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General Course Information
Welcome to this course for anyone interested in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics who want to learn about working with corpora of minoritized languages!
Discover and understand how this type of corpora can be created and learn about important frameworks to be able to work on and with them.
This short introductory course offers insights into how language corpora support the progress of research and society and how they contribute to the digital survival of languages with a limited corpus.
"In the field of information technology, all language communities are entitled to have at their disposal equipment adapted to their linguistic system and tools and products in their language, so as to derive full advantage from the potential offered by such technologies for self-expression, education, communication, publication, translation and information processing and the dissemination of culture in general."
UNESCO – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Universal Declaration Of Linguistic Rights (Barcelona, 1996). [accessed on Dec. 05, 2023 under : https://culturalrights.net/descargas/drets_culturals389.pdf]
Content
Course Content
This course consists of 4 lessons and is designed to be conducted in a linear and step-by-step manner! The following main topics are covered:
Lesson 1: NLP (Natural Language Processing) and the future of languages
Lesson 2: Suitable corpora for NLP
Lesson 3: FAIR corpus sharing
Lesson 4: Legal and ethical caution
Course Goals
- Identify the issues involved in sharing corpora for minoritized languages
- Understand the development chain for NLP applications
- Distinguish between the different corpus types that can be used for NLP development
- Identify some of the characteristics of a good corpus for NLP
- Integrate the FAIR principles into your corpus sharing practices
- Examine the legal framework that applies to corpora
Previous Knowledge
As this course is designed as an introduction to working with corpora of minority languages, no special prior knowledge is required.
Course Procedure
The course consists of the four short lessons mentioned above, each containing written content, interactive elements and a final quiz. The individual lessons are unlocked according to performance: Once you have successfully completed a lesson and the associated quiz, you will gain immediate access to the next lesson.
Certificate
For actively participating in the course you will receive an automatic certificate which includes your name, the course name as well as the completed lessons. We want to point out that this certificate merely confirms that you answered at least 75% of the self-assessment questions correctly.Course Instructor
Eva Vetter, Universität Wien
Course creators
Mélanie Jouitteau, IKER (CNRS)
Mélanie Jouitteau is a researcher in linguistics at the CNRS, specialising in Breton, minority languages and participatory research. Aware of the fragile future of human linguistic diversity in the context of the technologisation of human relations, she is focusing her research on the creation of data acquisition solutions to support the NLP development of languages with restricted corpora.
Lynda Kehli, Inist – DoRANum (CNRS)
Lynda Kehli is in charge of pedagogical engineering and training in STI (Scientific and Technical Information) at Inist-CNRS. With the Formation-DoRANum team, she is developing a new generation of blended learning courses combining digital learning, webinars and other methods such as serious games. The aim is to support the scientific community in opening up and sharing.
Organisation
Lena Kratochwil, University of Vienna
Lena Kratochwil is studying to become a teacher of French and German and works as a student assistant in the language teaching and learning research team (Centre for Teacher Education / Institute of Linguistics).
Eva Vetter, University of Vienna
Eva Vetter is a professor in the domain of language teaching and learning research. In her sociolinguistic work, she positions the issue of linguistic minorization in the context of equity (in education) and human rights.
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Partners
The Research Centre for Basque Language and Texts (IKER) - a joint research unit (Unité Mixte de Recherche – UMR5478) administered by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the University Bordeaux Montaigne and the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour (UPPA).
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
University of Vienna
Wien