Joel James Priestley

• Priestley, Joel; Nøklestad, Anders; Hagen, Kristin; Laanemets, Anu & Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (2024). Treebanks for the ordinary working grammarian. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3834, p. 313–321. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this paper we present how three treebanks of Norwegian have been incorporated in the Glossa search interface, allowing users without specialized training to formulate queries based on syntactic information. One of the treebanks contains written material (mostly newspaper text, but also blogs, magazines and other genres) and the two other treebanks are based on transcriptions of spoken dialects. The user interface is simple and only allows access to selected features of the annotation. We show through two case studies how it can nevertheless be useful for the large group linguists who do not have the time or inclination to learn a full treebank query language. We argue that our tool fills an important gap and can help bring treebank data to new users.

• 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.

• 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 9791095546726. 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.

• 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). 11(2), p. 449–464. doi: 10.5617/osla.8512. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Tekstlaboratoriets korpus og søkegrensesnittet Glossaer utviklatil bruk for språkforskere og andre interesserte fra hele Norden og resten av verden. I denne artikkelen viser vi hvordan søkesystemet Glossa er utviklafram mot i dag, hva korpusbrukerne søker på, og hvordan korpusdataene kan brukes i vitenskapelige publikasjoner.

• 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 9791095546344. 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 9789179299958. 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 9789176856017. 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 9789175190358. 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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). Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, Andre (2012). The Nordic Dialect Corpus. In Calzolari, Nicoletta; Choukri, Khalid; Declerck, Thierry; Dogan, Mehmet Ugur; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph & Odijk, Jan (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association. ISSN 9782951740877. p. 3388–3391. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this paper, we describe the Nordic Dialect Corpus, which has recently been completed. The corpus has a variety of features that combined makes it an advanced tool for language researchers. These features include: Linguistic contents (dialects from five closely related languages), annotation (tagging and two types of transcription), search interface (advanced possibilities for combining a large array of search criteria and results presentation in an intuitive and simple interface), many search variables (linguistics-based, informant-based, time-based), multimedia display (linking of sound and video to transcriptions), display of results in maps, display of informant details (number of words and other information on informants), advanced results handling (concordances, collocations, counts and statistics shown in a variety of graphical modes, plus further processing). Finally, and importantly, the corpus is freely available for research on the web. We give examples of both various kinds of searches, of displays of results and of results handling. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3388-3391. Published with the permission of ELRA. This paper was published within the proceedings of the LREC 2008 and LREC 2012 Conferences. © 2008-2012 ELRA - European Language Resources Association. All rights reserved.

• 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 9788866553519. p. 63–68. doi: 10.1075/scl.61.02joh. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 9782951740860. p. 1081–1088. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We will look at how maps can be integrated in research resources, such as language databases and language corpora. By using maps, search results can be illustrated in a way that immediately gives the user information that words or numbers on their own would not give. We will illustrate with two different resources, into which we have now added a Google Maps application: The Nordic Dialect Corpus (Johannessen et al. 2009) and The Nordic Syntactic Judgments Database (Lindstad et al. 2009). We have integrated Google Maps into these applications. The database contains some hundred syntactic test sentences that have been evaluated by four speakers in more than hundred locations in Norway and Sweden. Searching for the evaluations of a particular sentence gives a list of several hundred judgments, which are difficult for a human researcher to assess. With the map option, isoglosses are immediately visible. We show in the paper that both with the maps depicting corpus hits and with the maps depicting database results, the map visualizations actually show clear geographical differences that would be very difficult to spot just by reading concordance lines or database tables. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pages 1081-1088. Published with the permission of ELRA. This paper was published within the proceedings of the LREC 2008 and LREC 2012 Conferences. © 2008-2012 ELRA - European Language Resources Association. All rights reserved.

• 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 9784905166009. p. 749–758. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 749-758

• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 9782951740846. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We describe a web-based corpus query system, Glossa, which combines the expressiveness of regular query languages with the user-friendliness of a graphical interface. Since corpus users are usually linguists with little interest in technical matters, we have developed a system where the user need not have any prior knowledge of the search system. Furthermore, no previous knowledge of abbreviations for metavariables such as part of speech and source text is needed. All searches are done using checkboxes, pull-down menus, or writing simple letters to make words or other strings. Querying for more than one word is simply done by adding an additional query box, and for parts of words by choosing a feature such as "start of word". The Glossa system also allows a wide range of viewing and post-processing options. Collocations can be viewed and counted in a number of ways, and be viewed as different kinds of graphical charts. Further annotation and deletion of single results for further processing is also easy. The Glossa system is already in use for a number of corpora. Corpus administrators can easily adapt the system to a wide range of corpora, including multilingual corpora and corpora with audio and video content. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), pages 617-622. Published with the permission of ELRA. This paper was published within the proceedings of the LREC 2008 and LREC 2012 Conferences. © 2008-2012 ELRA - European Language Resources Association. All rights reserved.

• 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 9789985405130. p. 29–36. Full text in Research Archive

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• Johnsen, Sverre Stausland; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Evjen, Maria & Priestley, Joel (2019). Tyngd på fyrste stavinga i lånord. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Nøklestad, Anders; Hagen, Kristin; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kosek, Michał & Priestley, Joel (2017). A Modernised Version of the Glossa Corpus Search System. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin & Olsen, Eirik (2012). A Corpus of American Norwegian Speech. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A linguistics-based speech corpus. Full text in Research Archive
• Priestley, Joel; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, André (2012). Maps as a central linguistic research tool. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Lynum, André (2012). The Nordic Dialect Corpus. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Priestley, Joel & Hagen, Kristin (2012). A Multilingual Speech Corpus of North-Germanic Languages. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Vangsnes, Øystein A; Åfarli, Tor Anders; Hagen, Kristin & Priestley, Joel (2011). Nordisk dialektkorpus: klart til bruk! . Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2010). Enhancing Language Resources with Maps. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2007). An Advanced Speech Corpus for Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2007). Developing multi-Scandinavian word-lists for multi-Scandinavian texts. Full text in Research Archive
• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Hagen, Kristin; Priestley, Joel & Nygaard, Lars (2006). A speech corpus with emotions. Full text in Research Archive

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