This is the public wiki of the Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI). Here, you find more detailed infomation about our services and guides for starting a project with us. Moreover, some information is automatically updated on a daily basis.

The LiRI Lab is equipped with a wide array of equipment for investigating any aspect of language. As well as the lab itself we also operate and equipment loan service. You can find more information about the lab and the equipment available below.

• Lab Overview
• Lab Equipment
• Loan Equipment
• Training

The use of the LiRI Lab is free to BA & MA students wishing to run experiments for the thesis projects.

• Student Projects Overview

The LiRI Language Technology Group offers services related to natural language processing. In particular, we build web applications for annotation and curation as well as retrieval and visualization of language data.

A selection of projects we have worked on:

• Swissdox@LiRI – interface for data retrieval from a large corpus of Swiss media sources (Swissdox) for academic users
• Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS) – interface for the spatial exploration of syntactic properties in the German speaking part of Switzerland
• DiFuPaRo – interface for the exploration of the DiFuPaRo database
• Stimmen der Schweiz – interface for the spatial exploration of dialectal patterns in all four Swiss languages
• Speech-to-text backend for the project Virtuelle Telefonzentrale