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„Das Gendern regt die Leute enorm auf“
Get PDFIst die Wissenschaftskommunikation beim Thema Gendern blind? Die Sprachwissenschaftler*innen Annette Leßmöllmann, Olaf Kramer und Henning Lobin gehen dieser überraschenden Lücke in einem neuen Forschungsprojekt auf den Grund. Warum wurde das Thema bisher ausgeklammert
Old German reference corpus: Digitizing the knowledge of the 19th century. Automated pre-annotation using digitized historical glossaries
Get PDFThe project Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch (‘Old German Reference Corpus’) aims to es- tablish a deeply-annotated text corpus of all extant Old German texts. In order to minimize manual work, an important target was to automate the retrieval of as much data as possible from existing sources. Whilst the texts themselves were already available in a digital form, the annotation data could to a large extent be found within a set of glossaries associated with each text. After digitizing these, the information contained in them could be automatically and semi-automatically linked to the texts. Subsequent manual editing focuses on any remaining gaps and misattributions, re- jecting inapplicable alternatives and adjusting details to the annotation standards of the project. Throughout the process, various problems have been encountered that require special attention to find particular solutions
Labeling results of topic models: word sense disambiguation as key method for automatic topic labeling with GermaNet
Get PDFThe combination of topic modeling and automatic topic labeling sheds light on understanding large corpora of text. It can be used to add semantic information for existing metadata. In addition, one can use the documents and the corresponding topic labels for topic classification. While there are existing algorithms for topic modeling readily accessible for processing texts, there is a need to postprocess the result to make the topics more interpretable and self-explanatory. The topic words from the topic model are ranked and the first/top word could easily be considered as a label. However, it is imperative to use automatic topic labeling, because the highest scored word is not the word that sums up the topic in the best way. Using the lexical-semantic word net GermaNet, the first step is to disambiguate words that are represented in GermaNet with more than one sense. We show how to find the correct sense in the context of a topic with the method of word sense disambiguation. To enhance accuracy, we present a similarity measure based on vectors of topic words that considers semantic relations of the senses demonstrating superior performance of the investigated cases compared to existing methods
Die Philologie des Bösen. Sprachkritik als Widerstand
Get PDFEs mag befremdlich wirken, ein Fach, das sich mit dem Wort abgibt, mit dem Begriff des Bösen in Beziehung zu setzen, doch wenn man bedenkt, inwiefern die Sprache das Böse bewirken kann, sollte man den Sinn einer Philologie des Bösen leicht einsehen. Das älteste Werk, das wir besitzen, das sich mit der Linguistik befasst – Platons Kratylos – gibt sich mit diesen Fragen ab: Sobald wir uns mit der Sprache auseinandersetzen, so Platon, wollen wir über Richtigkeit und Falschheit urteilen; d. h., die Sprachphilosophie rechnet von Anfang an mit der Frage von Gut und Böse
Zur Wortschatzentwicklung im Ukrainischen und Deutschen in Zeiten des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs
Get PDFDie Entwicklung der Sprache, insbesondere ihres Wortschatzes, steht unter dem starken Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen und aktueller politischer Ereignisse, die nicht nur zur Entstehung von Wortneuschöpfungen, sondern auch zum Aushandeln von neuen Bedeutungen führen. Gerade in Krisenzeiten gewinnt dieses Thema an besonderer Aktualität, da sich die Lösung von alten Weltanschauungen oder traditionellen Denkweisen in der Sprache manifestiert und somit die bereits existierenden Wörter dem Bedeutungswandel, der sich als Bedeutungserweiterung, -verschlechterung oder -verbesserung erweisen kann, häufiger unterliegen
Katja Arens: Strukturieren und Evaluieren im Gespräch. Lexikalische Diskurspartikeln als Ressourcen der Gesprächsorganisation. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023 [Rezension]
Get PDFThe lexicographic process
Get PDFUntil the mid-2010s, the lexicographic process was examined almost exclusively in relation to print dictionaries. But for Internet dictionaries, this process takes on an altogether different form: here, it is not a question of describing a linear series of individual production phases but rather individual tasks which are permanently intertwined and run in parallel with one another. A whole series of questions present themselves in this context, such as how subsections of the lexicon are chosen for editing, how new ways of gathering data from electronic text corpora influence the lexicographic process, what software can be used to support lexicographic processes, and what impact all of these changes have on users consulting dictionaries. There are also lexicographic portals in which different dictionaries are combined (→ Chapter 2.4) as well as centralised lexicographic databases from which single dictionaries can be generated, both of which have their own lexicographic processes
TIGA corpus: German-Arabic telephone-based interpreting
Get PDFThe Center for Sustainable Research Data Management at the University of Hamburg hosts the first corpus of German-Arabic interpreter-mediated encounters via telephone (TIGA). It was released in August 2023. You can access the corpus with your internet browser and download files to work with them offline
The role of language, appearance, and voice in the social perception of non-binary individuals
Get PDFNonbinary individuals express their identity through the use of altered or entirely new linguistic forms. Along with appearance or voice, it can affect how they are perceived by others. Previous studies have either omitted consideration of nonbinary populations entirely or examined elements such as the nonbinary language in isolation from other characteristics that affect perception. The aim of the current study was to investigate the perception of nonbinary people depending on the combination of their appearance, timbre of voice, and linguistic forms they used. An online experiment (N = 242) was conducted using nonbinary past tense verbs in the Polish language. Polish in its normative shape contains many gender markers. Results showed that masculine-sounding nonbinary people were perceived more negatively and were less accepted than binary people. The effect did not occur for feminine-sounding nonbinary people. Our research offers a more holistic understanding of how language discrimination intersects with the external characteristics of nonbinary people. We suggest that support programs could be targeted first to those who are most vulnerable to inferior treatment
