ONOMASTICA

                              Telenor, 1999
                              
This database contains original data from the Norwegian part of the 
ONOMASTICA project [1][2]. The data consist of pronunciations of 
first names, family names, company names, street names and place names. 
The data also include a set of foreign names.

FILE FORMATS
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The text file format is UNIX and the character set used is ISO 8859-1 
Latin 1.



CATALOG STRUCTURE
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      catalog       Contains             File name(s)      #Entries
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+ root
|                Copyright statement    copyright.txt
|                This file              README.txt|
+distrib-+ 
         |
         +fnvn	 first names            fnvnXXY.ono       239 393
         |
         +envn   Surnames               envnXXY.ono        82 416       
         |
         +fnvd   double first names     fnvdXXY.ono        27 096
         |
         +gate   Street names           gateXXY.ono        88 161
         |
         +sted   Place names            stedXXY.ono         6 180
         |
         +bedr   Company names          bedrXXY.ono       100 179
         |
         +mix    Foreign names          xx_nw.ono          13 074
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XX in file names is a running serial number. The first and surnames
inventory is based on the Norwegian telephone directory.  Higher serial 
number is associated with lower probability in the directory.   

Y in file names indicate the name source and can take the following 
values for place names:

	x	Postal place names
	k	Place names from official cartography
	t	Names used in the Telenor directory


The "mix" catalog contains files with "norwegian" pronunciation of 
foreign names. xx in place file names is a nationality code for
the words in the file:
    uk = United Kingdom,
    pt = portugal
    se = sweden
    fr = France
    de = Germany
    nl = Netherlands
	

DATA RECORDS
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The data are structured in records as follows:

Data(example):           Explanation
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SOO:			: Record start 
ENT:NO0000001		: National prefix (NO) and series number
LBO:Hansen		: Ortographic name
FQO:31391		: Number of occurences in source material
NO0:"hAn$s@n		: UPronunciation in SAMPA phonetic alphabety
NO1:			: Alternative pronunciation SAMPA 	
NO2:			: Alternative pronunciation SAMPA  
QUO:1			: Quality level, se note 1)
WH0:MS,AF		: Transcriber ID(s)
ET0:NO			: Etymology (NO = Norwegian)
CT0:Surname		: Name class
EOO:			: Record end
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1) QU0: 1: Checked by phonetician, knowing the name
        2: Checked by phonetician, not knowing the name
	3: Automatic transcription only
	
	
	
PHONEME CODES
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Phoneme codes are in SAM Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) [3]. 
  
In addition to the phoneme codes defined for Norwegian, the following 
codes have been used to transcribe English names:

SAMPA		Example word
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T		Tin   (thin)
D               Dis   (this)
dZ              dZin  (gin)
aI              raIse (rice)
eI              reIn  (rain)
OU              pOUk  (poke)   Note: Non-standard: the correct SAMPA symbol is @U
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Syllabic consonants are followed by an /*/ (asterix). (This is not standard SAMPA format.)
n*	example:  Botn    ""bOt$n*
l*	example:  Hodsle  ""HOd$l*

Ambisyllabic consonants (consonants shared by neighbouring syllabes)
are indicated by including the consonant on both sides of the syllable 
boundary.

Examples:	
Anne	""An$n@	
Inger	""iN$N@r
Bjarne 	""bjA:rn$rn@
	
	
[1] The Onomastica Consortium. The ONOMASTICA Interlanguage Pronunciation
    Lexicon, 
    URL: http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/3225.pdf

[2] Schmidt, M. / Fitt, S. / Scott, C. / Jack, Mervyn A. (1993): 
    "Phonetic transcription standards for european names (ONOMASTICA)", 
     In EUROSPEECH'93, 279-282.
     URL: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/publications/1993/Fitt_1993_a.ps
[3] Wells, J.C., 1997. 'SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet'. 
    In Gibbon, D., Moore, R. and Winski, R. (eds.), 1997. 
    Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems. 
    Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Part IV, section B.
    URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/norweg.htm