Papers by Andreas Witt
The German Reference Corpus DeReKo: New Developments – New Opportunities (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | DeReKo contains 42 billion tokens, comprising a multitude of genres such as newspaper text, fiction, or specialised text. |
| Approach: | They discuss legal issues around the recent German copyright reform and recent corpus extensions in popular magazines, journals, historical texts, and web-based football reports. |
| Outcome: | The German Reference Corpus DeReKo contains more than 42 billion tokens and is growing at 3.1 billion word per year. |
Privacy by Design and Language Resources (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Privacy by Design is an approach in which privacy and data protection are embedded throughout the project lifecycle . the principle of Privacy by design was first mentioned in the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive . |
| Approach: | a paper proposes to analyze the practical meaning of Privacy by Design in the context of Language Resources . the paper propose measures and safeguards that can be implemented by the community to ensure respect of this principle. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paper analyzes the practical meaning of Privacy by Design in the context of Language Resources . proposed safeguards can be implemented by the community to ensure respect of this principle. |
Interoperability in an Infrastructure Enabling Multidisciplinary Research: The case of CLARIN (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | CLARIN supports the use and study of language data in general and aims to increase the potential for comparative research of cultural and societal phenomena across languages and disciplines. |
| Approach: | They describe the interoperability requirements that arise through the existing ambitions and emerging frameworks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed frameworks will address interoperability requirements at several levels, including organisation and ecosystem, design of workflow services, data curation, performance measurement and collaboration. |
Ethical Issues in Language Resources and Language Technology – Tentative Categorisation (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Ethical issues are often invoked, but rarely discussed in the fields of Language Resources and Language Technology. |
| Approach: | They propose a tentative taxonomy of ethical issues in Language Resources and Language Technology, built around five principles: Privacy, Property, Equality, Transparency and Freedom. |
| Outcome: | The proposed taxonomy will facilitate ethical assessment of projects in the field of Language Resources and Language Technology and structure discussion on ethical issues in this domain. |
Beyond Citations: Corpus-based Methods for Detecting the Impact of Research Outcomes on Society (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for assessing the impact of research are ineffective for identifying impact beyond academia and text-based indicators beyond those that capture attention. |
| Approach: | They propose a deductive and inductive approach to categorize research impact categories using a corpus-based approach . they use a combination of deductive methods and machine learning to infer impact categories from project reports. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method predicts deductively and inductively derived impact categories with 76.39% accuracy and 78.81% accuracy. |
Introducing the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge Centres comprise physical institutions with particular expertise in certain areas and are committed to providing their expertise in the form of reliable knowledge-sharing services. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure (KSI) to ensure existing knowledge and expertise is easily available for the CLARIN community and for the humanities research communities for which CLARINS is being developed. |
| Outcome: | The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (CKLD) is a virtual distributed centre comprising institutions at the Universities of London, Cologne and Hamburg. |