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Enhancing language resources with maps Janne Bondi Johannessen, Kristin Hagen, Anders Nklestad, Joel Priestley The Text Laboratory, University of Oslo LREC, Malta, May 19.-21., 2010 Partners The ScanDiaSyn-project Two goals:

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Enhancing language resources with maps

Janne Bondi Johannessen, Kristin Hagen, Anders Nøklestad, Joel Priestley

The Text Laboratory, University of Oslo

LREC, Malta, May 19.-21., 2010

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Partners

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The ScanDiaSyn-project

Two goals:

  • Investigate

– systematically map and study the syntactic variation across the Scandinavian dialect continuum

  • Document

– create a database: Nordic Syntactic Judgements Database – create a corpus: Nordic Dialect Corpus

  • Transcribed and tagged speech material linked with audio

and video.

  • Web-based with a user friendly interface on the internet.
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Interview Conversation Questionnaire Translation

  • One informant interviewed by the research assistant
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Interview Conversation Questionnaire Translation

  • Two informants from the same

measure point speak freely

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Questionnaire

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The Nordic Dialect Corpus in numbers, 10 May 2010

Informants Places Words Denmark 75 14 229 909 Faroe Islands 19 5 48 427 Iceland 4 1 10 287 Norway 301 94 1 200 120 Sweden 126 40 299 866 Total 525 154 1 788 609

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Search for negation adverbs

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Results, with phonetic and orthographic script plus Google transation

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ikkje

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ikke

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Innte/nte

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  • More information in

map

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Search for non-standard word order (V3)

  • Standard word order: V2

Hvor bor du? Where live you? ’Where do you live?’

  • Dialect word order: V3

Hvor du bor? Where you live? ’Where do you live?’

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How to search

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Results

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V3 dialect word order spread across all Norway

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Database

  • Web-based queries

– Query specific grammatical features by category – Query specific grammatical features by form – Gender queries – Age queries – Diachronic queries

  • Interactive maps

– Grammatical isoglosses – The dialects of particular areas or places – Specific grammatical features

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  • Testing V3 order
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Information on informants

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Information on informants

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Conclusion

  • Maps are indispensible for showing

geographical varation

  • Maps are valuable not just for structured

databases, but also for corpora

  • Generally: any kind of tool that can shed

light on the data is good. Case in point: Google maps and Google translate...

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The action menu

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Count

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Deleting or selecting individual results

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Annotating results

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Downloading files, different formats

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Future research possibilities

  • The Scandinavian Dialect Corpus and Database
  • Opens up possible research for the whole spectre of

Scandinavian dialects syntax morphology phonology socio-linguistics lexicography discourse analysis