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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:
Data Category Registry defining widely
accepted linguistic concepts
http://www.isocat.org
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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 !!!
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Does X have the same meaning in resources
A and B ?
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For (human) users
Also for information retrieval etc
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Other cats
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ISOcat: defining concepts
ongoing
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RELcat: relating concepts
just started
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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
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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
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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
AND
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: Utrecht
When: 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
[email protected]
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