Cloud Computing for Linguists

The system presented is a web application designed to aid linguistic research with data collection and online publishing. It is a service mainly for linguists and language experts working with language description of less-documented and less-resourced languages. When the central concern is in-depth linguistic analysis, maintaining and administering software can be a burden. Cloud computing offers an alternative. At present mainly used for archiving, we extend linguistic web applications to allow creation, search and storage of interlinear annotated texts. By combining a conceptually appealing online glosser with an SQL database and a wiki, we make the online publication of linguistic data an easy task also for noncomputationally oriented researchers. 1 General description of TypeCraft TypeCraft (or TC in short) is a multilingual online database of linguistically-annotated natural language texts, embedded in a collaboration and information tool. It is an online service which allows use...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylov
• Keywords: COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Online, SQL Database, Web Applications