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Folkert de Vriend & Martin Snijders 18/11/2011

Bridging the Gap between First Language Acquisition and Historical Dialectology with the Help of Digital Humanities. Folkert de Vriend & Martin Snijders 18/11/2011. Time and team. Project duration: 1 year (may 2011 - may 2012) Multi-disciplinairy team: Leonie Cornips Wilbert Heeringa

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Folkert de Vriend & Martin Snijders 18/11/2011

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  1. Bridging the Gap between First Language Acquisition and Historical Dialectology with the Help of Digital Humanities Folkert de Vriend & Martin Snijders 18/11/2011

  2. Time and team • Project duration: 1 year (may 2011 - may 2012) • Multi-disciplinairy team: • Leonie Cornips • Wilbert Heeringa • Marc Kemps-Snijders • Martin Snijders • Student assistants: Anke, Gertruud, Yvonne • Jos Swanenberg • Folkert de Vriend

  3. General • COAVA: COgnition, Acquisition and VAriation Tool • Aims of COAVA: • A) Curation of resources from two separate linguistic subdisciplines: first language acquisition and dialect geography. • B) Development of a demonstrator tool for interdisciplinary research into the lexical characteristics of concepts

  4. A) Curation

  5. Resources in COAVA • Seven corpora from CHILDES • The Netherlands and Flanders • Children (mostly between 2 and 3,5 years) • Part III of WBD/WLD • (Dutch and Flemmish) Brabant and Limburg • Adults

  6. CLARIN-compliance Dialect data and CHILDES data • CMDI-metadata • Persistent identifiers • ISOcat Dialect data • Lexical Markup Framework (LMF)

  7. B) Demonstrator

  8. Lexical characteristics • First language acquisition: • For some concepts the lexical form typically is acquired early (‘dog’ for instance) while for other concepts the lexical form typically is acquired later (‘blue titmouse’ for instance.).’ • Dialect geography: • For some concepts there is lot of lexical variation while for other concepts there is very little variation.

  9. Value of combined interpretation • For researchers in both disciplines these characteristics are interesting for at least two reasons: • Research into the ‘basic level vocabulary’ of a community • Research into the relation between age of acquisition and (dialect)variation

  10. Implementation • A concept taxonomy is constructed. This taxonomy will only contain concepts for which lexical forms can be found in both resources • Since the Dutch CHILDES data mostly contain data for children aged between 2 and 3,5 years of age we focus on lexical forms that are nouns. • To enable linking from this taxonomy to the CHILDES data, these first need to be lemmatised and tagged for their POS (Lexicon by Gilles)

  11. Demo

  12. Technology • Client server application • Search services • Java/Google Web Toolkit • Apache/Tomcat • Solr search server • Open Source

  13. Solr • Indices, multi core • Facetted search • Fast

  14. Demo

  15. Thank you

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