Balanced data repository of spontaneous spoken Czech

Lucie Válková, Martina Waclawičová, Michal Křen


Abstract
The paper presents data repository that will be used as a source of data for ORAL2013, a new corpus of spontaneous spoken Czech. The corpus is planned to be published in 2013 within the framework of the Czech National Corpus and it will contain both the audio recordings and their transcriptions manually aligned with time stamps. The corpus will be designed as a representation of contemporary spontaneous spoken language used in informal, real-life situations on the area of the whole Czech Republic and thus balanced in the main sociolinguistic categories of speakers. Therefore, the data repository features broad regional coverage with large variety of speakers, as well as precise and uniform processing. The repository is already built, basically balanced and sized 3 million words proper (i.e. tokens not including punctuation). Before the publication, another set of overall consistency checks will be carried out, as well as final selection of the transcriptions to be included into ORAL2013 as the final product.
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L12-1043
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3345–3349
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/179_Paper.pdf
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Lucie Válková, Martina Waclawičová, and Michal Křen. 2012. Balanced data repository of spontaneous spoken Czech. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3345–3349, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Balanced data repository of spontaneous spoken Czech (Válková et al., LREC 2012)
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