Standardizing Dialectic Data and Information: Necessity and Solution

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate Professor of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies Research Institute

Abstract

Dialectology studies a dialect scientifically along with its geographical distribution.Each dialect is a language; and to study a dialect various linguistic analyses are required.This property makes the study of a language a little long in terms of time.Collecting dialectical data is very time consuming and required a lot of effort.Raw data is not much usable in dialectology and it is required to add linguistic analyses to the data in the framework of structural linguistic analysis.Using a computer as a research tool causes to prepare the data in a specific structure.The main contribution of the current paper is proposing a standard to organize dialectic data and information.This standard contains the dialectic data, its relevant meta-data, and the linguistic information related to the analysis of this data.The meta-data and linguistic information are organized in the XML tree structure.This data structure is highly portable and it can be easily read into a database.

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