22.1037, Sum: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Subject: 22.1037, Sum: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Date: 28-Feb-2011
From: Wayles Browne [ewb2 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:41:37
From: Wayles Browne [ewb2 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 22.442                                                                                                                                                

In January, I (Wayles Browne) posted a Query for Michelle Chesner of 
Columbia University in which she asked for examples of digital corpora. 
Columbia is working on a project that would digitize the results of an 
oral history project involving Yiddish, undertaken a number of years 
ago. The goal is to create a digital database of the findings of this 
survey that would include maps from the original study. In the Query, 
she was trying to establish whether anything comparable had been 
undertaken in any other language.

The original asker of the question, Michelle Chesner, has now 
summarized the results as follows:

I would like to thank the members of The LINGUIST List (and, 
specifically, Wayles Browne, Georg Böhm, Aurelija Tamosiunaite, and 
Shaul Moshe Seidler-Feller) for their help with this project.

Below is a summary of the responses I received:

Lithuanian language vocabulary database for "lexical items that differ in 
various dialects" (in Lithuanian): http://www.mch.mii.lt/tarmes/Tarmes/

"Semitisches Tonarchiv," recordings of published texts in mostly Arabic 
dialects: http://www.semarch.uni-hd.de/index.php43?&lang=en 

I was unaware of this organization and website: 
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/icltt/ (currently under construction)

EYDES (www.eydes.de) has been working with the same material that 
we are going to be working with, and we hope to do cross-linking 
between the two websites (EYDES includes the audio recordings of the 
interviews; we have the paper transcriptions).

Thank you once again for all your help.

Michelle

Michelle Chesner
Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies
Columbia University
304 International Affairs (420 W. 118th St.)
New York, NY 10027
212-854-8046
mc3395 at columbia.edu
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)

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