Spoken word corpus and dictionary definition for an African language
| Autor: | Wanjiku Nganga, Ikechukwu Achebe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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audio corpus
dictionary definition digital resources igbo oral tradition under-resourced languages [info]computer science [cs] [info.info-cl]computer science [cs]/computation and language [cs.cl] [shs.museo]humanities and social sciences/cultural heritage and museology [shs.langue]humanities and social sciences/linguistics History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Bibliography. Library science. Information resources |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, Vol Special Issue on Collecting,..., Iss Digital humanities in... (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2416-5999 |
| DOI: | 10.46298/jdmdh.6703 |
| Popis: | The preservation of languages is critical to maintaining and strengthening the cultures and identities of communities, and this is especially true for under-resourced languages with a predominantly oral culture. Most African languages have a relatively short literary past, and as such the task of dictionary making cannot rely on textual corpora as has been the standard practice in lexicography. This paper emphasizes the significance of the spoken word and the oral tradition as repositories of vocabulary, and argues that spoken word corpora greatly outweigh the value of printed texts for lexicography. We describe a methodology for creating a digital dialectal dictionary for the Igbo language from such a spoken word corpus. We also highlight the language technology tools and resources that have been created to support the transcription of thousands of hours of Igbo speech and the subsequent compilation of these transcriptions into an XML-encoded textual corpus of Igbo dialects. The methodology described in this paper can serve as a blueprint that can be adopted for other under-resourced languages that have predominantly oral cultures. |
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