NooJ international Conference, Komotini, May 2010 Portability of Armenian Corpus by Nooj Anaid Donabedian & Victoria Khurshudian Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris

Armenian: preliminaries  an Indo-European language  right-branching  of an accusative type  typically with an SOV structure and  dominantly with an agglutinative morphology

Historical Armenia

Republic of Armenia

Periodization  prealphabetical  alphabetical (405 A.D. – up to present). 1.Old Armenian or Grabar (V-XI); 2. Middle Armenian (XII-XVI); 3.Modern Armenian (XVII – up to present) Western Eastern (based on Constantinople dialect) (based on Ararat dialect) dialects…dialects….

Objective Provide data compatibility and portability between Nooj and Eastern Armenian National Corpus (EANC) platform

What is Eastern Armenian National Corpus Corpus Technologies Michael Daniel, Victoria Khurshudian, Dmitri Levonian, Vladimir Plungian, Alexey Polyakov,Sergey Rubakov

8 Source texts PARSER Annotated texts Annotation algorithm Grammatical dictionary

EANC History Moscow, Russia  March 2006: Project Launch  July 2007: 1 st Release  May 2008: 2 nd Release  March 2009: 3 rd release

Eastern Armenian National Corpus (EANC) is: about 110 million tokens  morphological and other markup  English translations for frequent tokens  covers SEA from the mid-19th century to the present  both written and oral discourse  full-text view for over 100 Armenian classic titles  open internet access

Written Discourse  over 106 mln. tokens  510 authors ( )  1039 fiction texts (including 206 translated texts)  7858 press issues  non-fiction (scientific and other) texts

Spontaneous discourse Polylogues Task-oriented discourse TV-shows transcripts Movies … ☼ EANC oral corpus has all been recorded and transcribed by the project. Oral Discourse (3.5 mln. tokens)

13 EANC Functionality

14 Search Functionality  Token queries  Context queries  Subcorpus selection

15 Simple token queries: lexeme search wordform search gram search translation search lexeme + gram search Search Functionality

16 Advanced options for token queries:  case-sensitivity  punctuation marks  position in the sentence  wildcard (*)  logical functions (e.g. ‘or' |)  negated features  grammatical/lexical homonymy inclusion/exclusion Search Functionality

17 Subcorpus selection by:  time  author(s) / title(s)  genres  types of texts (translated vs. original)  superposition of any of the above Search Functionality

18 Display options  context expanding  ‘sort by’ (time, lexeme, wordform etc.)  Latin transliteration  glossed display  KWIC (key word in the context) Search Functionality

19 Transliterated samples:

20 Glossed samples:

21 KWIC samples:

Main Current Tasks:  Make Nooj-based Western Armenian morphological annotation compatible with EANC grammatical dictionary structure  Make EANC and Nooj Western Armenian platforms interportable  Mutual full coverage of Nooj and EANC capacities (e.g. syntactical annotation of Nooj)