1. 1 CLARIN? ISOCAT! Ineke Schuurman Hilversum, 06-03-2012

2. 2 Overview ISOcat –General –Use in CLARIN –Other cats: RELcat (and SCHEMAcat) All call 3 projects CLARIN NL/VL view Tutorial

3. 3 ISOcat ISOcat: Data Category Registry Data Category Registry defining widely accepted linguistic concepts http://www.isocat.org Kind of database with linguistic specifications, in English (and whole series of other languages)

4. 4 Use in CLARIN Use in CLARIN: what is in resource A meant with notion X ? –There may be several (valid) definitions !!! Does X have the same meaning in resources A and B ? For (human) users Also for information retrieval etc

5. 5 Other cats ISOcat: defining concepts ongoing RELcat: relating concepts just started SCHEMAcat: schematic overview of concepts used in specific application, tagset, … about to start

6. 6 Call 3 projects All call 3 projects (like previous calls) are to come up with definitions for the concepts used in their projects –Adopting existing descriptions IFF these match your needs –Come up with new definitions Note that this also needs to be done for concepts used in your definitions –Adposition: “word occuring […] composed of a noun, pronoun, noun phrase, […]” Warning: can be a rather time-consuming task!

7. 7 CLARIN NL/VL view To make all our lives easier, a CLARIN NL/VL view has been created. In that part we (i.e. all members of the group CLARIN NL/VL) can see all concepts and definitions already used within CLARIN NL/VL AND also which ones have been approved!

8. 8 Tutorial Together with Menzo Windhouwer (developer ISOcat. MPI Nijmegen), a tutorial will be organized Where: Utrecht When: May/June 2012 All projects need to be represented by at least one person

9. 9 CLARIN-NL More information? http://www.clarin.nl/book/isocat-coordination Ineke.schuurman@ccl.kuleuven.be