Joel James Priestley

• Kåsen, Andre; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders; Priestley, Joel; Solberg, Per Erik & Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (2022). The Norwegian Dialect Corpus Treebank. In Calzolari, Nicoletta; Béchet, Frédéric; Blache, Philippe; Choukri, Khalid; Cieri, Christopher; Declerck, Thierry; Goggi, Sara; Isahara, Hitoshi; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph; Mazo, Hélène; Odijk, Jan & Piperidis, Stelios (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association. ISSN 979-10-95546-72-6. p. 4827–4832. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper presents the NDC Treebank of spoken Norwegian dialects in the Bokmal variety of Norwegian. It consists of dialect ˚ recordings made between 2006 and 2012 which have been digitised, segmented, transcribed and subsequently annotated with morphological and syntactic analysis. The nature of the spoken data gives rise to various challenges both in segmentation and annotation. We follow earlier efforts for Norwegian, in particular the LIA Treebank of spoken dialects transcribed in the Nynorsk variety of Norwegian, in the annotation principles to ensure interusability of the resources. We have developed a spoken language parser on the basis of the annotated material and report on its accuracy both on a test set across the dialects and by holding out single dialects.

• Lane, Pia; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2022). Creating a corpus for Kven, a minority language in Norway. Nordlyd. ISSN 0332-7531. 46(1), p. 159–170. doi: 10.7557/12.6345. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Language documentation, including the development and use of corpora, is frequently linked to revitalisation. This is also the case for the Kven language, a Finnic minoritised language, traditionally spoken in the two northernmost counties of Norway. Kven is a recognised minority language in Norway, protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This status led to increased efforts to document Kven, including the development of the Ruija Corpus, consisting of recordings of interviews in Kven. The corpus was an important tool for the standardisation of Kven. In this article we describe how the corpus was developed and account for search functions, including a discussion of the limitations of the corpus. We also discuss the role of corpora and other online tools for language revitalisation, with a particular focus on the standardisation of Kven and conclude by reflecting on how expertise also resides with the speakers of an endangered language and that they have a right to be involved in efforts of language documentation and revitalisation.

• Søfteland, Åshild; Nøklestad, Anders; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2020). Glossa som forskningsverktøy. Hva folk søker etter og hva resultatene brukes til. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 11(2), p. 449–464. doi: 10.5617/osla.8512. Full text in Research Archive
• Kåsen, Andre; Hagen, Kristin; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2020). Comparing methods for measuring dialect similarity in Norwegian. In Calzolari, Nicoletta; Béchet, Frédéric; Blache, Philippe; Choukri, Khalid; Cieri, Christopher; Declerck, Thierry; Goggi, Sara; Isahara, Hitoshi; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph; Mazo, Hélène; Moreno, Asuncion; Odijk, Jan & Piperidis, Stelios (Ed.), Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association. ISSN 979-10-95546-34-4. p. 5343–5350. Full text in Research Archive
• Kåsen, Andre; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2019). Tagging a Norwegian Dialect Corpus. In Hartmann, Mareike & Plank, Barbara (Ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Linköping University Electronic Press. ISSN 978-91-7929-995-8. p. 350–355. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper describes an evaluation of five data-driven part-of-speech (PoS) taggers for spoken Norwegian. The taggers all rely on different machine learning mechanisms: decision trees, hidden Markov models (HMMs), conditional random fields (CRFs), long-short term memory networks (LSTMs), and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We go into some of the challenges posed by the task of tagging spoken, as opposed to written, language, and in particular a wide range of dialects as is found in the recordings of the LIA (Language Infrastructure made Accessible) project. The results show that the taggers based on either conditional random fields or neural networks perform much better than the rest, with the LSTM tagger getting the highest score.

• Nøklestad, Anders; Hagen, Kristin; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kosek, Michał & Priestley, Joel (2017). A modernised version of the Glossa corpus search system. In Tiedemann, Jörg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Linköping University Electronic Press. ISSN 978-91-7685-601-7. p. 251–254. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper presents and describes a modernised version of Glossa, a corpus search and results visualisation system with a user-friendly interface. The system is open source and can be easily installed on servers or even laptops for use with suitably prepared corpora. It handles parallel corpora as well as monolingual written and spoken corpora. For spoken corpora, the search results can be linked to audio/video, and spectrographic analysis and visualised geographical distributions can be provided. We will demonstrate the range of search options and result visualisations that Glossa provides.

• Kosek, Michał; Nøklestad, Anders; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin & Johannessen, Janne Bondi (2015). Visualisation in Speech Corpora: Maps and Waves in the Glossa System. In Grigonytė, Gintarė; Clematide, Simon; Utka, Andrius & Volk, Martin (Ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Corpus Query and Visualization Tools at NODALIDA 2015. Linköping University Electronic Press. ISSN 978-91-7519-035-8. p. 23–31. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We present the Glossa web-based system for corpus search and results handling, focussing on two modes of visualisation implemented in the system. First, we describe the use of maps to show the geographical distribution of search results and its utility for exploring dialectal variation and discovering new isoglosses. Secondly, we present a functionality for speech visualisation, yielding dynamically generated representations of spectrograms, pitch and formants. The analyses are accompanied by the ability to replay selected parts of the waveform, as well as export and compare maximum, minimum and average values of the parameters for different selections. Among other things, this can be used to explore in more detail the set of spoken variants revealed by the geographical map view.

• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2014). A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages. In Raso, Tommaso & Mello, Heliana (Ed.), Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027203694. p. 69–83.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A linguistics-based speech corpus. In Haugh, Michael; Ruhi, Sukryie; Schmidt, Thomas & Wörner, Kai (Ed.), Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, Andre (2012). The Nordic Dialect Corpus. In Calzolari, Nicoletta; Choukri, Khalid; Declerck, Thierry; Ugur Dogan, Mehmet; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph & Odijk, Jan (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association. ISSN 978-2-9517408-7-7. p. 3388–3391. Full text in Research Archive
• Priestley, Joel; Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages. In Mello, Heliana; Pettorino, Massimo & Raso, Tommaso (Ed.), Proceedings of the VIIth GSCP International Conference : Speech and Corpora. Firenze University Press (FUP). ISSN 978-88-665-5351-9. p. 63–68. doi: 10.1075/scl.61.02joh.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2010). Enhancing Language Resources with Maps. In Calzolari, Nicoletta; Choukri, Khalid; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph; Odijk, Jan; Piperidis, Stelios; Rosner, Mike & Tapias, Daniel (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10). European Language Resources Association. ISSN 2-9517408-6-7. p. 1081–1088. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel & Nøklestad, Anders (2010). A MultilingualSpeech Resource: The Nordic Dialect Corpus. In Otoguro, Ryo; Ishikawa, Kiyoshi; Umemoto, Hiroshi; Yoshimoto, Kei & Harada, Yasunari (Ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Waseda University. ISSN 978-4-905166-00-9. p. 749–758. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin; Åfarli, Tor Anders & Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander (2009). The Nordic Dialect Corpus - an Advanced Research Tool. NEALT Proceedings Series. ISSN 1736-8197. 4, p. 73–80.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Nygaard, Lars; Priestley, Joel & Nøklestad, Anders (2008). Glossa: a Multilingual, Multimodal, Configurable User Interface. In Calzolari, Nicoletta (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association. ISSN 2-9517408-4-0. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2007). An Advanced Speech Corpus for Norwegian. In Nivre, Joakim; Kaalep, Heiki-Jaan; Muischnek, Kadri & Koit, Mare (Ed.), NODALIDA 2007 PROCEEDINGS. University of Tartu. ISSN 978-9985-4-0513-0. p. 29–36.

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• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Evjen, Maria & Priestley, Joel (2019). Tyngd på fyrste stavinga i lånord.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Askeland, Anne Renette; Hagen, Kristin; Håberg, Live; Jensen, Bård Uri & Nøklestad, Anders [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Utfordringa med fonetisk transkripsjon av dialekter i den digitale tidsalderen: Oslo-translitteratoren.
• Nøklestad, Anders; Hagen, Kristin; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kosek, Michał & Priestley, Joel (2017). A Modernised Version of the Glossa Corpus Search System.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Askeland, Anne Renette; Hagen, Kristin; Håberg, Live; Kristoffersen, Gjert & Nøklestad, Anders [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2017). Hundre nye dialektordlister.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin & Olsen, Eirik (2012). A Corpus of American Norwegian Speech.
• Priestley, Joel; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, André (2012). Maps as a central linguistic research tool.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, André (2012). The Nordic Dialect Corpus.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A linguistics-based speech corpus.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A Multilingual Speech Corpus of North-Germanic Languages.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein A; Åfarli, Tor Anders; Hagen, Kristin & Priestley, Joel (2011). Nordisk dialektkorpus: klart til bruk! .
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2010). Enhancing Language Resources with Maps.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2007). Developing multi-Scandinavian word-lists for multi-Scandinavian texts.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2007). An Advanced Speech Corpus for Norwegian.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2006). A Speech Corpus with Emotions. In Devillers, Laurence; Martin, Jean-Claude; Cowie, Roddy; Douglas-Cowie, Ellen & Batliner, Anton (Ed.), Workshop Proceedings: W09 Corpora for Research on Emotions and Affect. LREC-2006. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ILC-CNR). p. 80–84.
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2006). A speech corpus with emotions.

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