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ParlaTO: corpus del parlato di Torino
No full textThis paper aims at introducing ParlaTO, a newly built corpus of spontaneous
speech. The corpus is based on a collection of semi-structured interviews
conducted in Turin with speakers of various origins and socioeconomic
backgrounds, divided by age groups. Italian is by far the most represented
language, while Italo-Romance dialects and immigrant languages occur more
rarely and are mainly drawn on in bilingual discourse practices. In Section
1, we will give an overview of the main features of the corpus. Among its
major advantages is the possibility to access a rich set of speakers’ metadata,
concerning the socioeconomic status as well as the geographic origin of the
informants, which is meant to allow for sociolinguistic analyses. In Section
2, we will describe the structure of the corpus and discuss the methodology
we adopted to build the resource, paying special attention to data collection
and data transcription. In Section 3, we will comment on some short excerpts
of the interviews in order to exemplify a number of features characterizing
the varieties of Italian and the bilingual interactions that can be found in
the corpus. Finally, in Section 4, we will outline some prospects for future
developments
Sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: An introduction
Full text linkIn Italo-Romance, as well as in most European scenarios, the current language
space between base dialects and standard results from a previous situation of
‘spoken diglossia’ (cf. Auer 2005). In fact, until at least the second half of the nineteenth
century, Italian was used by a small minority of the population and almost
exclusively in writing and formal speech; the vast majority of the population was
composed of nearly monolingual dialect speakers, and local dialects were basically
the sole languages for daily use
Il corpus KIParla
Full text linkIn questo articolo presentiamo le principali caratteristiche del CORPUS
KIParla, una nuova risorsa per lo studio dell’italiano parlato, liberamente accessibile al sito www.kiparla.it. Il corpus è stato progettato per essere gratuitamente consultato attraverso l’interfaccia NoSketch Engine e per essere espanso nel tempo tramite l’aggiunta di nuovi moduli. Il corpus KIParla fornisce
l’accesso a una vasta gamma di metadati che caratterizzano sia i partecipanti
che le interazioni, utilizzabili come filtri di ricerca. Al momento il KIParla
consiste di due moduli (KIP e ParlaTO), che permettono di effettuare ricerche
sulla variazione diafasica, diatopica e diastratica dell’italiano contemporaneo.
Parole chiave: corpus, italiano parlato, sociolinguistica
Il corpus KIParla. Tra linguistica dei corpora e sociolinguistica dell’italiano
No full textIn this paper we introduce the main features of the KIParla corpus, a new resource for the study of spoken Italian. Among other specific features, KIParla provides access to a wide range of metadata that characterize both the participants and the settings in which the interactions take place. Furthermore, it is designed to be shared as a free resource tool through the NoSketch Engine interface and to be expanded as a monitor corpus
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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