Creating and digitizing language corpora. Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Databases for Public Engagement
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Karen P. Corrigan, Adam Mearns.
• Editors: Corrigan, Karen P, 1961-; Mearns, Adam
• Contents: Foreword: Doing the Right Thing ; References; Contents; Author Bios; List of Figures ; List of Tables; 1: Taming Digital Texts, Voices and Images for the Wild: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Corpora to Engage the Public; 1 Stimulus for the Volume and Its Overarching Aim; 1.1 How to Tame Digital Texts, Voices and Images for the Wild; 2 Outline of Contributions and Their Methodologies; 3 Acknowledgements; References; Books and Articles; Websites and Online Resources; Part I: Corpora for Education and Heritage 2: Migration Databases as Impact Tools in the Education and Heritage Sectors1 Introduction; 2 Irish Migration Databases; 2.1 The Linguistic and Sociocultural Value of Irish Migration Databases; 3 Building and Analysing CORIECOR; 3.1 Investigating Irish English Features across Time; 4 Digitizing Experiences of Migration; 4.1 Best Practices in the Building of Migration Databases; 4.2 Towards a System of Mark-up for Emigrant Letter Collections; 4.2.1 Document Analysis; 4.2.2 Mark-up; 4.3 Interconnecting Resources; 5 Irish Migration Databases as Impact Tools 5.1 The Leaving, Crossing, Arriving Exhibition5.2 The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies Public Lecture; 5.3 The From Home to Here Exhibition and Booklet; 6 Conclusion; References; Books and Articles; Websites, Software and Online Resources; 3: Engaging Users of Scottish Online Language Resources; 1 Introduction; 2 Language and Linguistic Projects at Glasgow; 2.1 The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech; 2.2 The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing; 2.3 Scots Words and Place-names; 2.4 Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus; 3 Key Issues; 3.1 Making Contact 3.2 Maintaining Contact3.3 Supporting Users in Resource Exploitation; 3.4 Resource Sustainability; 4 Conclusion; References; Books and Articles; Websites and Online Resources; 4: From Legacy Regional Language Materials to Public Engagement: The Interactive Online Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador; 1 Introduction; 2 The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador: Pre-digital Phases; 2.1 Phonetic and Grammatical Components; 2.2 Lexical Component; 3 From Archival Data to Online Atlas: The Initial Steps; 3.1 Digitization; 3.2 Data Extraction; 3.3 From Data to Online Display 4 Developing the Atlas as a Public Resource4.1 Funding; 4.2 How the Atlas Works: A Brief Introduction; 4.3 Improving the 'User-Friendliness' of the Site; 4.3.1 Sound Clips to Illustrate Pronunciation Features; 4.3.2 'Translating' Technical Vocabulary for a General Audience; 4.3.3 Interactivity: Games, Contributions/Comments, and Social Media Presence; 4.3.4 Access via Mobile Devices; 4.4 Social Impact; 4.5 Long-term Sustainability; 4.5.1 Use of Open Source Software; 4.5.2 Provision of Databases and Sound Files; 4.5.3 Long-term Preservation, Storage and Access; 5 Conclusion; References
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 410.285; Linguistics; Computational linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Computational linguistics; Languages; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Sociolinguistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137386458; 1137386452; 1137386444; 9781137386441
• Related ISBNs: 9781137386441
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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