<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rhapsodie: a Prosodic and Syntactic Treebank for Spoken French</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We are pleased to announce that <i>Rhapsodie,</i> a syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French is now available at </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.projet-rhapsodie.fr/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.projet-rhapsodie.fr/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The Rhapsodie treebank </span><span lang="EN-GB">is made up of 57 short samples of spoken French (5 minutes long on average, amounting to 3 hours of speech and a 33 000 word corpus) endowed with an orthographical phoneme-aligned transcription . </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The corpus is representative of different genres (private and public speech; monologues and dialogues; face-to-face interviews and broadcasts; more or less interactive discourse; descriptive, argumentative and procedural samples, variations in planning type).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The corpus samples have been </span><span lang="EN-GB">mainly drawn from existing corpora of spoken French </span><span lang="EN-US">and partially created within the frame of the<i>Rhapsodie</i> project. We would especially like to thank the coordinators of the </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://cfpp2000.univ-paris3.fr/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">CFPP2000,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.projet-pfc.net/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">PFC</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.univ-orleans.fr/eslo/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ESLO</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span lang="IT"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/corpusprom/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">C-Prom</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">projects as well as Piet Mertens, Mathieu Avanzi, Anne Lacheret and Nicolas Obin.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The sound samples (waves, MP3, cleaned and stylized pitch), the orthographic transcriptions (txt), the macrosyntactic annotations (txt), the prosodic annotations (xml, textgrid) as well as the metadata (xml and html) can be freely downloaded under the terms of the Creative Commons licence Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 France.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Microsyntactic annotation will be available soon.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The metadata are searchable on line through a browser.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The prosodic annotation can be explored on line through the Rhapsodie Query Language.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The tutorials of transcription, annotations and Rhapsodie Query Language are available on the site.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Rhapsodie team (Modyco, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"> :<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Sylvain Kahane, Anne Lacheret, Paola Pietrandrea, Atanas Tchobanov, Arthur Truong.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Partners</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: IRCAM (Paris), LATTICE (Paris), LPL (Aix-en-Provence),CLLE-ERSS (Toulouse).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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