[Corpora-List] Creating audio-visual corpora

[Leech, Geoffrey]

Paul,

Sorry this reply is a bit late - but have you heard of the Spoken
Chinese Corpus of Situated Discourse collected in Beijing by Yueguo Gu
under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Science? (SCCSD
BJ-500 for short). It has 500 hours of discourse and is the most
ambitious and interesting audio-visual corpus I have come across. You
can find out about it here:
http://ling.cass.cn/dangdai/gu_papers/sampling%20situated%20discourse.pd
f

Geoff

Geoffrey Leech
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK
g.leech at lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593036
Fax: +44 (0)1524 843085

Message: 5
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:40:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Wanted: info on audio-visual corpora
To: Corpora list <corpora at uib.no>

On 30 Nov 2008, Paul Thompson <p.a.thompson at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am preparing a chapter on 'Creating audio-visual corpora' and would
like
> to get an idea of what the state of the art is, from a corpus
developer's
> point of view. I am primarily interested in corpus projects in which
the
> developers have linked digital audio and/or video files to the
transcripts,

You might be interested in the BSL Corpus project at UCL, Bangor, and
other UK universities. They are working with video of sign language
discourse and transcribing it (some parts into English). Go check out
http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/

Regards, Trevor





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