Towards a computational processing of oral dialectal data

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss issues concerning the computational processing of oral data in a unified framework for the exploitation of oral and written dialectal corpora. We describe the analysis and design of a multimedia database and software for storing and retrieving dialectal data, focusing on the subsystem of oral resources from three Greek dialects in Asia Minor. We discuss problems concerning the archiving and exploitation of such an oral corpus and we propose solutions.