Automated glossing of BCS texts

[Danko Sipka]

Dear Seelangers,

You may be interested to take a look at http://cli.la.asu.edu/clitag2, a preliminary testing version of the script which enables the user to paste any Bosniac/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) text in cp-1250 (Windows Central European), e.g., from the newspapers like http://www.danas.co.yu, http://www.novilist.hr, etc., and have it automatically tagged with the English glosses and additional possibility to expand all inflected BCS words. At present, the script covers over 90% of a typical newspaper text. When finished the script is meant to facilitate early classroom inclusion of authentic materials and reconciliation of task-based instruction with the focus on form (focusing on form becomes a part of the task). The resulted tagged text can be downloaded and edited. More elaborate explanations can be found at http://cli.la.asu.edu/clitag2.

I plan to develop analogous resources for Russian and Polish pending financial support for the project.

I would appreciate any comments off-list at Danko.Sipka at asu.edu.

Best,


Danko

Danko Sipka
Research Associate Professor and Acting Director
Critical Languages Institute (http://cli.la.asu.edu)
Arizona State University
E-mail: Danko.Sipka at asu.edu
Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka


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