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The landscape of digital lexical resources is often characterized by dedicated local portals and proprietary interfaces as primary access points for scholars and the interested public. In addition, legal and technical restrictions are potential issues that can make it difficult to efficiently query and use these valuable resources. As part of the research data consortium Text+, solutions for the storage and provision of digital language resources are being developed and provided in the context of the unified cross-domain German research data infrastructure NFDI. The specific topic of accessing lexical resources in a diverse and heterogenous landscape with a variety of participating institutions and established technical solutions is met with the development of the federated search and query framework LexFCS. The LexFCS extends the established CLARIN Federated Content Search that already allows accessing spatially distributed text corpora using a common specification of technical interfaces, data formats, and query languages. This paper describes the current state of development of the LexFCS, gives an insight into its technical details, and provides an outlook on its future development. The FCS specification (Schonefeld et al. 2014) will be extended with regard to announcing, querying and retrieving lexical resources. Specifically, this entails: Specifying the query language which is a “CQL Context Set” of the Contextual Query Language (standardized by the US Library of Congress) dedicated to query lexical entries. Its specification includes agreements on accessible fields of information (like part-of-speech, definitions, (semantically) related entries etc.) for a lexeme and how to combine them to complex queries. This is especially challenging due to the inherently hierarchical structure of lexical data. Specifying common data formats for a unified result presentation. On the basic level, this is achieved by a mandatory KWIC representation that allows annotating information types inline and by an advanced tabular-representation of all fields in a key-value-style. It is clearly understood that in most cases these representations can only provide a simplified view of the data. It is therefore endorsed to provide records in their complex native representation as well, with examples being different TEI dialects including TEI Lex-0, OntoLex/Lemon, and other formats. Extending the core FCS specification while remaining compatible with the overall architecture to enable the reuse of features such as access control for restricted resources or automatic registering of endpoints within the FCS system., This publication was created in the context of the work of the association German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V. NFDI is financed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the 16 federal states, and the consortium Text+ is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) -- project number 460033370. The authors would like to thank for the funding and support. Furthermore, the authors would like to thank all members of the Text+ data domain Lexical resources for their continuous work.

Mit OWIDplusLIVE können Sie tagesaktuell (zum Vortag) in ausgewählten deutschsprachigen RSS-Feeds nach Einzeltoken und N-Grammen suchen. Auch lemma- und wortartenbasierte Suchen sind möglich. Ergebnisse können exploriert und auf unterschiedlich Arten visualisiert werden. OWIDplusLIVE setzt die Entwicklung von "cOWIDplus Viewer/Analyse" fort und stellt einen vollständigen und transparenten Zugriff auf die Daten bereit. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

This thesis is a corpus linguistic investigation of the language used by young German speakers online, examining lexical, morphological, orthographic, and syntactic features and changes in language use over time. The study analyses the language in the Nottinghamer Korpus deutscher YouTube‐Sprache ("Nottingham corpus of German YouTube language", or NottDeuYTSch corpus), one of the first large corpora of German‐language comments taken from the videosharing website YouTube, and built specifically for this project. The metadatarich corpus comprises c.33 million tokens from more than 3 million comments posted underneath videos uploaded by mainstream German‐language youthorientated YouTube channels from 2008‐2018.\ud \ud The NottDeuYTSch corpus was created to enable corpus linguistic approaches to studying digital German youth language (Jugendsprache), having identified the need for more specialised web corpora (see Barbaresi 2019). The methodology for compiling the corpus is described in detail in the thesis to facilitate future construction of web corpora. The thesis is situated at the intersection of Computer‐Mediated Communication (CMC) and youth language, which have been important areas of sociolinguistic scholarship since the 1980s, and explores what we can learn from a corpus‐driven, longitudinal approach to (online) youth language. To do so, the thesis uses corpus linguistic methods to analyse three main areas:\ud \ud 1. Lexical trends and the morphology of polysemous lexical items. For this purpose, the analysis focuses on geil, one of the most iconic and productive words in youth language, and presents a longitudinal analysis, demonstrating that usage of geil has decreased, and identifies lexical items that have emerged as potential replacements. Additionally, geil is used to analyse innovative morphological productiveness, demonstrating how different senses of geil are used as a base lexeme or affixoid in compounding and derivation.\ud \ud 2. Syntactic developments. The novel grammaticalization of several subordinating conjunctions into both coordinating conjunctions and discourse markers is examined. The investigation is supported by statistical analyses that demonstrate an increase in the use of non‐standard syntax over the timeframe of the corpus and compares the results with other corpora of written language.\ud \ud 3. Orthography and the metacommunicative features of digital writing. This iii iv analysis identifies orthographic features and strategies in the corpus, e.g. the repetition of certain emoji, and develops a holistic framework to study metacommunicative functions, such as the communication of illocutionary force, information structure, or the expression of identities. The framework unifies previous research that had focused on individual features, integrating a wide range of metacommunicative strategies within a single, robust system of analysis.\ud \ud By using qualitative and computational analytical frameworks within corpus linguistic methods, the thesis identifies emergent linguistic features in digital youth language in German and sheds further light on lexical and morphosyntactic changes and trends in the language of young people over the period 2008‐2018. The study has also further developed and augmented existing analytical frameworks to widen the scope of their application to orthographic features associated with digital writing.