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Serialization and Hierarchy : From Data to Corpus in Linguistic Fieldwork

Author:
Hall, Patrick James
Degree Grantor:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Linguistics
Degree Supervisor:
Marianne Mithun
Place of Publication:
[Santa Barbara, Calif.]
Publisher:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Creation Date:
2014
Issued Date:
2014
Topics:
Language, Linguistics
Keywords:
Fieldwork
Serialization
Digitization
Documentation
Genres:
Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
Dissertation:
M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
Description:

The structure of digital documentation should empower linguists to search the entirety of a documentary archive. This should be possible even when multiple tools were used to enter the data into the archive. Current practice tends to lead toward fragmenting of archives along the lines of the tools themselves: data entered in one tool cannot generally be searched outside of that tool, and thus data produced by distinct tools cannot be combined and aggregated. The solution to this problem requires an approach which is more general than critique of existing software. In this thesis I elaborate a general but simple way to digitize linguistic data which enables annotation of arbitrary levels of linguistic or annotative detail. A key benefit of this approach is that it allows for documentation which can be searched across levels of language structure, and across varied sorts of linguistic annotation. It is hoped that this simpler, more general design for archival documentation will contribute to the production of linguistic documentation, upon which in principle many sorts of software could operate, and which would be of use to linguists with many and varied interests.

Physical Description:
1 online resource (35 pages)
Format:
Text
Collection(s):
UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
ARK:
ark:/48907/f3tx3chz
ISBN:
9781321201901
Catalog System Number:
990045115850203776
Rights:
Inc.icon only.dark In Copyright
Copyright Holder:
Patrick Hall
File Description
Access: Public access
Hall_ucsb_0035N_12139.pdf pdf (Portable Document Format)