Lexicon of Place Names in the Alsatian Dialects

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: loc.fac – Facility loc.phys.astro – Astronym loc.phys.geo – Geonym loc.phys.hydro – Hydronym loc.adm.nat – Country loc.adm.reg – Region loc.adm.sup – Supranational loc.adm.town – City loc.oro – Odonym 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’alsadico : 22 000 mots et expressions français-alsacien</em>. La<br> Nuée bleue, Strasbourg, 2006.) and Elsàsser (Marc Hug. <em>Toponymes d’Alsace</em>. Online, http://elsasser.free.fr/<br> NomCommu/ecrantot.html, 2007.) 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: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01702656.