[Corpora] [Corpora-List] Need help locating suitable corpus

[Laurel Smith Stvan]

Hi Roland,

Have you looked at the Switchboard Corpus? It's freely available here:
https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S62

Best wishes,
Laurel

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Laurel Smith Stvan
Associate Professor and Chair
Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL
The University of Texas at Arlington
stvan at uta.edu
http://www.uta.edu/faculty/stvan/
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Joachim Bingel wrote:
> Dear Roland,
>
> have a look at the TRAINS corpus [1]. It contains dialogues between
> users and operators ('systems') that try to solve logistic problems,
> e.g. the transportation of goods from A to B, under various constraints.
>
> Good luck,
> Joachim
>
> [1] http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/speech/93dialogs/
>
> On 07.11.2014 14:40, Roland Bluhm wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am looking for a corpus of spontaneous spoken English (in any of its
>> varieties, but with first language speakers) with discourse likely to
>> contain causal reasoning. The perfect corpus for my purposes would
>> consist of something like transcripts from telephone hotline
>> conversation, where users and operators would try to establish the
>> reason for some technical fault over the phone. (The typical situation
>> could well start with "Have you tried turning it on and off?".)
>> However, that is only an idea. Presumably, any argumentative context
>> would suffice for my purposes. I've looked at a number of articles
>> with overviews but could not access any of the candidate corpora to
>> see whether they would fit the requirements (e.g. CANCODE, Longman, WSC).
>>
>> Could anyone point me to a corpus?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Roland Bluhm
>>
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