Diachronic Internet Corpus of English DICE Project Presentation

Diachronic Internet Corpus of English DICE Project Presentation 13. 12. 2006

Contents Project group & Client What is DICE? Project Plan & Requirements Specification Things done so far Things to be done next Problems & Solutions Prototype presentation Questions

Project Group Project Managers: - Thanyaporn Lerlerdthaiyanupap - Björn Bielesch Members: - Aleksi Vuorenmaa - Mika Salmi - Salla Kuisma - Tom Eklund - Riki Kawakami (Usability team)

Client Mark Kaunisto - Researcher - School of Modern Languages and Translation (University of Tampere) - Collected the corpus data when doing Ph. D thesis

What is DICE? Online web-based corpus Offering freely available Internet texts for linguistic research Non-fiction texts from the 16 th century to the present day DICE will be released under the GPL

Project Plan Incremental development model 4 iterations Most important features implemented first Additional features in the following increments Feedback from client and usability team

Requirements Specification Basic search Advanced search options Sorting options Variable detailed information options Administration tool

Things done so far In first increment phase – – – Database structure created Prototype Basic search Advanced search Result section

Things to be done next The second increment Update database structure Implement more functions – – – Presenting detailed information Sorting Administration tools System testing and usability evaluation

Problems & Solutions Priorities of implemented functions > Brainstorming > Review with the client and lecturer Generating dynamic searches on the internet > To be discussed Text Copyrights > Contacting authors concerning the copyrights > Consulting experts

Questions?