Corpora: Santa Barbara Corpus

[Lou Burnard]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Christopher Cieri wrote:

|I can certainly try to help. Because we expected the Santa Barbara
|Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE) to be used in multiple
|research communties where different computer platforms and software are
|common, we have tried to avoid depending upon any specific set of tools.
|The corpus contains only data; there is no software to install. Indeed,
|the data is stored on the CDs in uncompressed format so that you can
|read the transcripts or listen to the audio directly from CD.


Hmm. So instead of using pre-existing standards which at least have a
chance of being implemented across different computer platforms, it's
better to make up an entirely arbitrary set of codes of your own for
which *everyone* has to write their own software?

Ah well.

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