Variety diagnostics pilot for Eastern and Western Armenian: Aravot and Jamanak, 2000–2026

"title": "Variety diagnostics pilot for Eastern and Western Armenian: Aravot and Jamanak, 2000–2026", "upload_type": "dataset", "description": "<p>Resources for the comparative study of Eastern and Western Armenian in the daily press. The deposit contains four items.</p><ol><li><strong>A pilot sample</strong> of text from <em>Ժամանակ</em> (Jamanak, Istanbul, Western Armenian, classical orthography) and <em>Առավոտ</em> (Aravot, Yerevan, Eastern Armenian, reformed orthography), spanning 2000 to 2026, across news and signed opinion.</li><li><strong>A diagnostic feature set</strong> distinguishing the two standards at the orthographic, morphological and lexical levels, together with a lexicon of foreign proper names whose transliteration differs systematically between them (Western Պ/Կ/Տ against Eastern Բ/Գ/Դ).</li><li><strong>Processing tools</strong>: a polite resumable harvester honouring both sites' robots.txt, an extractor performing boilerplate removal, quotation segmentation and byline identification, and analysis code computing variant shares within the envelope of variation.</li><li><strong>Documentation</strong> of each source's archive structure and URL schemes, the preprocessing steps required for reliable measurement, and a taxonomy of false positives encountered.</li></ol><p>Derived counts and short attributed excerpts only. Full article text is not redistributed; it remains the copyright of the respective publishers. No commenter names, handles or contact details are retained.</p><p>A design for a full-scale study of approximately one million tokens per publication is included, and the deposit is offered as a basis for extension to other Western Armenian publications.</p>", "creators": [ { "name": "Hovhannisyan, Gayane R.", "affiliation": "Yerevan State University" } ], "keywords": [ "Armenian", "Western Armenian", "Eastern Armenian", "pluricentricity", "language contact", "corpus linguistics", "newspaper corpus", "orthography", "language policy", "digital humanities" ], "license": "cc-by-4.0", "access_right": "open", "language": "eng", "version": "1.0.0", "related_identifiers": [ { "relation": "isSupplementTo", "identifier": "ADD ON UPLOAD: DOI or ISBN of the chapter", "resource_type": "publication-section" } ], "notes": "Robots.txt for both domains checked 2026-07-27 and honoured; jamanak.com declares Crawl-delay: 10. Aravot publishes a reuse notice on each article, under the Armenian Law on Copyright and Related Rights, requiring that excerpts not disclose an essential part of the item, that the outlet be named, and that an active link be given; this deposit complies."}