Abstract
Norway has a large amount of dialectal variation, as well as a general tolerance to its use in the public sphere. There are, however, few available resources to study this variation and its change over time and in more informal areas, on social media. In this paper, we propose a first step to creating a corpus of dialectal variation of written Norwegian. We collect a small corpus of tweets and manually annotate them as Bokmål, Nynorsk, any dialect, or a mix. We further perform preliminary experiments with state-of-the-art models, as well as an analysis of the data to expand this corpus in the future. Finally, we make the annotations available for future work.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.nodalida-main.51
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
- Month:
- May 31--2 June
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland (Online)
- Editors:
- Simon Dobnik, Lilja Øvrelid
- Venue:
- NoDaLiDa
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden
- Note:
- Pages:
- 445–451
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.nodalida-main.51
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Jeremy Barnes, Petter Mæhlum, and Samia Touileb. 2021. NorDial: A Preliminary Corpus of Written Norwegian Dialect Use. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), pages 445–451, Reykjavik, Iceland (Online). Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden.
- Cite (Informal):
- NorDial: A Preliminary Corpus of Written Norwegian Dialect Use (Barnes et al., NoDaLiDa 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2021.nodalida-main.51.pdf
- Code
- jerbarnes/norwegian_dialect
- Data
- NorDial