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Informatics an geo-linguistic research: ALS: micro-areal atlases and data base fruition

Università degli Studi di Palermo
Abstract
ALS operating group is developing simultaneously different parts that are presented as integrated dynamical working sites and that are open to disciplines which integrate linguistics and computer technology (linguistics of corpora, data banks, computational linguistics, etc).
The entire programme cannot leave out of consideration the computerised implant of the whole geo-linguistic project, and also the formation of a large digital archives of spoken dialects and of regional Italian.
The actual perspective is orientated on the structuring of different areas or sectorial micro atlases into which apply these new addresses. It will be organized a complete informatic standardization of the phonetic, iconic and photographic data. Automatic, data-driven language model construction techniques will be studied o enhance the system capabilities.

Principal Investigator
Giovanni RUFFINO Università degli Studi di PALERMO
Research Objectives
The aim of ALS operating group is to develop simultaneously different parts that are presented as integrated dynamical working sites and that are open to disciplines which integrate linguistics and computer technology (linguistics of corpora, data banks, computational linguistics, etc).
The entire programme cannot leave out of consideration the computerised implant of the whole geo-linguistic project, and also the formation of a large digital archives of spoken dialects and of regional Italian.
The actual perspective is orientated on the structuring of different areas or sectorial micro atlases into which apply these new addresses. It will be organized a complete informatic standardization of the phonetic, iconic and photographic data. Automatic, data-driven language model construction techniques will be studied o enhance the system capabilities.

Ethnic-dialectal section.
The exploring and the geo-linguistic documentation of the island's tradition lexicon and ethnical uses will concentrate on the following aims:

Children's games
Completion of the module using the huge amount of material already gathered in seventy points of survey.

Lexicon of alimentary culture
The aim is to treat the ethnical dialectical data (lexicon, procedures, alimentary traditional rules) referring them to the new cultural contexts, to the emerging "tastes", to the new rules and to the new practises.
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Timescale
24 months
National and international background
The plan system of the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily has now been defined for many years thanks to the systematic comparison and to the active contribution of the national and international scientific donations, that have worked very hard for the Variance Atlas studies that include the romance area and other areas. The most recent moment of the theoretical–methodological debate and the most useful exchange on the research experience was actually promoted in Palermo during the Seminar of studies "Percorsi di geografia linguistica. Esperienze italiane e europee" (23rd-24th March 2005), all the experts that are actually involved in geographic linguistics were invited: Lorenzo Massobrio (Turin University), Atlante Linguistico Italiano (ALI); Tullio Telmon and Sabina Canobbio (Turin University), Atlante Linguistico ed Etnografico del Piemonte Occidentale (ALEPO); Franco Lurà (Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia, Bellinzona), Lessico dialettale della Svizzera italiana (LSI); Annalisa Nesi and Giuliano Giannelli (Siena University), Atlante Lessicale Toscano (ALT); Carla Marcato (Udine University), Atlante Storico Linguistico del Friuli (ASLEF); Alberto Sobrero (Lecce University), Nuovo Atlante dei Dialetti e dell'Italiano Regionale (NADIR); Saverio Favre (Aosta University) and Federica Dièmoz (Neuchâtel), Atlas des Patois Valdôtains (APV); Edgar Radtke (Heidelberg University), Atlante Linguistico della Campania (AlCam); John B. Trumper and Marta Maddalon (Cosenza University) >>>