In Munich in September, a team of experts used funding from CLARIN ERIC (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) to organise a multidisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from speech technology, social sciences, human computer interaction, oral history and linguistics to engage with each others’ methods and digital tools. It was the third of a series of workshops devoted to the challenges of techniques and tools for analysing oral history data.
Two days were devoted to experimenting with four tools for semantic annotation and linguistic interpretation of audio and text. The idea is that, as the linguistic focus on language and speech is not yet a common practice for social scientists and digital humanities scholars when selecting, processing and interpreting oral history type data, these tools might open up new perspectives and approaches for scholars.
There is a summary of the workshop and its activities on a CLARIN blog post by Louise Corti, Director Collections and Data Publishing at UK Data Service, and Stefania Scagliola, Research Associate at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History.
Find out more about the Oral History project on its website.