Abstract
Although in recent years numerous forms of Internet communication - such as e-mail, blogs, chat rooms and social network environments - have emerged, balanced corpora of Internet speech with trustworthy meta-information (e.g. Age and gender) or linguistic annotations are still limited. In this paper we present a large corpus of Flemish Dutch chat posts that were collected from the Belgian online social network Netlog. For all of these posts we also acquired the users' profile information, making this corpus a unique resource for computational and sociolinguistic research. However, for analyzing such a corpus on a large scale, NLP tools are required for e.g. Automatic POS tagging or lemmatization. Because many NLP tools fail to correctly analyze the surface forms of chat language usage, we propose to normalize this 'anomalous' input into a format suitable for existing NLP solutions for standard Dutch. Additionally, we have annotated a substantial part of the corpus (i.e. the Chatty subset) to provide a gold standard for the evaluation of future approaches to automatic (Flemish) chat language normalization.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 |
Publisher | LREC – European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 1569-1572 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9782951740877 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2012 |
Event | 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 21 May 2012 → 27 May 2012 |
Conference
Conference | 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 |
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Country/Territory | Turkey |
City | Istanbul |
Period | 21/05/12 → 27/05/12 |
Keywords
- Chat language
- Flemish Dutch
- Normalization