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Das Deutsche Referenzkorpus DeReKo dient als eine empirische Grundlage für die germanistische Linguistik. In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über Grundlagen und Neuigkeiten zu DeReKo und seine Verwendungsmöglichkeiten sowie einen Einblick in seine strategische Gesamtkonzeption, die zum Ziel hat, DeReKo trotz begrenzter Ressourcen für einerseits möglichst viele und andererseits auch für innovative und anspruchsvolle Anwendungen nutzbar zu machen. Insbesondere erläutern wir dabei Strategien zur Aufbereitung sehr großer Korpora mit notwendigerweise heuristischen Verfahren und Herausforderungen, die sich auf dem Weg zur linguistischen Erschließung solcher Korpora stellen.
Enabling appropriate access to linguistic research data, both for many researchers and for innovative research applications, is a challenging task. In this chapter, we describe how we address this challenge in the context of the German Reference Corpus DeReKo and the corpus analysis platform KorAP. The core of our approach, which is based on and tightly integrated into the CLARIN infrastructure, is to offer access at different levels. The graduated access levels make it possible to find a low-loss compromise between the possibilities opened up and the costs incurred by users and providers for each individual use case, so that, viewed over many applications, the ratio between effort and results achieved can be effectively optimized. We also report on experiences with the current state of this approach.
We present the use of count-based and predictive language models for exploring language use in the German Reference Corpus DeReKo. For collocation analysis along the syntagmatic axis we employ traditional association measures based on co-occurrence counts as well as predictive association measures derived from the output weights of skipgram word embeddings. For inspecting the semantic neighbourhood of words along the paradigmatic axis we visualize the high dimensional word embeddings in two dimensions using t-stochastic neighbourhood embeddings. Together, these visualizations provide a complementary, explorative approach to analysing very large corpora in addition to corpus querying. Moreover, we discuss count-based and predictive models w.r.t. scalability and maintainability in very large corpora.
In a recent article, Meylan and Griffiths (Meylan & Griffiths, 2021, henceforth, M&G) focus their attention on the significant methodological challenges that can arise when using large-scale linguistic corpora. To this end, M&G revisit a well-known result of Piantadosi, Tily, and Gibson (2011, henceforth, PT&G) who argue that average information content is a better predictor of word length than word frequency. We applaud M&G who conducted a very important study that should be read by any researcher interested in working with large-scale corpora. The fact that M&G mostly failed to find clear evidence in favor of PT&G's main finding motivated us to test PT&G's idea on a subset of the largest archive of German language texts designed for linguistic research, the German Reference Corpus consisting of ∼43 billion words. We only find very little support for the primary data point reported by PT&G.
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Motivation und Ziele des Europäischen Referenzkorpus EuReCo, einer offenen Initiative, die darauf abzielt, dynamisch definierbare virtuelle vergleichbare Korpora auf der Grundlage bestehender nationaler, Referenz- oder anderer großer Korpora bereitzustellen und zu verwenden. Angesichts der bekannten Unzulänglichkeiten anderer Arten mehrsprachiger Korpora wie Parallel- bzw. Übersetzungskorpora oder rein webbasierte vergleichbare Korpora, stellt das EuReCo eine einzigartige linguistische Ressource dar, die neue Perspektiven für germanistische und vergleichende wie angewandte Korpuslinguistik, insbesondere im europäischen Kontext, eröffnet.