EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia
7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
2nd INTERSPEECH Event

Aalborg, Denmark
September 3-7, 2001

                  

Concordancing for Parallel Spoken Language Corpora

Dafydd Gibbon (1), Thorsten Trippel (1), Serge Sharoff (2)

(1) Universität Bielefeld, Germany
(2) Russian Research Institut for Artificial Intelligence / Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Concordancing is one of the oldest corpus analysis tools, especially for written corpora. In NLP concordancing appears in training of speech-recognition system. Additionally, comparative studies of different languages result in parallel corpora. Concordancing for these corpora in a NLP context is a new approach. We propose to combine these fields of interest for a multi-purpose concordance for Spoken Language Data, opening the opportunity of combining corpus-linguistic and NLP methods resulting in a broader empirical basis for NLP research. Theoretic models for audio-concordances are discussed. Principles of the structure and design of a parallel audio concordance are given, coding by means of XML to ensure reusability and flexibility, using time stamps for referencing from annotations to the signal.

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Bibliographic reference.  Gibbon, Dafydd / Trippel, Thorsten / Sharoff, Serge (2001): "Concordancing for parallel spoken language corpora", In EUROSPEECH-2001, 2063-2066.