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Subject: Recognition at last ljc From: little john cameron Date: 22 Jun 02 - 08:31 PM Look oot warl,ye'll syne be able tae blether awa like me.
Scots speakers are being invited to add their voices to the first major online archive of the country's different languages.
The results will be placed in an electronic archive - the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) - which will be made available to the public and academics alike over the internet.
At the moment we have got very little knowledge about these languages
But it is hoped that the project will eventually expand to include Gaelic and non-indigenous languages such as Punjabi, Urdu and Chinese.
The aim is to allow the most detailed analysis yet of the differences within the Scots languages.
"If you take Scots and Scottish English, it is quite hard to work out where one variety ends and the other starts.
"That may be a social issue, but it is also an individual issue."
She said that Scots and Scottish English represented the two extremes of a "linguistic sliding-scale".
She said that Scots had different choices - depending on their social class, education and location - about where they fell on that scale.
The archive will be available on the internet
"Further complications are presented by the lack of an agreed standard spelling system for Scots," said Dr Douglas.
"By building the corpus we will be able to investigate these language varieties with an accuracy hitherto impossible."
She said that those behind the project were trying to contact "the real people out there who use the language".
A publicity drive has been launched to find different texts - which can encompass both the spoken and the written word - from across Scotland.
"We are hoping that we will get text from a very wide variety of sources," she said.
"In terms of language use, that sort of thing is equally as interesting as great literary works."
The project is bringing together linguists and those working in information technology.
This pilot project will assess both the availability of material and the degree of effort needed to collate it
The two main aims are to place the written and spoken texts into an electronic format, and then to enable the public to analyse the information over the internet.
This will allow scholars and students to investigate the languages of Scotland in new ways, while also providing a source of information for future generations.
This pilot study, which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, will also be examined as a possible model for other languages.
Edinburgh University's Henry Thompson said: "This pilot project will assess both the availability of material and the degree of effort needed to collate it and present it in a coherent and consistent form as an online language resource." Search for "ljc" threads |
Subject: RE: Recognition at last ljc From: GUEST Date: 22 Jun 02 - 09:08 PM What a Load of Rubbish!!!! |
Subject: RE: Recognition at last ljc From: Hrothgar Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:19 AM The most surprising thing is that it seems the reports are being written in real EnglisH. :-) |
Subject: RE: Recognition at last ljc From: SINSULL Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:28 AM "coherent"???? No offense, ljc, but COHERENT????? |
Subject: RE: Recognition at last ljc From: DonMeixner Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:49 AM Huh? |
Subject: RE: BS:Recognition at last ljc From: CapriUni Date: 23 Jun 02 - 07:10 PM Sinsull -- I can understand pairing 'Coherent' and 'Scots' perfectly well... it's putting 'Coherent' in the same sentance as 'Online' that gives me pause... ;-) |