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- Allwood, Jens, et al.
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An activity based spoken language corpus of Lohorung
- 2013
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social activities are an important part of the context of language use and provide many keys to understanding linguistic and communicative features. Such features can be well understood only if they are observed in their natural setting which to some extent is possible using a multimodal corpus as linguistic communication itself is multimodal. In order to study naturalistic multimodal communication using a corpus, the corpus should contain a combination of recordings, documentation, and transcription of multimodal communication from different social activities in naturalistic settings, preserving unedited conversation. This paper presents a brief account of the principles, methodology, current status, and further issues, based on an incrementally growing and multimodal activity based spoken language corpus of Lohorung.
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- Allwood, Jens, et al.
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An activity based spoken language corpus of Nepali
- 2012
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In: 2013 International Conference Oriental COCOSDA Held Jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2013. - 9781479923786 ; , s. 24-29
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Language is used for communication and communication facilitates social activities. If we want to capture this, linguistic investigation has to be carried out within a wider context. Examination of linguistic communication in a wider context shows that it is multimodal. In order to study naturalistic multimodal communication using a corpus, the corpus should contain a combination of recordings, documentation, and transcription of multimodal communication from different social activities in naturalistic settings, preserving unedited conversation. This paper presents a brief account of the principles, methodology, current status, and preliminary findings, based on an incrementally growing and multimodal activity based spoken language corpus of Nepali. ©2012 IEEE.
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947, et al.
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Multimodal Corpus using Multimodal Dictionary in Lohorung, Oriental COCOSDA, Oct. 26-28.
- 2011
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In: Oriental COCOSDA 2011, Oct. 26-28, Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Databases and Assesments_poster Sessions, Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 2011, National Chiao Tung University..
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Dhakhwa, S., et al.
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Self documentation of endangered languages
- 2012
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In: 2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012; Hong Kong; China; 5 December 2012 through 8 December 2012. - 9781467325059 ; , s. 392-395
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Several minority languages are on the verge of extinction in Nepal, especially when they don’t have a generally accepted writing system and occur in an area where Nepali (the official language) is predominantly used. Lohorung is an example, which is spoken among the Lohroung Rai communities of Sankhuwasabha, a hilly district of eastern Nepal. Older generations of Lohorung are experts in Lohorung but they have limitations in reading and writing English or Nepali. The documentation of Lohorung and other similar endangered languages is important. If the right tools and techniques are used, we believe that self documentation is one of the best ways, to document a language. We have developed an online platform which community members can use to collaboratively self document their language. The platform is a multimodal dictionary authoring and browsing tool and it has been developed with a focus on usability, ease of use and productivity. ©2012 IEEE.
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