Alexander Geyken

DeRiK: A German reference corpus of computer-mediated communication

The paper describes an ongoing project that aims at building a reference corpus of German computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a new component of an already existing reference corpus of written contemporary German. The ‘Deutsches Referenzkorpus zur internetbasierten Kommunikation’ (DeRiK) shall include data from the most prominent CMC genres amongst German Internet users and, thus, close a gap in the coverage of the corpus resources in the project “Digitales Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache” (DWDS) which are maintained and provided by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities (BBAW). The focus of the paper is on the role of the DeRiK component within the DWDS framework, on sampling issues, and on CMC-specific issues of corpus annotation. 1. Project Background and Focus of the Paper In view of the increasing amount of reading and writing that people do on the Internet, up-to-date corpora of written contemporary language must take into consideration the impact of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on contemporary language and, thus, include samples of emerging written genres such as e-mail, weblogs, microblogging on Twitter, discussion boards and wiki discussions, chats and instant messaging conversations, and communication in social network sites. In this paper we present selected aspects of an ongoing project that aims at building a reference corpus of German CMC, called DeRiK (‘Deutsches Refe

Text Resources and Lexical Knowledge: Selected Papers from the 9th Conference on Natural Language Processing KONVENS 2008

Research in Natural Language Processing is critically dependent on adequate electronic text resources and a rich representation of lexical knowledge. Their dynamic interaction is explored in this collection of papers, selected from contributions to the 9th conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2008).

Die Korpusplattform des „Digitalen Wörterbuchs der deutschen Sprache“ (DWDS)

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Die Korpusplattform des „Digitalen Wörterbuchs der deutschen Sprache“ (DWDS) Alexander Geyken, Adrien Barbaresi, Jörg Didakowski, Bryan Jurish, Frank Wiegand, Lothar Lemnitzer

Recherchieren, Arbeiten und Publizieren im Deutschen Textarchiv: ein Praxisbericht

1 Einleitung 2 Wie kann ich im DTA recherchieren? 2.1 Nutzungsszenarien des DTA 2.2 Voraussetzungen für die zielführende Recherche 2.3 Wege der Recherche 3 Wie kann ich eigene Texte in das DTA integrieren? 3.1 Kriterien für die Aufnahme externer Texte in das DTA 3.2 Erstellung DTA‐konformer Daten 3.3 Verfahren der Datenintegration in das DTA 4 Digitale Genese und Reproduzierbarkeit 5 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick Literatur

Integrating Lexical Resources Through an Aligned Lemma List

This paper presents the modelling of a common meta-index for large modern and historical lexical resources of the DWDS project. Four dictionaries of the German language are part of DWDS: (1) eWDG2, a digital version of the Worterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (WDG, 1962-1977); (2) DWDSWB, a new and extended edition of the WDG (started in 2010); (3) EtymWB, a digital version of Wolfgang Pfeifer’s Etymologisches Worterbuch des Deutschen (1989); (4) 1DWB, a digital version of the first edition of Grimm’s Deutsches Worterbuch (1832-1961). Due to the different lexicographical principles and traditions employed for these resources as well as the different historical periods covered, such a meta-index cannot be modelled as a simple list of 1:1-correspondences between entries across different dictionaries. In order to model the occurring phenomena such as graphematic headword variance, homography, semantic change and differences in the semantic entry structure a more complex typed link structure is required.