[Corpora-List] German corpora

[Caren Brinckmann]

Dear Jaime,

unfortunately I don't know of any recent corpus of _spoken_ German that 
is freely available. You might find something useful (but not free of 
charge) within the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals: 
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Bas/BasKorporaeng.html#SpontKorpora.

At the Institute for German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, we recently 
compiled the corpus "German Today" recording 800 speakers in two age 
groups, including a 30 minute interview with each speaker. Especially 
the younger speakers use anglicisms (e.g. when talking about computer 
games). You can find more information about the corpus in our CL2007 
paper http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/136_Paper.pdf 
and on the project's webpage (in German): 
http://www.ids-mannheim.de/prag/AusVar/Deutsch_heute/

So far, all interviews of the older speakers have been transcribed 
orthographically. The interviews of the younger speakers are still being 
transcribed. The corpus is not yet publicly available, but it can be 
accessed during a research visit at the IDS. If you are interested, 
please contact me (brinckmann at ids-mannheim.de).

Older corpora of spoken German that are archived at the IDS are listed 
here: http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/korpora/korpus-index.html

Hope this helps!
Caren.

-- 
Caren Brinckmann
Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
R5, 6-13
68161 Mannheim
Tel: 0621/1581-219
Fax: 0621/1581-200


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