Project C2:
Sustainability of Linguistic Data

Joint project between the SFBs 441, 538 and 632

Head of the project

Staff

SFB 441 – Tübingen University

Georg Rehm
Office: Nauklerstr. 35, D-72074 Tübingen, Room 2.06
Phone: +49/7071/29-77155
Mail: georg.rehm <[at]> uni-tuebingen.de

Dipl.-Inform. Oliver Schonefeld
Büro: Nauklerstr. 35, D-72074 Tübingen, Raum 2.06
Tel. +49/7071/29-77155
Fax +49/7071/29-5830
Email: Oliver.Schonefeld <[at]> uni-tuebingen.de

SFB 538 – Hamburg University

SFB 632 – Potsdam University

Summary

The project C2 aims at preparing language resources to assure an accessible dissemination and sustainable storage of linguistic corpora. One of the main goals of the project is a practical one: resources acquired in long-term projects situated in three Collaborative Research Centres have to be converted in either one or multiple formats to be sustainably usable by researchers and applications. Furthermore, the project will provide unified methods of access for the heterogeneous data acquired in the projects. In addition to the preparation of existing language corpora, general methodologies and rules of best practice will be developed.

The linguistic resources dealt by C2 are highly heterogeneous:

• the primary data itself is heterogeneous:
  • size (e.g., single sentences vs. entire articles),
  • text types / data types (e.g. newspaper texts, diachronic texts, dialogues, treebanks, ...)
  • modality (monologue vs. dialogue),
  • categories of information covered by the annotation / annotation levels (e.g. layout, textual structure, morpho-syntax, syntax, ...)
  • underlying linguistic theories
  • language
• the annotations require data structures of various types (attribute-value pairs, trees, pointers, etc.)
• data is annotated by means of different, task-specific annotation tools

The Collaborative Research Centres involved in the project are the SFB 538 'Multilingualism' at the University of Hamburg, the SFB 632 'Information Structure' at the University of Potsdam and the Humboldt University Berlin, and the SFB 441 'Linguistic Data Structures' at the Eberhard Karls University Tüubingen.

Corpora

• Complete list of all corpora created in the SFB 441
• Corpora of the SFB 538 "Multilingualism" (Hamburg)
• Corpora of the SFB 632 "Information Structure" (Potsdam)

Publications