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The Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS)

Janne Bondi Johannessen
The Text Laboratory & MultiLing, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

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Published in: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 109:40, p. 297-300

NEALT Proceedings Series 23:40, p. 297-300

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Published: 2015-05-06

ISBN: 978-91-7519-098-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper contains a description of the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech, a new tool for heritage language research. We present the background for its existence, the linguistic contents and its main technical features. The demonstration will show the corpus in use, focussing on problems that are specific to heritage language research, and how the corpus can be searched to provide relevant data.

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5th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, UCLA, October 17-19, 2014. http://tekstlab.uio.no/WILA5/index.html

CLARIN: http://www.clarin.eu/Clarino: http://clarin.b.uib.no/

Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS): http://tekstlab.uio.no/glossa/html/?corpus=amerikanorsk

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