Creation of a Digital Corpus of Bulgarian Dialects

: The paper presents our considerations related to the creation of a digital corpus of Bulgarian dialects. The dialectological archive of Bulgarian language consists of more than 250 audio tapes. All tapes were recorded between 1955 and 1965 in the course of regular dialectological expeditions throughout the country. The records typically contain interviews with inhabitants of small villages in Bulgaria. The topics covered are usually related to such issues as birth, everyday life, marriage, family relationship, death, etc. Only a few tapes contain folk songs from different regions of the country. Taking into account the progressive deterioration of the magnetic media and the realistic prospects of data loss, the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Academy of Sciences launched in 1997 a project aiming at restoration and digital preservation of the dialectological archive. Within the framework of this project more than the half of the records was digitized, de-noised and stored on d...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DAGSTUHL
• Authors: Nikola Ikonomov, Milena Dobreva
• Keywords: Bulgarian Dialects, Bulgarian Language, DAGSTUHL 2006, DAGSTUHL 2007, Digital Corpus