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Research Infrastructures for Linguistics

Erhard Hinrichs

University of Tübingen

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Corpus Studies: Now and Then

• Hinrichs (1981): Temporal Anaphora in English

• Hinrichs and Lau (2008): „In contrast“: A Complex Discourse Connective

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What is Needed?

• Easy Availability of Language Resources

• Easy to Use to Tools

... Ideally in a common research infrastructure

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CLARIN- Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure -

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Virtual Language Observatory

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WebLicht- A Service Oriented Architecture -

Web 2.0 Application for

Tool Chaining

and Execution

Repository

Stuttgart Tübingen Berlin Leipzig Finland

Standard-conformant

Text Corpus Encoding

Stuttgart Tübingen Leipzig

Romania

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Dynamics of Language- Dialectal Variation -

WARD Clustering of Bulgarian Dialects

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Computational Dialectometry

• Uses unsupervised machine learning methods to compute dialect continua

• Replaces traditional Isogloss methods of dialectology

• Utilizes an underlying eScience infrastructure of electronic language resources, analysis- and visualization tools

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Bundling Isoglosses: An Example from Swabian