The Spoken BNC2014:designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations

Love, Robbie and Dembry, Claire and Hardie, Andrew and Brezina, Vaclav and McEnery, Tony (2017) The Spoken BNC2014:designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22 (3). pp. 319-344. ISSN 1384-6655

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, an 11-million-word corpus of orthographically transcribed conversations among L1 speakers of British English from across the UK, recorded in the years 2012-2016. After showing that a survey of the recent history of corpora of spoken British English justifies the compilation of this new corpus, we describe the main stages of the Spoken BNC2014’s creation: design, data and metadata collection, transcription, XML encoding, and annotation. In doing so we aim to i) encourage users of the corpus to approach the data with sensitivity to the many methodological issues we identified and attempted to overcome while compiling the Spoken BNC2014, and ii) inform (future) compilers of spoken corpora of the innovations we implemented to attempt to make the construction of corpora representing spontaneous speech in informal contexts more tractable, both logistically and practically, than in the past.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203
Subjects:
?? SPOKEN BNC2014TRANSCRIPTIONCORPUS CONSTRUCTIONSPOKEN CORPORALINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGELANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS ??
ID Code:
85050
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Deposited On:
07 Mar 2017 09:40
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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18 Sep 2023 01:10