Swe-Clarin: Language resources and technology for digital humanities
Paper in proceeding, 2016

CLARIN is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which aims at (a) making extensive language-based materials available as primary research data to the humanities and social sciences (HSS); and (b) offering state-of-the-art language technology (LT) as an e-research tool for this purpose, positioning CLARIN centrally in what is often referred to as the digital humanities (DH). The Swedish CLARIN node Swe-Clarin was established in 2015 with funding from the Swedish Research Council. In this paper, we describe the composition and activities of Swe-Clarin, aiming at meeting the requirements of all HSS and other researchers whose research involves using text and speech as primary research data, and spreading the awareness of what Swe-Clarin can offer these research communities. We focus on one of the central means for doing this: pilot projects conducted in collaboration between HSS researchers and Swe-Clarin, together formulating a research question, the addressing of which requires working with large language-based materials. Four such pilot projects are described in more detail, illustrating research on rhetorical history, second-language acquisition, literature, and political science. A common thread to these projects is an aspiration to meet the challenge of conducting research on the basis of very large amounts of textual data in a consistent way without losing sight of the individual cases making up the mass of data, i.e., to be able to move between Moretti’s “distant” and “close reading” modes.

Language technology

CLARIN

Digital Humanities

Swe-Clarin

Author

Lars Borin

University of Gothenburg

Nina Tahmasebi

University of Gothenburg

Elena Volodina

University of Gothenburg

Stefan Ekman

University of Gothenburg

Caspar Jordan

University of Gothenburg

Jon Viklund

Uppsala University

Beáta Megyesi

Uppsala University

Jesper Näsman

Uppsala University

Anne Palmér

Uppsala University

Mats Wirén

Stockholm University

Kristina N. Björkenstam

Stockholm University

Gintarė Grigonytė

Stockholm University

Sofia Gustafson Capková

Stockholm University

Tomasz Kosinski

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

16130073 (ISSN)

Vol. 2021 29-51

1st International Symposium on Digital Humanities, DH 2016
Växjö, Sweden,

Subject Categories

Information Studies

General Language Studies and Linguistics

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