@inproceedings{chiarcos-etal-2025-putting,
    title = "Putting {L}ow {G}erman on the Map (of {L}inguistic {L}inked {O}pen {D}ata)",
    author = {Chiarcos, Christian  and
      Gr{\"o}ger, Tabea  and
      F{\"a}th, Christian},
    editor = "Alam, Mehwish  and
      Tchechmedjiev, Andon  and
      Gracia, Jorge  and
      Gromann, Dagmar  and
      di Buono, Maria Pia  and
      Monti, Johanna  and
      Ionov, Maxim",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Naples, Italy",
    publisher = "Unior Press",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.ldk-1.8/",
    pages = "62--75",
    ISBN = "978-88-6719-333-2",
    abstract = "We describe the creation of a cross-dialectal lexical resource for Low German, a regional language spoken primarily in Germany and the Netherlands, based on the application of Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) technologies. We argue that this approach is particularly well-suited for a language without a written standard, but with multiple, incompatible orthographies and considerable internal variation in phonology, spelling and grammar. A major hurdle in the preservation and documentation of and in the creation of educational materials (such as texts and dictionaries) for this variety is its internal degree of linguistic and orthographic variation, intensified by mutually exclusive influences from different national languages and their respective orthographies. We thus aim to provide a ``digital Rosetta stone'' to unify lexical materials from different dialects through linking dictionaries and mapping corresponding words without the need for a standardvariety. This involves two components, a mapping between different orthographies and phonological systems, and a technology for linking regional dictionaries maintained by different hosts and developed by or for different communities of speakers."
}