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texts totalling some two million word uses. The texts span all major styles of
modern Buryat, including fiction, academic writing, and news.
In keeping with the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 78 , all the
corpora should go through corpus-header markup.
A newly-launched pilot version of the site http://corpora.imbtarchive.ru/
index.php features selected materials, such as concordances 79 to Buryat
fiction. These have been built using original software developed by the project
team. Contexts bring out the meanings of designated word forms, facilitating
their subsequent breakdown across grammar categories for analysis. The corpus
is to be regularly supplemented, updated and, if necessary, corrected/modified.
The project’s preliminary results have been reported in scholarly paper
collections, symposia proceedings, and on the Internet.
Representing a language on the Web and making related resources accessible
to the research community should be a key priority with modern-day linguists.
One of the main aims behind the Buryat corpus project is to integrate the language
into the global information environment. This aim is outlined in the Russian
Academy of Sciences Presidium’s Corpus Linguistics programme of fundamental
research (Direction 3. Creation and development of corpora resources on
Russia’s languages; http://www.corpling-ran.ru/n3.html). Being implemented
as part of this programme and with its support, the project is aimed at modelling
a morphological description of the Buryat language, which would pave the way
for the development of a morphology parser.
The Institute of Mongol, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies is also involved with
experimental developments in Buryat phonetics. Its current projects are aimed
at building a database from information collected ever since the Linguistics
Department’s Experimental Phonetics Research Laboratory was set up. These
developments could subsequently be incorporated into the Buryat corpus as an
oral speech subcorpus.
Speech databases as a major type of linguistic resources are, per se, of much
research interest. Such bases are essential to scholarly tasks related to the
analysis and description of oral speech. Building large, wide-ranging and
informative (multitier) speech databases, along with an easy-to-use and
reliable set of tools for their development and employment is an increasingly
important task, of relevance for computer applications and for fundamental
phonetic research alike.
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The TEI’s aim is to develop standardized methods for marking textual resources. [Editor’s note.]
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Concordance is a list of examples of the use of a particular word in context, as sourced from a textual
corpus, complete with links to the source. [Ed.]
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