A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus

ISBN-13: 9780582056398 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 278 str.

Gerald Knowles; Lancaster University) Taylor Lita (Research Assistant; University Of Briony (Centre For Speech Technology Research

Opis

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

Spis treści

Introduction
Prosodic characters
The composition of the corpus.
Breakdown into categories. Speakers.
Dates of composition and recording.
The duration of text extracts.
SEC text details.
Versions of SEC material.
Spoken recording.
Unpunctuated transcriptions.
Orthographic transcriptions.
Samples of different versions.
Unpunctuated transcription.
Orthographic transcription.
Grammatically tagged versions.
Texts.

Appendix 1: The CLAWS1 tagset.
Appendix 2: Complete version of Through the Tunnel.

References and bibliography.

O autorze

Gerald Knowles is a senior lectuerer at Lancaster University. Lita Taylor is a Research Assistant at Lancaster University. Briony Williams is a Senior Researcher at the University of Bangor.