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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

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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