Post on 21-Jan-2016
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CLARIN? ISOCAT!
Ineke Schuurman
Hilversum, 06-03-2012
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Overview
• ISOcat – General– Use in CLARIN– Other cats: RELcat (and SCHEMAcat)
• All call 3 projects
• CLARIN NL/VL view
• Tutorial
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ISOcat
ISOcat:ISOcat:
Data Category RegistryData Category Registry defining widely accepted linguistic concepts
http://www.isocat.org
• Kind of database with linguistic specifications, in English (and whole series of other languages)
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Use in CLARIN
Use in CLARIN:
• what is in resource A meant with notion X ?– There may be several (valid) definitions !!!
• Does X have the same meaning in resources A and B ?
• For (human) users
• Also for information retrieval etc
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Other cats
• ISOcat: defining concepts
ongoing
• RELcat: relating concepts
just started
• SCHEMAcat: schematic overview of concepts used in specific application, tagset, …
about to start
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Call 3 projects
All call 3 projects (like previous calls) are to• come up with definitions for the concepts used in
their projects– Adopting existing descriptions IFF these match your
needs– Come up with new definitions
• Note that this also needs to be done for concepts used in your definitions
– Adposition: “word occuring […] composed of a noun, pronoun, noun phrase, […]”
Warning: can be a rather time-consuming task!
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CLARIN NL/VL view
To make all our lives easier, a CLARIN NL/VL view has been created.
In that part we (i.e. all members of the group CLARIN NL/VL) can see all concepts and definitions already used within CLARIN NL/VL
AND
also which ones have been approved!
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Tutorial
Together with Menzo Windhouwer (developer ISOcat. MPI Nijmegen), a tutorial will be organized
Where: UtrechtWhen: May/June 2012
All projects need to be represented by at least one person
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CLARIN-NL
More information?
http://www.clarin.nl/book/isocat-coordination
Ineke.schuurman@ccl.kuleuven.be