On the role of historical newspapers in disseminating foreign words in german
Newspapers became extremely popular in Germany during the 18th and 19th century, and thus increasingly influential for modern German. However, due to the lack of digitized historical newspaper corpora for German, this influence could not be analyzed...
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Newspapers became extremely popular in Germany during the 18th and 19th century, and thus increasingly influential for modern German. However, due to the lack of digitized historical newspaper corpora for German, this influence could not be analyzed systematically. In this paper, we introduce the Mannheim Corpus of Digital Newspapers and Magazines, which in its current release comprises 21 newspapers and magazines from the 18th and 19th century. With over 4.1 Mio tokens in about 650 volumes it currently constitutes the largest historical corpus dedicated to newspapers in German. We briefly discuss the prospect of the corpus for analyzing the evolution of news as a genre in its own right and the influence of contextual parameters such as region and register on the language of news. We then focus on one historically influential aspect of newspapers – their role in disseminating foreign words in German. Our preliminary quantitative results indeed indicate that newspapers use foreign words significantly more frequently than other genres, in particular belles lettres.
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Data Mining with Shallow vs. Linguistic Features to Study Diversification of Scientific Registers
We present a methodology to analyze the linguistic evolution of scientific registers with data mining techniques, comparing the insights gained from shallow vs. linguistic features. The focus is on selected scientific disciplines at the boundaries to...
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We present a methodology to analyze the linguistic evolution of scientific registers with data mining techniques, comparing the insights gained from shallow vs. linguistic features. The focus is on selected scientific disciplines at the boundaries to computer science (computational linguistics, bioinformatics, digital construction, microelectronics). The data basis is the English Scientific Text Corpus (SCITEX) which covers a time range of roughly thirty years (1970/80s to early 2000s) (Degaetano-Ortlieb et al., 2013; Teich and Fankhauser, 2010). In particular, we investigate the diversification of scientific registers over time. Our theoretical basis is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and its specific incarnation of register theory (Halliday and Hasan, 1985). In terms of methods, we combine corpus-based methods of feature extraction and data mining techniques.
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Exploring and visualizing variation in language resources
Language resources are often compiled for the purpose of variational analysis, such as studying differences between genres, registers, and disciplines, regional and diachronic variation, influence of gender, cultural context, etc. Often the sheer...
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Language resources are often compiled for the purpose of variational analysis, such as studying differences between genres, registers, and disciplines, regional and diachronic variation, influence of gender, cultural context, etc. Often the sheer number of potentially interesting contrastive pairs can get overwhelming due to the combinatorial explosion of possible combinations. In this paper, we present an approach that combines well understood techniques for visualization heatmaps and word clouds with intuitive paradigms for exploration drill down and side by side comparison to facilitate the analysis of language variation in such highly combinatorial situations. Heatmaps assist in analyzing the overall pattern of variation in a corpus, and word clouds allow for inspecting variation at the level of words.
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Forschungsdatenmanagement in den Geisteswissenschaften am Beispiel der germanistischen Linguistik
Die Kernaufgabe des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) ist die Erforschung und Dokumentation der deutschen Sprache. Dazu sammelt und archiviert das IDS einen umfangreichen Bestand an Forschungsprimärdaten in Form von Korpora der geschriebenen und...
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Die Kernaufgabe des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) ist die Erforschung und Dokumentation der deutschen Sprache. Dazu sammelt und archiviert das IDS einen umfangreichen Bestand an Forschungsprimärdaten in Form von Korpora der geschriebenen und gesprochenen Sprache sowie Sekundärdaten, wie zum Beispiel lexikographische Ressourcen. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Datenbestand des IDS und die laufenden Forschungskooperationen im Bereich der Langzeitarchivierung. In diesem Kontext wird das im Aufbau befindliche Langzeitarchivdes IDS mit seiner Architektur, den zugrundeliegenden Prinzipien zur Daten- und Metadatenmodellierung sowie den daraus abgeleiteten Erfassungsprozessen vorgestellt. Der Beitrag schließt ab mit einem Ausblick auf die Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des Forschungsdatenmanagements aus Sicht der germanistischen Linguistik. ; The core task of the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim is the research into and documentation of the German language. IDS collects and preserves an extensive range of primary data in the form of corpora in both written and spoken language, as well as secondary data, such as lexicographical resources. This article provides an overview of the IDS collections and current cooperative research projects within the area of digital preservation. Further, it describes the architectural design of the IDS’s digital archive, the fundamental principles underlying the data and metadata modeling, as well as the resulting data processing. In closing the article takes a look at the challenges and perspectives for managing research data from the point of view of German linguistics.
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