1. Joel Priestley, Text Laboratory Oxford, April 2016
The LIA Project
Joel Priestley, Text Laboratory
Oxford, April 2016

2. LIA
Funded by: The Infrastructure program, the Norwegian Research Council
Amount: NOK 27 Mill (≈ GBP 2.5 Mill)
2014–2019
Who: The four big universities in Norway (UiT, UiB, NTNU and UiO) and the National Library
Coordinated at UiO

3. Goal
Gather, preserve and digitize audio recordings (1950s–1980s, mostly Norwegian dialects, but also Sami and North American Norwegian heritage language)
Transcribe all recordings
Make available as corpus and downloadable audio files where possible
(some restricted by the data protection legislation)

4. The Corpus Built on the same model as the Nordic Dialect Corpus
Newly redeveloped Glossa interface
Intended for dialect and language research
Freely accessible
Comprising
Speech recordings from NTNU, UiB, UiO and UiT
Corresponding transcriptions (phonetic, orthographic, morphological)
Metadata
Distributable:
Recordings of informants born before1925 are freely available
All transcriptions can be downloaded

5. Data
Manually transcribed using coarse-grained phonetic standard (ELAN)
Orthographic tier generated using (semi-) automatic transliteration tool (propagation)
Morphosyntactic tier generated from orthography
Time coded at «sentence» level

6. Distribution of “imellom”
Glossa
Common technologies
Easy to install (java archive)
Feature rich
Flexible (text, spoken, parallel, etc.)
Federated content search
Audio/video
Acoustic analysis
Geographical maps
Distribution of “imellom”

7. Transcription guidelines:http://tekstlab.uio.no/LIA/transkripsjon.html
Coarse-grained phonetic transcription according to Papazian & Helleland: Norsk talemål
E.g.:
L ← [ɽ] (retroflex flap)
å ← /o/, o ← /u/ and u ← /ū/
sj ← /ş/, kj ← /ç/
Transcription guidelines: