This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993. It brings together the findings presented in a clear and coherent manner, focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of particular transcription or mark-up practice.
List of Acronyms
List of Contributors
Editor's General Introduction
Part A: Issues and Practices
Introduction
1. Principles and alternative systems in the transcription, coding and mark-up of spoken discourse
2. Theoretical issues: transcribing the untranscribable
3. Adequacy, user-friendliness, and practicality in transcribing
4. Whole-text analysis in computerised spoken discourse
5. The text encoding initiative: an overview
6. The approach of the Text Encoding Initiative to the encoding of spoken discourse
7. From theory to practice
Part B: Applications and More Specialised Uses
Introduction
8. Transcription, segmentation and analysis: corpora from the language-impaired
9. Corpora of disordered language
10. Discourse considerations in transcription and analysis
11. Code switching: a problem for transcription and text encoding
12. Linking prosodic transcription to the time dimension
13. Grammar tagging of the spoken part of the British National Corpus: a progress report
14. Publishing a spoken and written corpus on CD ROM: the HCRC Map Task Experience
Part C: Samples and Systems of Transcription
Introduction
15. The survey of English usage and the London-Lund Corpus:computerizing manual prosodic transcription.
16. The COBUILDSpoken Corpus: transcription conventions
17. Recycling an old corpus: converting the SEC into the MARSEC database
18. The International Corpus of English: mark up for spoken language
19. The BNC Spoken Corpus
20. The Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language (COLT)
Bibliography references
Subject index
Index of Person's names.
Jenny Thomas, Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers
