Bryan Jurish
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany
Maret Nieländer
Georg-Eckert-Institut – Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung Braunschweig, Germany
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https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172005Published in: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 172:5, p. 33-40
Published: 2020-07-03
ISBN: 978-91-7929-807-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This article presents some applications of the open-source software tool DiaCollo for historical
research. Developed in a cooperation between computational linguists and historians within the
framework of CLARIN-D’s discipline-specific working groups, DiaCollo can be used to
explore and visualize diachronic collocation phenomena in large text corpora. In this paper, we
briefly discuss the constitution and aims of the CLARIN-D discipline-specific working groups,
and then introduce and demonstrate DiaCollo in more detail from a user perspective, providing
concrete examples from the bi-weekly German-language newspaper “Die Grenzboten” (1841-
1922) (“messengers from the borders”) and other historical text corpora. Our goal is to
demonstrate the utility of the software tool for historical research, and to raise awareness
regarding the need for well-curated data and solutions for specific scientific interests.
digital humanities, digital history, digital source criticism, interdisciplinary collaboration, diachronic collocation analysis, corpus curation
