This paper describes the CORILGA (“Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega”). CORILGA is a large high-quality corpus of spoken Galician from the 1960s up to present-day, including both formal and informal spoken language from both standard and non-standard varieties, and across different generations and social levels. The corpus will be available to the research community upon completion. Ga...

In minority language communities, language choice may be related to identity. In the bilingual community of Galicia, some speakers switch language dominance at a late stage in development, normally during adolescence. These 'new speakers', neofalantes, are originally dominant in Spanish but switch to Galician for cultural or ideological reasons. The present study investigated the consequences o...

In this document we describe the process of aligning two standard monolingual dictionaries: a Portuguese language dictionary and a Galician synonym dictionary. The main goal of the project is to provide an online dictionary that can show, in parallel, definitions and synonyms in Portuguese and Galician for a specific word, written in Portuguese or Galician. These two languages are very close to...

AUTHORS: Alberto Fernández-Villar, Maribel Botana Rial, Virginia Leiro Fernández, Ana González Piñeiro, Cristina Represas Represas, Alberto Ruano Raviña. Bronchoscopy Unit. Pulmonary Department. Xeral-Cíes Hospital. University Hospitalary Complex of Vigo. C/Pizarro 22; 36204 Vigo Spain. Patology Department. Xeral-Cíes Hospital. University Hospitalary Complex of Vigo. Spain 3 Galician Agency for...

This paper describes a Broadcast News (BN) database called Transcrigal-DB. The news shows are mainly in Galician language, although around 11% of data is in Spanish. This database has been constructed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) purposes. A BN-ASR reference system is also described and evaluated on the test partition of Transcrigal-DB. The reference system has been designed having in...

The author set herself the goal of analyzing concepts Galicia, Galicianness, borderland, Galician literary borderland and based on such an analysis characterizing relationships between Galicia most famous writer first half 20th century Bruno Schulz. article outlined cycle publications is devoted to disclosure essence cognitive concept with emphasis Schulz period – end 19th century; another scie...

In this article we present a complete and normalized morphosyntactic tagset for the annotation of linguistic corpora in Galician. The elaboration of this tagset, designed by the Computational Linguistics Group (SLI) of the University of Vigo, following strictly the EAGLES recommendations (Leech and Wilson, 1996), includes the creation of an intermediate tagset that allows us to establish a corr...

This article contrasts strategies of resistance to gender-based violence in two examples audio-visual media which draw on or subvert the burgeoning genre Galician noir; Season 1 TVG-Netflix hit O sabor das margaridas () directed by Miguel Conde and women-centred grassroots feminist web series Monstras Eire García Cid. These divergent case studies muddy binary female victimhood male aggression w...