Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sporleder, Caroline (Editor), Bosch, Antal van den (Editor), Zervanou, Kalliopi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Pattern Recognition.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

The digital age has had a profound effect on our cultural heritage and the academic research that studies it. Staggering amounts of objects, many of them of a textual nature, are being digitised to make them more readily accessible to both experts and laypersons. Besides a vast potential for more ef...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Willard McCarty
• Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities: Chances and Challenges. Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Kalliopi Zervanou
• Part I Pre-Processing
• Strategies for Reducing and Correcting OCR Errors. Martin Volk, Lenz Furrer and Rico Sennrich
• Alignment between Text Images and their Transcripts for Handwritten Documents. Alejandro H. Toselli, Verónica Romero and Enrique Vidal
• Part II Adapting NLP Tools to Older Language Varieties
• A Diachronic Computational Lexical Resource for 800 Years of Swedish. Lars Borin and Markus Forsberg
• Morphosyntactic Tagging of Old Icelandic Texts and Its Use in Studying Syntactic Variation and Change. Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Sigrún Helgadóttir
• Part III Linguistic Resources for CH/SSH
• The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks. David Bamman and Gregory Crane
• A Parallel Greek-Bulgarian Corpus: A Digital Resource of the Shared Cultural Heritage. Voula Giouli, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova
• Part IV Personalisation
• Authoring Semantic and Linguistic Knowledge for the Dynamic Generation of Personalized Descriptions. Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Dimitrios Vogiatzis and Dimitris Bilidas
• Part V Structural and Narrative Analysis Automatic Pragmatic Text Segmentation of Historical Letters. Iris Hendrickx, Michel Généreux and Rita Marquilhas
• Proppian Content Descriptors in an Integrated Annotation Schema for Fairy Tales. Thierry Declerck, Antonia Scheidel and Piroska Lendvai
• Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions. Nils Reiter, Oliver Hellwig, Anette Frank, Irina Gossmann, Borayin Maitreya Larios, Julio Rodrigues and Britta Zeller
• Part VI Data Management, Visualisation and Retrieval
• Information Retrieval and Visualization for the Historical Domain. Yevgeni Berzak, Michal Richter, Carsten Ehrler and Todd Shore
• IntegratingWiki Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Semantic Technologies for Cultural Heritage Data Management. René Witte, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Peter C. Lockemann.