22.442, Qs: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Subject: 22.442, Qs: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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Date: 24-Jan-2011
From: Wayles Browne [ewb2 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text
 

	
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:54:10
From: Wayles Browne [ewb2 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text

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A colleague at Columbia University Library seeks information about 
large-scale digital projects, involving any languages, that attempt to 
create databases and maps of vocabulary--both differing regional 
pronunciations of the same word, and different terms for the same 
concept. 

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. She is trying to establish whether anything comparable has 
been undertaken in any other language.
 
The archive has been used in the past to create hand-made maps 
(people would fill in the particular variants that they were interested in 
on a map of Europe) for this study, but we are hoping that creating a 
website would make the process much easier, as well as allowing for a 
tremendous amount of collaboration that was previously not possible.
 
Please send replies directly to:
 
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
 
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has promised to summarize and post responses she receives.)

Message relayed by:

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
 
tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu 

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

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




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