A Brazilian Contribution for Automated Linguistic Cartography

Abstract

In Brazil, geolinguistic studies have achieved many advances since 1963, the year in which Nelson Rossi published the first Brazilian linguistic atlas, Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos. The fruitful development of Brazilian geolinguistics has required investments in technological advances in order to streamline and to optimize the work of researchers in the task of preparing the atlas, either in audiovisual tools for data collection or the creation of databases to organize the linguistic material collected. Thus, our aim is to present to the scientific community a new computational tool adaptable to the diverse researchers' needs. Through a simple and intuitive interface, the tool proposed allows the elaboration of various linguistic maps and reports so that the linguists perform their work independently of the intervention of professionals with training in information technology and other areas.