Dataset
On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)
- Documentation:
- This collaborative project involved the University of Oxford and two universities in Papua, Universitas Cenderawasih and Universitas Negeri Papua, in the creation of an on-line database of 52 digital audio and video texts and the linguistically annotated transcriptions and translations of 23 of the texts for the Austronesian language Biak, a language with about 50,000-70,000 speakers in Papua. These resources provide a snapshot of audio and textual data on the language, and are useful for language preservation efforts, for ongoing efforts to produce teaching materials in the indigenous languages of Papua, and as a basis for the creation of dictionaries and glossaries in the language. Since they are linguistically annotated, they are also useful for linguists conducting research on Biak and related Austronesian languages. The annotated transcriptions are produced using Toolbox, a freely-available data management and analysis tool for language documentation, which supports the creation of resources in various forms: transcribed texts with free translations into Indonesian and English (of most use to the Biak-speaking community and for pedagogical use in Papua) and linguistically annotated transcriptions in two forms: a standard human-readable form like the paper-based corpora familiar to linguists, and a translation of this form to XML via the utility tools for Toolbox, suitable for computer analysis and database search.
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851820
Authors/Creators
- Publisher:
- UK Data Service
- Publication date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- Pubs id:
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1480396
- UUID:
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uuid:350c98d2-038b-43bd-8258-073934dd0998
- Local pid:
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pubs:1480396
- Deposit date:
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2016-07-02
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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