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Abstract The paper presents the results of the ParlaMint II project, which comprise comparable corpora of parliamentary debates of 29 European countries and autonomous regions, covering at least the period from 2015 to 2022, and containing over 1 billion words. The corpora are uniformly encoded, contain rich metadata about their 24 thousand speakers, and are linguistically annotated up to the level of Universal Dependencies syntax and named entities. The paper focuses on the enhancement made since the ParlaMint I project and presents the compilation of the corpora, including the encoding infrastructure, use of GitHub, the production of individual corpora, the common pipeline for producing their distribution, and use of CLARIN services for dissemination. It then gives a quantitative overview of the produced corpora, followed by the qualitative additions made within the ParlaMint II project, namely metadata localisation, the addition of new metadata, such as the political orientation of political parties, the machine translation of the corpora to English and its tagging with semantic classes, and the production of pilot speech corpora. Finally, outreach activities and further work are discussed.

Abstract Analyzing poetry with automatic tools has great potential for improving verse-related research. Over the last few decades, this field has expanded notably and a large number of tools aiming at analyzing various aspects of poetry have been developed. However, the concrete connection between these tools and traditional scholars investigating poetry and metrics is often missing. The purpose of this article is to bridge this gap by providing a comprehensive survey of the automatic poetry analysis tools available for European languages. The tools are described and classified according to the language for which they are primarily developed, and to their functionalities and purpose. Particular attention is given to those that have open-source code or provide an online version with the same functionality. Combining more traditional research with these tools has clear advantages: it provides the opportunity to address theoretical questions with the support of large amounts of data; also, it allows for the development of new and diversified approaches.

The map collection, Kartsenteret, of the National Library of Norway is conducting a pilot study of its collection of approximately 150,000 maps. This collection covers a 500-year map and color history. Aiming to study the colors of the historical maps and their relationship, hyperspectral imaging is chosen as the first step where rapid screening and testing of the potential pigments or colorants can be carried out. The estimation is performed by means of spectral distance or similarity measures, tested against an available public dataset of pigments which also contains historical pigments. Finally, we are able to provide a list of pigments as estimated by a spectral distance function, to be validated in further analytical tests.

Formålet med denne artikkelen er å undersøkja kva som karakteriserte samvirke mellom frivillige og offentlege ressursar i norske lokalsamfunn ved byrjinga av den andre verdskrigen. Vi vil sjå nærare på om dette er forhold som også kan finnast att då ein på nytt blei stilt overfor ein landsomfattande trussel 80 år seinare. Dei sentrale emna vi ønskjer å kartleggja, er kven som var aktørane i samvirket, korleis samvirket mellom offentlege etatar og frivillige ressursar ytra seg då, og om dette har likskapar med korleis det norske samfunnet møter omfattande truslar i dag.

This paper discusses best practices for sharing and reusing Ground Truth in Handwritten Text Recognition infrastructures, as well as ways to reference and acknowledge contributions to the creation and enrichment of data within these systems. We discuss how one can place Ground Truth data in a repository and, subsequently, inform others through HTR-United. Furthermore, we want to we want to suggest appropriate citation methods for HTR data, models, and contributions made by volunteers. Moreover, when using digitised sources (digital facsimiles), it becomes increasingly important to distinguish between the physical object and the digital collection. These topics all relate to the proper acknowledgement of labour put into digitising, transcribing, and sharing Ground Truth HTR data. This also points to broader issues surrounding the use of machine learning in archival and library contexts, and how the community should begin to acknowledge and record both contributions and data provenance.

We present an ongoing project dedicated to the transmutation of a collection of field recordings of Norwegian folk music established in the 1960s into an easily accessible online catalogue augmented with advanced music technology and computer musicology tools. We focus in particular on a major highlight of this collection: Hardanger fiddle music. The studied corpus was available as a series of 600 tape recordings, each tape containing up to 2 hours of recordings, associated with metadata indicating approximate positions of pieces of music. We first need to retrieve the individual recording associated with each tune, through the combination of an automated pre-segmentation based on sound classification and audio analysis, and a subsequent manual verification and fine-tuning of the temporal positions, using a home-made user interface.

Francesco De Toni, Christopher Akiki, Javier De La Rosa, Clémentine Fourrier, Enrique Manjavacas, Stefan Schweter, Daniel Van Strien. Proceedings of BigScience Episode #5 -- Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models. 2022.

Innset brings our attention to Hayek’s introductory remarks and the first session of the first Mont Pelerin Society conference. At stake was nothing less than the neoliberal aim of moving beyond laissez-faire, related to the second aspect of the dual argument. Hayek’s critique of laissez-faire was scathing, and he made it clear that liberalism would have to be reinvented in order for a modern society based on market mechanisms to be possible. Walter Eucken and Aaron Director held introductions in which they agreed with Hayek’s main point, but the following discussion concerning the details of state action in the name of market mechanisms derailed, primarily due to the laissez-faireist interventions of Ludwig von Mises.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share the Norwegian Repository Library (RL)’s experiences with an automatic storage for interlibrary lending (ILL). Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes how the RL uses the automatic storage to deliver ILL services to Norwegian libraries. Chaos storage is the main principle for storage. Findings – Using automatic storage for ILL is efficient, cost-effective and safe. Originality/value – The RL has used automatic storage since 2003, and it is one of a few libraries using this technology.

Purpose – This paper describes an ongoing mobile library project for the National Library of Norway. The purpose is to develop a visual web service prototype providing mobile access to the library's growing repository of digital data. Design/methodology/approach – The author has set up several test databases and developed a number of Android applications (apps) for testing purposes: image presentation; library's digital exhibition “in the pocket”; traditional free text search; location based search; barcode scan for ISBN search / QR encapsulation; and voice/spoken search. Findings – These six approaches were found to be promising using mobile technology. Cloud technology has changed the mobile phone from a voice transmitter to a multi-purpose device connected to the network. Library resources may now be distributed in the cloud, with global mobile access, to really achieve a global library network. Originality/value – The applications developed here are innovative and unique, and will add to the general body of use cases.