<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The present paper seeks to review relevant criteria used in classifying speech events (SEs) from the perspective of spoken corpus design. The primary goal is to survey the landscape of possible types of spoken language, so as to assess in which directions the coverage of spoken Czech offered by Czech National Corpus corpora can be expanded in the future. We approach the problem from both theoretical and practical points of view, examining what the theoretical literature has to say as well as approaches implemented in practice by existing spoken corpora of various languages. We then synthesize the obtained information into a pragmatically motivated set of SE classification criteria which does not aspire to be universal or definitive but aims to serve as a useful guiding principle and conceptual framework for understanding and promoting SE diversity when collecting spoken data.</p></abstract>

The present paper seeks to review relevant criteria used in classifying speech events (SEs) from the perspective of spoken corpus design. The primary goal is to survey the landscape of possible types of spoken language, so as to assess in which directions the coverage of spoken Czech offered by Czech National Corpus corpora can be expanded in the future. We approach the problem from both theoretical and practical points of view, examining what the theoretical literature has to say as well as approaches implemented in practice by existing spoken corpora of various languages. We then synthesize the obtained information into a pragmatically motivated set of SE classification criteria which does not aspire to be universal or definitive but aims to serve as a useful guiding principle and conceptual framework for understanding and promoting SE diversity when collecting spoken data.

Relevant Criteria for Selection of Spoken Data: Theory Meets Practice

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The present paper seeks to review relevant criteria used in classifying speech events (SEs) from the perspective of spoken corpus design. The primary goal is...

Relevant Criteria for Selection of Spoken Data: Theory Meets Practice

Online veröffentlicht: 21. Dez. 2019

Seitenbereich: 324 - 335

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0062

Schlüsselwörter
corpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora

© 2019 Marie Kopřivová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Relevant Criteria for Selection of Spoken Data: Theory Meets Practice

Online veröffentlicht: 21. Dez. 2019

Seitenbereich: 324 - 335

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0062

Schlüsselwörtercorpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora

© 2019 Marie Kopřivová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
corpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora