Francesco BIANCO

Project at the MaCI

January 2025 – July 2025
 

APID is a project about Italian sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics, within the framework of the digital humanities. It aims to conceive and implement the first corpus entirely dedicated to popular Italian, i.e. to the Italian language used by low-educated people. The documents, which will be included APID, mostly belong to the so-called primary forms of writing (letters, postcards, diaries, notes, etc.). coming from both unpublished archives and published works (papers, books, archives). Such documents will be slightly encoded as XML-TEI documents, in order to be later variously annotated and processed (for the automatic search, vision, etc.). The idea is to make available its data in two ways: through a slight web search interface, and also via a dedicated API, for more customizable and advanced purposes. This approach, DH-oriented, will give scholars a wider range of work possibilities, including to easily integrate data coming from different sources (which is nowadays often difficult or even impossible), or to process them with some third-party software. Furthermore, it will ensure as long life as possible to the project main output, and it will reduce cost and time of the project.

The main outcome of APID project, i.e. the corpus, will be conceived as a “shell” capable to host a dataset likely to evolve and increase. Therefore, it will be designed as a flexible and minimalist outcome, easy to be further developed, improved, reused within other projects. Source code will be released through a public repository. Within the six-months stay at MaCI, the aforementioned shell is expected to be fully conceived and developed, and some texts will be published as first core of the corpus, which will be later increased.

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