A Digital Library Effort to Support the Building of Grammatical Resources for Italian Dialects

Agosti, Maristella; Benincà, Paola; Nunzio, Giorgio Maria Di; Miotto, Riccardo; Pescarini, Diego

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15850-6_10

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“…Indeed, when comparing various dialectal translations of the same sentence, even an accuracy of 98% of the best automatic PoS tagger is not sufficient to pin down these subtle asymmetries. This specificity can only be achieved manually [3].…”

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“…The ASIt enterprise builds on a long standing tradition of collecting and analyzing linguistic corpora, which has originated different projects over the years [3,1,2]. Dialectal data stored in ASIt were gathered during a twenty-year-long survey investigating the distribution of several grammatical phenomena across the dialects of Italy [8].…”

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“…A relevant example of how heterogeneity negatively affects the re-use and integration of data is represented by the Edisyn search engine -the aim of which was to make different dialectal databases comparable -which "in practice has proven to be unfeaseable". 3 In order to find common ground where linguistic material can be shared and re-used, the methodological and technological boundaries existing in each research linguistic project needs to be overcome.…”

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A linked open data approach for geolinguistics applications

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Silvello

2014

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The aim of digital geolinguistic systems is to encourage the integration of different competencies by stimulating the cooperation between linguists, historians, archaeologists, and ethnographers. These systems explore the relationship between language and cultural adaptation and change and they can be used as instructional tools, presenting complex data and relationships in a way accessible to all educational levels. However, the heterogeneity of geolinguistic projects has been recognized as a key problem limiting the reusability of linguistic tools and data collections. In this paper, we propose an approach based on Linked Open Data (LOD) which moves the focus from the systems handling the data to the data themselves with the main goal of increasing the level of interoperability of geolinguistic applications and the reuse of the data. We defined an extensible ontology for geolinguistic resources based on the common ground defined by current European linguistic projects. We provide a Geolinguistic Linked Open Dataset based on the data case study of a linguistic project named Atlante Sintattico d'Italia, Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIt). Finally, we show a geolinguistic application which exploits this dataset for dynamically generating linguistic maps.

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A linked open data approach for geolinguistics applications

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2014

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“…In these cases, even an accuracy of 98% of the best automatic POS taggers is not sufficient to pin down these subtle asymmetries. This specificity can only be reached manually [3].…”

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“…The ASIt enterprise builds on a long standing tradition of collecting and analyzing linguistic corpora, which has given rise to different efforts and projects over the years [3,1,2]. Dialectal data stored in the ASIt were gathered during a twenty-year-long survey investigating the distribution of several grammatical phenomena across the dialects of Italy [4].…”

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This paper describes the Atlante Sintattico d'Italia, Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIt) linguistic linked dataset. ASIt is a scientific project aiming to account for minimally different variants within a sample of closely related languages; it is part of the Edisyn network, the goal of which is to establish a European network of researchers in the area of language syntax that use similar standards with respect to methodology of data collection, data storage and annotation, data retrieval and cartography. In this context, ASIt is defined as a curated database which builds on dialectal data gathered during a twenty-year-long survey investigating the distribution of several grammatical phenomena across the dialects of Italy.Both the ASIt linguistic linked dataset and the Resource Description Framework Schema (RDF/S) on which it is based are publicly available and released with a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). We report the characteristics of the data exposed by ASIt, the statistics about the evolution of the data in the last two years, and the possible usages of the dataset, such as the generation of linguistic maps.

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