Scandinavian Dialect Infrastructure: Corpus, Database and Dialect Maps

Project Summary
Our aim is to complete and enhance a common language infrastructure by putting efforts into the Scandinavian Dialect Corpus and Database, with Digital Maps. This infrastructure will reach the first stage of completion in 2008.

The complete corpus and database will:

contain spontaneous speech and systematic data from Scandinavian dialects
be represented in a web interface with an advanced search interface
have an advanced presentation of text, sound and picture (video).

We want to:
A.Supplement individual language resources
For Swedish: Use questionnaires, re-take recordings in some dialect areas, transcribe these.
For Finland Swedish: Supplement with questionnaires.
For Danish: Supplement with recordings of young people, plus transcribe.

B. Enhance the technological aspects of the infrastructure

Investigate technical map solutions
Investigate how to make the maps interactive w.r.t. geographical and grammatical information, and implement. This will be done in cooperation with the Dutch SAND and Edisyn project.
Develop and program ways of searching and representing dialect-specific features and isoglosses in processing-effective ways.
Find ways of representing dialect texts in a multi-lingual interface. Our own (Text Laboratory, UiO) program GLOSSA will be used, since it contains facilities for bilingual and parallel texts.
Complete our partly developed transliteration tool that transliterates from phonetically transcribed speech to orthographical transcription.

Research training course: "Infrastructural tools for the study of linguistic variation"


Scandinavian Dialect Infrastructure: Corpus, Database and Dialect Maps Janne Bondi Johannessen University of Oslo Norway Project Summary Our aim is to complete and enhance a common language infrastructure by putting efforts into the Scandinavian Dialect Corpus and Database, with Digital Maps. This infrastructure will reach the first stage of completion in 2008. The complete corpus and database will: contain spontaneous speech and systematic data from Scandinavian dialects be represented in a web interface with an advanced search interface have an advanced presentation of text, sound and picture (video). We want to: A.Supplement individual language resources For Swedish: Use questionnaires, re-take recordings in some dialect areas, transcribe these. For Finland Swedish: Supplement with questionnaires. For Danish: Supplement with recordings of young people, plus transcribe. B. Enhance the technological aspects of the infrastructure Investigate technical map solutions Investigate how to make the maps interactive w.r.t. geographical and grammatical information, and implement. This will be done in cooperation with the Dutch SAND and Edisyn project. Develop and program ways of searching and representing dialect-specific features and isoglosses in processing-effective ways. Find ways of representing dialect texts in a multi-lingual interface. Our own (Text Laboratory, UiO) program GLOSSA will be used, since it contains facilities for bilingual and parallel texts. Complete our partly developed transliteration tool that transliterates from phonetically transcribed speech to orthographical transcription. Research training course: "Infrastructural tools for the study of linguistic variation"
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