Automated glossing of BCS texts

[joe phillips]

It may of interest that something similar already
exists at http://www.conradish.ru.  This webpage
presents many literary works in Russian and one (Pan
Tadeusz) in Polish.  The entire text of each work is
linked to scroll-over lexical aids.

On a side note, I'm curious if this "BCS" is the new
convention among Slavicists or is it simply something
that some are using as a way of avoiding nationalistic
nuances?  I'm not currently working in constant
contact with Slavic language professionals, so I'm
feeling a little disconnected.  Personally, I find all
of the current and recent variants laborious.  Does
anyone know if there is historical precedent for
dealing with this sort of issue?

Having studied "BCS" and had ample exposure to
Bosnians, Croatians, and Serbs, I find the claims of
some that the languages are separate and distinct
tenuous.  Using the manner of arguments I've read, one
could just as easily make a case for American, New
Zealander, British, and Australian English being
separate and distinct languages.  ANBA?

Is there/has there been any discussion regarding the
name of this language(s), or are we doomed to struggle
with these mouthfuls as long as we live?  I dream of
one-word variants such as "Dinarian"...

--- Danko Sipka <danko.sipka at ASU.EDU> wrote:

> 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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