Lexicon of Place Names in the Alsatian Dialects

<p>This dataset contains a lexicon of place names in the Alsatian dialects. These place names were collected from several resources and manually categorised according to location types defined in the QUAERO project:</p> <ul> <li>loc.fac &ndash; Facility</li> <li>loc.phys.astro &ndash; Astronym</li> <li>loc.phys.geo &ndash; Geonym</li> <li>loc.phys.hydro &ndash; Hydronym</li> <li>loc.adm.nat &ndash; Country</li> <li>loc.adm.reg &ndash; Region</li> <li>loc.adm.sup &ndash; Supranational</li> <li>loc.adm.town &ndash; City</li> <li>loc.oro &ndash; Odonym</li> </ul> <p>The CSV file contains 4 columns:<br> 1. Place name in Alsatian<br> 2. Place name in French<br> 3. Quaero category<br> 4. Source(s): WikiAls (articles from the Alemannic Wikipedia), WikiFr (articles from the French Wikipedia), corpus (Wikipedia articles from the Alemannic Wikipedia and chronicles from an information magazine published by the Haut-Rhin department (southern Alsace) General Council). This field also indicates whether the same spelling can be found in other lexicons of place names for Alsatian: AlsaDico (Edmond Jung. <em>L&rsquo;alsadico : 22 000 mots et expressions fran&ccedil;ais-alsacien</em>. La<br> Nu&eacute;e bleue, Strasbourg, 2006.) and&nbsp;Els&agrave;sser (Marc Hug. <em>Toponymes d&rsquo;Alsace</em>. Online, <a href="http://elsasser.free.fr/NomCommu/ecrantot.html">http://elsasser.free.fr/<br> NomCommu/ecrantot.html</a>, 2007.)</p> <p>The dataset was produced in the context of the RESTAURE project, funded by the French ANR. The lexicon is also decribed in the following article: <a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01702656">https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01702656</a>.</p>