Language technology for cultural heritage selected papers from the LaTeCH workshop series /

The digital age has had a profound effect on our cultural heritage and the academic research that studies it. Staggering amounts of objects, many of them of a textual nature, are being digitised to make them more readily accessible to both experts and laypersons. Besides a vast potential for more ef...

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Other Authors: Sporleder, Caroline,, Bosch, Antal van den, 1969-, Zervanou, Kalliopi,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2011.
Berlin ; New York : 2011.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 230 pages) : color illustrations.
Series: Theory and applications of natural language processing.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Willard McCarty
  • Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities: Chances and Challenges. Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Kalliopi Zervanou
  • Part I Pre-Processing
  • Strategies for Reducing and Correcting OCR Errors. Martin Volk, Lenz Furrer and Rico Sennrich
  • Alignment between Text Images and their Transcripts for Handwritten Documents. Alejandro H. Toselli, Verónica Romero and Enrique Vidal
  • Part II Adapting NLP Tools to Older Language Varieties
  • A Diachronic Computational Lexical Resource for 800 Years of Swedish. Lars Borin and Markus Forsberg
  • Morphosyntactic Tagging of Old Icelandic Texts and Its Use in Studying Syntactic Variation and Change. Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Sigrún Helgadóttir
  • Part III Linguistic Resources for CH/SSH
  • The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks. David Bamman and Gregory Crane
  • A Parallel Greek-Bulgarian Corpus: A Digital Resource of the Shared Cultural Heritage. Voula Giouli, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova
  • Part IV Personalisation
  • Authoring Semantic and Linguistic Knowledge for the Dynamic Generation of Personalized Descriptions. Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Dimitrios Vogiatzis and Dimitris Bilidas
  • Part V Structural and Narrative Analysis Automatic Pragmatic Text Segmentation of Historical Letters. Iris Hendrickx, Michel Généreux and Rita Marquilhas
  • Proppian Content Descriptors in an Integrated Annotation Schema for Fairy Tales. Thierry Declerck, Antonia Scheidel and Piroska Lendvai
  • Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions. Nils Reiter, Oliver Hellwig, Anette Frank, Irina Gossmann, Borayin Maitreya Larios, Julio Rodrigues and Britta Zeller
  • Part VI Data Management, Visualisation and Retrieval
  • Information Retrieval and Visualization for the Historical Domain. Yevgeni Berzak, Michal Richter, Carsten Ehrler and Todd Shore
  • IntegratingWiki Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Semantic Technologies for Cultural Heritage Data Management. René Witte, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Peter C. Lockemann.