Nordic Dialect Corpus – downloadable transcriptions

Nordic Dialect Corpus v. 4.0 is a corpus of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic and Övdalian spoken language. It consists of spontaneous speech data from dialects of the North Germanic languages across all of the Nordic countries. The linguistic data in the corpus comes from a variety of sources, (see homepage – Data Collection), recorded in 1998 – 2015. The corpus contains more than 2.75 million words from conversations and interviews by dialect speakers.

The downloadable version of the corpus contains all transcriptions in the corpus, both in txt and html format. The Norwegian and Övdaliantranscriptions are available in to versions: one phonetic and one orthographic. The other transcriptions are orthographically transcribed.

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resource Name: Nordic Dialect Corpus – downloadable transcriptions
resource Name: Nordisk dialektkorpus – nedlastbare transkripsjoner
description: Nordic Dialect Corpus v. 4.0 is a corpus of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic and Övdalian spoken language. It consists of spontaneous speech data from dialects of the North Germanic languages across all of the Nordic countries. The linguistic data in the corpus comes from a variety of sources, (see homepage – Data Collection), recorded in 1998 – 2015. The corpus contains more than 2.75 million words from conversations and interviews by dialect speakers. The downloadable version of the corpus contains all transcriptions in the corpus, both in txt and html format. The Norwegian and Övdaliantranscriptions are available in to versions: one phonetic and one orthographic. The other transcriptions are orthographically transcribed.
resource Short Name: NDC – downloadable transcriptions
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/scandiasyn/download.html
P I D: http://hdl.handle.net/11538/0000-0005-E7C7-6
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licence Info:
user Category: Public
distribution Access Medium: downloadable
download Location: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/scandiasyn/download.html
execution Location: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/
licence:
licence Family: Creative Commons (CC)
licence Name: Creative_Commons-BY-NC-SA (CC-BY-NC-SA)
licence Url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
conditions Of Use: BY
conditions Of Use: NC
conditions Of Use: SA
non Standard Conditions Of Use: The corpus has audio and video recordings classified as personal data. In agreement with NSD, the Data Protection Official in Norway, the video and audio files are accessible only through Glossa, a search and post-processing tool developed by the Text Laboratory. Please note that every individual researcher is responsible for treating the participants in the corpus with respect and sincerity. Furthermore, the participants must be kept anonymous in every published paper or other output.
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actor Type: organization
organization Info:
organization Name: University of Oslo
organization Name: Universitetet i Oslo
organization Short Name: UiO
organization Short Name: UoO
department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
department Name: Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier (ILN)
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email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/
address: Box 1102 Blindern
zip Code: 0317
city: OSLO
country: Norway
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- organization Name: University of Oslo
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- department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
- department Name: Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier (ILN)
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- email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
- url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/
- address: Box 1102 Blindern
- zip Code: 0317
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- country: Norway
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- organization Name: The Text Laboratory
- organization Short Name: Textlab
- department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- communication Info:
- email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
- url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
- address: Box 1102 Blindern
- zip Code: 0317
- city: OSLO
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metadata Info:
metadata Creation Date: 03.02.2015
metadata Last Date Updated: 03.01.2024
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- person Info:
- surname: Hagen
- given Name: Kristin
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- organization Name: The Text Laboratory
- organization Short Name: Textlab
- department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- communication Info:
- email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
- url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
- address: Box 1102 Blindern
- zip Code: 0317
- city: OSLO
- country: Norway
validation Info:
validated: true
validation Type: content
validation Mode: manual
validation Mode Details: The transcriptions are proof read against the audio files. The national projects NorDiaSyn, DanDiaSyn and SweDiaSyn have proof read own transcriptions, see homepage – Transcription
validation Extent: full
resource Documentation Info:
documentation Structured:
role: documentation
document Info:
document Type: other
title: Nordic Dialect Corpus and Syntax Database
author: The Text Laboratory
year: 2013
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/
document Language Id: en
documentation Structured:
role: documentation
document Info:
document Type: manual
title: The Nordic Dialect Corpus – Search Interface Documentation
author: Eirik Olsen
year: 2014
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/help/
document Language Id: en
documentation Structured:
role: documentation
document Info:
document Type: book
title: Om artiklene i denne boka og Nordisk dialektkorpus
editor: Janne Bondi Johannessen og Kristin Hagen
year: 2014
publisher: Novus forlag
book Title: Språk i Norge og nabolanda. Ny forskning om talespråk.
I S B N: 978-82-7099-795-4
document Language Name: Norwegian bokmål
document Language Id: nb
resource Creation Info:
creation Start Date: 01.01.2005
creation End Date: 01.10.2019
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project Info:
project Name: Scandinavian Dialect Syntax
project Short Name: ScanDiaSyn
url: http://websim.arkivert.uit.no/scandiasyn/scandiasyn/index.html%3fcolapsemenu=colapsemenu
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/index.html
funding Type: other
funder: http://websim.arkivert.uit.no/scandiasyn/scandiasyn/29
funding Project:
project Info:
project Name: NorDiaSyn – Norsk dialektsyntaks
project Name: Nordiasyn – Norwegian Dialect Syntax
project Short Name: Nordiasyn
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/NorDiaSyn/index.html
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/NorDiaSyn/english/index.html
funding Type: nationalFunds
funder: The Research Council of Norway
funding Country: Norway
project Start Date: 01.01.2009
project End Date: 31.12.2013
funding Project:
project Info:
project Name: For the funding of the national projects in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Faroese islands, see under National Projects: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/dialect_data_collection.html
url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/dialect_data_collection.html
funding Type: nationalFunds

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mime Type: Downloadable transcriptions in txt and html format
size Per Text Format:
size Info:
size: 2 754 289
size Unit: tokens
character Encoding Info:
character Encoding: utf-8
corpus Part General Info:
person Source Set Info:
number Of Persons: 737
age Of Persons: teenager
age Of Persons: adult
age Of Persons: elderly
age Range Start: 11
age Range End: 94
sex Of Persons: mixed
origin Of Persons: native
dialect Accent Of Persons: Dialects from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Älvdalen.
geographic Distribution Of Persons: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Älvdalen
linguality Info:
linguality Type: multilingual
multilinguality Type: other
multilinguality Type Details: Interviews and conversations in 5 scandinavian languages.
language Info:
language Id: nb
language Name: Norwegian Bokmål (the orthographic transcriptions)
size Per Language:
size Info:
size: 1 997 920
size Unit: tokens
language Variety Info:
language Variety Type: dialect
language Variety Name: Dialects from 111 places in Norway, 438 informants
language Info:
language Id: Sv
language Name: Swedish (Övdalien included)
size Per Language:
size Info:
size: 376 868,14 798 of them are Övdalian
size Unit: tokens
language Variety Info:
language Variety Type: dialect
language Variety Name: Dialects from 44 places in Sweden, 150 informants 17 informants from 7 places are Övdalian.
language Info:
language Id: Da
language Name: Danish
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size Info:
size: 220 360
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language Variety Type: dialect
language Variety Name: Dialects from 15 places in Denmark. 81 informants
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language Id: Is
language Name: Icelandic
size Per Language:
size Info:
size: 94 338
size Unit: tokens
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language Variety Type: dialect
language Variety Name: Dialects from 8 places in Iceland, 48 informants
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size Info:
size: 64 803
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language Variety Name: Dialects from 5 places on the Faroese islands, 20 informants
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document Unstructured: Norwegian and Övdalian have phonetic transcriptions, see http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/transcription.html
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annotation Type: speechAnnotation-orthographicTranscription
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target Resource Name U R I: Transcriber (http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php ) ELAN (https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/)
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target Resource Name U R I: For Norwegian and Övdalian: https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/services/oslo-transliterator/index.html
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unstandardised Genre: interviews
time Coverage Info:
time Coverage: 1998 – 2015
geographic Coverage Info:
geographic Coverage: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Älvdalen from 183 places
recording Info:
recording Environment: office
recording Environment: closedPublicPlace
recording Environment: conferenceRoom
recording Environment: lectureRoom
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dc:title	Nordic Dialect Corpus – downloadable transcriptions
dc:identifier	oai:tekstlab.uio.no:nordic-dialect-corpus-transcriptions
dc:description	Nordic Dialect Corpus v. 4.0 is a corpus of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic and Övdalian spoken language. It consists of spontaneous speech data from dialects of the North Germanic languages across all of the Nordic countries. The linguistic data in the corpus comes from a variety of sources, (see homepage – Data Collection), recorded in 1998 – 2015. The corpus contains more than 2.75 million words from conversations and interviews by dialect speakers. The downloadable version of the corpus contains all transcriptions in the corpus, both in txt and html format. The Norwegian and Övdaliantranscriptions are available in to versions: one phonetic and one orthographic. The other transcriptions are orthographically transcribed.
dc:publisher
dc:format	downloadable
dc:date	2005-01-01
dc:date	2019-09-31
dc:rights	Public
dc:rights	Creative Commons (CC)
dc:rights	Creative_Commons-BY-NC-SA (CC-BY-NC-SA)
dc:rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc:lang	Norwegian Bokmål (the orthographic transcriptions)
dc:lang	Swedish (Övdalien included)
dc:lang	Danish
dc:lang	Icelandic
dc:lang	Faroese

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