Before coming to Saarland University, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the MITCH project (Mining for Information from the Cultural Heritage), a joint research project between Tilburg University, and Naturalis, the Dutch National Museum of Natural History. Her research interests include text mining and error detection for cultural heritage data, cross-domain language processing, and computational modelling of semantics and discourse. KeywordsĬaroline Sporleder leads a junior research group in the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” at Saarland University, Germany. The book covers applications ranging from pre-processing and data cleaning, to the adaptation and compilation of linguistic resources, to personalisation, narrative analysis, visualisation and retrieval. Researchers working in the target domains of cultural heritage, the social sciences and humanities will also find this book useful, as it provides an overview of how language technology can help them with their information needs. This book is primarily intended for researchers in information technology and language processing who would like to receive a state-of-the-art overview of the whole breadth of the new and vibrant field of language technology for cultural heritage and its associated academic research in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time cultural heritage data poses considerable challenges for existing language technology: technology aimed at 'generic' language has to face such disparate problems as historical language variation, OCR digitisation errors, and near-extinct academic expertise. Language technology can break through the 'Google barrier' by offering the potential to analyse texts at advanced levels, extracting information and knowledge at the level of the humanities or social sciences researcher, who wants to know about the who, what, where, and when, but also the how and the why. Due to a prevalence of textual data in these domains, language technology has a crucial role to play in this endeavour. To explore and exploit these possibilities, an interdisciplinary approach is needed, bringing together experts from cultural heritage, the social sciences and humanities on the one hand, and information technology on the other. Besides a vast potential for more effective and efficient preservation, management, and presentation, digitisation offers opportunities to work with cultural heritage data in ways that were never feasible or even imagined. Staggering amounts of objects, many of them of a textual nature, are being digitised to make them more readily accessible to both experts and laypersons. The digital age has had a profound effect on our cultural heritage and the academic research that studies it.

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