[Userinvolvement] Exploring newspaper collections: call for suggestions of resources

[Martin Wynne]

Dear all,

For the forthcoming CLARIN-PLUS workshop 
(https://www.clarin.eu/event/2016/clarin-plus-workshop-working-digital-collections-newspapers), 
we will present a demonstration of how language resources and tools can 
be used to explore newspapers.  I would like to invite you all to make 
suggestions for online interfaces which can do this, in any language.

The main audience for this will be the non-linguists present, who might 
not know what is currently possible with existing LRTs. The session will 
aim to provoke a discussion about the possibilities, and ways forward. 
Suggestions do not need to represent the latest ground-breaking advances 
- straightforward interfaces to explore concordances, collocations, etc. 
would be perfectly suitable.

Preferably, the online resource would be branded as a CLARIN service, 
but that is not essential, since the main point will be to show what is 
possible. The key point will be to show how a newspaper collection can 
be treated as a linguistic corpus, and explored with corpus linguistic 
methods and tools, but pointers to other forms of analysis and 
visualization are also welcome.

Best wishes,
Martin

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Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
+44 1865 283352