Time series analysis for the Euro Area requires the availability of sufficiently long historical data series, but the appropriate construction methodology has received little attention. The benchmark dataset, developed by the European Central Bank for use in its Area Wide Model (AWM), is based on fixed-weight aggregation across countries with historically distinct monetary policies and financia...

Variation and change in relativization strategies has been well documented (e.g. Ball 1996: 46, Biber and Clark 2002, Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad and Finegan 1999, Johansson 2006, Lehmann 2002). Certain types of relative clause, namely that-relatives and zero relatives, were difficult to retrieve from plain-text corpora. Studies therefore either relied on manual extraction of data or a subs...

In this paper, we describe the collection of a large structured dataset of temporally anchored relational data, obtained from the full revision history of the English Wikipedia. By mining (attribute, value) pairs from this revision history, we are able to collect a comprehensive, temporally-aware knowledge base that contains data on how attributes change over time. We discuss different characte...

The intention of the paper is to show the applicability of the general categorical framework of open maps to the setting of real-time models of concurrency, in order to transfer general concepts of equivalences to the models. In particular, we define a category of timed higher dimensional automata (timed HDA), whose morphisms are to be thought of as simulations, and an accompanying (sub)categor...

With the new interest in historical documents insight grew that electronic access to these texts causes many specific problems. In the first part of the paper we survey the present role of digital historical documents. After collecting central facts and observations on historical language change we comment on the difficulties that result for retrieval and data mining on historical texts. In the...

This paper is the extended introduction of a series of papers about modelling T-homotopy by refinement of observation. The notion of T-homotopy equivalence is discussed. A new one is proposed and its behaviour with respect to other construction in dihomotopy theory is explained. The main feature of the two algebraic topological models of higher dimensional automata (or HDA) introduced in [GG03]...

Historical data is widely recognized as a rather complex type of data that contains records about multi-layered, context-sensitive entities and can often be represented as a graph. This paper describes the digital edition of the ”Urfehdebücher der Stadt Basel” as an example of how semantic web technologies can offer comprehensive tools in response to the challenges coming with historical data. ...

Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...