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This paper describes an approach to modelling a general-language wordnet, GermaNet, and a domain-specific wordnet, TermNet, in the web ontology language OWL. While the modelling process for GermaNet adopts relevant recommendations with respect to the English Princeton WordNet, for Term-Net an alternative modelling concept is developed that considers the special characteristics of domain-specific terminologies. We present a proposal for linking a general-language wordnet and a terminological wordnet within the framework of OWL and on this basis discuss problems and alternative modelling approaches.
Editorial
(2013)
We present an empirical study addressing the question whether, and to which extent, lexicographic writing aids improve text revision results. German university students were asked to optimise two German texts using (1) no aids at all, (2) highlighted problems, or (3) highlighted problems accompanied by lexicographic resources that could be used to solve the specific problems. We found that participants from the third group corrected the largest number of problems and introduced the fewest semantic distortions during revision. Also, they reached the highest overall score and were most efficient (as measured in points per time). The second group with highlighted problems lies between the two other groups in almost every measure we analysed. We discuss these findings in the scope of intelligent writing environments, the effectiveness of writing aids in practical usage situations and teaching dictionary skills.
The paper presents an XML schema for the representation of genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) that is compliant with the encoding framework defined by the TEI. It was designed for the annotation of CMC documents in the project Deutsches Referenzkorpus zur internetbasierten Kommunikation (DeRiK), which aims at building a corpus on language use in the most popular CMC genres on the German-speaking Internet. The focus of the schema is on those CMC genres which are written and dialogic―such as forums, bulletin boards, chats, instant messaging, wiki and weblog discussions, microblogging on Twitter, and conversation on “social network” sites.
The schema provides a representation format for the main structural features of CMC discourse as well as elements for the annotation of those units regarded as “typical” for language use on the Internet. The schema introduces an element <posting>, which describes stretches of text that are sent to the server by a user at a certain point in time. Postings are the main constituting elements of threads and logfiles, which, in our schema, are the two main types of CMC macrostructures. For the microlevel of CMC documents (that is, the structure of the <posting> content), the schema introduces elements for selected features of Internet jargon such as emoticons, interaction words and addressing terms. It allows for easy anonymization of CMC data for purposes in which the annotated data are made publicly available and includes metadata which are necessary for referencing random excerpts from the data as references in dictionary entries or as results of corpus queries.
Documentation of the schema as well as encoding examples can be retrieved from the web at http://www.empirikom.net/bin/view/Themen/CmcTEI. The schema is meant to be a core model for representing CMC that can be modified and extended by others according to their own specific perspectives on CMC data. It could be a first step towards an integration of features for the representation of CMC genres into a future new version of the TEI Guidelines.
Grammatikographie mit Neuen Medien: Erfahrungen beim Aufbau eines grammatischen Informationssystems
(1997)
In 1993, a research group at the Institut für deutsche Sprache (Mannheim) began to develop a Hypermedia grammar. It integrates components of the comprehensive Grammatik der Deutschen Sprache of the IdS into an interactive information system called GRAMMIS (»Grundlagen eines grammatischen Informationssystems«). After some background considerations, the design of the system is presented, and the functioning of some of the components is illustrated. Parts of its present version, Grammis-3, are also accessible via Internet. Practical experiences so far are very encouraging. The paper concludes with a discussion of future prospects.
Wörterbücher im Internet
(1996)
Die Autorinnen entwerfen zunächst eine typologische Skizze der im Internet angebotenen lexikalischen Datensammlungen, die um qualitative und quantitative Untersuchungen zum Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Englisch ergänzt ist. Schließlich werden medienspezifische Merkmale wie Hypertextualisierung, Multimedialität und Zugriffsangebote anhand typischer Beispiele erörtert. Es wird deutlich, daß die meisten der untersuchten Wörterbücher die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten des Mediums bei weitem nicht ausreizen und dem Qualitätsvergleich mit professionellen elektronischen Offline-Wörterbüchern nicht standhalten können. Die Vorteile des Online-Mediums Internet zeigen sich jedoch bei schnell wachsenden und sich verändernden Wortschatzbereichen, z.B. terminologischen Datensammlungen für Naturwissenschaften und Informatik. In vielerlei Hinsicht interessant sind auch Projekte der kooperativen Wörterbucherstellung, die durch die Kombination von Informations- und Kommunikationsdiensten im Internet begünstigt werden. Diese neuen Formen der Wörterbucharbeit dokumentieren nicht nur den Bedarf nach weltweitem Wissensaustausch, sondern auch Interesse und Spaß an der Kommunikation über Sprache.
The concept of text coherence was developed for linear text, i.e. text of sequentially organized content. The present article addresses to what extent this concept can be applied to hypertext. Following the introduction (section 1), I will define different aspects of text coherence (section 2). I will then explain the importance of the sequential order of text constituents for coherence-building, as explored by empirical studies on text comprehension (section 3). Section 4 discusses how hypertext-specific forms of reading affect the processes of coherence-building and coherence-design. Section 5 explores how the new challenges of hypertext comprehension may be met by hypertext-specific coherence cues. A summary and outlook is included (section 6).
We present an empirical study addressing the question whether, and to which extent, lexicographic writing aids improve text revision results. German university students were asked to optimise two German texts using (1) no aids at all, (2) highlighted problems, or (3) highlighted problems accompanied by lexicographic resources that could be used to solve the specific problems. We found that participants from the third group corrected the largest number of problems and introduced the fewest semantic distortions during revision. Also, they reached the highest overall score and were most efficient (as measured in points per time). The second group with highlighted problems lies between the two other groups in almost every measure we analysed. We discuss these findings in the scope of intelligent writing environments, the effectiveness of writing aids in practical usage situations and teaching dictionary skills.