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This paper reports on the efforts of twelve national teams in building the International Comparable Corpus (ICC; https://korpus.cz/icc) that will contain highly comparable datasets of spoken, written and electronic registers. The languages currently covered are Czech, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish and, more recently, Chinese, as well as English, which is considered to be the pivot language. The goal of the project is to provide much-needed data for contrastive corpus-based linguistics. The ICC corpus is committed to the idea of re-using existing multilingual resources as much as possible and the design is modelled, with various adjustments, on the International Corpus of English (ICE). As such, ICC will contain approximately the same balance of forty percent of written language and 60 percent of spoken language distributed across 27 different text types and contexts. A number of issues encountered by the project teams are discussed, ranging from copyright and data sustainability to technical advances in data distribution.
Smooth turn-taking in conversation depends in part on speakers being able to communicate their intention to hold or cede the floor. Both prosodic and gestural cues have been shown to be used in this context. We investigate the interplay of pitch movements and hand gestures at locations at which speaker change becomes relevant, comparing their use in German and Swedish. We find that there are some shared functions of prosody and gesture with regard to turn-taking in the two languages, but that these shared functions appear to be mediated by the different phonological demands on pitch in the two languages.
We present a descriptive analysis on the two datasets from the shared task on Source, Subjective Expression and Target Extraction from Political Speeches (STEPS), the only existing German dataset for opinion role extraction of its size. Our analysis discusses the individual properties of the three components, subjective expressions, sources and targets and their relations towards each other. Our observations should help practitioners and researchers when building a system to extract opinion roles from German data.
A syntax-based scheme for the annotation and segmentation of German spoken language interactions
(2018)
Unlike corpora of written language where segmentation can mainly be derived from orthographic punctuation marks, the basis for segmenting spoken language corpora is not predetermined by the primary data, but rather has to be established by the corpus compilers. This impedes consistent querying and visualization of such data. Several ways of segmenting have been proposed,
some of which are based on syntax. In this study, we developed and evaluated annotation and segmentation guidelines in reference to the topological field model for German. We can show that these guidelines are used consistently across annotators. We also investigated the influence of various interactional settings with a rather simple measure, the word-count per segment and unit-type. We observed that the word count and the distribution of each unit type differ in varying interactional settings and that our developed segmentation and annotation guidelines are used consistently across annotators. In conclusion, our syntax-based segmentations reflect interactional properties that are intrinsic to the social interactions that participants are involved in. This can be used for further analysis of social interaction and opens the possibility for automatic segmentation of transcripts.
Online Access Tools for Spoken German: The Resources of the Deutsches Spracharchiv in a Database
(2002)
This paper shows some details of the modernization of the Deutsches Spracharchiv (DSAv). It explores some future possibilities of linguistical documentation and analysis using the Web. The Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim is the central institution for linguistic research in Germany. The DSAv in the IDS is the center for documentation and research of spoken German. These archives include the largest collection of sound recordings of spoken German (dialects and colloquial speech, including e.g. lots of extinct dialects of former German territories in Eastern Europe) - altogether more than 15,000 sound recordings. The lacking clarification and accessibility of this data material has been felt as an essential deficit. The opportunity to edit the sound signal digitally offers a much easier access to spoken language. Through the integration of the already existing information about the corpora and the transcribed texts in an information- and full text databank, as well as the linking of the data with the acoustic signal (alignment), arises a data-pool with considerably better documentation of the materials and a fast direct grasp of the recorded sounds. Thus, the DSAv initiates totally new research questions for the work at the IDS, as well as for linguistics altogether.
We apply a decision tree based approach to pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue. Our system deals with pronouns with NP- and non-NP-antecedents. We present a set of features designed for pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue and determine the most promising features. We evaluate the system on twenty Switchboard dialogues and show that it compares well to Byron’s (2002) manually tuned system.
Hypermedia und Internet revolutionieren die Gesellschaft in vielen Lebens- und Arbeitsbereichen. Sie sind auch in der Linguistik nicht nur zum Forschungsgegenstand, sondern auch zum Präsentationsmedium geworden. Auch und besonders in der Gesprächsanalyse werden die Möglichkeiten der Darstellung und der Analyse durch den Einsatz elektronischer Systeme um ein Vielfaches erweitert. In diesem Beitrag möchten wir darüber informieren, wie und zu welchem Zweck Videodateien in verschiedenen online oder offline verfügbaren Systemen zur Gesprächsforschung eingesetzt werden, und versuchen, den Stellenwert dieses Einsatzes im gesprächsanalytischen Arbeitsprozess aufzuzeigen. Nach einer Darstellung der bisherigen wesentlichen Entwicklungsschritte des Gesprächsanalytischen Informationssystems GAIS und einem Überblick über andere Hypermediasysteme zeigen wir, wie man mit Hilfe von Videos die Flüchtigkeit des originalen Kommunikationsereignisses nachbilden oder in spezifischer Weise auf dieses Ereignis zugreifen kann. Ferner zeigen wir, wie sich der Videoeinsatz mit Phasen des gesprächsanalytischen Arbeitsprozesses verknüpfen lässt, und plädieren für eine Integration der didaktischen Vermittlung in diesen Prozess. Wir beschäftigen uns hier also mit den didaktischen Einsatzmöglichkeiten für Lehrende und den Lernmöglichkeiten für Studierende, die hypermediale Systeme in der Gesprächsanalyse bieten.
We present an approach to making existing CLARIN web services usable for spoken language transcriptions. Our approach is based on a new TEI-based ISO standard for such transcriptions. We show how existing tool formats can be transformed to this standard, how an encoder/decoder pair for the TCF format enables users to feed this type of data through a WebLicht tool chain, and why and how web services operating directly on the standard format would be useful.
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung und Anwendung des TEI-basierten ISO-Standards ISO 24624:2016 Transcription of spoken language, der seit einigen Jahren für gesprochensprachliche Forschungsdaten aus unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzt wird. Ein standardisiertes Dateiformat ermöglicht Interoperabilität zwischen verschiedenen Werkzeugen und weiteren Angeboten von Datenzentren und Infrastrukturen. Durch die methodologisch fundierte Abwägung zwischen Standardisierung und Flexibilität kann der ISO/TEI-Standard zudem Forschungsdaten aus verschiedenen Forschungskontexten abbilden, und so interdisziplinäre Vorhaben erleichtern. Der Beitrag stellt einige Anwendungsbereiche aus dem Lebenszyklus gesprochensprachlicher Forschungsdaten vor, in denen auf dem ISO/TEI-Standard basierenden Erweiterungen existierender Softwarelösungen erfolgreich umgesetzt werden konnten, und zeigt weitere Beispiele für die zunehmende Verbreitung des Formats.