Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Adaptation of Scientific Dialect Data for Use in a Language Portal for Schoolchildren

Page 31-37
Author Janoš Ježovnik, Karmen Kenda-Jež, Jožica Škofic
Title Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Adaptation of Scientific Dialect Data for Use in a Language Portal for Schoolchildren
Abstract The children’s language portal Franček, currently under development, will consist of eight modules providing pupils and secondary-school students with a variety of lexical information. The entries in the dialect module consist of onomasiological and semasiological sections, and an optional commentary. The dialect module was derived from dialect data contained in the two already-published volumes of Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA), a dialect atlas aimed primarily at qualified readers. As the original presentation was deemed too complex for direct use in education, indices of morphological analyses were used instead. They were first transformed into a custom XML format, following which descriptive data from SLA was used to mark some dialect forms for exclusion, to assign frequency labels to others, and to add commentaries. Finally, secondary entries, which form the basis of semasiological sections, were generated. Beside links to original dialect maps and entries in SLA, the dialect module will also include a recording interface through which pupils will be encouraged to record and submit dialect lexemes from their own dialects.
Session The Dictionary-Making Process
Keywords Slovene dialects; Slovenian; Franček; lexicography; children’s dictionary; dialect data
BibTex
@inproceedings{ELX2020_2021-003,
address = {Alexandroupolis},
title = {Reduce, {Reuse}, {Recycle}: {Adaptation} of {Scientific} {Dialect} {Data} for {Use} in a {Language} {Portal} for {Schoolchildren}},
isbn = {978-618-85138-1-5},
url = {https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2020-2021/EURALEX2020-2021_Vol1-p031-037.pdf},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Lexicography for {Inclusion}: {Proceedings} of the 19th {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}, 7-9 {September} 2021, {Alexandroupolis}, {Vol}. 1},
publisher = {Democritus University of Thrace},
author = {Ježovnik, Janoš and Kenda-Jež, Karmen and Škofic, Jožica},
editor = {Gavriilidou, Zoe and Mitsiaki, Maria and Fliatouras, Asimakis},
year = {2020},
pages = {31--37},}
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