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This paper presents a short insight into a new project at the "Institute for the German Language” (IDS) (Mannheim). It gives an insight into some basic ideas for a corpus-based dictionary of spoken German, which will be developed and compiled by the new project "The Lexicon of spoken German” (Lexik des gesprochenen Deutsch, LeGeDe). The work is based on the "Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German” (Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch, FOLK), which is implemented in the "Database for Spoken German” (Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch, DGD). Both resources, the database and the corpus, have been developed at the IDS.
Lexicographic meaning descriptions of German lexical items which are formally and semantically similar and therefore easily confused (so-called paronyms) often do not reflect their current usage of lexical items. They can even contradict one’s personal intuition or disagree with lexical usage as observed in public discourse. The reasons are manifold. Language data used for compiling dictionaries is either outdated, or lexicographic practice is rather conventional and does not take advantage of corpus-assisted approaches to semantic analysis. Despite of various modern electronic or online reference works speakers face uncertainties when dealing with easily confusable words. These are for example sensibel/sensitiv (sensitive) or kindisch/kindlich (childish/childlike). Existing dictionaries often do not provide satisfactory answers as to how to use these sets correctly. Numerous questions addressed in online forums show where uncertainties with paronyms are and why users demand further assistance concerning proper contextual usage (cf. Storjohann 2015). There are different reasons why users misuse certain items or mix up words which are similar in form and meaning. As data from written and more spontaneous language resources suggest, some confusions arise due to ongoing semantic change in the current use of some paronyms. This paper identifies shortcomings of contemporary German Dictionaries and discusses innovative ways of empirical lexicographic work that might pave the way for a new data-driven, descriptive reference work of confusable German terms. Currently, such a guide is being developed at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim implementing corpora and diverse corpus-analytical methods. Its objective is to compile a dictionary with contrastive entries which is a useful reference tool in situation of language doubt. At the same time, it aims at sensitizing users of context dependency and language change.
As a consequence of a recent curation project, the Dortmund Chat Corpus is available in CLARIN-D research infrastructures for download and querying. In a legal expertise it had been recommended that standard measures of anonymisation be applied to the corpus before its republication. This paper reports about the anonymisation campaign that was conducted for the corpus. Anonymisation has been realised as categorisation, and the taxonomy of anonymisation categories applied is introduced and the method of applying it to the TEI files is demonstrated. The results of the anonymisation campaign as well as issues of quality assessment are discussed. Finally, pseudonymisation as an alternative to categorisation as a method of the anonymisation of CMC data is discussed, as well as possibilities of an automatisation of the process.
Das Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online liefert eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Sprachkritik in europäischen Sprachkulturen (im Speziellen auf die Sprachkritik im Deutschen, Englischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Kroatischen). In dem Handbuch werden zentrale Konzepte der Sprachkritik deskriptiv behandelt. Das Ziel ist demnach, eine Konzeptgeschichte der europäischen Sprachkritik zu präsentieren. Zum einen liefert das Handbuch einen spezifischen Blick auf die jeweiligen Sprachkulturen. Zum anderen werden diese vergleichend in den Blick genommen. Das multilinguale Handbuch erscheint periodisch in Bänden.
Catching the common cause: extraction and annotation of causal relations and their participants
(2017)
In this paper, we present a simple, yet effective method for the automatic identification and extraction of causal relations from text, based on a large English-German parallel corpus. The goal of this effort is to create a lexical resource for German causal relations. The resource will consist of a lexicon that describes constructions that trigger causality as well as the participants of the causal event, and will be augmented by a corpus with annotated instances for each entry, that can be used as training data to develop a system for automatic classification of causal relations. Focusing on verbs, our method harvested a set of 100 different lexical triggers of causality, including support verb constructions. At the moment, our corpus includes over 1,000 annotated instances. The lexicon and the annotated data will be made available to the research community.
The paper presents best practices and results from projects dedicated to the creation of corpora of computer-mediated communication and social media interactions (CMC) from four different countries. Even though there are still many open issues related to building and annotating corpora of this type, there already exists a range of tested solutions which may serve as a starting point for a comprehensive discussion on how future standards for CMC corpora could (and should) be shaped like.
The paper reports on the results of a scientific colloquium dedicated to the creation of standards and best practices which are needed to facilitate the integration of language resources for CMC stemming from different origins and the linguistic analysis of CMC phenomena in different languages and genres. The key issue to be solved is that of interoperability – with respect to the structural representation of CMC genres, linguistic annotations metadata, and anonymization/pseudonymization schemas. The objective of the paper is to convince more projects to partake in a discussion about standards for CMC corpora and for the creation of a CMC corpus infrastructure across languages and genres. In view of the broad range of corpus projects which are currently underway all over Europe, there is a great window of opportunity for the creation of standards in a bottom-up approach.
In diesem Beitrag liegt der Fokus auf der Vorfeldbesetzung des deutschen Satzes, insofern das Vorfeld einerseits aus einem Satzglied oder mehreren Satzgliedern und einem infiniten Teil des Verbalkomplexes oder andererseits nur aus dem infiniten Teil des Verbalkomplexes besteht. Bei diesen Formen der Vorfeldbesetzung werden Varianten und deren informationsstrukturelle Besonderheiten betrachtet. Des Weiteren soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, ob – entgegen einer haufig vorgebrachten Regel, dass das Vorfeld des deutschen Satzes nur einfach besetzt werden kann – eindeutige und auch akzeptable Belege in den Wikipedia-Korpora auffindbar sind, die darauf hinweisen, dass im Deutschen durchaus eine Vorfeldbesetzung mit mehr als einem Satzglied auftreten kann.
On the basis of a law text corpus which consists of judicial decisions and jurisprudential papers on so-called assisted suicide from 1977 to 2011, agonal centres are determined within the paradigm of corpus-based pragma-semiotic text analysis. Agonal centres are defined as action-guiding concepts that are in conflict with each other concerning the general acceptance of event interpretations, options for actions, claims of validity, contextual knowledge and values. These action-guiding concepts are derived with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. Discourse linguistic interpretations are thus rendered more objective with the help of semi-automatic methods; furthermore, specific discourse features of the discourse and approaches to interpretation can be derived from (un)expected linguistic significances of occurrence, distribution, frequency etc. at the linguistic surface. Finally, these agonal centres specific to the language of law are compared to agonal centres which are determined on the basis of a media corpus on the same issue. This provides a comparative insight into the constitution of a seemingly identical fact in everyday and special language, which demonstrates the sociopolitical relevance of analysing the constitution of reality as instructed by language.
Dieser Aufsatz präsentiert Ergebnisse, die im Rahmen des binationalen Forschungsprojekts SDiv erarbeitet wurden 1. Im vorliegenden Text mit seinem Schwerpunkt auf den Textsorten innerhalb des Korpus Öffentliche Bekanntmachungen geht es im ersten Schritt um die Bestimmung der kommunikativen Merkmale, den historischen Rahmen, die quantitative Verteilung der Textsorten sowie ihre Klassifikation innerhalb des betreffenden Korpus 2. Im zweiten Schritt wird eine Analyse der sprachlichen Strukturen und Routinen durchgeführt. Das Ziel der textlinguistischen Analyse ist die Rekonstruktion der „Kommunikationsbedürfnisse und Kommunikationsbedingungen“ (Mattheier, 1998: 4), so wie sie im Zusammenhang mit den Öffentlichen Bekanntmachungen im 19. Jh. wirksam gewesen sind. Textsorten und Textsortengeschichte(n) haben den Vorzug, dass sie als „Schaltstellen zwischen Geschichte der Sprache und der Geschichte der Sprachgemeinschaft“ (Mattheier, 1998: 4) fungieren können, insofern leistet die hier realisierte Studie zu den Textsorten innerhalb der Öffentlichen Bekanntmachungen auch einen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Deutschen sowie zur Sozialgeschichte der mehrsprachigen Sprecher des Deutschen in Luxemburg. Der nachfolgende Aufsatz gliedert sich in sechs Abschnitte: 1. Einleitung, 2. Historischer Rahmen, 3. Korpus, 4. Theoretische Einbettung, 5. Sprachexterne Faktoren, 6. Sprachinterne Faktoren (z. B. grammatische Merkmale) sowie 7. Bilanz
Feedback utterances are among the most frequent in dialogue. Feedback is also a crucial aspect of linguistic theories that take social interaction, involving language, into account. This paper introduces the corpora and datasets of a project scrutinizing this kind of feedback utterances in French. We present the genesis of the corpora (for a total of about 16 hours of transcribed and phone force-aligned speech) involved in the project. We introduce the resulting datasets and discuss how they are being used in on-going work with focus on the form-function relationship of conversational feedback. All the corpora created and the datasets produced in the framework of this project will be made available for research purposes.
Some structures in printed dictionaries also occur in online dictionaries, some do not occur, some need to be adapted whereas new structures may be introduced in online dictionaries. This paper looks at one type of structure, known in printed dictionaries as outer texts. It is argued that the notions of a frame structure and front and back matter texts do not apply to online dictionaries. The data distribution in online dictionaries does not only target the dictionary articles. There are components outside the word list section of the dictionary. These components are not always texts. They could e.g. also be video clips. Consequently the notion of outer texts in printed dictionaries is substituted by the notion of outer features in online dictionaries. This paper shows how outer features help to constitute a feature compound. The outer features in eight online dictionaries are discussed. Where the users guidelines text is a compulsory outer text in printed dictionaries it seems that an equivalent feature is often eschewed in online dictionaries. A distinction is made between dictionary-internal and dictionary-external outer features, illustrating that outer features can be situated in other sources than the specific dictionary. More research is needed to formulate models for online features that can play a comprehensive role in online dictionaries.
Ein integriertes Datenbank-, Such- und Tagging-Tool (IDaSTo) wird vorgestellt, das sich besonders für Variablenanalysen, für Paralleltexte und für diachronische Untersuchungen eignet. Relevante Kategorien bzw. Variablen können individuell definiert, Tags frei im Text und auf verschiedenen Wegen gesetzt und ihre Häufigkeiten in den verlinkten Statistiken direkt abgerufen werden.
Cybermobbing ist der gezielte Versuch, online das Face einer anderen Person zu dekonstruieren. Etwa ein Drittel aller Jugendlichen ist schon mindestens einmal mit diesem Problem konfrontiert worden. Seinen temporären Höhepunkt erreichte es mit dem Erscheinen der Internetseite Isharegossip.com (ISG). Diese entwickelte sich sehr schnell zu einer regelrechten Mobbing-Plattform. Täter fanden hier ganz besonders drastische verbale Mittel, um ihre Opfer zu kompromittieren. Bislang wurde noch nicht qualitativ analysiert, inwieweit Opfer und sogenannte virtuelle Zaungäste auf diese Verbalattacken reagieren. Ziel des Aufsatzes ist es, anhand eines typischen Diskurses sechs Verteidigungsstrategien aufzuzeigen, die von Opfern aber auch von sogenannten virtuellen Zaungästen angewandt werden, um das Face des Opfers zu rekonstruieren und zu stabilisieren.