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<DIV>Dear all, </DIV>
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<DIV>I'd be most grateful for constructive feedback on a corpus
project I am pursuing.</DIV>
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<DIV>The research projects involves the construction and annotation of a
corpus of naturally occurring conversational narratives. To my knowledge, such a
corpus would be the first of its kind. For the past months I have been
extracting narratives from the conversational subcorpus of the BNC. I am now
going to enter the annotating stage. Given that narrative is largely a
discourse phenomen, the annotation will be a discourse one, which means that
much of it will have to be done by hand. However, before embarking on
what is no doubt an extremely laborious task I feel it
necessary to discuss my construction and annotation
schemes with colleagues in order to make sure that the annotation is
such that it effectively captures the essentials of conversational narrative.
Only if the corpus achieves this, will it become what it is intended to: a
research tool that is useful for the research community.</DIV>
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<DIV>At <A
href="http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/ruehlemann/index.html">http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/ruehlemann/index.html</A> (scroll
down to link to "Narrative Corpus") you find a short PPT describing the
construction and annotation schemes for the corpus, which I refer to as the
Narrative Corpus. I would be most happy if some of you could have a glance at it
and maybe let me know whether they think I am heading in the right
direction or whether essential aspects of conversational storytelling that
should be accounted for are getting overlooked.</DIV>
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<DIV>Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kind regards</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris</DIV>
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<DIV>Dr. Christoph Rühlemann, Munich</DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT> </BODY></HTML>