30.3330, FYI: New Resource for corpus-based typology: Multi-CAST

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Subject: 30.3330, FYI: New Resource for corpus-based typology: Multi-CAST

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 06:59:20
From: Geoffrey Haig [geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: New Resource for corpus-based typology: Multi-CAST

 
We are delighted to announce the launch of  ''Multi-CAST'' (the Multilingual
Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts), now available at:

https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/

Multi-CAST in a nutshell:
Multi-CAST is an online collection of annotated spoken language corpora from a
steadily expanding range of typologically diverse languages.

It features standardized annotations across multiple levels, targeting
morphosyntactic structure and reference.
Multi-CAST has been designed as a tool for quantitative, corpus-based
typology.
It is based on open-source software resources, and all data are fully
accessible under a Creative Commons licence.

- 11 corpora from diverse languages
- each corpus comprises at least 1000 clauses, for a total of 20000 clauses
(c. 85000 words)
- 10 additional corpora in preparation
- multiple annotation layers for morphosyntax and referent tracking (including
zero anaphora) using unified annotation schemes (GRAID, RefIND)
- a companion R package facilitates quantitative cross-corpus analysis

For a comprehensive one-stop overview, see the following document:

https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/data/docs/general/collection-overview/m
c_collection-overview.pdf

Enjoy!

The Multi-CAST team

Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, Nils Schiborr
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology





 



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