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The Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega (CORILGA) project aims at building a corpus of oral language for Galician, primarily designed to study the linguistic variation and change. This project is currently under development and it is periodically enriched with new contributions. The long-term goal is that all the speech recordings will be enriched with phonetic, syllabic, morphosyntactic, lexical and sentence ELAN-complaint annotations. A way to speed up the process of annotation is to use automatic speech-recognition-based tools tailored to the application. Therefore, CORILGA repository has been enhanced with an automatic alignment tool, available to the administrator of the repository, that aligns speech with an orthographic transcription. In the event that no transcription, or just a partial one, were available, a speech recognizer for Galician is used to generate word and phonetic segmentations. These recognized outputs may contain errors that will have to be manually corrected by the administrator. For assisting this task, the tool also provides an ELAN tier with the confidence measure of each recognized word. In this paper, after the description of the main facts of the CORILGA corpus, the speech alignment and recognition tools are described. Both have been developed using the Kaldi toolkit

This study describes the introduction of verbal idioms in the Galician language version (Galnet) of the semantic network WordNet; a network that does not traditionally include many phraseological units. To enhance Galnet, a list of 803 Galician verbal idioms was developed to then review each of them individually and assess whether they could be introduced in an existing WordNet synset (a group of synonyms expressing the same concept) or not. Of those 803 idioms, 490 (61%) could be included in this network. Besides, Galnet was enlarged with 750 extra verbal idioms, most of them synonyms or variants of the former. In this study, we present the working methodology for the experiment and an analysis of the results, to help understand the most important problems found when trying to introduce idioms in Galnet. We also discuss the reasons preventing the inclusion of some expressions, and the criteria used to introduce the idioms that finally made it into the network This research has been supported by the Xunta de Galicia and the European Union (under grant GRC2013/40) and by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government (Project TUNER: Automatic domain adaptation for semantic processing, TIN2015-65308-C5-1-R) SI

Geoprosodic data are useful for studying language change and developing hypotheses about the diachrony of intonation. In the case of Galician, it is particularly interesting to study varieties of Galician and Portuguese which share a common origin but are separated by a long-standing political border. Work to date has concluded that some of these intonation patterns present a prosodic continuum, but has also identified a large part of the Galician linguistic area where a widespread pattern is found that is unrelated to Portuguese. An approach to the study of dialectology and linguistic change will be proposed which supplements traditional geoprosodic studies with sociolinguistic concepts such as contact between languages and language varieties. This article will address questions concerning interaction between geoprosodic variation and contact among languages and language varieties for the purpose of detecting ongoing prosodic change and describing prosodic convergence processes that affect coexisting language varieties in Galicia., Los datos geoprosódicos son muy valiosos para el estudio del cambio lingüístico y para la elaboración de hipótesis sobre la diacronía de la entonación. En el caso del gallego, es especialmente interesante el estudio de las variedades gallegas y portuguesas, de origen común pero separadas secularmente por una frontera política. Los trabajos realizados hasta el momento concluyen que existe una continuidad prosódica de algunos de estos patrones de entonación, si bien también detectan amplias áreas en el territorio lingüístico gallego que presentan un patrón muy extendido geográficamente que no se puede relacionar con el portugués. Nuestra propuesta, complementaria de los estudios geoprosódicos tradicionales, pretende abordar la cuestión de cómo interaccionan la variación geoprosódica y el contacto de lenguas y de variedades con el fin de detectar cambios prosódicos en marcha y formalizar los procesos de convergencia prosódica que afectan a las variedades lingüísticas que conviven en Galicia.