Designing and building an online corpus of Spanish-speaking areas

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520523
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: RUIZ TINOCO Antonio 上智大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80296889)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): UEDA Hiroto 東京大学大学院, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (20114796) ; TAKAGAKI Toshihiro 東京外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00140070) ; MIYAMOTO Masami 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20131477)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: スペイン語学 / 変異言語学 / コーパス言語学 / データベース / 方言学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to make a database of Spanish text data taken from all the Spanish-speaking areas and build a corpus to study lexical and syntax variation. During the first half of the study period,data from RSS newspaper was evaluated. During the second half, we found that Twitter’s data is a very effective means for our purposes.
Data was collected using Twitter’s API. Some basic lexical and syntax variation issues were studied and the results were presented at national and international congresses. The main point of this study is that it includes data from all Spanish-speaking areas, as well as the longitude and latitude of the place of origin. Using GIS (geographic information system) techniques, we also developed a basic methodology to create dialect maps.

Free Research Field

スペイン語学