Computational tools and spoken corpora designan ongoing dialogue

  1. Vázquez Rozas, Victoria 2
  2. Barcala, Mario 1
  1. 1 NLPgo Technologies S.L.
  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Journal:
Caplletra: revista internacional de filología

ISSN: 0214-8188

Year of publication: 2020

Issue: 69

Pages: 221-240

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7203/CAPLLETRA.69.17270 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The design of an oral corpus and the processes of registering, codifying and treating the materials in order to build a useful resource for linguistic analysis prompt numerous decisions regarding theory and methodology. This article is focused on those stages of corpus construction which are more clearly conditioned by the computational processing necessary to make it functional.  In order to adequately match the initial expectations and the real possibilities of using the tool, each feature we intend to codify must be measured against the workload and the means required to do so. Therefore, it is essential to take into account the available possibilities of processing and exploitation as they have a crucial impact on decisions regarding the corpus’ construction. Based on experience acquired in the construction of the ESLORA corpus, the present article looks into some of the problems arising in the process of designing an oral corpus, such as the delicacy with which oral phenomena are represented, the segmentation of the discourse, the coexistence of different simultaneous tagging systems and the particularities of annotation in a bilingual or multilingual context.

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Funding information

This study was financed by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) ‘Spanish State Research Agency’ and by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) (European Regional Development Fund) through the ESLORA+ project (FFI2017-86379-P). The authors are members of the research group Gramática del español ‘Spanish Grammar’ from the University of Santiago de Compostela, which has been awarded a grant for the Strengthening and Organisation of Research Groups with Potential for Growth by the Regional Government’s Education Department (ED431B 2017/39). The study has also benefited from the participation of the ESLORA project in the Red temática en estudios de Análisis del Discurso (FFI2017-90738-REDT).

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