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• TQE: Transcription Quality Evaluation

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  The Transcription Quality Evaluation (TQE) tool is an instrument that automatically evaluates the quality of phonetic transcriptions. The application makes it possible to upload pairs of files consisting of an audio file and a transcription file and process them as follows: the audio signal and the phonetic transcription are aligned, segment boundaries are derived for each phone, and for each segment-phone combination it is determined how well they fit together, i.e. for each phone a TQE measure (a confidence measure) is determined, a number ranging from 0-100%, indicating how good the fit is, i.e. the quality of the phone transcription. The higher the number, the better the fit. The output of the TQE tool consists of a TQE measure and the segment boundaries for each phone in the corpus. The TQE tool thus makes it possible to find (sequences of) segments for which the match of the phone symbols with the audio signal is not optimal, in other words, the TQE tool can be used to check the quality of phonetic transcriptions. This can be useful for validating (manual) phonetic transcriptions, but also to compare and select (‘competing’) transcriptions, e.g. to study pronunciation variation. The TQE tool can thus be usefully applied in all research – in various (sub-) fields of humanities and language and speech technology (L&ST) – in which audio and phonetic transcriptions are involved.

• INPOLDER: Integrated Parser and Lemmatizer Dutch in Retrospect

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  INPOLDER (Integrated Parser and Lemmatizer of Dutch in Retrospect) provides a tool that assigns morphological tagging, lemmatization, and syntactic parsing for historical Dutch texts. It is built on the Adelheid tool (tagging and lemmatization) and Collins-Bikel statistical Parser. As an essential part of the Dutch cultural heritage, it is of vital importance that the Dutch historical record be made accessible for research into a wide range of historical and linguistic research questions. In the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era, the Netherlands developed from speaking a diverse group of dialects (Hollandic, Brabantic, Flemish, North-eastern, Limburgian) to a country with a standard language, and there is good reason to believe that this process was an extremely dynamic one. Systematic research into these processes affecting syntax, phonology, morphology and spelling cannot be done without access to lemmatized, tagged and parsed corpora of historical Dutch. In recent years, a tagger-lemmatizer has been developed by Hans van Halteren (Adelheid, also available in the CLARIN infrastructure). INPOLDER complements these enrichment tool with a parser for historical Dutch. The INPOLDER parser is trained using a subset of the corpus of fourteenth-century texts (Corpus van Reenen/Mulder CRM, van Reenen and Mulder, 1993; Rem, 2003) and a subset of the Drenthe corpus (DC). CRM consists of 2700 charters from 345 places of origin. The corpus was designed as representative for the local language use of Middle Dutch and to be suitable for all types of linguistic research.

• OpenSONAR: a 500 MW reference corpus of Contemporary Written Dutch

  SoNaR is a 500-million-word reference corpus of contemporary written Dutch for use in different types of linguistic (incl. lexicographic) and HLT research and the development of applications. The STEVIN funded SoNaR project (2008-2011) built on the results obtained in the D-Coi and Corea projects which were awarded funding in the first call of proposals within the STEVIN programme. SONAR contains over 500 million words (i.e. word tokens) of full texts from a wide variety of text types including both texts from conventional media and texts from the new media. All texts except for texts from the social media (Twitter, Chat, SMS) have been tokenized, tagged for part of speech and lemmatized, while in the same set the Named Entities have been labelled. All annotations were produced automatically, no manual verification took place. The texts are enriched with several annotations (Part of Speech and lemma information) and are available as FoLiA xml files (folia.xml). The system relies on BlackLab server as back-end and WhiteLab as user-interface. OpenSONAR is an online application for exploration of and searching in the SoNaR corpus.

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  de Does, J, Niestadt, J and Depuydt, K. 2017. Creating Research Environments with BlackLab. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 245–257. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.20. License: CC-BY 4.0

  Oostdijk, N., Reynaert, M., Hoste, V., Schuurman, I. (2013) The Construction of a 500 Million Word Reference Corpus of Contemporary Written Dutch in: Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Results by the STEVIN-programme (eds. P. Spyns, J. Odijk), Springer Verlag.