A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus

A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
ISBN-10
1317899458
ISBN-13
9781317899457
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2014-07-22
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Briony Williams, Gerry Knowles, Lita Taylor

Description

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

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