The Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German — FOLK

Thomas Schmidt


Abstract
FOLK is the “Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK)” (eng.: research and teaching corpus of spoken German). The project has set itself the aim of building a corpus of German conversations which a) covers a broad range of interaction types in private, institutional and public settings, b) is sufficiently large and diverse and of sufficient quality to support different qualitative and quantitative research approaches, c) is transcribed, annotated and made accessible according to current technological standards, and d) is available to the scientific community on a sound legal basis and without unnecessary restrictions of usage. This paper gives an overview of the corpus design, the strategies for acquisition of a diverse range of interaction data, and the corpus construction workflow from recording via transcription an annotation to dissemination.
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L14-1263
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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383–387
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/290_Paper.pdf
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Thomas Schmidt. 2014. The Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German — FOLK. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 383–387, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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