Helsinki Corpus of Swahili

registration: 2009/08/28 02:52:04, last modified: 2009/08/28 02:52:04
title
  • Helsinki Corpus of Swahili
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • HCS
creator
  • depositor the Helsinki University Language Corpus Server
  • depositor the Scientific Center for Computing (CSC)
  • developer the Institute of Kiswahili Research (University of Dar-es-Salaam)
  • developer the University of Helsinki
subject
  • an annotated corpus of Standard Swahili text
subject.linguisticField
  • text_and_corpus_linguistics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The Helsinki Corpus of Swahili (HCS) is an annotated corpus of Standard Swahili text. It contains news texts from several current Swahili newspapers as well as from the news site of Deutsche Welle. It also contains extracts from a number of books containing prose text, including fiction, education and sciences.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • the Scientific Center for Computing (CSC)
contributor
  • annotator a multi-purpose language management environment, developed at the University of Helsinki by Arvi Hurskainen, Professor of African languages
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
  • interactive_discourse
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • written
  • speech transliterated
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated the word (lemma), part-of-speech, and morphology, including noun class affiliation and verb morphology. It also contains the etymology of loan words and glosses in English
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • The total size of the corpus is 12.5 million words.
format.medium
  • Download
format.encoding
format.markup
  • XML-format
format.functionality
  • Helsinki Corpus of Swahili offers now a possibility to use SALAMA (Swahili Language Manager) in corpus work. SALAMA makes use of language analysis and it offers more accurate and wide range possibilities for work with corpus texts than the traditional string search. The permission for the use of SALAMA does not come automatically to corpus users. This facility is in testing phase, and those interested are asked to contact directly mailto:Arvi.Hurskainen@helsinki.fi . The introduction to the use of SALAMA is available in salamainfo.htm . The linguistic tags that have been used in SALAMA are listed in swatags.pdf .
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • Swahili (individual language)
language.area
  • Africa
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • the coastal area of Tanzania and from the islands of Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia
coverage.spacial
  • 1989-1991
rights
  • The access to the HCS can be granted for scientific research by application
  • copyright