Spoken English on Computer Transcription, Mark-Up and Application

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 AcronymsList of ContributorsEditor's General IntroductionPart A: Issues and PracticesIntroduction1. Principles and alternative systems in the transcription, coding and mark-up of spoken discourse2. Theoretical issues: transcribing the untranscribable3. Adequacy, user-friendliness, and practicality in transcribing4. Whole-text analysis in computerised spoken discourse5. The text encoding initiative: an overview6. The approach of the Text Encoding Initiative to the encoding of spoken discourse7. From theory to practicePart B: Applications and More Specialised UsesIntroduction8. Transcription, segmentation and analysis: corpora from the language-impaired9. Corpora of disordered language10. Discourse considerations in transcription and analysis11. Code switching: a problem for transcription and text encoding12. Linking prosodic transcription to the time dimension13. Grammar tagging of the spoken part of the British National Corpus: a progress report14. Publishing a spoken and written corpus on CD ROM: the HCRC Map Task ExperiencePart C: Samples and Systems of TranscriptionIntroduction15. The survey of English usage and the London-Lund Corpus:computerizing manual prosodic transcription. 16. The COBUILDSpoken Corpus: transcription conventions17. Recycling an old corpus: converting the SEC into the MARSEC database18. The International Corpus of English: mark up for spoken language19. The BNC Spoken Corpus20. The Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language (COLT)Bibliography referencesSubject indexIndex of Person's names.

Jenny Thomas, Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers