C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance LanguagesEmanuela Cresti, Massimo Moneglia The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. Each corpus is built to the same design using identical sampling techniques, and each corpus is presented in multimedia format, allowing simultaneous access to aligned acoustic and textual information. Texts are headed with information about provenance, participants, etc. and the transcriptions show changes of speaker. Speech acts are tagged according to the evidence of prosodic criteria. Each corpus totals 300,000 words and presents formal and informal speech in a variety of contexts of use, dialogue structure and text genres, semantic domains and speech act typologies. The corpora have great statistical relevance for spoken language structures and can address key issues in human language technology such as speech recognition in unrestricted discourse, the suitability of speech synthesis in natural prosody, and multilingual applications of the spoken language interface. The work provides new data and innovative theoretical perspectives that are relevant for corpus linguistics, romance linguistics, syntactic theory, speech and prosody research, and second language acquisition. |
Contents
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2 The Italian corpus | 71 |
3 The French corpus | 111 |
4 The Spanish corpus | 135 |
5 The Portuguese corpus | 163 |
6 Notes on lexical strategy structural strategies and surface clause indexes in the CORALROM spoken corpora | 209 |
Evaluation of consensus on the annotation of terminal and nonterminal prosodic breaks in the CORALROM Corpus | 257 |
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The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics | 304 |
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adjectives adverbs alignment analysis annotation Blanche-Benveniste boundaries C-ORAL-ROM corpus C—ORAL—ROM classification clauses clitic compound verbal compound verbless confirmed context coordination CORLEX corpora corpus design Corpus Linguistics Cresti defined definition dialogic turn dialogue disambiguation discourse markers discourse particles distribution domain European Portuguese evaluation Figure DVD file first forms four languages French frequent grammar identified Indefinite indexes inflection interjections labelling Lemma Rank Lemma lemmatisation lexical linguistic Linguistica locutions Moneglia morpho-syntactic multiword nodes non-terminal breaks nouns occur onomatopoeia orthographic paralinguistic percentage phenomena PoS tagging pragmatic preposition pronouns prosodic break prosodic tagging Rank Lemma Rank recorded relevant resource Romance languages sampling semantic significant simple verbal Simple verbless Spanish speakers specific speech act speech corpus speech events speech flow spoken corpora spoken corpus spoken language spontaneous speech strategy Table tagger tagset terminal breaks texts Total transcribed transcription Universidade Universidade de Lisboa variation verbless utterances verbs Voghera WinPitch words