Track 12 – Digital Technologies for CHANGES

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Browsing Track 12 – Digital Technologies for CHANGES by Subject "Applied computing → Language translation"

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    Morphosyntactic Variation in Italian and Romansh Dialects: The Manzini & Savoia (2005) Corpus Within Project CHANGES
    (The Eurographics Association, 2025) Mazzaggio, Greta; Zoli, Carlo; Binazzi, Neri; Ludovico, Luca Andrea; Vena, Mael Vittorio; Manzini, M. Rita; Savoia, Leonardo Maria; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, Fabio
    This paper presents the digitization and online dissemination of the Manzini & Savoia (2005) corpus, one of the most comprehensive resources on morphosyntactic variation in Italian and Romansh dialects. Developed within Project CHANGES (Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society), the initiative responds to the urgent need for systematic documentation and open-access preservation of linguistic diversity. The new platform integrates a relational PostgreSQL database, a Strapi-based backend, and an interactive web interface, offering multiple modes of exploration-including map-based navigation, morphosyntactic query, and access to original fieldwork notebooks. The entire dataset (64,472 examples with IPA transcription and metadata) is openly available on Zenodo for independent research and reuse. The project also explores experimental applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatic annotation, demonstrating the potential for computational approaches in dialectology. This work provides a replicable model for sustainable digital archiving and fosters interdisciplinary research across linguistic, computational, and cultural heritage domains.
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    Small Codes: a platform for digital resources and tools for minority languages and dialects
    (The Eurographics Association, 2025) Zoli, Carlo; Mazzaggio, Greta; Binazzi, Neri; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, Fabio
    Small Codes is an open digital infrastructure designed to support the preservation and revitalization of minority languages through scalable, interoperable and user-friendly tools. The platform combines linguistic data management with web-based technologies, offering an integrated suite of software modules-including online dictionaries, spell-checkers, corpus alignment systems, linguistic maps, and multimedia archives-tailored for under-resourced and dialectally fragmented languages. Unlike standard language technology pipelines designed for dominant languages, Small Codes supports linguistically diverse input and community-led data models. It operates through a federated, semi-industrial development model, balancing long-term sustainability with flexibility for academic and institutional partners. This paper outlines the system architecture and core functionalities of Small Codes, presents selected implementation scenarios, and discusses its contribution to digital heritage and computational dialectology.