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A Linguistic 'Time Capsule' for the Google Generation: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

谷歌一代的语言“时间胶囊”：泰恩赛德英语历时电子语料库

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H037691/1
负责人：
Karen Corrigan
金额：
$ 23.58万
依托单位：
Newcastle University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH037691%2F1
关键词：
Linguistic Time Capsule Google Generation

项目摘要

The increasingly widespread use of Information Technology (IT) in most spheres of human activity since the mid-20th century has facilitated & continues to generate digital electronic natural language text/audio/graphics on a huge scale. Arts & Humanities (A&H) research has benefitted from this in that the volume of such materials available for study has greatly increased. Moreover, other fields like Statistics, Information Retrieval & Data Mining have provided computational tools for analysis/interpretation of data abstracted from these A&H resources. A major aspect of the impact of IT & allied subject areas on A&H research has been the creation of discipline-specific collections via digitisation of legacy materials or synthesis of these with new ones. After several decades' activity, the volume of such collections both in the UK & worldwide is both very large & showing no sign of receding. As the number of domain-specific collections has grown, a variety of conceptual/technical issues having to do with the preservation/re-use of such resources have arisen. The AHRC's DEDEFI call focuses on two of them: (i) Given that such collections are typically generated in academic environments for academic use & resourced by public funding bodies, how can one ensure their longevity so that the financial/human investment in them is not wasted, i.e. how can they be made sustainable?(ii) How can the potential of the collections be extended beyond HE to schools/museums & to the general public, that is, how can they achieve even greater social impact?The present application addresses these two issues with respect to an existing AHRC-funded collection, the 'Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English' (NECTE) (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/necte). NECTE amalgamated two legacy databases of Tyneside English, the 'Tyneside Linguistic Survey' & the 'Phonological Variation & Change in Contemporary Spoken English' project, into a single resource. This process conformed to global standards for the documentation/digitisation of such data & was undertaken using the latest IT technology available. NECTE was intended primarily as a resource for academic linguistic/socio-historical research. Since its publication on the Web in 2005, it has been extensively used both by its creators & by other researchers for that purpose. This proposal aims to develop NECTE in ways that enhance both its sustainability and impact. In overview, the objective is to augment the corpus content in several respects & to create a new website that supersedes the existing one & makes the content more accessible to academic/non-academic users in ways appropriate to these respective communities. The augmentation comprises updating to the current global documentation standards, linking the corpus with recently collected/digitised Tyneside speech (2007-2009) as well as digitized photographic materials from collections at Beamish (http://www.beamishcollections.com/rrc/photo.asp), the Northern Region Film & TV Archive (http://www.nrfta.org.uk/) & Tyne & Wear Museums & Archives (http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/).For academic users, the new website offers download facilities & documentation that are essentially identical to those of the existing NECTE website, though the latter would be updated to reflect new standards & the changes to the content already described. For non-academic users (especially those in the educational/museum sectors), the website offers topic-based browsing of the resource such that, selecting different menus will present the user with linked audio/text/photographic data. By doing so, we will meet the challenge of preserving/enhancing the value of the Linguistic 'Time Capsule' that is NECTE by using state-of-the-art technologies to accommodate the quite distinctive web searching behaviours & demands of the 'Google Generation' (Kuiper et al. 2008;Nicholas & Rowlands 2008).

自20世纪中期以来，信息技术（IT）在人类活动的大多数领域的日益广泛的使用促进了并继续大规模地生成数字电子自然语言文本/音频/图形。艺术与人文学科（A&H）的研究也因此受益，因为可供研究的此类材料的数量大大增加了。此外，统计学、信息检索和数据挖掘等其他领域已经提供了分析/解释从这些A&H资源中抽象出来的数据的计算工具。信息技术和相关学科领域对A&H研究的影响的一个主要方面是通过将遗留材料数字化或将这些材料与新材料合成来创建特定学科的收藏。经过几十年的活动，在英国和世界范围内，这类藏品的数量都非常大，没有任何退缩的迹象。随着特定领域集合数量的增长，出现了与这些资源的保存/重用有关的各种概念/技术问题。AHRC的DEDEFI呼吁重点关注其中的两个方面：(i)鉴于这些藏品通常是在学术环境中产生的，供学术使用，并由公共资助机构提供资源，如何确保它们的寿命，使对它们的财政/人力投资不被浪费，即如何使它们可持续发展？（ii）如何将藏品的潜力从高等教育学院扩展到学校/博物馆和公众，即如何产生更大的社会影响？目前的应用程序针对现有的ahrc资助的集合解决了这两个问题，“纽卡斯尔泰恩赛德英语电子语料库”（NECTE）（http://www.ncl.ac.uk/necte）。NECTE合并了泰恩赛德英语的两个遗留数据库，“泰恩赛德语言调查”和“当代英语口语的语音变异和变化”项目，成为一个单一的资源。这一过程符合此类数据文件化/数字化的全球标准，并采用了最新的信息技术。NECTE主要是作为学术语言/社会历史研究的资源。自2005年在网络上发布以来，它已被其创建者和其他研究人员广泛使用。该提案旨在以增强其可持续性和影响力的方式发展NECTE。总的来说，目标是在几个方面增加语料库内容，并创建一个取代现有网站的新网站，并以适合这些社区的方式使学术/非学术用户更容易访问内容。扩充内容包括更新当前的全球文献标准，将语料库与最近收集/数字化的泰恩赛德演讲（2007-2009）以及比米什（http://www.beamishcollections.com/rrc/photo.asp）、北部地区电影和电视档案馆（http://www.nrfta.org.uk/）和泰恩与威尔博物馆和档案馆（http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/）.For)的收藏中的数字化摄影材料联系起来。新网站提供的下载设施和文档基本上与现有的NECTE网站相同，尽管后者将进行更新，以反映新的标准和对已经描述的内容的更改。对于非学术用户（特别是教育/博物馆部门的用户），该网站提供基于主题的资源浏览，这样，选择不同的菜单将为用户提供链接的音频/文本/图片数据。通过这样做，我们将通过使用最先进的技术来适应“谷歌一代”相当独特的网络搜索行为和需求，从而应对保存/增强语言学“时间胶囊”（NECTE）价值的挑战（Kuiper et al. 2008;Nicholas & Rowlands 2008）。