Precise Annotation of Questionnaires for Dialec Research: the Bavarian Dictionary and its Digitalization
- Autores: Manuel Raaf
- Localización: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: Proceedings of eLex 2017 conference / coord. por Iztok Kosem, Carole Tiberius, Miloš Jakubíček, Jelena Kallas, Simon Krek, Vít Baisa, 2017, págs. 252-266
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The goal of this paper is to present a new web-based application for the analysis of scanned paper-based questionnaires that serve as the basis of the Bavarian Dictionary, by offering project-specific semi-automatic functions which relate and assign image snippets to lemmas. The main requirement was to create software capable of handling several hundred thousand pages containing examples of dialect expressions in several million single parts of images.
Additionally, in order to underline the expandability of the software, the requirements of the Franconian Dictionary are briefly described.
Since standard techniques for elaborating dictionary articles or, at least, the preparatory steps to that end, did not fit the particular needs of the project, after digitalization of the questionnaire the web-application LexHelfer was developed. The focus of the application is to aid the editors in the process of gathering re levant information for the lemma entries. The short history of the application’s development and use to date are fully described, so that readers have a complete overview and understanding both of the special type of data and the workflow for creating the entries of the dialect dictionary.
