humanities not only in the German, but also in the European area and perhaps at some point worldwide.
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.
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.
As a part of the ZuMult-project, we are currently modelling a backend architecture that should provide query access to corpora from the Archive of Spoken German (AGD) at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS). We are exploring how to reuse existing search engine frameworks providing full text indices and allowing to query corpora by one of the corpus query languages (QLs) established and actively used in the corpus research community. For this purpose, we tested MTAS - an open source Lucene-based search engine for querying on text with multilevel annotations. We applied MTAS on three oral corpora stored in the TEI-based ISO standard for transcriptions of spoken language (ISO 24624:2016). These corpora differ from the corpus data that MTAS was developed for, because they include interactions with two and more speakers and are enriched, inter alia, with timeline-based annotations. In this contribution, we report our test results and address issues that arise when search frameworks originally developed for querying written corpora are being transferred into the field of spoken language.
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.