36.449, FYI: Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)

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Subject: 36.449, FYI: Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)

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Date: 04-Feb-2025
From: Melissa Farasyn [melissa.farasyn at ugent.be]
Subject: Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)


We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of
spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de
zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive
data for linguistic research and is now accessible online.
Corpus Highlights:
•       Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871.
•       Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations.
•       Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions.
•       Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly detailed
transcriptions.
•       Total Tokens: Approximately 4.77 million.
•       GrETEL Treebank: 50,111 verified sentences and 452,459
verified tokens.
These figures represent the corpus as of its initial release. Ongoing
efforts, supported by additional funding (GCND+), aim to expand the
corpus with more transcriptions, including northern dialects from the
Meertens Institute collection, and to enhance grammatical annotations.
The latest updates are available through the corpus application.
Access Information:
The GCND is available online
•       GCND corpus application (requires CLARIN login):
•       GCND project website
Acknowledgments:
This project was made possible through the funding of the Research
Foundation Flanders and the dedicated efforts of numerous student
assistants, volunteers and our project partners.
The GCND team (at Ghent University):
Anne Breitbarth (anne.breitbarth at ugent.be)
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen (annesophie.ghyselen at ugent.be)
Melissa Farasyn (melissa.farasyn at ugent.be)
Lien Hellebaut (lien.hellebaut at ugent.be)

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Language Family(ies): West Germanic



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