K-Dutch

K-DUTCH -- The Dutch Language Institute as CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Dutch

K-DUTCH is the place for anyone who wants to know anything about the Dutch language: linguistic properties, language advice, available tools and resources, etymology, dialects.... K-DUTCH is hosted by the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute) , which is also a CLARIN-B centre and host of many resources for Dutch, which are, in general, freely available.

Targeted audience

The INT CLARIN K-center is targeted towards all people interested in any aspects of the Dutch language.

• Computational linguists
• Linguists
• Language teachers
• Historians
• Library staff
• Sociologists
• Citizen scientists

Types of services offered

The services K-Dutch offers to the CLARIN community as a CLARIN-Knowledge center are:

• Helpdesk for information about Dutch
• Assistance with the use of data and tools
• Best practice documents and guidelines
• Internships
• Consulting

List of modalities covered by the expertise of the centre (bulleted list of key words and phrases)

• audio
• text

List of linguistic topics covered (bulleted list of key words and phrases)

• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Stylistics
• Language learning
• Translation studies
• Diachronic language studies
• Phonology
• Terminology
• Dialectology
• Lexicography
• Natural Language Processing

List of language processing topics covered (bulleted list of key words and phrases)

• Basic language processing
• Deep parsing
• Information extraction
• Machine translation
• Processing of historical variants of Dutch
• Speech recognition
• Speech synthesis
• Text mining
• Corpus querying
• Treebank querying

Data types covered

• Language models
• Dictionaries
• Treebanks
• Wordnets
• Linked open data
• Ontologies

CLARIN Resource Families covered

• Corpora
  • Newspaper corpora
  • Parliamentary corpora
  • Computer-mediated communication corpora
  • Corpora of academic texts
  • Historical corpora
  • L2 learner corpora
  • Literary corpora
  • Manually annotated corpora
  • Multimodal corpora
  • Parallel corpora
  • Reference corpora
  • Spoken corpora
• Lexical Resources
  • Lexica
  • Dictionaries
  • Conceptual Resources
  • Wordlists

Generic topics covered, not connected with specific languages

• Artificial intelligence
• Natural language processing
• Machine learning
• Data mining
• Lexicography
• Linked data