Sample Use Cases for CLARIN

We highlight a few example applications that were realized with the use of CLARIN resources and tools.

Textual Emigration Analysis

Using Wikipedia and other other text corpora, it becomes possible to identify the movements from migrants between countries. For this, textual references to the city of birth or death, relocations, the migrants' activities has been tracked.

Authors:
André Blessing, Jonas Kuhn, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart
Titel
Textual Emigration Analysis (TEA)
Published in
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavik, Island, Mai 2014 [PDF]
Manual
Click on a country to visualize migration movements.

How to align transcripts with speech signals? Use WebMaus! Just upload your transcript and your audio file, the tool will compute an aligned compound, which can be subsequently post-processed using phonetic software such as Praat.

Authors:
Thomas Kisler, Florian Schiel, Han Sloetjes
Titel
Signal processing via web services: the use case WebMAUS
Published in
Proceedings of Service-oriented Architectures (SOAs) for the Humanities: Solutions and Impacts. Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, 2012 [PDF] S. 32 ff