Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions.

Nils Reiter; Oliver Hellwig; Anette Frank; Irina  Gossmann; Borayin Larios; Julio   Rodrigues; Britta  Zeller

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20227-8_10

Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions.

Nils Reiter (Corresponding author), Oliver Hellwig, Anette Frank, Irina Gossmann, Borayin Larios, Julio Rodrigues, Britta Zeller

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Abstract

Abstract In this paper we investigate the use of standard natural language processing (NLP) tools and annotation methods for processing linguistic data from ritual science, which is concerned with the study of structure and variance of rituals. The work is embedded in an interdisciplinary project that addresses this study by applying empirical and quantitative computational linguistic analysis techniques to ritual descriptions from Indian rituals. We present motivation and prospects of such a computational approach to ritual structure research and sketch the overall project research plan. In particular, we motivate the choice of frame semantics as a theoretical framework for the semantic
analysis of rituals. We discuss the special characteristics of the textual data and examine several domain adaptation strategies in order to use standard NLP resources and tools on the ritual domain.
We also report on our workflows and methods for semi-automatic semantic annotation, which is used as a basis for the extraction of event chains. We close with some preliminary investigations on how to uncover regularities and differences of rituals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Language Technology for Cultural Heritage
Subtitle of host publication	Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series
Place of Publication	Berlin; Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Pages	171–193
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-20227-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-20226-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20227-8_10
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Series	Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

602011 Computational linguistics
602018 Indology
605007 Digital humanities

Keywords

ritual structure
domain adaptation
Semantic analysis
event chains

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Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions. / Reiter, Nils (Corresponding author); Hellwig, Oliver; Frank, Anette et al.
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage: Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. p. 171–193 (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing).

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