Why standard orthography? Building the Ustya river basin corpus, an online corpus of a Russian dialect

P. 720–728.

von Waldenfels R., Daniel M., Dobrushina N.

The paper describes a corpus of dialectal Russian speech under development. The corpus relies on interviews conducted by a joint Swiss-Russian team in the summer of 2013 in a small cluster of North Russian villages with the goal of studying the local dialect from a sociolinguistic and dialectological perspective. The interviews are transcribed into standard Russian and thus do not involve a detailed phonetic representation. The text is then lemmatized and grammatically annotated with standard tools and fed into a corpus. The corpus can be queried via a web-based interface which provides the user with access to the original sound recordings on a per-utterance level. This design, the paper argues, allows for a rapid development of the corpus without a major loss in usability, since the audio data are readily available. Future plans include more field trips as well as a more convenient interface providing, among other features, for user correction of the transcription.

Keywords: русский язык, диалектология, корпусная лингвистика, corpus linguistics, Russian dialect, dialectology

Publication based on the results of: Корпусное исследование вариативности в речи носителей говора Устьянского района Архангельской области (2014)

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Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции «Диалог» (Бекасово, 4 — 8 июня 2014 г.)

Вып. 13(20). , М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2014.