forTEXT - digital research environment for collaborative text exploration

ForTEXT的目标是开发并向研究界提供一个虚拟平台，重点关注语言学文本探索的两项核心启发式活动：协作性文本注释和文本分析。ForTEXT在概念上基于解释学标记的概念(PIEZ 2010)，因此旨在通过一种有意识地承认非确定性、话语标记和对文本意义的探索的解释学实践的方法来支持这些活动。在遵循TEXT的这一非确定性方法时，TEXT回应了迄今为止为人文文本研究开发的大多数数字工具和平台忽视的一个关键愿望。除了实践方面，培养对话语解释学实践细节的方法论敏感性也是一种战略需要：FOTEXT与传统解释学实践在概念上的兼容性旨在促进对数字人文工具和服务在文献学以及其他面向文本的人文学科中的接受。第一个项目阶段的36个月的资金申请得到了积极的评估，并于2016年10月12日在LIS(文献信息系统)资金额度的范围内得到DFG的全面接受。目前的申请涉及第二个项目阶段和DFG资金的延续，共计24个月。这个第二阶段的目标被映射到五个不同的工作包(AP)上：-AP1-F：CATMA中基于NLP和ML的自动注释功能的实施/集成(从阶段1溢出)-AP2-F：收集、描述和传播用于研究英语、法语和其他非德语文本和语料库的数字工具和方法AP3-F：与独立编辑项目“Dehmel Digital”(Julia Nantke教授，汉堡大学)--AP4-F：TEXT/CATMA-社交媒体战略的延续和延伸--AP5-F：在技术和战略/体制框架方面，TEXT/CATMA(2022年以后)的可持续长期背景

The objective of forTEXT is to develop and provide to the research community a virtual platform focusing on two of the core heuristic activities of philological text exploration: collaborative text annotation and text analysis. forTEXT is conceptually based on the notion of ‚hermeneutic markup‘ (Piez 2010) and therefore aims to support these activities through a method which consciously acknowledges the hermeneutic practice of non- deterministic, discursive markup and exploration of textual meaning. In following this non- deterministic approach forTEXT responds to a key desideratum ignored by most of the digital tools and platforms hitherto developed for humanities text research. Apart from the practical aspect, developing methodological sensitivity for the specifics of discursive hermeneutic practices is also a strategic necessity: forTEXT’s conceptual compatibility with traditional hermeneutic practices aims to promote acceptance for digital humanities tools and services in the philologies, a well as in other text oriented humanities disciplines.The funding application for the first project phase of 36 months was evaluated positively and accepted in full by the DFG on 12.10.2016, in the context of the LIS (literature information system) funding line in place at that time. The current application pertains to the second project phase and a continuation of DFG-funding for a total of 24 months. The aims of this second period are mapped onto five distinct work packages (APs):- AP1-F: Implementation/integration of NLP- and ML-based automated annotation functionalities in CATMA (overflow from phase 1)- AP2-F: Collecting, describing and disseminating digital tools and methods for the study of English, French and other non-German texts and corporaAP3-F: Prototypical implementation of a manuscript-based DH workflow in co-operation with the independent editorial project „Dehmel digital“ (Prof. Julia Nantke, Universität Hamburg)- AP4-F: Continuation and extension of the forTEXT/CATMA-Social Media Strategy- AP5-F: Sustainable long-term contextualisation of forTEXT/CATMA (2022ff) in terms of the technological and strategic/institutional framework