Piotr Bański

Stand-off TEI Annotation: the Case of the National Corpus of Polish

We present the annotation architecture of the National Corpus of Polish and discuss problems identified in the TEI stand-off annotation system, which, in its current version, is still very much unfinished and untested, due to both technical reasons (lack of tools implementing the TEI-defined XPointer schemes) and certain problems concerning data representation. We concentrate on two features that a stand-off system should possess and that are conspicuously missing in the current TEI Guidelines.

Which XML standards for multilevel corpus annotation

The paper attempts to answer the question: Which XML standard(s) should be used for multilevel corpus annotation? Various more or less specific standards and best practices are reviewed: TEI P5, XCES, work within ISO TC37 / SC4, TIGER-XML and PAULA. The conclusion of the paper is that the approach with the best claim to following text encoding standards consists in 1) using TEI-conformant schemata that are 2) designed in a way compatible with other standards and data models.

A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method

We report on a project which we believe to have the potential to become home to, among others, bilingual dictionaries for African languages. Kept in a well-structured XML format with several possible degrees of conformance, the dictionaries will be able to get usable even in their early versions, which will be then subject to supervised improvement as user feedback accumulates. The project is FreeDict, part of SourceForge, a well-known Internet repository of open source content. We demonstrate a possible process of dictionary development on the example of one of FreeDict dictionaries, a Swahili-English dictionary that we maintain and have been developing through subsequent stages of increasing complexity and machine-processability. The aim of the paper is to show that even a small bilingual lexical resource can be submitted to this project and gradually developed into a machine-processable form that can then interact with other FreeDict resources. We also present the immediate benefits of locating bilingual African dictionaries in this project. We have found FreeDict to be a very promising project with a lot of potential, and the present paper is meant to spread the news about it, in the hope to create an active community of linguists and lexicographers of various backgrounds, where common research subprojects can be fruitfully carried out.

Proceedings of the workshop on challenges in the management of large corpora and big data and natural language processing (CMLC-5+BigNLP) 2017 including the papers from the web-as-corpus (WAC-XI) guest section. Birmingham, 24 july 2017

Many (modernist) works of literature can be understood by their associativeness, be it constructed or “free”. This network-like character of (modernist) literature has often been addressed by terms like “free association”, connotation”, “context” or “intertext”. This paper proposes an experimental and exemplary approach to intraconnect a literary corpus of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger with semantic webtechnologies to enable interactive explorations of word-associations.