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<div>*APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*</div>
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<div><b>We are delighted to announce the launch of "Multi-CAST"
(the Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts), now
available at:</b></div>
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<div><a href="https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/</a><br>
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<div><b>Multi-CAST in a nutshell:</b><br>
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<div>Multi-CAST is an online collection of annotated spoken language
corpora from a steadily expanding range of typologically diverse
languages.<br>
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It features standardized annotations across multiple levels,
targeting morphosyntactic structure and reference. <br>
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<div>Multi-CAST has been designed as a tool for quantitative,
corpus-based typology. <br>
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<div>It is based on open-source software resources, and all data are
fully accessible under a Creative Commons licence.<br>
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- 11 corpora from diverse languages<br>
- each corpus comprises at least 1000 clauses, for a total of
20000 clauses (c. 85000 words)<br>
- 10 additional corpora in preparation<br>
- multiple annotation layers for morphosyntax and referent
tracking (including zero anaphora) using unified annotation
schemes (GRAID, RefIND)<br>
- a companion R package facilitates quantitative cross-corpus
analysis<br>
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<div>For a comprehensive one-stop overview, see the following
document:</div>
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<div><a class="gmail-m_-4021245251414761124moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/data/docs/general/collection-overview/mc_collection-overview.pdf"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/data/docs/general/collection-overview/mc_collection-overview.pdf</a><br>
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<div>Enjoy!<br>
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<div>The Multi-CAST team<br>
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Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, Nils Schiborr<br>
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Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Institut fuer Orientalistik
Universität Bamberg
Schillerplatz 7
96047 Bamberg
Office:+49 951 863 2490;
Admin:+49 951 863 2491; email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de">admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uni-bamberg.de/aspra/team/prof-dr-geoffrey-haig/">https://www.uni-bamberg.de/aspra/team/prof-dr-geoffrey-haig/</a></pre>
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