Querying a dozen corpora and a thousand years with Fintan
- Large-scale diachronic corpus studies covering longer time periods are difficult if more than one corpus are to be consulted and, as a result, different formats and annotation schemas need to be processed and queried in a uniform, comparable and replicable manner. We describes the application of the Flexible Integrated Transformation and Annotation eNgineering (Fintan) platform for studying word order in German using syntactically annotated corpora that represent its entire written history. Focusing on nominal dative and accusative arguments, this study hints at two major phases in the development of scrambling in modern German. Against more recent assumptions, it supports the traditional view that word order flexibility decreased over time, but it also indicates that this was a relatively sharp transition in Early New High German. The successful case study demonstrates the potential of Fintan and the underlying LLOD technology for historical linguistics, linguistic typology and corpusLarge-scale diachronic corpus studies covering longer time periods are difficult if more than one corpus are to be consulted and, as a result, different formats and annotation schemas need to be processed and queried in a uniform, comparable and replicable manner. We describes the application of the Flexible Integrated Transformation and Annotation eNgineering (Fintan) platform for studying word order in German using syntactically annotated corpora that represent its entire written history. Focusing on nominal dative and accusative arguments, this study hints at two major phases in the development of scrambling in modern German. Against more recent assumptions, it supports the traditional view that word order flexibility decreased over time, but it also indicates that this was a relatively sharp transition in Early New High German. The successful case study demonstrates the potential of Fintan and the underlying LLOD technology for historical linguistics, linguistic typology and corpus linguistics. The technological contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the applicability of Fintan for querying across heterogeneously annotated corpora, as previously, it had only been applied for transformation tasks. With its focus on quantitative analysis, Fintan is a natural complement for existing multi-layer technologies that focus on query and exploration.…
Author: | Christian ChiarcosORCiDGND, Christian Fäth, Maxim Ionov |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1039881 |
Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/103988 |
URL: | https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.427 |
ISBN: | 979-10-95546-72-6OPAC |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 20-25 June 2022, Marseille, France |
Publisher: | European Language Resources Association |
Place of publication: | Paris |
Editor: | Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis |
Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
Release Date: | 2023/05/16 |
First Page: | 4011 |
Last Page: | 4021 |
Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Angewandte Computerlinguistik | |
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Angewandte Computerlinguistik / Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Computerlinguistik (ACoLi) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Licence (German): | CC-BY-NC 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell (mit Print on Demand) |