Resources (re-)used by the CRC

This grammatically annoted corpus aims at facilitating linguistic research on Old Latvian based on the Postil of Georg Mancelius from the year 1654. The corpus is divided into two subcorpora, "pericopes" and "homilies" to make register related research easier.

The pericopes were annotated using SIL Toolbox and converted to be used in the search-tool ANNIS using the conversion tool PEPPER.

Three formats are provided in this release: 1. the Toolbox files, 2. the transitional Excel files and 3. a zipped folder to be imported into ANNIS.

Created in the project B02, Emergence and change of registers: The case of Lithuanian and Latvian of the CRC 1412 "Register" (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG, German Research Foundation: 416591334).

The corpus consists of acoustic recordings of spontaneous dialogues of German native speakers with both task-free and task-based parts and additional read word lists.
Malte Belz, Christine Mooshammer, Alina Zöllner, and Lea‑Sophie Adam. Berlin Dialogue Corpus
(BeDiaCo): Version 2, 2021.

The Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo) is a resource dedicated to comparative research on historical registers. The corpus comprises two sources: The Old High German Book of Psalms by Notker III of Saint Gall and the Old Swedish Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden. The subcorpus of Birgitta's Revelations and the subcorpus of Notker's Psalms are available as separate zip files. The corpus format is ANNIS. For local installation, use ANNIS Desktop. The documentation for ANNIS can be found here:
https://corpus-tools.org/annis/
https://corpus-tools.org/annis/download.html

The guidelines (see 'related identifiers') are published in REALIS 2/3 and include information about the corpus design, annotation layers, meta data, and annotation principles.

Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Multimodal Communication. 

CAEMmCom – Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Multimodal Communication: Getting Started [pdf]

2020 Multimodale graphische Kommunikation im pharaonischen Ägypten: Entwurf einer Analysemethode, Lingua Aegyptia 28: 81-116.
2020 (mit Rebecca Döhl und Jens-Martin Loebel) CaeMmCom – Corpus altaegyptischer multimodaler Communication. Der Aufbau einer multimodalen Datensammlung altägyptischer Kommunikate, Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaft, [open access].

COACAN (Corpus of Academic Canarian Spanish) is a linguistic  corpus that documents and analyzes varieties of Spanish spoken in the Canary  Islands, specifically within the university academic context. This dataset was developed as part of project A09 "On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish" of the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" (Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation), led by Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This corpus was developed at the University of La Laguna with students from three specific degree programs in October-November 2024:

• Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CAFYD)
• Hispanic Linguistics and Literature
• Education (Pedagogy)

The corpus focuses on spontaneous speech from Canarian university students, capturing both dialectal features of Canarian Spanish and academic/colloquial registers used in higher education settings, as well as their relationship with insular territory.

The corpus spans over 14 years of video content from major Canarian governmental institutions, parliamentary sessions, and official channels, providing a valuable resource for linguistic research, natural language processing, and computational linguistics studies focusing on Spanish language evolution and regional institutional discourse patterns.

GeWiss is a research project in spoken academic language. It provides a multilingual (German/English/Polish/Italian) corpus of audio recordings and transcriptions of academic communications, as an empirical foundation for comparative research.

To this end, the GeWiss corpus focusses on two main genres of spoken adademic language:

• talks including discussions, and
• oral exams,

and it explicitly distinguishes between L1 and L2 subcorpora. The corpus is enlarged and developed continuously.

Das Kobalt-DaF-Korpus ist ein systematisch erhobenes und tief annotiertes Deutschlernerkorpus, welches 80 deutschsprachige argumentative Texte von deutschen L1-Sprecher:innen und Deutschlerner:innen unterschiedlicher L1 enthält. Dieses Repositorium stellt eine zusätzliche Annotation des Kobalt-DaF-Korpus bzgl. rhetorischer Strukturen frei zur Verfügung. Folgende Informationen sind hier zu finden: (1) Die Darstellung des Annotationsprozesses (Annotationsframework, -richtlinie, und -verfahren). (2) Die annotierten rs3-Dateien.

*Versionshinweise: Bislang sind ausschließlich die Texte der chinesischen Deutschlerner:innen und der deutschen L1-Sprecher:innen (insgesamt 40 Texte) verfügbar. Die Annotation der übrigen Texte folgt demnächst. 

*Die Annotationsarbeit wurde gefördert durch das Chinese Scholarship Council und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – SFB 1412, 416591334.

The Russian National Corpus is a representative collection of texts in Russian, counting about 1,5 bln tokens and completed with linguistic annotation and search tools

This grammatically annoted corpus aims at facilitating linguistic research on Old Lithuanian based on the Postil of Jonas Bretkūnas from the year 1591. The corpus is divided into two subcorpora, "pericopes" and "homilies" to make register related research easier.

The pericopes were annotated using SIL Toolbox and converted to be used in the search-tool ANNIS using the conversion tool PEPPER.

Three formats are provided in this release: 1. the Toolbox files, 2. the transitional Excel files and 3. a zipped folder to be imported into ANNIS.

Created in the project B02, Emergence and change of registers: The case of Lithuanian and Latvian of the CRC 1412 "Register" (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG, German Research Foundation: 416591334).

This grammatically annoted corpus aims at facilitating linguistic research on Old Latvian based on the Postil of Georg Mancelius from the year 1654. The corpus is divided into two subcorpora, "pericopes" and "homilies" to make register related research easier.

The pericopes were annotated using SIL Toolbox and converted to be used in the search-tool ANNIS using the conversion tool PEPPER.

Three formats are provided in this release: 1. the Toolbox files, 2. the transitional Excel files and 3. a zipped folder to be imported into ANNIS.

Created in the project B02, Emergence and change of registers: The case of Lithuanian and Latvian of the CRC 1412 "Register" (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG, German Research Foundation: 416591334).

The corpus consists of acoustic recordings of spontaneous dialogues of German native speakers with both task-free and task-based parts and additional read word lists.
Malte Belz, Christine Mooshammer, Alina Zöllner, and Lea‑Sophie Adam. Berlin Dialogue Corpus
(BeDiaCo): Version 2, 2021.

The Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo) is a resource dedicated to comparative research on historical registers. The corpus comprises two sources: The Old High German Book of Psalms by Notker III of Saint Gall and the Old Swedish Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden. The subcorpus of Birgitta's Revelations and the subcorpus of Notker's Psalms are available as separate zip files. The corpus format is ANNIS. For local installation, use ANNIS Desktop. The documentation for ANNIS can be found here:
https://corpus-tools.org/annis/
https://corpus-tools.org/annis/download.html

The guidelines (see 'related identifiers') are published in REALIS 2/3 and include information about the corpus design, annotation layers, meta data, and annotation principles.

Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Multimodal Communication. 

CAEMmCom – Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Multimodal Communication: Getting Started [pdf]

2020 Multimodale graphische Kommunikation im pharaonischen Ägypten: Entwurf einer Analysemethode, Lingua Aegyptia 28: 81-116.
2020 (mit Rebecca Döhl und Jens-Martin Loebel) CaeMmCom – Corpus altaegyptischer multimodaler Communication. Der Aufbau einer multimodalen Datensammlung altägyptischer Kommunikate, Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaft, [open access].

COACAN (Corpus of Academic Canarian Spanish) is a linguistic  corpus that documents and analyzes varieties of Spanish spoken in the Canary  Islands, specifically within the university academic context. This dataset was developed as part of project A09 "On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish" of the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" (Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation), led by Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This corpus was developed at the University of La Laguna with students from three specific degree programs in October-November 2024:

• Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CAFYD)
• Hispanic Linguistics and Literature
• Education (Pedagogy)

The corpus focuses on spontaneous speech from Canarian university students, capturing both dialectal features of Canarian Spanish and academic/colloquial registers used in higher education settings, as well as their relationship with insular territory.

The corpus spans over 14 years of video content from major Canarian governmental institutions, parliamentary sessions, and official channels, providing a valuable resource for linguistic research, natural language processing, and computational linguistics studies focusing on Spanish language evolution and regional institutional discourse patterns.

GeWiss is a research project in spoken academic language. It provides a multilingual (German/English/Polish/Italian) corpus of audio recordings and transcriptions of academic communications, as an empirical foundation for comparative research.

To this end, the GeWiss corpus focusses on two main genres of spoken adademic language:

• talks including discussions, and
• oral exams,

and it explicitly distinguishes between L1 and L2 subcorpora. The corpus is enlarged and developed continuously.

Das Kobalt-DaF-Korpus ist ein systematisch erhobenes und tief annotiertes Deutschlernerkorpus, welches 80 deutschsprachige argumentative Texte von deutschen L1-Sprecher:innen und Deutschlerner:innen unterschiedlicher L1 enthält. Dieses Repositorium stellt eine zusätzliche Annotation des Kobalt-DaF-Korpus bzgl. rhetorischer Strukturen frei zur Verfügung. Folgende Informationen sind hier zu finden: (1) Die Darstellung des Annotationsprozesses (Annotationsframework, -richtlinie, und -verfahren). (2) Die annotierten rs3-Dateien.

*Versionshinweise: Bislang sind ausschließlich die Texte der chinesischen Deutschlerner:innen und der deutschen L1-Sprecher:innen (insgesamt 40 Texte) verfügbar. Die Annotation der übrigen Texte folgt demnächst. 

*Die Annotationsarbeit wurde gefördert durch das Chinese Scholarship Council und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – SFB 1412, 416591334.

The Russian National Corpus is a representative collection of texts in Russian, counting about 1,5 bln tokens and completed with linguistic annotation and search tools

This grammatically annoted corpus aims at facilitating linguistic research on Old Lithuanian based on the Postil of Jonas Bretkūnas from the year 1591. The corpus is divided into two subcorpora, "pericopes" and "homilies" to make register related research easier.

The pericopes were annotated using SIL Toolbox and converted to be used in the search-tool ANNIS using the conversion tool PEPPER.

Three formats are provided in this release: 1. the Toolbox files, 2. the transitional Excel files and 3. a zipped folder to be imported into ANNIS.

Created in the project B02, Emergence and change of registers: The case of Lithuanian and Latvian of the CRC 1412 "Register" (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG, German Research Foundation: 416591334).

The repository contains all related files used for the experimental work reported in the paper "A register approach to negative concord vs. negative polarity items in English". It contains files with the experimental stimuli, rating data, completion tasks, demographics information of participants, R scripts, and plots.

The repository contains all related files used for the experimental work reported in the paper "Interlocutor relation predicts the formality of the conversation: an experiment in American and British English". It contains files with the experimental stimuli, rating data, demographics information of participants, R scripts, and plots.

The repository contains all related files used for the experimental work reported in the paper "Modal concord in American and British English: A register-based experimental study". It contains files with the experimental stimuli, rating data, demographics information of participants, R scripts, and plots.

The repository contains all related files used for the experimental work reported in the paper "A register approach to negative concord vs. negative polarity items in English". It contains files with the experimental stimuli, rating data, completion tasks, demographics information of participants, R scripts, and plots.

The Lang*Reg corpus records intra-speaker variation across languages and different situational-functional contexts, presumed to result in different registers. It has been prepared in the SFB1412 Register with data collections taking place in 2021-2022 for the following languages included in this version: German, Persian, Kurdish, Javanese. The data sets for each language comprise the speech of the same language users in a variety of spoken conversations and one written interaction. A minimum of 12 participants per language traversed a course of 6 situations in which they were asked to produce language in three types of activities: telling a story to a friend, talking freely with various interlocutors (friend, stranger, taxi driver) and engaging in an interview with a (university) professor. Moreover, our design included the storytelling in two modes, which allows for the comparison between spoken and written modes of the same language user. 

Lang*Reg has a basic syntactic segmentation (one matrix clause and all its dependent clauses per segment). v0.2.0 includes the data sets with transcriptions, normalizations and tokens for each language as well as additional language-specific annotations such as glosses and syntactic annotations. We prepared each data set also for use with the browser-based search and visualization architecture ANNIS. For further language-specific morpho-syntactic and sociolinguistic annotations, refer to the respective data set description. For an overview of all data set characteristics, please see the corpus documentation in each data set.

Rammstedt, B., Kemper, C. J., Klein, M. C., Beierlein, C., & Kovaleva, A. (2014). Big Five Inventory (BFI-10).
Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS).
https://doi.org/10.6102/zis76

Rating data (on a 9-point scale) of the probable addobressee of spoken texts in three conditions: a) entirely Standard German, b) with Namibian-specific lexical, and c) with non-standard grammatical features. The open-guise method was used to collect the data.

Data containing corrections of Namibian-German vs. Standard German features (lexical, morpho-syntactic, and grammatical) presented in a written mock newspaper article.
Participants: Adults and adolescents in Namibia and Germany

Ratings (on a 9-point scale) of social meaning (competence and solidarity assessments) and inferences (origin, place of residence) regarding speakers of spoken texts in three conditions: a) entirely Standard German, b) with Namibian-specific lexical, and c) non-standard grammatical features, collected using in the open-guise method.
Participants: adults and adolescents in Namibia

A Part-Of-Speech Tagger (POS Tagger) is a piece of software that reads text in some language and assigns parts of speech to each word (and other token), such as noun, verb, adjective, etc., although generally computational applications use more fine-grained POS tags like 'noun-plural'. This software is a Java implementation of the log-linear part-of-speech taggers described in these papers (if citing just one paper, cite the 2003 one):

A web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilayer linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation.

Available from: https://corpus-tools.org/annis/
Documentation: https://corpus-tools.org/annis/documentation.html
Cite as: Krause, Thomas & Zeldes, Amir (2016): ANNIS3: A new architecture for generic corpus query and visualization. in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2016 (31). http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/118

A highly extensible platform for conversion and manipulation of linguistic data between an unbound set of formats. Pepper can be used stand-alone as a command line interface, or be integrated as an API into other software products.

Available from: https://corpus-tools.org/pepper/
Documentation: https://corpus-tools.org/pepper/userGuide.html
Cite as: F. Zipser & L. Romary (2010). A model oriented approach to the mapping of annotation formats using standards. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resource and Language Technology Standards, LREC 2010. Malta. URL: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00527799/en/

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

This project provides tools to read and write files in the Toolbox format.

A Part-Of-Speech Tagger (POS Tagger) is a piece of software that reads text in some language and assigns parts of speech to each word (and other token), such as noun, verb, adjective, etc., although generally computational applications use more fine-grained POS tags like 'noun-plural'. This software is a Java implementation of the log-linear part-of-speech taggers described in these papers (if citing just one paper, cite the 2003 one):

A web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilayer linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation.

Available from: https://corpus-tools.org/annis/
Documentation: https://corpus-tools.org/annis/documentation.html
Cite as: Krause, Thomas & Zeldes, Amir (2016): ANNIS3: A new architecture for generic corpus query and visualization. in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2016 (31). http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/118

A highly extensible platform for conversion and manipulation of linguistic data between an unbound set of formats. Pepper can be used stand-alone as a command line interface, or be integrated as an API into other software products.

Available from: https://corpus-tools.org/pepper/
Documentation: https://corpus-tools.org/pepper/userGuide.html
Cite as: F. Zipser & L. Romary (2010). A model oriented approach to the mapping of annotation formats using standards. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resource and Language Technology Standards, LREC 2010. Malta. URL: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00527799/en/

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

This project provides tools to read and write files in the Toolbox format.