Corpora: Software tools

[Jean Veronis]

At 18:11 08/02/2002 +0100, maria dolores ramirez wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>
>Does anyone know if there is any software tool to analyse and annotate
>prosodic features from an oral corpus? Thank you for your help.


A student of mine just defended an excellent PhD thesis on that very topic. 
She used a bunch of tools for semi-automatic annotation of prosody with 
good results on French, English, italian, German and Spanish. You can have 
a look at the following paper, which gives a (very brief) overview:

Campione, E., & Véronis , J. (2001). Semi-automatic tagging of intonation 
in French spoken corpora. In P. Rayson, A. Wilson, T. McEnery, A. Hardie & 
S. Khoja (Eds.), Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics'2001 Conference (pp. 
90-99). Lancaster, U.K.: Lancaster University, UCREL.

[Available on-line: 
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/pdf/2001-lancaster-intonation.pdf]

She can probably send you a copy of her thesis if you contact her:

Estelle Campione <Estelle.Campione at up.univ-aix.fr>
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/perso/campione/

Best regards,




Jean Véronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis/