Populating the infrastructurethe case of the Netherlands

Hans Bennisexecutive board of CLARIN-NL

Meertens Institute (KNAW)

CLARIN COORDINATORSBUDAPEST, June 29-30

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the start in 2009

• 9 million Euro for CLARIN-NL for the period 2009-2015 (requested amount m€ 25)

• concentration on text (language data for humanities research)• audio and video are left out, in contrast to the original proposal• social sciences are not included, in contrast to the orginal proposal• organizational structure: director, executive board, board, advisory

panels (national and international)• substantial part of money will be spent in programmatic form

through Calls• important goal / ambition: create broad support for CLARIN in

humanities research in the Netherlands

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Projects 2009• technical projects (centers, metadata, web services,

workflow, etc.)• centers: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI,

Nijmegen), Meertens Institute (Amsterdam), DANS (Den Haag) and Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL, Leiden)

• user survey• Call-1 (Demonstrator Projects or Resource Curation

projects)• 12 projects (+/- € 60.000 each)

– demonstrator projects– data curation projects

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Call-1 Projects1) AAM-LR [UNijmegen/MPI] - Automatic annotation of

language resources2) Adelheid [UNijmegen/MPI] – Lemmatizer for

Historical Dutch3) Adept [UGroningen/Meertens] – Dialect Analysis4) Duelme-LMF [UUtrecht/INL] – Multi-word

expressions5) INTER-VIEWS [UNijmegen/DANS] – Interviews of life-

history of veterans6) MIMORE [UUtrecht/Meertens] – Dialect

morphosyntax7) SignLinC [UNijmegen/MPI] – Sign Language

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Call-1 (more)

8) TDS Curator [UUtrecht/DANS] – Typological Database

9) TICCLops [UTilburg/INL] – Text Clean-up10) TQE [UNijmegen/MPI]Transcription evaluation11) WFT-GTB [Fryske Akademy/INL] – Integration of

Dutch and Frisian dictionaries12) CKCC [UUtrecht, Huygens Institute, DANS]

Correspondence of scholars in 17th century

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Demonstration of the Microcomparative Morphosyntactic

Research Tool

MIMORESjef Barbiers, Matthijs Brouwer,

Jan Pieter Kunst, Folkert de Vriend

Meertens Instituut, 2011

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Opening screen MIMORE

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Research question• The Standard Dutch [non-neuter] relative pronoun

and distal demonstrative has the form ‘die’ (that, those).

• We know that there are dialects that have ‘dien’ as a relative pronoun and/or as a distal demonstrative.

• We would like to know if there is a correlation between ‘dien’ as a relative pronoun, ‘dien’ as a demonstrative preceding a noun, and ‘dien’ as a demonstrative in elliptical constructions.

• The linguistic question behind this search is what the ‘-n’ on ‘die’ is: case, phonologically determined, etc.?

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Optional restrictions on the search

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Search 1: DynaSAND with text string and tag constructor: ‘dien’ as relative pronoun

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Elements of search result

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Specification of data resource

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Corresponding sound fragment

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Search 2: GTRP with demonstrative + N in test item

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Elements of search result

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Result of search 3: demonstrative ‘dien’ in elliptical nominal groups in DIDDD

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Available operations on search results

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Map combining three search results

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Map combiningtwo search results

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Frequency maps

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Creating the intersection of two sets of search results

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Export as Excel-file

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Data exported

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Complex search: More thanone database, string of tags

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CALL-2 (2011)

1) Arthurian Fiction [UUtrecht] - Curation of two databases for literary research

2) C-DSD [UUtrecht/Meertens] Curation of Folksong Database

3) COAVA [Meertens] bringing together five linguistic databases (language variation/acquisition)

4) INPOLDER [UNijmegen/Meertens] Syntactic analysis of historical Dutch

5) IPROSLA [UNijmegen/UAmsterdam/MPI] Sign language databases

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CALL-2 (more)

6) NEHOL [UNijmegen] – Curation of Negerhollands database

7) VU-DNC [VU-Amsterdam] – corpus of Dutch newspapers

8) WAHSP [UUtrecht] – Text mining in large historical databases

9) WIP [NIOD] – Data curation of Dutch Second World War database

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developments• collaboration with CATCH-programme (programme to finance projects for teams of ict-developers,

humanities scholars and cultural heritage institutions) – CLAVAS – vocabularies– Persistent Identifiers

• Data Curation Service (>2011) • Call 3 (call open now; projects in 2012)• Agreement with Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) and

Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (KNAW) with respect to CLARIN-norm for databases/tools in humanities

• CLARIN-NL + DARIAH-NL => CLARIAH – Dutch Roadmap

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