Mapping Diatopic and Diachronic Variation in Spoken Czech: The ORTOFON and DIALEKT Corpora

Marie Kopřivová, Hana Goláňová, Petra Klimešová, David Lukeš

Abstract
ORTOFON and DIALEKT are two corpora of spoken Czech (recordings + transcripts) which are currently being built at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus. The first one (ORTOFON) continues the tradition of the CNC’s ORAL series of spoken corpora by focusing on collecting recordings of unscripted informal spoken interactions (“prototypically spoken texts”), but also provides new features, most notably an annotation scheme with multiple tiers per speaker, including orthographic and phonetic transcripts and allowing for a more precise treatment of overlapping speech. Rich speaker- and situation-related metadata are also collected for possible use as factors in sociolinguistic analyses. One of the stated goals is to make the data in the corpus balanced with respect to a subset of these. The second project, DIALEKT, consists in annotating (in a way partially compatible with the ORTOFON corpus) and providing electronic access to historical (1960s–80s) dialect recordings, mainly of a monological nature, from all over the Czech Republic. The goal is to integrate both corpora into one map-based browsing interface, allowing an intuitive and informative spatial visualization of query results or dialect feature maps, confrontation with isoglosses previously established through the effort of dialectologists etc.
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L14-1236
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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Marie Kopřivová, Hana Goláňová, Petra Klimešová, and David Lukeš. 2014. Mapping Diatopic and Diachronic Variation in Spoken Czech: The ORTOFON and DIALEKT Corpora. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 376–382, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Mapping Diatopic and Diachronic Variation in Spoken Czech: The ORTOFON and DIALEKT Corpora (Kopřivová et al., LREC 2014)
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