@inproceedings{fusco-etal-2026-enhanced,
    title = "An Enhanced Pipeline for the {M}anzini-Savoia Dialect Corpus",
    author = "Fusco, Achille  and
      Mazzaggio, Greta  and
      Zoli, Carlo",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/cawl-year/2026.lrec-1.268/",
    doi = "10.63317/2pyh7a7tfdjo",
    pages = "3379--3393",
    abstract = "This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow for enriching the Manzini{--}Savoia Corpus (MSC) of Italian dialects with extended glosses, normalized transcriptions, and projected morpho-syntactic annotations. While the MSC is a unique resource for Romance microvariation, its partial glossing and phonetic transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) pose major challenges for computational processing. We introduce a pipeline for gloss coverage expansion and reliable morpho-syntactic annotation combining rule-based and data-driven components, which includes: (i) automatic completion of truncated verbal paradigms; (ii) hybrid lexical alignment between dialectal tokens and Italian glosses, integrating per-region lexical priors with a dynamic programming alignment algorithm; and (iii) projection-based morpho-syntactic tagging from aligned glosses. The proposed methods offer a reproducible framework for extending partially glossed dialect corpora and contribute new annotated data for research in computational dialectology and cross-variety language modeling."
}