dialectcan
Dialectcan is a theoretical framework and software concept in computational linguistics and sociolinguistics that aims to systematize dialect variation by mapping diverse dialectal forms to a common canonical representation. The goal is to facilitate cross-dialect comparison, corpus alignment, and the deployment of NLP tools across dialectal varieties.
Core components typically envisioned for dialectcan include a canonicalization component that normalizes orthography, morphology, and syntax;
In practice, dialectcan workflows start with collecting dialect-rich text or transcripts, annotating them with dialect labels,
As a concept, dialectcan has appeared in discussions about dialect normalization and multilingual NLP but has
See also: Dialectology, Language standardization, Text normalization, Canonical form, Natural language processing.