Second Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics

When: Thursday, December 19th, 2024; 8:45 - 18:00

Where: Innsbruck, Austria

Registration: You can register for ÖLT - Österreichische Linguistiktagung 2024 via the Conference Website .

Digital linguistics is a growing interdisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, information technology, and the social sciences. This is reflected by the growing number of new projects, publication series, and university courses. A central focus of digital linguistics is language data, i.e., digital artifacts that use human language as a form of expression. The range of this language data includes social media content, parliamentary transcripts, newspapers and medieval manuscripts, among others. Such data is processed, annotated, analyzed, curated, shared, archived, and reused, among other activities. Therefore, the topics covered in this workshop span from the creation of digital language resources (corpora, dictionaries, etc.) and their analysis (e.g., semantic change detection, emotion and sentiment analysis), to the use of standards and research infrastructures, as well as methods for long-term archiving or reuse of language data.

The variety of research in this field in Austria was shown during the first Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics and the previous Austrian Meetings on Sentiment Inferenz (ÖTSI 2021, 2023) , where 37 researchers from different Austrian and international research institutions presented their projects.

This year’s workshop “ Second Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics ” is a follow-up of these workshops. Again, the aim of the workshop is to highlight recent developments in the Austrian research landscape and to connect different projects working with or on methods in digital linguistics, as well as the researchers involved. The workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of methodological insights and the creation of synergies through the mutual sharing of digital language resources, also within the framework of the research infrastructure CLARIAH-AT. Furthermore, the workshop also addresses international researchers, who are working in the field of digital linguistics and who want to present their research and exchange and connect with the Austrian research community.

This Workshop is co-located with the 48. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (ÖLT2024) in Innsbruck, Austria.

Preliminary Program

08:45-09:00 Introduction

Tanja Wissik (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Andreas Baumann (University of Vienna), Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien), Claudia Posch & Gerhard Rampl (University of Innsbruck)
09:00-09:30 New ways to identify phraseological patterns: between statistics and AI

Dominique Longrée (Université de Liège) & Laurent Vanni (CNRS – Université Côte d’Azur)
09:30-10:00 Das gehören-Passiv. Korpuslinguistische Untersuchung einer analytischen Konstruktion. Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen

Claudia Mattes (University of Vienna)
10:00-10:30 Progressive Aspektualität des Deutschen quantitativ untersuchen: Formen, Funktionen und Variation

Markus Pluschkovits (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences)

10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause

11:00-11:30 The Corpus of Austrian German – Construction of a ‘national’ language repository for research and socio-cultural purposes

Nicola Dobric, Ulrike Krieg-Holz & Luca Melchior (University of Klagenfurt)
11:30-12:00 Exploring a Historical Phonological Corpus: The case of long back vowels in Older Scots

Pia Lehecka (University of Edinburgh)
12:00-12:30 Zusammenhänge zwischen Digitalisierung und linguistischer Diversität: eine Roadmap

Katharina Zeh & Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien), Hannes Fellner & Andreas Baumann (University of Vienna)

12:30-14:00 Mittagspause

14:00-14:30 “How music changes through the years”: A sentiment analysis of Queen’s song lyrics

Michelle van de Bilt (University of Vienna)
14:30-15:00 Validating the BEMDI-metre, an analytical instrument that detects basic emotions in discourse

Natalia Borza (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
15:00-15:30 Förderung und Ressourcen für die digitalen Linguistik in Österreich am Beispiel des Ladder Web-Projekts

Nicola Brocca (University of Innsbruck)

15:30-16:00 Kaffeepause

16:00-16:30 Item Plasia von Czïmer Nicleins weib an der port czinst ii guntsch wein: Digitale Verarbeitung und Analyse spätmittelalterlicher sozioökonomischer Netzwerke mit CIDOC-CRM

Elisabeth Gruber-Tokić & Milena Peralta Friedburg (University of Innsbruck)
16:30-17:00 Etymological and sociolinguistic information extraction from digital historical dictionaries (according to the DLGenR and DLYS projects)

Michael Gassner, Christina Katsikadeli & Thomas Klampfl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
17:00-17:30 The WIBARAB Feature Database: Developing a Data Model for a TEI-Based Linguistic Database

Veronika Engler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
17:30-18:00 Navigating Linguistic and Technical Challenges in encoding Urdu Marsiya: Developing a Digital Scholarly Edition with TEI

Saniya Irfan (IIT Delhi)

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