@ARTICLE{DELFANTE_2022_ARTICLE_D_464869, AUTHOR = {Del Fante, D.}, TITLE = {Review: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press}, YEAR = {2022}, KEYWORDS = {Migration Studies, Newspaper Discourse, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis}, PAGES = {137-139}, URL = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456211073219a}, VOLUME = {24}, DOI = {10.1177/14614456211073219a}, PUBLISHER = {SAGE (London, Regno Unito)}, ISSN = {1461-4456}, JOURNAL = {Discourse studies (Print)}, } @ARTICLE{DELFANTE_2022_ARTICLE_D_470092, AUTHOR = {Del Fante, D.}, TITLE = {Metaphors and pandemics: Spanish Flu and Coronavirus in US newspapers. A case-study}, YEAR = {2022}, ABSTRACT = {The international outbreak of Coronavirus has challenged the stability of our contemporary societies. However, this is not the first time that humanity is facing a global pandemic. The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic led to one of the most lethal pandemics. Metaphors play a fundamental role in influencing how we think and talk about health and illness. With an understanding of how the Coronavirus and the Spanish Flu are metaphorically represented in newspaper discourse, it would be easier to shed light on the linguistic process through which metaphors work and to understand to what extent socio-historical-cultural conditions may affect the actualisation of a metaphor. This paper shows that metaphors are consistently present in both time contexts and Coronavirus and Spanish Flu are similarly metaphorically represented. This might suggest the existence of a rhetoric of pandemics which goes beyond the specific socio-cultural and political context: a response to a threat as a pandemic is deeply related with human nature}, KEYWORDS = {conceptual metaphor, corpus assisted discourse studies, health communication, corpus linguistics}, PAGES = {143-184}, URL = {https://www.metaphorik.de/sites/www.metaphorik.de/files/journal-pdf/32-2022_6_del-fante_0.pdf}, VOLUME = {32}, PUBLISHER = {Metaphorik. de c/o D. Osthus c/o Universität Bonn, Romanisches Seminar (Bonn, Germania)}, ISSN = {1618-2006}, JOURNAL = {Metaphorik. de (Internet)}, } @ARTICLE{DELFANTE_2022_ARTICLE_DD_463185, AUTHOR = {Del Fante, D. and Di Nunzio, G. M.}, TITLE = {OCR Correction for Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies: A Case Study of Old Newspapers}, YEAR = {2022}, ABSTRACT = {The use of OCR software to convert printed characters to digital text is a fundamental tool within diachronic approaches to Corpus-assisted discourse Studies. However, OCR software is not totally accurate, and the resulting error rate may compromise the qualitative analysis of the studies. This paper proposes a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach to OCR error detection and correction in order to develop a methodology for enhancing the quality of historical corpora. We applied the developed methodology to two case studies on newspapers of the beginning of the 20th century for the linguistic analysis of the metaphors representing migration and pandemics. The outcome of this project consists in a set of rules which are, eventually, valid for different contexts and applicable to different corpora and which can be reproduced and reused. The proposed procedure, in terms of computational readability, is aimed at making more readable and searchable the vast array of historical text corpora which are, at the moment, only partially usable given the high error rate introduced by an OCR software.}, KEYWORDS = {Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies, OCR detection, OCR correction, OCR post-processing, Text Mining}, PAGES = {99-124}, URL = {https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/13689}, VOLUME = {11}, DOI = {10.6092/issn.2532-8816/13689}, ISSN = {2532-8816}, JOURNAL = {Umanistica Digitale}, } @INCOLLECTION{DELFANTE_2022_INCOLLECTION_DFMQ_469112, AUTHOR = {Del Fante, D. and Frontini, F. and Monachini, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {Italian Language Resources. From CLARIN-IT to the VLO and Back: Sketching a Methodology for Monitoring LRs Visibility}, YEAR = {2022}, ABSTRACT = {This paper sketches a user-oriented, qualitative methodology for both (i) monitoring the existence and availability of language resources relevant for a given CLARIN national community and language and (ii) assessing the offering potential of CLARIN, in terms of Language Resources provided to national consortia. From the user perspective, the methodology has been applied to investigate the visibility of language resources available for Italian within the CLARIN central services, in particular the Virtual Language Observatory. As a proof-of-concept, the methodology has been tested on the resources available through the CLARIN-IT data centres, but, ideally, it could be applied by any national data centre aiming to assess the existence of LRs in CLARIN for any given languages and check their accessibility for the interested users. It is thus argued that such an assessment might be a useful instrument in the hands of national coordinators and centre managers for (i) bringing to the fore both strengths and critical issues about their data providing community and (ii) for planning targeted actions to improve and increase both visibility and accessibility of their LRs.}, KEYWORDS = {Virtual Language Observatory, CLARIN-IT, CLARIN-ERIC, Qualitative Assessment Methodology, User Involvement}, PAGES = {10-22}, URL = {https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/clarin/article/view/413/371}, DOI = {10.3384/9789179294441}, ISBN = {978-91-7929-444-1}, BOOKTITLE = {Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021}, EDITOR = {Monachini and Monica and Eskevich and Maria}, } @INPROCEEDINGS{DELFANTE_2022_INPROCEEDINGS_DFMQ_468964, AUTHOR = {Del Fante, D. and Frontini, F. and Monachini, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {CLARIN-IT: An Overview on the Italian Clarin Consortium After Six Years of Activity}, YEAR = {2022}, ABSTRACT = {This paper offers an overview of the Italian CLARIN consortium after six years since its establishment. The members, the centres and the repositories and the most important collections are described. Lastly, in order to showcase the visibility and the accessiblity of Language Resources provided by CLARIN-IT from a user-perspective, we show how Italian resources are findable within CLARIN ERI}, KEYWORDS = {Language Resources, Data Repositories and Archives, Research Infrastructures, CLARIN}, PAGES = {8}, URL = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3160/short21.pdf}, PUBLISHER = {CEUR-WS. org (Aachen, DEU)}, ISSN = {1613-0073}, CONFERENCE_NAME = {Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries}, CONFERENCE_PLACE = {Università degli Studi di Padova}, CONFERENCE_DATE = {24/02/2022}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 18th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries}, EDITOR = {Di Nunzio, G. M. and Portelli, B. and Redavid, D. and Silvello, G.}, }