University of Neuchâtel
The University of Neuchâtel is represented in the CLARIN-CH Consortium by Prof. Martin Hilpert, from the Institute of English Studies.
The community from the University of Neuchâtel provides CLARIN-CH language resources and expertise in language sciences.
Language resources
1. The ORFEUS 1527-1559 databasis consists of the Correspondence of Cardinal Jean Du Bellay, published under the supervision of Prof. Loris Petris (Institute of French Language and Civilization). The ORFEUS data basis provides the essential information (numbering of the letter, date, place, author, addressee, publication, archival source, incipit) of each letter received or sent by Jean Du Bellay and published in the volume by Bourrilly and Vaissière (1905), the two volumes published by R. Scheurer (1969; 1973) and the five volumes edited by L. Petris and R. Scheurer.
2. Le glossaire du patois de la Suisse Romande. As the other three national vocabularies of the Swiss Confederation, its mission is to document the dialects of its linguistic domain as completely as possible, to carry out a lexicological analysis of them and to make this analysis accessible to the public and to the scientific world in the form of a large-scale dialectal dictionary that can now be consulted online.
3. OFROM (the Oral corpus of French from French-speaking Switzerland). OFROM is a text-sound aligned corpus, orthographically transcribed in Praat. It consists of 64 hours of recordings, 342 speakers and more than 1’000’000 words. The corpus is freely available under Creative Commons licence CC BY NC SA 4.0.
Faculties and Institutes involved in CLARIN-CH
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
Institute of English Studies
Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:
Cognitive linguistics
Construction grammar
Corpus linguistics
Language change
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Institute of French Language and Culture
Areas of expertise:
Corpus linguistics
Didactics of French as a foreign language
European literature, rhetoric and cultural history in the Renaissance and the early modern period (14th-17th centuries)
Francophone literature and Western-Eastern relations
French translations of the Bible
French grammar-syntax and semantics
History of language
History and linguistic analysis of Protestant preaching (16th-18th century)
Language comparison
Law and literature, especially among magistrate-writers
Linguistic variation
Modern language didactics
Regional French
Spoken French
Syntax and discourse in the 16th century
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Institute of Language Sciences
Applied Linguistics
Areas of expertise:
Grammar and interaction
Interactional linguistics (conversational analysis, anaphora, reference, topic and focus)
Institutional interactions (language classroom, research interview)
Second language acquisition (social interaction, acquisition and situated cognition)
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Center of Corpus Linguistics
Areas of expertise:
Management and sharing of linguistic corpora
Research combining linguistics, statistics, and computer science
Author attribution and sentiment detection
Lexical richness measurement
Study of syntactic, lexical, and discourse pattern variation
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Glossary of the patois of French-speaking Switzerland (GPRS)
Areas of expertise:
Based in Neuchâtel, the GPRS is one of the four national vocabularies of the Swiss Confederation and it:
Describes the patois vocabulary as documented by the GPRS materials;
Includes the related Romansh terms;
Mentions some old attestations of these words, extracted from documents written before 1800, in patois, French or Latin;
Provides a large number of place names and family names from the French-speaking part of Switzerland which have their source in the linguistic diversity of the region.
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Institute of German Language and Literature
Institute of Spanish Language and Literature
Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:
Constitution and history of the linguistic norm
Hispano-American historical morphosyntax
History of the Spanish language in America
Historical phraseology of Spanish
Medieval history of Hispanic Romance languages
Orality and writing in ancient documents
Spanish-American lexicology and lexicography
Spanish-American enlightenment
Transcription and elaboration of documentary sources
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Institute of Communication and Cognition Sciences (ISCC)
Areas of expertise:
Argumentation
Cognitive anthropology
Cognitive sociology
Childhood socialization
Developmental pragmatics
Developmental psychology
Discourse analysis
Experimental pragmatics
French linguistics
Mixed methods (ethnography, experimental psychology, ethology)
Pragmatics
Pragmatics and cognition
Politeness and face-management
Political, journalistic and scientific rhetoric
Semantics
Semantics-pragmatics interface (speaker commitment, presuppositions, indexicality, contextual enrichment, procedurality, expressivity)
Social cognition
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Institute of Speech Therapy Sciences (IsLo)
Areas of expertise:
Discourse, referential adjustment and underlying cognitive skills (theory of mind, executive functions) in healthy and pathological aging
Flexional morphology, time reference and underlying cognitive skills (declarative and procedural memory, executive functions) in aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders
The interplay between language and cognition, both in healthy adults and in acquired language disorders of vascular and neurodegenerative origin
Development, validation and standardization of clinical tests to detect or diagnose language disorders associated with vascular or neurodegenerative origin
Language acquisition and disorders, especially in early childhood and in multilingual children
Phonological acquisition and processing in normal-hearing and deaf children
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Faculty of Sciences
Institute of Statistics
Areas of expertise:
Estimation methods in finite populations
Foundations of inference in finite populations
Precision estimation in complex designs
Research on planning techniques with auxiliary information
Sample coordination
Treatment of measurement errors (non-response)
Unequal probability designs
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Institute of Informatics
Areas of expertise:
Computational linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Corpus statistics
Cross-language information systems (European and Asian languages)
Machine learning
Web information retrieval systems and its applications
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