Exploration and Digitization of the Pomak Linguistic Corpus
摘要
The use of emerging technologies and the creation of open-source textual resources is a significant step towards a thorough linguistic study of the language of the Pomaks. “Philotis” research project (2020–2023) focused on the creation of the infrastructure, the methodology and the tools for the recording, analysis and documentation of living languages, and adopted Pomak as a case study. The corpus of Pomak compiled by “Philotis” contains about 140,000 words selected from a variety of text types including web articles, pieces of news, novels, poems, proverbs, traditional songs, folk tales and language lessons. The resources that resulted from this effort are openly available to Natural Language Processing practitioners and could be helpful for an advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use and structure of Pomak.