Data Analytics for Students of Social Studies and Humanities (NPFL134)

Glossary of common terms

Under construction, last update: July 27, 2022

adding data to data manually or automatically

identification of group membership, e.g. e-mail spam detection

a query language for linear (non-structured) linguistic data such as tokenized and lemmatized texts

an electronic collection of written and/or spoken texts

information in digital form for computer processing (e.g. text, audio, video, image, software)

a set of existing data that could be used to answer research questions

the process of converting information into a digital format

Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability

a property of real-world objects that can be observed or measured, mostly used in Computer Science, cf. variables in Mathematics and predictors in Statistics

a measure indicating how well two or more coders reached the same judgments in coding the data (also known as Inter-rater reliability or Intercoder agreement) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability

a concordance system = concordancer, https://lindat.cz/kontext

the basic form of a word (token), e.g. "mother" is the lemma of "mothers", "be" is the lemma of "were"

an agreement that Intellectual Property holder (licensor) gives right of use to another person (licensee)

the research field that gives computers the capability to learn from examples

the centre provides access to large archives of audiovisual oral history testimonies of genocide survivors (mostly Holocaust), https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/malach/en

a system for named-entity recognition, http://lindat.cz/services/nametag

the research field concerned wit the human/machine interaction

a contiguous sequence of n items (e.g. words, characters) in a text or speech

n=1, e.g. three different word unigrams from, time, to in the sentence From time to time.

n=2, e.g. three word bigrams in the sentence From time to time: from, time; time to; to time

the automatic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into a machine-readable text

an application for automatic transcription of several types of printed and handwritten documents with support for Czech, https://pero-ocr.fit.vutbr.cz/index

Prague Markup Language - Tree Query, a powerful query system for collections of structured linguistically annotated data, https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pmltq

a system for statistical computing (incl. machine learning), https://www.r-project.org

prediction of a continuous response, e.g. prediction of future days' temperature

a digital infrastructure to share data, i.e. to preserve data and help others to find them

repository of both LINguistic DATa and non-linguistic content, https://lindat.cz/

a set of commonly used words in a language; in text mining, stop words are usually exluded from analysis because they carry very little useful information

a visual data analytics platform, https://www.tableau.com/

a linguistic markup to capture morphological properties of individual tokens in text, such as part-of-speech, case, number etc.

a web-based platform for viewing, creating, and editing text corpora with both rich textual mark-up and linguistic annotation, http://www.teitok.org

identifying clusters or recurring patterns of co-occurring words (called 'topics')

a structure capturing syntactic relations in a text, e.g. subject, object, predicate

a system for linguistic processing of texts, https://lindat.cz/services/udpipe

a web-based system of textual-analysis tools, https://voyant-tools.org