dma

Digital Morphology Archives

Description

The Digital Morphology Archives contains dialect data stored in the Morphology Archives at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki. The purpose of the Archives is to facilitate research on the rich morphology of Finnish and to provide researchers with well-organised data on the dialects of different parishes.

The search facility enables quick and straightforward searches in both the entire material and individual parishes or dialect areas. Word and phrase queries can also be made directly into dialect texts, targeted at texts without diacritic marks as well as refined by limiting them to certain linguistic categories according to a morphological classification containing 897 codes.

Home Page

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/skl/english/research/dma.htm

Version and Size

DMA 2.0, 2009-09-15

The database includes 279,248 morphologically encoded examples of clauses in context (around one million words) from 160 parish dialects (i.e. one-third of the parishes in Finland ). Approximately four morphological codes have been added to each phrasal sample. The parish collections which have been coded thoroughly each example have been assigned 5–10 codes.

As a whole, the Morphology Archives contain about 500,000 paper file cards, corresponding to some two million clause examples, and the data is classified on the basis of almost a thousand catalogue codes. The Archives contain 141 completed parish collections, and these have served as data sources for over 300 printed publications or theses.

Content and Structure

Directory

https://sui.csc.fi/group/sui/dma

Directory Listing

The files are not directly accessible. DMA only has a web interface.

Sample

The Search Result View

#	Pitäjä	Teksti	Informantti
1	5b Oulujoki	kaks vel^ijestä ja ne kumpikin aiko rakentaa' 'omat talot .	m1896
2	5b Oulujoki	[ jos palvelija ] ei talo#kaav väki|ä tyyvyttänyn nin saihan sen sanu|a' 'irti .	n1911

The Card View

Pitäjä:	5b Oulujoki
Signumi:	740
Teksti:	kaks vel^ijestä ja ne kumpikin aiko rakentaa' 'omat talot .
Informantti:	m1896
Kommentti:	-
Sijainti:	740

Access Rights and Conditions

General Conditions Of Use for the CSC Services

1. The user account on the corpus.csc.fi server is valid for the maximum period of two (2) years at the time, starting from the day of admission. CSC will notify the user well before the expiration date of the user account. User information will be updated in connection with the renewal of the license. If not agreed otherwise, unused accounts and the corresponding files will be removed one year after the last use at the latest. The user account will expire immediately when a task or a study has been completed or the user has left the university or polytechnic.
2. Each user account is personal. No user shall pass the password on to a third party.
3. If there is a reason to doubt that unauthorized people have used or tried to use the resources, CSC must be notified immediately. Storing delicate or confidential information or sending it over the network should be negotiated in advance with CSC.
4. The resources obtained must be used for the proposed task only.
5. Due to licence conditions, foreign user accounts and the use of the resources from abroad should be negotiated separately.
6. The user id must be secured by a password that is difficult to anticipate.
7. Some software can be used by academic users only. Other users must settle the matter with software contact persons.
8. CSC stores customer files for a maximum time of two years after the user account has expired.
9. CSC takes back-up copies of the customers files regularly. However, CSC declines any responsibility for files lost due to system failure.
10. This agreement will dissolve immediately, if the licensee brakes the rules and regulation stipulated in this agreement.
11. Neither contracting party is liable to compensate the other party for such damage preventing the fulfillment of this agreement that is caused by force majeure.

Additional conditions for the use of DMA

1. The research material that is accessible at the Language Bank may neither be copied as a whole nor in parts, it may not be distributed to other parties, and it may not be put at the disposal of general public e.g. in the Internet.
2. The examples of clauses in the DMA material can be used in academic research, scientific publications and in education. The permission to use the research material to such purposes must be obtained from the Department of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki.
3. The users are requested to report about all errors found in the research material. The reports should be send to the maintainer of the research material, which is the Department of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki.
4. When the material is used in research or education, the user must refer to the material using the given bibliographical reference.

References

Making Bibliographical Reference to the Material:

In English: DMA, Digital Morphology Archives. Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki and CSC - IT Center for Science (http://csc.fi/languagebank/).

In Finnish: Digitaalinen Muoto-opin Arkisto. Koostajat: Helsingin yliopiston suomen kielen, suomalais-ugrilaisten ja pohjoismaisten kielten ja kirjallisuuksien laitoksen Muoto-opin arkisto ja CSC - Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus (http://csc.fi/kielipankki/).

Other References

Kaisu Juusela, Mika Kukkola, Päivi Markkola and Toni Suutari. 2005. Hanke ja sen toteutus. Suomen murteiden morfologisen digitaaliarkiston loppuraportti. The Department of Finnish language and literature, the University of Helsinki. Yliopistopaino: Helsinki.

Suutari, Toni (toim.) 2003. Muoto-opin arkiston opas. Muoto-opin arkiston vaiheita: kenttäkeruista digitaalitekniikkaan.

Bugs

Known Bugs

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Sending Bug Reports

The users are requested to report about all errors found in the research material. The reports should be send to the maintainer of the research material, which is the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki. Point of contact.