ANNIS Working with ANNIS was easier for me as compared to the initial experience of working with spaCy, which I assume is because we had the experience of working with spaCy and sort of knew what each term meant. Initially,…
ANNIS, analysis and machine translations
Working with ANNIS was a lot easier than on spaCy and it has a pretty user-friendly interface. The query-builder function in the software helped in not only identifying the tendencies that machine annotations have towards non-English words but also in…
Analysing multilingual sentences with ANNIS
For me, working with ANNIS was much more fun than annotating sentences in Google Collab. I liked actually being able to get some quantifications out of the sentences we annotated. Although in the end the corpus we uploaded on ANNIS…
Multi-Lingual Annotations in Python with „A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers“
This was not my first time working with Python to figure out the tokens of sentences via computational means. However, my last time working with Python (in a linguistics BA seminar with Prof. Kevin Tang) has been some time back,…
Annotating Multilingual Sentences in Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s „Stubborn Archivist“ – Experience & Observations
Initially, I was intrigued but also a bit worried about working on this project with Python, as previous linguistic research during my bachelor’s taught me that working with programming software can be a bit error-prone and frustrating at times. However,…
Converting and Annotating Multilingual Sentences & Quotes – My Experience
Initially, I was very unsure about this task, because as someone who has focused on literature during their studies (for good reason), I am neither that good at linguistics, nor at programming or coding. While it seemed an intriguing task,…
Annotating Multilingual Sentences in „Hold“ by Michael Donkor: Twi and English
In his novel „Hold“, which was first published in 2018, Micheal Donkor continually weaves Twi words into English sentences, thus constructing a multilingual narrative. When he uses words in Twi, the author highlights them and sets them apart by italicizing…
Experiences and observations on annotating the multilingual novel „The Dragonfly Sea“ by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Taking up the class of “Writing Across Languages – The Post-Monolingual Anglophone Novel”, I hadn’t really anticipated the extent to which we were going to work in the field of digital humanities. During my bachelor in literary studies and philosophy…
Multilingual Annotations
As someone who studies English and is interested in language and cultural multiplicity (but also aware of the existing hierarchies), I found our first assignment extremely fascinating; yet challenging. I have always been interested in linguistics, but never had the…