Collection of Slovenian riddles Uganke 1.0

  Authors

Babič, Saša ; Erjavec, Tomaž ; Farič, Ana and Peče, Miha

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2023

 Date issued

2025-04-25

 Type

corpus, text

 Size

2790 items

 Language(s)

Slovenian

 Description

The Uganke corpus collects 2,790 Slovenian riddles from the folklore collection of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. The riddles come from 171 sources: fieldwork, newspapers, journals, manuscripts and printed riddle collections from the 19th and 20th centuries. The material is categorised into eight types, depending on the content, semantics, length and presumed context of the riddle: true riddle, narrative true riddle, joking question, wisdom question, joking wisdom question, logical riddle, neck riddle, sexual riddle. Each riddle is split into the question and answer part, and each is given in the diplomatic transcription, mirroring the riddle in the source document, and the critical transcription, which is brought closer to the contemporary Slovenian standard orthography. The critical transcriptions have been automatically annotated with lemmas, MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic descriptions (https://nl.ijs.si/ME/V6/msd/html/msd-sl.html) and Universal dependencies (https://universaldependencies.org/) with the CLASSLA toolchain (https://github.com/clarinsi/classla). The canonical encoding of the corpus is TEI, but the corpus is also distributed in two derived encodings. One is the riddles and the bibliography as two TSV files, and the other the vertical file with the linguistically annotated riddles, as used by CQP-type concordancers, such as Sketch Engine.

 Publisher

ZRC SAZU

 Acknowledgement

ARIS P6-0088 "Ethnological, Anthropological and Folklore Studies Research on Everyday Life"

DARIAH-SI - "The Slovenian Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities"

Jožef Stefan Institute CLARIN "CLARIN.SI"

 Subject(s)

riddles TEI folklore humour

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI data & tools

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