Difference between revisions of "Runyankore-Rukiga Corpus"
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===Description of the corpus=== | ===Description of the corpus=== | ||
| − | This corpus is a sub-corpus of the TypeCraft Runyankore Rukiga corpus -- packaged -- time stamped --- | + | This corpus is a sub-corpus of the TypeCraft Runyankore Rukiga corpus [ -- packaged -- time stamped ---]. It consists of naturally occurring data, as well as of elicited sentences which we found relevant for our study of locative expressions. The packaged data available from this site consists of 298 in depth annotated sentences. The data is provided in XML format. |
====Annotations and Standards==== | ====Annotations and Standards==== | ||
===Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus=== | ===Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus=== | ||
| − | The TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus of which the data presented here is a part of consists of narratives and short stories, as well as | + | The TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus of which the data presented here is a part of consists of narratives and short stories, as well as elicited data. Texts are either transcriptions of oral narratives or fragments of newspaper texts from the Runyankore-Rukiga weekly newspaper Orumuri. We also digitalised sections taken from the novel Abagyenda Bareeba ‘Adventures of travelers' by Mubangizi (1997). (REF) |
| − | The data was created by native-speaker graduates as part of their class work or in the context of their master’s thesis between 20xx and 20xx. The creation process was a collaborative effort coordinated by the principal investigators Dr. Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University, Uganda) and Prof. Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Trondheim) . The main student contributers were Justus ...., ......., .........,. The collection has been extended continuously. For a closer look at the corpus . | + | The data was created by native-speaker graduates as part of their class work or in the context of their master’s thesis between 20xx and 20xx. The creation process was a collaborative effort coordinated by the principal investigators Dr. Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University, Uganda) and Prof. Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Trondheim) . The main student contributers were Justus ...., ......., .........,. The collection has been extended continuously. For a closer look at the entire corpus go to TypeCraft.org. Select from the TypeCraft Tools menu, Search Texts. The Search interface lets you choose a language. To see all text in Runyankore-Rukiga type the name into the provide field. |
Revision as of 09:14, 27 April 2019
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Purpose of the corpus
The Corpus of Locative Expressions in Runyankore Rukiga was created to allow the study of Locative Expressions in Runyankore Rukiga a Bantu Languages spoken in south-western Uganda by ... . .....
Description of the corpus
This corpus is a sub-corpus of the TypeCraft Runyankore Rukiga corpus [ -- packaged -- time stamped ---]. It consists of naturally occurring data, as well as of elicited sentences which we found relevant for our study of locative expressions. The packaged data available from this site consists of 298 in depth annotated sentences. The data is provided in XML format.
Annotations and Standards
Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus
The TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus of which the data presented here is a part of consists of narratives and short stories, as well as elicited data. Texts are either transcriptions of oral narratives or fragments of newspaper texts from the Runyankore-Rukiga weekly newspaper Orumuri. We also digitalised sections taken from the novel Abagyenda Bareeba ‘Adventures of travelers' by Mubangizi (1997). (REF) The data was created by native-speaker graduates as part of their class work or in the context of their master’s thesis between 20xx and 20xx. The creation process was a collaborative effort coordinated by the principal investigators Dr. Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University, Uganda) and Prof. Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Trondheim) . The main student contributers were Justus ...., ......., .........,. The collection has been extended continuously. For a closer look at the entire corpus go to TypeCraft.org. Select from the TypeCraft Tools menu, Search Texts. The Search interface lets you choose a language. To see all text in Runyankore-Rukiga type the name into the provide field.