New Technologies for Old Germanic. Resources and Research on Parallel Bibles in Older Continental Western Germanic
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We provide an overview of on-going ef-forts to facilitate the study of older Ger-manic languages currently pursued at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. We describe created resources, such as a parallel corpus of Germanic Bibles and a morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon, a lexicon of OHG in XML and a multi-lingual etymological database. We discuss NLP algorithms operating on this data, and their relevance for research in the Hu-manities. RDF and Linked Data represent new and promising aspects in our research, cur-rently applied to establish cross-references between etymological dictionaries, infer new information from their symmetric clo-sure and to formalize linguistic annota-tions in a corpus and grammatical cate-gories in a lexicon in an interoperable way. 1
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-0604
Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2250744018