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Chapter 1. Collecting data for the Rhapsodie treebank

Corpus design and ethical issues
  • Anne Lacheret-Dujour , Paola Pietrandrea , Olivier Baude , Nicolas Obin , Anne-Catherine Simon and Atanas Tchobanov
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Abstract

This chapter is devoted to the development of the Rhapsodie repository. We describe the selection of data to be annotated, the principles used to document the data and discuss the theoretical assumptions underlying the Rhapsodie project. The aim was to provide a corpus to study the interface between discourse, syntax, and prosody in French and the variation of intonosyntactic features according to discourse genre in the marking of informational structure as well as expressivity in unelicited speech. At the beginning of the Rhapsodie project such data were under-represented and the need for spoken corpora of this type in French was strongly felt. Consequently, several challenges had to be addressed. First, we discuss the different obstacles and challenging questions we faced with respect to the development of a well-balanced corpus of different discourse genres produced in different speech situations, such as the nature of the data and the type of information to include in the metadata. Then, we present the sources from which the samples were extracted, legal and ethical issues, and the methodology adopted to encode the metadata.

Abstract

This chapter is devoted to the development of the Rhapsodie repository. We describe the selection of data to be annotated, the principles used to document the data and discuss the theoretical assumptions underlying the Rhapsodie project. The aim was to provide a corpus to study the interface between discourse, syntax, and prosody in French and the variation of intonosyntactic features according to discourse genre in the marking of informational structure as well as expressivity in unelicited speech. At the beginning of the Rhapsodie project such data were under-represented and the need for spoken corpora of this type in French was strongly felt. Consequently, several challenges had to be addressed. First, we discuss the different obstacles and challenging questions we faced with respect to the development of a well-balanced corpus of different discourse genres produced in different speech situations, such as the nature of the data and the type of information to include in the metadata. Then, we present the sources from which the samples were extracted, legal and ethical issues, and the methodology adopted to encode the metadata.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Chapter 1. Collecting data for the Rhapsodie treebank 7
  7. Chapter 2. Orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of Rhapsodie recording 21
  8. Chapter 3. Syntactic annotation of the Rhapsodie corpus 35
  9. Chapter 4. Microsyntactic annotation 49
  10. Chapter 5. The annotation of list structures 69
  11. Chapter 6. Macrosyntactic annotation 97
  12. Chapter 7. Annotation tools for syntax 127
  13. Chapter 8. Prosodic annotation of the Rhapsodie corpus 147
  14. Chapter 9. The annotation of syllabic prominences and disfluencies 157
  15. Chapter 10. Segmentation into intonational periods 175
  16. Chapter 11. Derivation of the prosodic structure 213
  17. Chapter 12. From pitch stylization to automatic tonal annotation of speech corpora 233
  18. Chapter 13. Tonal annotation 251
  19. Chapter 14. Tools for fundamental frequency estimation in Rhapsodie 261
  20. Chapter 15. Exploration of the Rhapsodie corpus 271
  21. Chapter 16. Macrosyntax at work 285
  22. Chapter 17. The distribution of prosodic features in the Rhapsodie corpus 315
  23. Chapter 18. Syntax and prosody mapping: What and how? 339
  24. Chapter 19. Conclusion 365
  25. References 369
  26. Subject index 393
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.89.02lac

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Chapter 1. Collecting data for the Rhapsodie treebank 7
  7. Chapter 2. Orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of Rhapsodie recording 21
  8. Chapter 3. Syntactic annotation of the Rhapsodie corpus 35
  9. Chapter 4. Microsyntactic annotation 49
  10. Chapter 5. The annotation of list structures 69
  11. Chapter 6. Macrosyntactic annotation 97
  12. Chapter 7. Annotation tools for syntax 127
  13. Chapter 8. Prosodic annotation of the Rhapsodie corpus 147
  14. Chapter 9. The annotation of syllabic prominences and disfluencies 157
  15. Chapter 10. Segmentation into intonational periods 175
  16. Chapter 11. Derivation of the prosodic structure 213
  17. Chapter 12. From pitch stylization to automatic tonal annotation of speech corpora 233
  18. Chapter 13. Tonal annotation 251
  19. Chapter 14. Tools for fundamental frequency estimation in Rhapsodie 261
  20. Chapter 15. Exploration of the Rhapsodie corpus 271
  21. Chapter 16. Macrosyntax at work 285
  22. Chapter 17. The distribution of prosodic features in the Rhapsodie corpus 315
  23. Chapter 18. Syntax and prosody mapping: What and how? 339
  24. Chapter 19. Conclusion 365
  25. References 369
  26. Subject index 393
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