Harmonizing language data : Standards for linguistic resources. / Piotr Bański.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bański, Piotr.

Contributor:

Bański, Piotr, editor.

Heid, Ulrich, editor.

Herzberg, Laura, editor.

Volkswagenstiftung, funder.

Series:

Digital Linguistics, 4.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : De Gruyter, 2025.

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ulrich Heid, Univ. of Hildesheim; Piotr Bański and Laura Herzberg, Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany.

Summary:

Standards function as safeguards to ensure that data remains interpretable, uniformly queryable, and archivable over time – a critical challenge for digital humanists working with complex linguistic resources. This book provides an overview of essential standards for ensuring the sustainability of data in the Digital Humanities (DH). It addresses the selection of data encoding formats, methods of annotating primary data, and approaches to making resources findable and accessible. The focus is on various forms of linguistic data, such as texts, lexicons, or parallel arrangements (e.g., translations or transcribed recordings). The work explains the role of annotations and metadata in structuring and contextualizing data and examines the influence of diverse data formats, shaped by local academic or industrial practices. In contrast to neural language models, which often yield impressive but opaque results, DH projects aim for transparency, reproducibility, and sustainability. Achieving these goals requires interoperability – the seamless interaction between data and tools. The book demonstrates how clear guidelines and best practices help ensure the long-term usability of data. It offers digital humanists practical approaches and well-founded standards to sustainably archive and efficiently utilize their data, making it an indispensable resource for the field.

Contents:

IIIFrontmatter

VIIVIIIContents

1Towards an optimum degree of order in the field of language resources / Piotr Bański, Ulrich Heid, Laura Herzberg

17Character encoding and its importance for text resources / Christian Wartena

35International standards for the identification and the description of languages and their varieties / Laurent Romary

61Part-of-speech tagging and related annotation / Nikola Ljubešić, Tomaž Erjavec

89Named entity recognition and entity linking / Pia Schwarz

115Annotated audiovisual language data: data quality and data maturity / Vera Ferreira, Hanna Hedeland, Kelsey Neely

145From spoken language data to TEI-based ISO standard / Antonina Werthmann

169Dealing with multiple annotations / Piotr Bański, Nils Diewald

201Standards and practices for long-term digital archiving / Ines Pisetta, Thorsten Trippel

229Conversion into the archival format I5 / Harald Lüngen, Ines Pisetta

251Metadata for research data / Thorsten Trippel

281Linguistic linked (open) data / Anas Fahad Khan

303Data exploitation: corpus queries / Stephanie Evert, Timm Weber, Steffen Bothe, Philipp Heinrich, Alexander Piperski

339Querying spoken language data / Elena Frick, Thomas Schmidt

377Accessing linguistic content in distributed research environments / Erik Körner, Thomas Eckart

401Taxonomy of legal and ethical metadata for language resources / Paweł Kamocki

427The life of an ISO standard / Annette Preissner, Ulrich Heid

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-220953-2

3-11-220821-8

9783112208212