Why standard orthography? Building the ustya river basin corpus, an online corpus of a Russian dialect , Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной г.): учебное пособиестатья
Аннотация:The paper describes a corpus of dialectal Russian speech under development. The corpus relies on interviews conducted by a joint Swiss-Russian team in the summer of 2013 in a small cluster of North Russian villages with the goal of studying the local dialect from a sociolinguistic and dialectological perspective. The interviews are transcribed into standard Russian and thus do not involve a detailed phonetic representation. The text is then lemmatized and grammatically annotated with standard tools and fed into a corpus. The corpus can be queried via a web-based interface which provides the user with access to the original sound recordings on a per-utterance level. This design, the paper argues, allows for a rapid development of the corpus without a major loss in usability, since the audio data are readily available. Future plans include more field trips as well as a more convenient interface providing, among other features, for user correction of the transcription.