Enriching a Descriptive Grammar with Treebank Queries

Abstract The Syntax of Dutch (SoD) is a descriptive and detailed grammar of Dutch, that provides data for many issues raised in linguistic theory. We present the results of a pilot project that investigated the possibility of enriching the online version of the text with links to queries that provide relevant results from syntactically annotated corpora

Enriching a Scientific Grammar with Links to Linguistic Resources: The Taalportaal

Scientic research within the humanities is dierent from what it was a few decades ago. For instance, new sources of information, such as digital grammars, lexical databases and large corpora of real-language data oer new opportunities for linguistics. The Taalportaal grammatical database, with its links to other linguistic resources via the CLARIN infrastructure, is a prime example of a new type of tool for linguistic research.

Mapping the Encyclopedie : working towards an early modern digital gazetteer

Historians investigating evidence with spatial significance increasingly rely on gazetteers to identify the location of geographical features/places. Existing digital gazetteers cater to twenty-first century or discrete historical geographies (the classical world, for example). Early modernists (ca. 1450-1750), particularly those who work on non-Anglophone cultures, represent a major scholarly community with no temporally appropriate gazetteers available. In this paper, we introduce a project that fills this research infrastructure gap. Mapping place names in the canonical eighteenth-century Encyclopedie is a case study for semi-Automating the identification, classification, and location of places and spatial relations in historical geographic reference works printed in French. We demonstrate the challenges of using existing geoparsers and introduce our plan for new tools and protocols for working with historical French texts

Expérimentation de méthodes d’extraction d’informations géographiques pour les documents historiques

International audienceIn this article, we address two gaps in NLP research: working with his- torical French and working with complex textual structures moving beyond running text or lists of place names. Our methodology is based on the evaluation of the results of two spatial named entity recognition tools in the context of early modern document analysis structured as dictionaries.Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons à deux aspects peu étudiés dans les travaux de recherche en TAL : traiter des documents historiques en français et traiter des structures textuelles complexes au-delà du texte courant ou des listes de noms de lieux. Notre méthodologie s’appuie sur l’évaluation des résultats de deux outils de reconnaissance d’entités nommées spatiales dans le cadre de l’analyse de documents du début de l’époque moderne et structurés à la manière de dictionnaires

Named entity recognition goes to old regime France: geographic text analysis for early modern French corpora

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OpenSoNaR: User-driven development of the SoNaR corpus interfaces

OpenSoNaR is an online system that allows for analyzing and searching the large scale Dutch reference corpus SoNaR. Due to the size of the corpus, accessing the information contained in the dataset has proven to be difficult for less technically inclined researchers. The OpenSoNaR project aims to facilitate the use of the SoNaR corpus by providing a user-friendl online interface. To make sure that the resulting system is practically useful, several user groups have been identified, who drive the interface development process by providing practical use cases. The current system is already used in educational and research settings