Open-Access-Bücher zur Sprachwissenschaft

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Event Analytics across Languages and Communities

Ivana Maren­zi u.a. (Hrsg.)
http://doi.org/10.1007/978–3‑031–64451‑1

This open access book presents inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and cross-sec­toral research results fos­ter­ing event ana­lyt­ics across lan­guages and com­mu­ni­ties. It is based on the CLEOPATRA Inter­na­tion­al Train­ing Net­work, which explored how we ana­lyze and under­stand the major events that influ­ence and shape our lives and soci­eties, and how they unfold online. This analy­sis was achieved through var­i­ous case stud­ies, the devel­op­ment of nov­el method­olo­gies in fields such as data min­ing and nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, and the cre­ation of new event-cen­tric datasets aggre­gat­ed in the Open Event Knowl­edge Graph (OEKG), a mul­ti­lin­gual event-cen­tric knowl­edge graph that con­tains more than 1 mil­lion events in 15 languages.

The book is divid­ed into three parts, focus­ing on dif­fer­ent aspects of event ana­lyt­ics across lan­guages and com­mu­ni­ties: Part I Event-cen­tric Mul­ti­lin­gual and Mul­ti­modal NLP Tech­nolo­gies presents five chap­ters report­ing on recent devel­op­ments in NLP tech­nolo­gies required to process mul­ti­lin­gual infor­ma­tion. Next, the four chap­ters of Part II: Event-cen­tric Mul­ti­lin­gual Knowl­edge Tech­nolo­gies dis­cuss tech­nolo­gies inte­grat­ing mul­ti­lin­gual event-cen­tric infor­ma­tion in knowl­edge graphs and pro­vid­ing user access to such infor­ma­tion. Final­ly, Part III: Event Ana­lyt­ics cov­ers three select­ed aspects of mul­ti­lin­gual event ana­lyt­ics, name­ly an analy­sis of event-cen­tric news spread­ing bar­ri­ers, claim detec­tion in social media, and the nar­ra­tiviza­tion of events as a means of pre­sent­ing event data.

This book is main­ly writ­ten for researchers in acad­e­mia and indus­try, who work on top­ics like nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, large lan­guage mod­els, mul­ti­lin­gual infor­ma­tion retrieval or event analytics.

Kopräsenz: Über das soziale Zuhause von Sprache

Heiko Hausendorf
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839475256

Wann immer wir mit anderen zusam­menkom­men, befind­en wir uns wie selb­stver­ständlich in Kopräsenz. Aber was genau bedeutet es, »zusam­men« zu sein? Erfordert es immer physis­che Anwe­sen­heit oder ist Kopräsenz auch anders möglich? Angesichts des ras­an­ten Wan­dels mod­ern­er Kom­mu­nika­tion­stech­nolo­gien räumt Heiko Hausendorf mit eini­gen Mythen auf und wirft einen Blick auf die Entste­hung und die Zukun­ft von Kopräsenz. Diese ist kon­sti­tu­tiv für die Men­schw­er­dung und bildet bis heute den Nährbo­den für die Entste­hung von Sprache – was die Beschäf­ti­gung mit Kopräsenz auch weit über die Lin­guis­tik hin­aus für alle inter­es­sant macht, die sich für soziale Inter­ak­tion interessieren.

The persistence of space. Formalizing the polysemy of spatial relations in functional elements

Camil Staps
https://doi.org/10.48273/LOT0673

Lan­guages fre­quent­ly make use of spa­tial vocab­u­lary to describe abstract notions. For instance, the spa­tial prepo­si­tion by (by the house) can be used to describe rela­tions in the tem­po­ral domain (by five o’clock) as well as in the causal domain (hit by John). This dis­ser­ta­tion shows that when a spa­tial term is extend­ed into an abstract non-spa­tial domain, some of its spa­tial mean­ing per­sists. Speak­ers seem to rely on a spa­tial rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the abstract domain, and use it to rein­ter­pret the spa­tial term to obtain an abstract meaning.

On the basis of West­ern Euro­pean lan­guages, the pro­pos­al is for­mal­ized for the use of spa­tial prepo­si­tions in the causal domain (e.g., French de and par in pas­sives) as well as the use of demon­stra­tives to refer to infor­ma­tion con­tent (e.g., the use of Eng­lish that to intro­duce com­ple­ment claus­es). The pro­pos­als are fur­ther test­ed in cor­pus stud­ies using Bib­li­cal Hebrew. Data from the Hebrew Bible addi­tion­al­ly show that the analy­sis can be extend­ed to the use of prepo­si­tions for describ­ing social relations.

The research pre­sent­ed here shows that spa­tial mean­ing often per­sists when gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion takes place. The use of spa­tial vocab­u­lary in abstract domains is not metaphor­i­cal but deeply embed­ded in cog­ni­tion, shap­ing the con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion of abstract rela­tions. In this way, the study of lan­guage con­tributes to our under­stand­ing of the human mind.