Introduction

This course is a part of the Language Technology Master Programme.

Lecturers

• Course coordinator and main lecturer: Lars Borin (LB)
• Lexical resources: Markus Forsberg (MF)
• Speech resources: Jonas Lindh (JL)

Course literature

• Bird, Steven and Gary Simons 2003. Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description. Language 79: 557-582. Preprint version at: <http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf>
• Borin, Lars 2009. Linguistic diversity in the information society. Proceedings of the SALTMIL 2009 workshop on Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages. 1-7. Donostia: SALTMIL. <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/personal/lars/pblctns/saltmil-2009.pdf>
• Borin, Lars, Dana Dannélls, Markus Forsberg, Maria Toporowska Gronostaj and Dimitrios Kokkinakis 2010. The past meets the present in Swedish FrameNet++. 14th EURALEX International Congress, 269-281. Leeuwarden: EURALEX. <https://svn.spraakdata.gu.se/sb/fnplusplus/pub/SweFN_Euralex_extended.pdf>
• Borin, Lars, Markus Forsberg and Dimitrios Kokkinakis 2010. Diabase: Towards a diachronic BLARK in support of historical studies Proceedings of LREC 2010. 35-42. Valletta: ELRA. <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/personal/lars/pblctns/lrec2010-diabase.pdf>
• Cieri, C., L. Corson, D. and Graff K. and Walker 2007. Resources for new research directions in speaker recognition: The Mixer 3, 4 and 5 corpora. Proc. Interspeech2007, 950-954. <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.78.7500&rep=rep1&type=pdf>
• CLARIN deliverable D5C2: Language resources and tools survey and taxonomy and criteria for the quality assessment. <http://www-sk.let.uu.nl/u/D5C-2.pdf>
• CLARIN deliverable D5R3a: Linguistic processing chains as Web Services: Initial linguistic considerations. <http://www-sk.let.uu.nl/u/D5R-3a.pdf>
• Francopoulo G. et al. 2006. Lexical Markup Framework (LMF). LREC 2006 – 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, 233-236. <http://lirics.loria.fr/doc_pub/LMFPaperForLREC2006FinalSubmission6March06.pdf>
• Giesbrecht, Eugenie and Stefan Evert, Stefan 2009. Part-of-speech tagging - a solved task? An evaluation of POS taggers for the Web as corpus. In I. Alegria, I. Leturia, and S. Sharoff, editors, Proceedings of the 5th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC5). San Sebastian, Spain. <http://purl.org/stefan.evert/PUB/GiesbrechtEvert2009_Tagging.pdf>
• Helgason, Pétur 2010. Speech databases and speech corpora. <http://www.anst.uu.se/pehel169/Computer_tools_course/Speech%20databases.pdf>
• Ide, Nancy and James Pustejovsky 2010. What does interoperability mean, anyway? Toward an operational definition of interoperability. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2010). Hong Kong, <http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/papers/ICGL10.pdf>
• Ide, Nancy, James Pustejovsky, Nicoletta Calzolari and Claudia Soria 2009. The SILT and FlaReNet international collaboration for interoperability. Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop, held in conjunction with ACL 2009, Singapore. <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3034.pdf>
• Ide, Nancy and Keith Suderman 2009. Bridging the gaps: Interoperability for GrAF, GATE, and UIMA. Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop, held in conjunction with ACL 2009, Singapore. <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3004.pdf>
• Ide, Nancy and Yorick Wilks 2006. Making sense about sense. In E. Agirre and P. Edmonds (eds.), Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and applications. Springer. <http://clara.uib.no/files/2011/06/ide.pdf>
• Jurafsky, Daniel and James H. Martin 2009. Speech and language processing, 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall.
• Kilgarriff, Adam 2007. Googleology is bad science. Computational Linguistics 33 (1): 147-151. <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/J/J07/J07-1010.pdf>
• Krauwer, Steven 2003. The Basic Language Resource Kit (BLARK) as the first milestone for the language resources roadmap. Proceedings of SPECOM 2003. Moscow. <http://www.elsnet.org/dox/krauwer-specom2003.pdf>
• Lamel, L.F., R.H.Kassel and S.Seneff 1989. Speech database development: Design and analysis of the acoustic-phonetic corpus. Speech Input/Output Assessment and Speech Databases. <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.78.7500&rep=rep1&type=pdf<
• Sanderson, Mark, Martin Braschler and Nicola Ferro 2009. Best practices for test collection creation, evaluation methodologies and language processing technologies. TrebleCLEF deliverable D4.2. University of Sheffield. <www.trebleclef.eu/getfile.php?id=258>
• Wynne, Martin (ed.) 2005. Developing linguistic corpora: a guide to good practice. Oxford: AHDS. <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/ecole_thematique/contaci/documents/Baude/wynne.pdf>

Course requirements

There are three graded assignments all of which must be completed for passing the course. Their weights for calculating the final grade are shown in parentheses below.

• Take-home exam (40%): See attached instructions at the end of this web page; deadline for submission of answers: 31st October, 2011
• Course paper (40%): See attached instructions at the end of this web page; deadline for selection of topic: 3rd October 2011, 12.00 noon; deadline for submission of written paper: 14th October 2011
• Course paper presentation (20%): TBA; oral presentations on the 18th and 19th October 2011

Schedule

All lectures will be held in room K333, Lennart Torstenssonsgatan 6.

Lecture slides will be added as attachments at the bottom of this web page after the lectures.