Corpus characterisation

• Transcription
  • The transcription of read speech versus the transcription of spontaneous speech
  • Transcription of dialogues
  • Levels and types of transcription
• Concerning the segmentation and labelling of speech signals
  • Use of segmented speech databases
  • The CRIL conventions
  • Manual segmentation
  • Automatic and semi-automatic segmentation
  • Segmentation and labelling in the VERBMOBIL project
• The levels and types of symbolic representations of speech
  • Recording script
  • Orthographic transcription
    • Reduced word forms
    • Dialect forms
    • Numbers
    • Abbreviations and spelled words
    • Interjections
    • Orthographic transcription of read speech
    • Orthographic transcription as the first of many levels
  • Morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic representations
  • Citation-phonemic representation
  • Broad phonetic or phonotypic transcription
  • Narrow phonetic transcription
  • Acoustic-phonetic transcription
  • Physical transcription
  • Prosodic transcription
    • Types of approach to prosodic labelling
    • Examples of the two types of approach
    • The ToBI labelling system
    • MARSEC labelling system
    • The IPO approach
    • Prosodic labelling in the VERBMOBIL project
  • Non-linguistic and other phenomena