How reliable is sense disambiguation in texts by native and non-native speakers?

(This blog is based on a joint research and publication in collaboration with David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala and Daniela Piipponen) At our department, and outside, we are used to search Korp corpora using the linguistic categories available there. Some of us know that these linguistic categories come as a result of automatic annotation by the Sparv-pipeline. The pipeline automatically splits raw text into tokens, sentences, finds a base form to each of the running (inflected) words, assigns word classes, …

Grierson’s “Linguistic Survey of India” as open-access digital data resource for studying languages of South Asia

Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Bernard Comrie South Asia – comprising the seven countries Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, as well as immediately adjacent areas of neighboring countries (parts of Afghanistan, China, and Myanmar) – is the home of hundreds of languages belonging to several unrelated language families. The region has a long history of far-ranging multilingualism and close linguistic and cultural contacts, the details of which are still far from completely understood. Today, the …