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Any corpus is a welcome addition to Korp, but gold corpora (those where the annotation quality has been manually controlled) are particularly valuable. We have now added SIC2, a slightly modified version of the Stockholm Internet Corpus, originally created by Robert Östling et al. SIC2 is a small corpus of blogs, but it has gold part-of-speech, morphosyntactic and named-entity tags (SUC-style). In addition, basic information about the authors is also available. The corpus is downloadable.

The integration of SIC2 into Korp served also as a test drive for the new version of our annotation pipeline Sparv, to be released very soon.

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Organisatörer:

• CLASP - Centrum för språkteori och sannolikhetsstudier (the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability) vid Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori,
• Språkbanken Text vid Institutionen för svenska språket, och
• Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik.

We have added a pretrained model for lemmatization of Swedish text to our model collection. The model was trained and tested on SUC3 using the Stanza package and achieves a very high accuracy of 99.18.

The drawback of this model is that SUC3 lemmatization and part-of-speech annotation does not exactly match that in Saldo, which is used by Sparv to annotate the resources available via Korp. The advantage, however, is that the model always produces a guess (and usually a correct one), while the current version of Sparv sometimes cannot do that. The new version of Sparv (coming soon) will probably combine the two approaches.

Using the model does not require deep knowledge of natural language processing or advanced programming skills.

More to come.

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Språkbanken Text, and the project Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection are organizing a second LChange workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change in August, 2021.

The workshop builds upon its first iteration in 2019, where we received over 50 submissions and had over 65 attendees. Just like the first one, the second LChange workshop will be co-located with ACL (2021).

The call for papers will be similar to last time: all aspects around computational approaches to historical language change with the focus on digital text corpora.  Deadlines will be published on the webpage as soon as they are announced by ACL2021.

Like LChange'19, this edition will host two keynotes, one computationally oriented and one either application or theory oriented.

We are looking forward to your submission and participation!

More information on: https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lchange/

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När vi tänker på ord så tänker vi oftast på enheter som i text omges av blanksteg (mellanrum): ’huset’, ’superstor’, ’bloggade’. De flesta skulle nog säga att ’idag’ är ett ord, men hur är det om vi skriver det (också rättstavat) ’i dag’ då? ’Mont Blanc-tunneln’? ’Röda blodkroppar’? I det här blogginlägget tänkte jag prata om ord som innehåller mellanrum och flerordsuttryck, och hur man kan analysera dem i en korpus. Om vi ska annotera en text, alltså märka upp den med …  Fortsätt läsa ”Flerordingar: ord som består av flera delar”

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