Joel Priestley

Also published as: Joel James Priestley


2020

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Comparing Methods for Measuring Dialect Similarity in Norwegian
Janne Johannessen | Andre Kåsen | Kristin Hagen | Anders Nøklestad | Joel Priestley
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

The present article presents four experiments with two different methods for measuring dialect similarity in Norwegian: the Levenshtein method and the neural long short term memory (LSTM) autoencoder network, a machine learning algorithm. The visual output in the form of dialect maps is then compared with canonical maps found in the dialect literature. All of this enables us to say that one does not need fine-grained transcriptions of speech to replicate classical classification patterns.

2019

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Tagging a Norwegian Dialect Corpus
Andre Kåsen | Anders Nøklestad | Kristin Hagen | Joel Priestley
Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics

This paper describes an evaluation of five data-driven part-of-speech (PoS) taggers for spoken Norwegian. The taggers all rely on different machine learning mechanisms: decision trees, hidden Markov models (HMMs), conditional random fields (CRFs), long-short term memory networks (LSTMs), and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We go into some of the challenges posed by the task of tagging spoken, as opposed to written, language, and in particular a wide range of dialects as is found in the recordings of the LIA (Language Infrastructure made Accessible) project. The results show that the taggers based on either conditional random fields or neural networks perform much better than the rest, with the LSTM tagger getting the highest score.

2017

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A modernised version of the Glossa corpus search system
Anders Nøklestad | Kristin Hagen | Janne Bondi Johannessen | Michał Kosek | Joel Priestley
Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics

2012

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The Nordic Dialect Corpus
Janne Bondi Johannessen | Joel Priestley | Kristin Hagen | Anders Nøklestad | André Lynum
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

In this paper, we describe the Nordic Dialect Corpus, which has recently been completed. The corpus has a variety of features that combined makes it an advanced tool for language researchers. These features include: Linguistic contents (dialects from five closely related languages), annotation (tagging and two types of transcription), search interface (advanced possibilities for combining a large array of search criteria and results presentation in an intuitive and simple interface), many search variables (linguistics-based, informant-based, time-based), multimedia display (linking of sound and video to transcriptions), display of results in maps, display of informant details (number of words and other information on informants), advanced results handling (concordances, collocations, counts and statistics shown in a variety of graphical modes, plus further processing). Finally, and importantly, the corpus is freely available for research on the web. We give examples of both various kinds of searches, of displays of results and of results handling.

2010

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A Multilingual Speech Resource: The Nordic Dialect Corpus
Janne Bondi Johannessen | Joel Priestley | Anders Nøklestad
Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

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Enhancing Language Resources with Maps
Janne Bondi Johannessen | Kristin Hagen | Anders Nøklestad | Joel Priestley
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

We will look at how maps can be integrated in research resources, such as language databases and language corpora. By using maps, search results can be illustrated in a way that immediately gives the user information that words or numbers on their own would not give. We will illustrate with two different resources, into which we have now added a Google Maps application: The Nordic Dialect Corpus (Johannessen et al. 2009) and The Nordic Syntactic Judgments Database (Lindstad et al. 2009). We have integrated Google Maps into these applications. The database contains some hundred syntactic test sentences that have been evaluated by four speakers in more than hundred locations in Norway and Sweden. Searching for the evaluations of a particular sentence gives a list of several hundred judgments, which are difficult for a human researcher to assess. With the map option, isoglosses are immediately visible. We show in the paper that both with the maps depicting corpus hits and with the maps depicting database results, the map visualizations actually show clear geographical differences that would be very difficult to spot just by reading concordance lines or database tables.

2009

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The Nordic Dialect Corpus–an advanced research tool
Janne Bondi Johannessen | Joel James Priestley | Kristin Hagen | Tor Anders Åfarli | Øystein Alexander Vangsnes
Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2009)

2008

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Glossa: a Multilingual, Multimodal, Configurable User Interface
Lars Nygaard | Joel Priestley | Anders Nøklestad | Janne Bondi Johannessen
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

We describe a web-based corpus query system, Glossa, which combines the expressiveness of regular query languages with the user-friendliness of a graphical interface. Since corpus users are usually linguists with little interest in technical matters, we have developed a system where the user need not have any prior knowledge of the search system. Furthermore, no previous knowledge of abbreviations for metavariables such as part of speech and source text is needed. All searches are done using checkboxes, pull-down menus, or writing simple letters to make words or other strings. Querying for more than one word is simply done by adding an additional query box, and for parts of words by choosing a feature such as “start of word”. The Glossa system also allows a wide range of viewing and post-processing options. Collocations can be viewed and counted in a number of ways, and be viewed as different kinds of graphical charts. Further annotation and deletion of single results for further processing is also easy. The Glossa system is already in use for a number of corpora. Corpus administrators can easily adapt the system to a wide range of corpora, including multilingual corpora and corpora with audio and video content.

2007

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An Advanced Speech Corpus for Norwegian
Janne Bondi Johannessen | Kristin Hagen | Joel James Priestley | Lars Nygaard
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2007)