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Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German

  • Hanna Hedeland and Thomas Schmidt
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Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis
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Abstract

This article discusses questions concerning the creation, annotation and sharing of spoken language corpora. We use the Hamburg Map Task Corpus (HAMATAC), a small corpus in which advanced learners of German were recorded solving a map task, as an example to illustrate our main points. We first give an overview of the corpus creation and annotation process including recording, metadata documentation, transcription and semi-automatic annotation of the data. We then discuss the manual annotation of disfluencies as an example case in which many of the typical and challenging problems for data reuse – in particular the reliability of interpretative annotations – are revealed.

Abstract

This article discusses questions concerning the creation, annotation and sharing of spoken language corpora. We use the Hamburg Map Task Corpus (HAMATAC), a small corpus in which advanced learners of German were recorded solving a map task, as an example to illustrate our main points. We first give an overview of the corpus creation and annotation process including recording, metadata documentation, transcription and semi-automatic annotation of the data. We then discuss the manual annotation of disfluencies as an example case in which many of the typical and challenging problems for data reuse – in particular the reliability of interpretative annotations – are revealed.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction xi
  4. Section 1. Learner and attrition corpora
  5. The LeaP corpus 3
  6. Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German 25
  7. Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus 47
  8. The ALeSKo learner corpus 71
  9. Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children 97
  10. Monolingual and bilingual phonoprosodic corpora of child German and child Spanish 107
  11. Pragmatic corpus analysis, exemplified by Turkish-German bilingual and monolingual data 123
  12. Corpus of Polish spoken in Germany 153
  13. The HABLA-corpus (German-French and German-Italian) 163
  14. Section 2. Language contact corpora
  15. The Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) 183
  16. Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? 199
  17. Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) 215
  18. Researching the intelligibility of a (German) dialect 231
  19. Annotating ambiguity 245
  20. Section 3. Interpreting corpora
  21. Sharing community interpreting corpora 275
  22. CoSi – A Corpus of Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting 295
  23. The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals” 305
  24. Section 4. Comparable and parallel corpora
  25. The GeWiss corpus 319
  26. Korpus C4 339
  27. Treebanks in translation studies 347
  28. Section 5. Corpus tools
  29. Multilingual phonological corpus analysis 365
  30. Finding the balance between strict defaults and total openness 383
  31. General index 401
  32. Corpora index 405
  33. Language index 407
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.14.04hed

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction xi
  4. Section 1. Learner and attrition corpora
  5. The LeaP corpus 3
  6. Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German 25
  7. Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus 47
  8. The ALeSKo learner corpus 71
  9. Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children 97
  10. Monolingual and bilingual phonoprosodic corpora of child German and child Spanish 107
  11. Pragmatic corpus analysis, exemplified by Turkish-German bilingual and monolingual data 123
  12. Corpus of Polish spoken in Germany 153
  13. The HABLA-corpus (German-French and German-Italian) 163
  14. Section 2. Language contact corpora
  15. The Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) 183
  16. Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? 199
  17. Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) 215
  18. Researching the intelligibility of a (German) dialect 231
  19. Annotating ambiguity 245
  20. Section 3. Interpreting corpora
  21. Sharing community interpreting corpora 275
  22. CoSi – A Corpus of Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting 295
  23. The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals” 305
  24. Section 4. Comparable and parallel corpora
  25. The GeWiss corpus 319
  26. Korpus C4 339
  27. Treebanks in translation studies 347
  28. Section 5. Corpus tools
  29. Multilingual phonological corpus analysis 365
  30. Finding the balance between strict defaults and total openness 383
  31. General index 401
  32. Corpora index 405
  33. Language index 407
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