[Corpora-List] Narrative Corpus

[CRuehlemann at aol.com]

Dear all, 
 
I'd be most grateful for constructive feedback on a corpus  project I am 
pursuing.
 
The research projects involves the construction and annotation of a  corpus 
of naturally occurring conversational narratives. To my knowledge, such a  
corpus would be the first of its kind. For the past months I have been  extracting 
narratives from the conversational subcorpus of the BNC. I am now  going to 
enter the annotating stage. Given that narrative is largely a  discourse 
phenomen, the annotation will be a discourse one, which means that  much of it will 
have to be done by hand. However, before embarking on  what is no doubt an 
extremely laborious task I feel it  necessary to discuss my construction and 
annotation  schemes with colleagues in order to make sure that the annotation is  
such that it effectively captures the essentials of conversational narrative.  
Only if the corpus achieves this, will it become what it is intended to: a  
research tool that is useful for the research community.
 
At 
_http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/ruehlemann/index.html_ (http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/w
iss_ma/ruehlemann/index.html)  (scroll  down to link to "Narrative Corpus") you find a short PPT 
describing the  construction and annotation schemes for the corpus, which I refer to 
as the  Narrative Corpus. I would be most happy if some of you could have a 
glance at it  and maybe let me know whether they think I am heading in the right 
 direction or whether essential aspects of conversational storytelling that  
should be accounted for are getting overlooked.
 
Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
 
Kind regards
 
Chris
 
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Dr. Christoph Rühlemann, Munich





   
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