To go a bit further than my previous post, here are a few references that I recently found to be interesting.

For a definition and/or other short bibliographies, see Wikipedia or something else this time : Scholarpedia, with an article “curated” by T.K. Landauer and S.T. Dumais.

U. Mortensen, Einführung in die Korrespondenzanalyse, Universität Münster,2009.

G. Gorrell and B. Webb, “Generalized Hebbian Algorithm for Incremental Latent Semantic Analysis,” in Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005.

P. Cibois, Les méthodes d’analyse d’enquêtes, Que sais-je ?, 2004.

B. Pincombe, Comparison of Human and Latent Semantic …

I have (say, I crawled two websites and got hold of) two corpora which sometimes focus on the same topics. I would like to try and melt them together in order to build a balanced and coherent corpus. As this is a highly discussed research topic there are plenty of subtle ways to do it.

Still, as I am only at the beginning of my research and as I don’t know how far I am going to go with both corpora I want to keep it simple.

One of the appropriate techniques (if not the best)

I could do …

I would like to build a corpus from a variety of scientific papers of a given field in a given language (german).

The problems of crawling put aside, I wonder if there is a way to do this automatically. All the papers I read deal with hand-collected corpora.

The Open Archive format might be a good workaround (see The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). As far as I know it is well-spread. And there are search engines that look for academic papers and use these metadata.

Among the most popular ones (Google Scholar, Scirus, OAIster), a few seem …

Here is the beginning of a bibliography generated from my Master’s thesis, converted between different formats, and parked here for further reference.

Complexity and Readability Assessment

• Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Building
• Complexity and Linguistic Complexity Theory
• Text Comprehension and Readability Theory
• Readability Formulas
• Readability Assessment

Background

• General Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Measurement Theory
• Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Technology
• Miscellaneous Tools
• Tagging and Marking

Complexity and Linguistic Complexity Theory

• S. T. Piantadosi, H. Tily, and E. Gibson, “Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108, iss. 9, pp. 3526-3529, 2011.
• L. Maurits …

People around me at the lab keep talking about a French institutional blog platform named hypotheses.org. In fact it is well-known but no one is using it. The website is still a bit new, according to them they currently host a hundred blogs.

The main benefits are visibility and durability as it is institutional, well-referenced and competently maintained.

It is what it claims to be, which is also why I hesitated and finally chose to set up a basic personal website.

• First you need to fill out a form to get a registration, which is good in terms of …

I have been working with the part-of-speech tagger developed at the IMS Stuttgart TreeTagger since my master thesis. It performs well on german texts as one could easily suppose, since it was one of its primary purposes. One major problem is that it’s poorly documented, so I would like to share the way that I found to pass things to TreeTagger through a pipe.

The first thing is that TreeTagger doesn’t take Unicode strings, as it dates back to the nineties. So you have to convert whatever you pass to ISO-8859-1, which the iconv software with the …

Archive of links gathered during my PhD thesis:

1. Linguistics and NLP
2. Corpus Linguistics
3. Perl
4. LaTeX
5. R
6. PhD related
7. Misc.

Update: Curated list of open-access/open-source/off-the-shelf resources and tools developed with a particular focus on German

1 – Linguistics and NLP

General Linguistics

• Glottopedia, the free encyclopedia of Linguistics (project)
• Resource List of the Linguistic Society of America
• The Linguist List
• General Linguistics Internet Resources (Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Computational Linguistics

• Natural Language Processing FAQ
• comp.text Frequently Asked Questions (Usenet archive)
• Language Technology World
• Linguistics Computing Resources on the Internet
• Pattern Matching Pointers
• Natural Language Software Registry
• Semantic …