The DiDi Corpus of South Tyrolean CMC Data: A multilingual corpus of Facebook texts

Frey, Jennifer-Carmen; Glaznieks, Aivars; Stemle, Egon

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“…A number of resources have been produced for plurilingualism areas of Italy where South Tyrolean is spoken, such as a multilingual corpus of computer-mediated communication (Frey et al, 2016), and a longitudinal trilingual corpus of young learners (Glaznieks et al, 2022). Preliminary efforts such as a morphosyntactic specification for Resian (Erjavec, 2017), a lexical database for Sardinian, Gallurese and Sassarese (Angioni et al, 2018), and a tagset for Cimbrian varieties (Agosti et al, 2012) have also been carried out.…”

Section: Nlp For Specific Varieties Of Italymentioning

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Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Ramponi

2024

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Italy is characterized by a one-of-a-kind linguistic diversity landscape in Europe, which implicitly encodes local knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and history of its speakers. However, most local languages and dialects in Italy are at risk of disappearing within a few generations. The NLP community has recently begun to engage with endangered languages, including those of Italy. Yet, most efforts assume that these varieties are under-resourced language monoliths with an established written form and homogeneous functions and needs, and thus highly interchangeable with each other and with high-resource, standardized languages. In this paper, we introduce the linguistic context of Italy and challenge the default machine-centric assumptions of NLP for Italy’s language varieties. We advocate for a shift in the paradigm from machine-centric to speaker-centric NLP, and provide recommendations and opportunities for work that prioritizes languages and their speakers over technological advances. To facilitate the process, we finally propose building a local community towards responsible, participatory efforts aimed at supporting vitality of languages and dialects of Italy.

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Section: Nlp For Specific Varieties Of Italymentioning

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Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Ramponi

2024

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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“…Four freely available corpora of German CMC were used. First, the DiDi Corpus (Frey et al, 2016), consisting of Facebook status updates, comments, and chat messages of 136 different users. As the corpus contains different languages, only the German part was used, which amounts to 373,383 tokens from 130 authors.…”

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Syntactic variation and interactional coherence in online communication: The German conjunction “weil” in written interactions

Glaznieks

2022

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The current study presents an analysis of a linguistic device supporting interactional coherence in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis focused on the use of the German causative conjunction weil and, more specifically, on the syntactic variation of verb-final versus verb-second word order in the weil-clause. Verb-final word order in German indicates a dependent clause, whereas verb-second word order indicates an independent clause. While only the former is accepted in written Standard German, the latter is well documented in oral communication. Relying on freely available Facebook, WhatsApp, and Wikipedia corpus data, the analysis shows that both grammatical constructions are used in written CMC. In a specific usage across discrete messages, the syntactic variation of the weil-clause can serve to unambiguously identify its reference clause. While verb-final weil-clauses can be used to refer to previous messages by both an interlocutor and oneself, verb-second weil-clauses are predominantly used to relate to an own previous message. Thus, the syntactic variation in weil-clauses can be used for disambiguating references in written interactions.

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“…The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) at Eurac Research is currently investigating how it can move towards such a setup for more reproducibility in research as outlined in the previous section. One of the first corpora that was transformed into such a strictly versioned environment is the DiDi corpus (Frey et al, 2016). The corpus is available under an academic non-commercial (ACA-NC) license from an onpremise GitLab installation 15 .…”

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Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Language Resources and Technology aimed at supporting researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and beyond in their use of language data and technologies. CLARIN works towards lowering barriers in doing research by giving access to language resources distributed across the countries involved in the infrastructure and by offering advanced, user-friendly and effective applications that enable the analysis of textual data, speech recordings, as well as multimodal material in a wide diversity of research tasks.Since the establishment of the ERIC in 2012, CLARIN has grown ins size considerably. Currently there are 21 member countries, 3 observers, and more than 100 associated research institutions who are all encouraged and supported to be represented at the annual conference which is meant to be a central event for CLARIN community and which is one of the crucial instrument for CLARIN to function as a knowledge hub. At the conference, consortia from all participating countries and the various communities of use meet, in order to exchange ideas, experiences and best practices in using the CLARIN infrastructure. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that are or could be on offer, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. The aim is to attract researchers from all the various SSH fields that work with language materials, i.e. the people who are the raison d'être for CLARIN.For the 8 th edition of the CLARIN Annual Conference the special topic was "Humanities and Social Science research enabled by language resources and technology". Early in 2019 a call 2 was issued for which 56 abstracts were submitted.All submissions were reviewed anonymously by three reviewers (PC members and reviewers invited by PC members). Out of the 56 submitted abstracts 44 submissions were accepted for presentation at the conference (acceptance rate 0.79). The three topics that attracted the most of proposals were (a) language resources and tools, (b) design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, and (c) Interoperability and technical issues. This year 14 papers with a link to the special topic were accepted. Three of them had the special topic as the main focus, and thus formed the core of the plenary session devoted to it, while the others were presented either in other oral sessions or as posters. The accepted contributions were published in the online Proceedings of the Conference 3 . Several papers reported collaborative efforts by researchers from different institutes, either from one country or from institutional nodes in multiple countries. Some of the papers describe work that was carried out together with researchers from countries outside of Europe, such as South Africa, Japan, and Russia.Following the well received novelty introduced at the 2018 edition of the CLARIN Annual Conference, a student poster session was o...

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The DiDi Corpus of South Tyrolean CMC Data: A multilingual corpus of Facebook texts

Cited by 9 publications

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Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Syntactic variation and interactional coherence in online communication: The German conjunction “weil” in written interactions

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