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# What is a dialectological text?

Linguists at NaRFU go on dialectological expeditions to different villages of Arkhangelsk region. The dialogs with locals are transcribed into notebooks and the examples of a dialect words and an example of its usage is written on cards. The dialectological text is a text that conveys linguistic features using special symbols like acutes, apostrophes etc.

Example of a card: ![Example of a card](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f94ad1b720048bbc98aeea/OxbyTr2krLmkYUS7I738p.png)

# Tools used

Text corpus is generated with [TextGenerator](https://github.com/DialecticalHTR/TextGenerator)

StackMix implementation: https://github.com/ai-forever/StackMix-OCR

Datasets used: [HKR](https://github.com/abdoelsayed2016/HKR_Dataset), [Cyrillic Handwriting Dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/constantinwerner/cyrillic-handwriting-dataset) and labeled handwritten materials from dialectological expeditions.