Corpus Oral en langues Afroasiatiques

CorpAfroAs is an integrated pilot project realized by field linguists for field linguists and typologists, which proposes: A methodology for the treatment of fieldwork textual data in underdescribed languages, from data gathering to automatic searches on the corpus, A free, open-source and user-friendly new software, ELAN-CorpA, developed within our project from Elan (Max Planck Institute Nijmegen), A pilot corpus composed of annotated first-hand transcriptions of narrative and conversational data in twelve AfroAsiatic languages (one hour per language), with accompanying sound files, list of glosses, grammatical sketches, and metadata.Some of these annotated records are directly accessible via Cocoon and can be used freely for non-commercial purposes, provided that an acknowledgement of the original source is mentionned in the form expressed in CorpAfroAsCopyrightCitationRules (http://corpafroas.huma-num.fr/fichiers/CorpAfroAsCopyrightCitationRules.pdf). Others need a registration to be accessed (cf. the original website of CorpAfroAs corpus (http://corpafroas.huma-num.fr/Archives/)). A sample of the CorpAfroAs format and files can be found there : http://corpafroas.huma-num.fr/samples.htm