This deliverable pertains to SSHOC Task 3.1 which was responsible for investigating and providing... more This deliverable pertains to SSHOC Task 3.1 which was responsible for investigating and providing resources and tools to support the multilingual aspects of the future pan-EU SSH infrastructure. Making data and services accessible and usable in SSH is very much also a matter of providing relevant translations, translation of metadata concepts, multilingual vocabularies, terminology extraction across languages, multilingual databases. The deliverable offers a detailed report on the gathering and translation of relevant SSH metadata, ontologies and vocabularies for the use-cases indicated in the task's topics: multilingual metadata concepts and vocabularies, the multilingual occupation ontology, with cross-country female occupational titles. In accordance with SSHOC and the EOSC FAIR recommendations and requirements, the metadata vocabularies and ontologies have been published via several different formats and facilities. Section 1. The introduction sets the landscape and describe...
ParlaMint 2.1 is a multilingual set of 17 comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mos... more ParlaMint 2.1 is a multilingual set of 17 comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mostly starting in 2015 and extending to mid-2020, with each corpus being about 20 million words in size. The sessions in the corpora are marked as belonging to the COVID-19 period (from November 1st 2019), or being "reference" (before that date). The corpora have extensive metadata, including aspects of the parliament; the speakers (name, gender, MP status, party affiliation, party coalition/opposition); are structured into time-stamped terms, sessions and meetings; with speeches being marked by the speaker and their role (e.g. chair, regular speaker). The speeches also contain marked-up transcriber comments, such as gaps in the transcription, interruptions, applause, etc. Note that some corpora have further information, e.g. the year of birth of the speakers, links to their Wikipedia articles, their membership in various committees, etc. The corpora are encoded according to the Parla-CLARIN TEI recommendation (https://clarin-eric.github.io/parla-clarin/), but have been validated against the compatible, but much stricter ParlaMint schemas. This entry contains the linguistically marked-up version of the corpus, while the text version is available at http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1432. The ParlaMint.ana linguistic annotation includes tokenization, sentence segmentation, lemmatisation, Universal Dependencies part-of-speech, morphological features, and syntactic dependencies, and the 4-class CoNLL-2003 named entities. Some corpora also have further linguistic annotations, such as PoS tagging or named entities according to language-specific schemes, with their corpus TEI headers giving further details on the annotation vocabularies and tools. The compressed files include the ParlaMint.ana XML TEI-encoded linguistically annotated corpus; the derived corpus in CoNLL-U with TSV speech metadata; and the vertical files (with registry file), suitable for use with CQP-based concordancers, such as CWB, noSketch Engine or KonText. Also included is the 2.1 release of the data and scripts available at the GitHub repository of the ParlaMint project. As opposed to the previous version 2.0, this version corrects some errors in various corpora and adds the information on upper / lower house for bicameral parliaments. The vertical files have also been changed to make them easier to use in the concordancers
These are the slides from the LIBER 2021 Workshop: SSHOC'ing drama in the cloud; Encoding the... more These are the slides from the LIBER 2021 Workshop: SSHOC'ing drama in the cloud; Encoding theatrical text collections for discovery,exploration,and visualisation;the added value of SSHOC/CLARIN services <strong>Encoding theatrical text collections for discovery,exploration,and visualisation;the added value of SSHOC/CLARIN services.</strong><br> <br> The objective of this virtual workshop is to equip the participating librarians with some general knowledge on how researchers in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can benefit from the resources and services offered by SSH research infrastructures for producing and exploiting highly encoded historical textual data. After the workshop, the participants will be able to successfully guide and advise SSH researchers (with a particular focus on literature studies) in their choice amongst existing resources and tools, based on their research question.<br> <br> This objective will be achie...
Oral sources are extremely fragile, but valuable research objects that are worth preserving. Howe... more Oral sources are extremely fragile, but valuable research objects that are worth preserving. However, this often proves much more demanding than preserving other historical sources, such as artefacts or written documents, since their preservation relies on specialised infrastructure. To inform the oral history scientific community of developments and available resources that can support oral history researchers in their work, SSHOC and CLARIN ERIC recently teamed up to deliver a webinar, titled "How Not to Spill Coffee on Your Tapes. Best Practices for Preserving Oral Archives", under the framework of CLARIN Cafés. The talk features two presentations: · Presentation: Two ethnomusicological collections in French museums and the Michel Seurat sound archives catalogue recorded in Lebanon and Syria in the 1980s - as reported in recent issues of Sonorités, the open access journal of the French Association of Sound, Oral and Audiovisual archives (AFAS) - <em>Véronique Gino...
The MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (R... more The MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (Ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale Regione Liguria 2007-2013) aiming at building a computer platform for supporting a Marine Information and Knowledge System, as part of the data management activities. One of the main objective of the project is to develop a repository that should gather, classify and structure marine scientific literature and data thus guaranteeing their accessibility to researchers and institutions by means of standard protocols. We will present the scenario of the Operative Oceanography together with the technologies used to develop an advanced search engine which aims at providing rapid and efficient access to a Digital Library of oceanographic data. The case-study is also highlighting how the retrieval of grey literature from this specific marine community could be reproduced for similar communities as well, thus revealing the great impact that the processin...
At LIBER 2021 Online Conference, CLARIN and SSHOC presented a webinar showcasing how SSH research... more At LIBER 2021 Online Conference, CLARIN and SSHOC presented a webinar showcasing how SSH researchers can benefit from the resources and services offered by SSH research infrastructures in order to produce and exploit highly encoded historical textual data. After the webinar, the participants were able to successfully guide and advise SSH researchers (with a particular focus on literature studies) in their choice amongst existing resources and tools, based on their research question.
Over the past few years the publication of lexical resources as Linked Data (LD) has taken on eve... more Over the past few years the publication of lexical resources as Linked Data (LD) has taken on ever greater significance within the field of computational lexicography. So far the efforts of the community have been largely directed towards the definition of standards and the conversion of single resources (see McCrae et al 2012, Khan et al 2016), but with less of a focus on the technical possibilities afforded by this new mode of publishing lexical data. However, the fact is that the Semantic Web gives us access to a whole ecosystem of standards, languages, and technologies. In this paper we will look at one of these languages, the Semantic Web Rule Language(SWRL) and explore whether it might potentially play a useful role in the publication of lexical resources.
This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ‘al-qāmū... more This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ‘al-qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, a Medieval Arabic lexicon. The lexicon is first described, then all the steps required for the conversion are illustrated. The work is will produce a useful lexicographic resource for Arabic NLP, but is also interesting per se, to study the implications of adapting the LMF model to the Arabic language. Some reflections are offered as to the status of roots with respect to previously suggested representations. In particular, roots are, in our opinion are to be not treated as lexical entries, but modeled as lexical metadata for classifying and identifying lexical entries. In this manner, each root connects all entries that are derived from it.
This paper proposes a graph based methodology for automatically disambiguating authors’ mentions ... more This paper proposes a graph based methodology for automatically disambiguating authors’ mentions in a corpus of French literary criticism. Candidate referents are identified and evaluated using a graph based named entity linking algorithm, which exploits a knowledge-base built out of two different resources (DBpedia and the BnF linked data). The algorithm expands previous ones applied for word sense disambiguation and entity linking, with good results. Its novelty resides in the fact that it successfully combines a generic knowledge base such as DBpedia with a domain specific one, thus enabling the efficient annotation of minor authors. This will help specialists to follow mentions of the same author in different works of literary criticism, and thus to investigate their literary appreciation over time.
Knowledge about semantic associations between words is effective to disambiguate word senses. The... more Knowledge about semantic associations between words is effective to disambiguate word senses. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role and the relevance of telic information from SIMPLE in the disambiguation of basic action types of Italian HOLD verbs (prendere, ‘to take’, raccogliere, ‘to pick up’, pigliare ‘to grab’ etc.). We propose an experiment to compare the results obtained with telic information from SIMPLE with basic co-occurrence information extracted from corpora (most salient verbs modifying nouns) classified in terms of general semantic classes to avoid data sparseness.
We present some reflections on the documentation of Oral History archives within CLARIN with a fo... more We present some reflections on the documentation of Oral History archives within CLARIN with a focus on their accessibility through the CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory. The case study is constituted by the Grammo.foni Le soffitte della voce project, a collection of digitized and catalogued oral Tuscan archives.
The Petit Larousse Illustre (PLI) is a monolingual French dictionary which has been published eve... more The Petit Larousse Illustre (PLI) is a monolingual French dictionary which has been published every year since the 1906 edition and which is therefore a fundamental testimony of the evolution of the French language. As a consequence of the pre-1948 editions of the PLI entering the public domain in 2018 the Nenufar (“Nouvelle edition numerique de fac-similes de reference”) project was launched at the Praxiling laboratory in Montpellier with the aim of digitising and make these editions available electronically. The project is still ongoing; various selected editions per decade are going to be fully digitised (so far the 1906, 1924 and 1925 editions have been completed), and changes backtracked and dated per specific year.
This deliverable pertains to SSHOC Task 3.1 which was responsible for investigating and providing... more This deliverable pertains to SSHOC Task 3.1 which was responsible for investigating and providing resources and tools to support the multilingual aspects of the future pan-EU SSH infrastructure. Making data and services accessible and usable in SSH is very much also a matter of providing relevant translations, translation of metadata concepts, multilingual vocabularies, terminology extraction across languages, multilingual databases. The deliverable offers a detailed report on the gathering and translation of relevant SSH metadata, ontologies and vocabularies for the use-cases indicated in the task's topics: multilingual metadata concepts and vocabularies, the multilingual occupation ontology, with cross-country female occupational titles. In accordance with SSHOC and the EOSC FAIR recommendations and requirements, the metadata vocabularies and ontologies have been published via several different formats and facilities. Section 1. The introduction sets the landscape and describe...
ParlaMint 2.1 is a multilingual set of 17 comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mos... more ParlaMint 2.1 is a multilingual set of 17 comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mostly starting in 2015 and extending to mid-2020, with each corpus being about 20 million words in size. The sessions in the corpora are marked as belonging to the COVID-19 period (from November 1st 2019), or being "reference" (before that date). The corpora have extensive metadata, including aspects of the parliament; the speakers (name, gender, MP status, party affiliation, party coalition/opposition); are structured into time-stamped terms, sessions and meetings; with speeches being marked by the speaker and their role (e.g. chair, regular speaker). The speeches also contain marked-up transcriber comments, such as gaps in the transcription, interruptions, applause, etc. Note that some corpora have further information, e.g. the year of birth of the speakers, links to their Wikipedia articles, their membership in various committees, etc. The corpora are encoded according to the Parla-CLARIN TEI recommendation (https://clarin-eric.github.io/parla-clarin/), but have been validated against the compatible, but much stricter ParlaMint schemas. This entry contains the linguistically marked-up version of the corpus, while the text version is available at http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1432. The ParlaMint.ana linguistic annotation includes tokenization, sentence segmentation, lemmatisation, Universal Dependencies part-of-speech, morphological features, and syntactic dependencies, and the 4-class CoNLL-2003 named entities. Some corpora also have further linguistic annotations, such as PoS tagging or named entities according to language-specific schemes, with their corpus TEI headers giving further details on the annotation vocabularies and tools. The compressed files include the ParlaMint.ana XML TEI-encoded linguistically annotated corpus; the derived corpus in CoNLL-U with TSV speech metadata; and the vertical files (with registry file), suitable for use with CQP-based concordancers, such as CWB, noSketch Engine or KonText. Also included is the 2.1 release of the data and scripts available at the GitHub repository of the ParlaMint project. As opposed to the previous version 2.0, this version corrects some errors in various corpora and adds the information on upper / lower house for bicameral parliaments. The vertical files have also been changed to make them easier to use in the concordancers
These are the slides from the LIBER 2021 Workshop: SSHOC'ing drama in the cloud; Encoding the... more These are the slides from the LIBER 2021 Workshop: SSHOC'ing drama in the cloud; Encoding theatrical text collections for discovery,exploration,and visualisation;the added value of SSHOC/CLARIN services <strong>Encoding theatrical text collections for discovery,exploration,and visualisation;the added value of SSHOC/CLARIN services.</strong><br> <br> The objective of this virtual workshop is to equip the participating librarians with some general knowledge on how researchers in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can benefit from the resources and services offered by SSH research infrastructures for producing and exploiting highly encoded historical textual data. After the workshop, the participants will be able to successfully guide and advise SSH researchers (with a particular focus on literature studies) in their choice amongst existing resources and tools, based on their research question.<br> <br> This objective will be achie...
Oral sources are extremely fragile, but valuable research objects that are worth preserving. Howe... more Oral sources are extremely fragile, but valuable research objects that are worth preserving. However, this often proves much more demanding than preserving other historical sources, such as artefacts or written documents, since their preservation relies on specialised infrastructure. To inform the oral history scientific community of developments and available resources that can support oral history researchers in their work, SSHOC and CLARIN ERIC recently teamed up to deliver a webinar, titled "How Not to Spill Coffee on Your Tapes. Best Practices for Preserving Oral Archives", under the framework of CLARIN Cafés. The talk features two presentations: · Presentation: Two ethnomusicological collections in French museums and the Michel Seurat sound archives catalogue recorded in Lebanon and Syria in the 1980s - as reported in recent issues of Sonorités, the open access journal of the French Association of Sound, Oral and Audiovisual archives (AFAS) - <em>Véronique Gino...
The MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (R... more The MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (Ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale Regione Liguria 2007-2013) aiming at building a computer platform for supporting a Marine Information and Knowledge System, as part of the data management activities. One of the main objective of the project is to develop a repository that should gather, classify and structure marine scientific literature and data thus guaranteeing their accessibility to researchers and institutions by means of standard protocols. We will present the scenario of the Operative Oceanography together with the technologies used to develop an advanced search engine which aims at providing rapid and efficient access to a Digital Library of oceanographic data. The case-study is also highlighting how the retrieval of grey literature from this specific marine community could be reproduced for similar communities as well, thus revealing the great impact that the processin...
At LIBER 2021 Online Conference, CLARIN and SSHOC presented a webinar showcasing how SSH research... more At LIBER 2021 Online Conference, CLARIN and SSHOC presented a webinar showcasing how SSH researchers can benefit from the resources and services offered by SSH research infrastructures in order to produce and exploit highly encoded historical textual data. After the webinar, the participants were able to successfully guide and advise SSH researchers (with a particular focus on literature studies) in their choice amongst existing resources and tools, based on their research question.
Over the past few years the publication of lexical resources as Linked Data (LD) has taken on eve... more Over the past few years the publication of lexical resources as Linked Data (LD) has taken on ever greater significance within the field of computational lexicography. So far the efforts of the community have been largely directed towards the definition of standards and the conversion of single resources (see McCrae et al 2012, Khan et al 2016), but with less of a focus on the technical possibilities afforded by this new mode of publishing lexical data. However, the fact is that the Semantic Web gives us access to a whole ecosystem of standards, languages, and technologies. In this paper we will look at one of these languages, the Semantic Web Rule Language(SWRL) and explore whether it might potentially play a useful role in the publication of lexical resources.
This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ‘al-qāmū... more This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ‘al-qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, a Medieval Arabic lexicon. The lexicon is first described, then all the steps required for the conversion are illustrated. The work is will produce a useful lexicographic resource for Arabic NLP, but is also interesting per se, to study the implications of adapting the LMF model to the Arabic language. Some reflections are offered as to the status of roots with respect to previously suggested representations. In particular, roots are, in our opinion are to be not treated as lexical entries, but modeled as lexical metadata for classifying and identifying lexical entries. In this manner, each root connects all entries that are derived from it.
This paper proposes a graph based methodology for automatically disambiguating authors’ mentions ... more This paper proposes a graph based methodology for automatically disambiguating authors’ mentions in a corpus of French literary criticism. Candidate referents are identified and evaluated using a graph based named entity linking algorithm, which exploits a knowledge-base built out of two different resources (DBpedia and the BnF linked data). The algorithm expands previous ones applied for word sense disambiguation and entity linking, with good results. Its novelty resides in the fact that it successfully combines a generic knowledge base such as DBpedia with a domain specific one, thus enabling the efficient annotation of minor authors. This will help specialists to follow mentions of the same author in different works of literary criticism, and thus to investigate their literary appreciation over time.
Knowledge about semantic associations between words is effective to disambiguate word senses. The... more Knowledge about semantic associations between words is effective to disambiguate word senses. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role and the relevance of telic information from SIMPLE in the disambiguation of basic action types of Italian HOLD verbs (prendere, ‘to take’, raccogliere, ‘to pick up’, pigliare ‘to grab’ etc.). We propose an experiment to compare the results obtained with telic information from SIMPLE with basic co-occurrence information extracted from corpora (most salient verbs modifying nouns) classified in terms of general semantic classes to avoid data sparseness.
We present some reflections on the documentation of Oral History archives within CLARIN with a fo... more We present some reflections on the documentation of Oral History archives within CLARIN with a focus on their accessibility through the CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory. The case study is constituted by the Grammo.foni Le soffitte della voce project, a collection of digitized and catalogued oral Tuscan archives.
The Petit Larousse Illustre (PLI) is a monolingual French dictionary which has been published eve... more The Petit Larousse Illustre (PLI) is a monolingual French dictionary which has been published every year since the 1906 edition and which is therefore a fundamental testimony of the evolution of the French language. As a consequence of the pre-1948 editions of the PLI entering the public domain in 2018 the Nenufar (“Nouvelle edition numerique de fac-similes de reference”) project was launched at the Praxiling laboratory in Montpellier with the aim of digitising and make these editions available electronically. The project is still ongoing; various selected editions per decade are going to be fully digitised (so far the 1906, 1924 and 1925 editions have been completed), and changes backtracked and dated per specific year.
Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, 2019
We present AcTo, a network of integrated projects for the development of language resources and t... more We present AcTo, a network of integrated projects for the development of language resources and tools for Medieval Occitan. This abstract illustrates the resources in the network, as well as the first steps towards their integration, aiming towards the harmonisation and interoperability of NLP and lexical resources for the annotation of digital editions.
Edited by Carmen Brando (EHESS, Paris), Francesca Frontini (Istituto di Linguistica Computazional... more Edited by Carmen Brando (EHESS, Paris), Francesca Frontini (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa, and ERIC CLARIN), Dominic Moreau (Université de Lille), Matthieu Roche (CIRAD) and Eric Masson (Université de Lille).
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