27.935, FYI: European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT)

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Subject: 27.935, FYI: European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT)

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:54:05
From: Ana Piquer-Píriz [anapiriz at unex.es]
Subject: European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT)

 
The European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) is available online.

We are very pleased to announce that the first part of the European Corpus of
Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) can be searched by registered users via the internet.
Interested researchers may now access the 58,834-word corpus of 27 office
hours’ consultations carried out in English as academic lingua franca at four
different universities in Europe (Ireland, England, Sweden and the
Netherlands). The transcripts may be downloaded as XML or txt. 

This is the first corpus of its kind to be made widely available. It provides
transcripts of academic conversations between undergraduate Erasmus students
(L1 Spanish) and their lecturers at different host universities. It may thus
prove of interest to those whose research interests include spoken academic
discourse, intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca, study
abroad experiences or the assessment of oral skills, among others. Apart from
the transcripts of academic mentoring sessions recorded between lecturers and
Spanish undergraduate Erasmus students, full contextual information is
provided in all cases (background information on participants, detailed
description of the setting, topics covered or participants’ subjective
judgments of possible on-stage effects on their interaction). The transcripts
record (from left to right) (1) the speech entry number; (2) speaker
identification; (3) transcribed speech (4) time stamp (every 30 seconds) and
word/fragment of speech at which it occurs. The system of transcription used
is based on the one developed by for the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of
English (VOICE) (VOICE Project. 2007. VOICE Transcription Conventions [2.1].
http://www.univie.ac.at/voice/documents/VOICE_mark-up_conventions_v2-1.pdf
(date of last access 04/06/2013). Full details of the transcription system
used can be found at:
http://www.eurocoat.es/web_sections_1/the_corpus_eurocoat_the_european_corpus_
of_academic_talk_12 

This corpus is the result of a three-year research project supported by the
Spanish ‘Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad’ (ref. FFI2011-22809). 

We kindly invite all interested researchers to visit www.eurocoat.es for
further details about the project, the corpus and how to access it.

Ana Piquer-Píriz, on behalf of the research team.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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