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Tekstynų teorija ir praktika: prieinami ir patikimi metodai ir įrankiai
Perspektiven einer zugänglichen und fundierten Korpusmethodologie in Forschung und Lehre
Towards an accessible and sound corpus methodology in research and teaching
Artificial intelligence as a support tool for corpus query formulation
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The importance of corpus work and corpus-linguistic methods is steadily increasing in linguistic research and in the field of German as a Foreign Language (GFL), as they enable a comprehensive and systematic analysis of linguistic phenomena. Researchers often work with a large number of corpora that differ in their datasets and structures. One challenge in this work, however, is the diversity of query systems used across individual corpora. These systems can be complex and heterogeneous, which often requires a considerable amount of time to understand their functionality and use them effectively. This diversity can make the search for specific linguistic patterns or phenomena difficult and frustrating for both experienced users and beginners, as a great deal of time must be spent familiarizing oneself with the particularities of individual query systems. In response to these challenges, the integration of AI as a tool for formulating search queries in corpora may play a decisive role in the future.<br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In this context, the present empirical contribution examines the potential of AI-supported systems for formulating complex search queries in COSMAS II. The study draws on 50 typical corpus-linguistic search tasks of different types, formulated by inexperienced users without prior knowledge of computational linguistics. The AI-generated queries are analyzed with regard to their formal correctness, precision, and functionality.<br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Methodologically, the study is based on a qualitative analysis of the query results. The results indicate the conditions under which AI can be used as a supportive tool in corpus querying and where its limitations lie. The contribution also discusses what information needs to be available to the AI in order to effectively support corpus-linguistic search processes.
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Melanie Andresen. Computerlinguistische Methoden für die Digital Humanities: Eine Einführung für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen
Vorbemerkungen <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">„Die Digital Humanities ersetzen – selbstverständlich – die Geisteswissenschaften nicht, sondern erweitern ihr Methodenarsenal, und zwar dann, wenn Forschungsfragen durch empirische Arbeit mit großen Datensammlungen bearbeitet werden können“ (Krämer 2025, 11). Diese Aussage steht zu Beginn eines Essays, das den markanten Titel „Der Stachel des Digitalen: Geisteswissenschaften und Digital Humanities“ trägt. Darin setzt sich die Philosophieprofessorin Sybille Krämer kritisch mit dem Selbstbild der Geisteswissenschaften auseinander und zeigt auf, in welchem Verhältnis diese zu den Methoden der Digital Humanities stehen. Doch um welche Methoden handelt es sich dabei? Und welche Vorteile können sich daraus ergeben, wenn traditionelle Verfahren der Textanalyse, d. h. Textinterpretation und Hermeneutik, eine Erweiterung ihres „Methodenarsenals“ erfahren? In dem Studienbuch von Melanie Andresen, das hier zur Rezension steht, werden diese Fragen nicht<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> nur auf theoretischer Ebene erörtert; es wird eine praxisorientierte Einführung präsentiert, die im Unterschied zu ähnlich gelagerten Überblicksdarstellungen (z.<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">B. Alpaydin 2022; Mitkov 2022) den Schwerpunkt explizit auf die Anwendung computerlinguistischer Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften legt.
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From seminar to practice: Learning to teach using corpus-based methods
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Implementing the idea of data-driven learning (DDL) in German as a foreign language (DaF) in a way that works in practice requires both teachers’ willingness to engage in further training in corpus linguistics and students’ motivation to participate, as both groups often express skepticism toward this approach. This article outlines three phases of corpus identification and implementation in DaF and draws on two seminars at the University of Hamburg that focused on developing corpus-based teaching approaches for DaF students abroad. Findings from the seminars, together with insights from the literature on DDL in DaF, are used to formulate criteria for reflecting on a corpus-based DaF course. Using a learning unit on the causal connectors <em lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">denn <span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">ʻbecauseʼ, <em lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">weil<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> ʻbecauseʼ, and <em lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">da <span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">ʻbecauseʼ, which was developed during the second seminar at the University of Hamburg and tested at the Vilnius University, a specific teaching situation is analysed and discussed. The evaluation of the learning unit shows that the development of corpus-based language teaching requires a gradual and systematic process. Continuous training and professional development are essential to better prepare teachers for these methods and to enhance their acceptance in practice. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Die Umsetzung des Konzepts des datengestützten Lernens (DDL) im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache (DaF) in einer praxisorientierten Weise erfordert sowohl die Bereitschaft der Lehrkräfte, sich in Korpuslinguistik weiterzubilden, als auch die Motivation der Lernenden zur Teilnahme, da beide Gruppen diesem Ansatz oft skeptisch gegenüberstehen. Dieser Artikel skizziert drei Phasen der Korpusidentifizierung und -implementierung in DaF und stützt sich auf zwei Seminare an der Universität Hamburg, die sich mit der Entwicklung korpusbasierter Lehransätze für DaF-Lernende im Ausland befassten. Die Ergebnisse der Seminare werden zusammen mit Erkenntnissen aus der Literatur zum DDL im DaF herangezogen, um Kriterien für die Reflexion über einen korpusbasierten DaF-Kurs zu formulieren. Anhand einer Lerneinheit zu den kausalen Konnektoren <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">denn<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">weil <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">und <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">da<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, die während des zweiten Seminars an der Universität Hamburg entwickelt und an der Universität Vilnius getestet wurde, wird eine konkrete Unterrichtssituation analysiert und diskutiert. Die Auswertung der Lerneinheit zeigt, dass die Entwicklung eines korpusbasierten Sprachunterrichts einen schrittweisen und systematischen Prozess erfordert. Kontinuierliche Fortbildung und berufliche Weiterentwicklung sind unerlässlich, um Lehrkräfte besser auf diese Methoden vorzubereiten und ihre Akzeptanz in der Praxis zu verbessern.
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How to annotate a corpus for research on frames in the language of mathematics
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This paper outlines a plan for designing a corpus-linguistic project from which an analysis of frames specific to mathematical proof texts shall be derived. Previous work has already developed instances of frames for mathematical texts. We have argued that these frames are well suited to model how background knowledge enriches explicitly given information. To this end, a collection of mathematical texts needs to be annotated.<br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">We describe the idea behind the corpus annotation, frame semantics and how we adapted frames for mathematical texts in particular by distinguishing between structural proof frames and ontological ones. Ontological frames for instance correspond to proof techniques, while structural frames model domain knowledge like exact definitions of mathematical structures. We describe annotation principles, explain qualifications annotators should have and how such annotations can be evaluated.<br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">We explain potential linguistic research questions: The corpus will allow us to study the linguistic means by which frames are introduced and signaled. We plan to generalize beyond previous case-based analyses and to provide a foundation for broader empirical research on mathematical language and practice. We argue that these can be used in deeper semantic parsing and the development of interactive theorem-proving software. We furthermore assume that this perspective on mathematical text will also have implications on the philosophy of mathematics and its practice.
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