[Corpora-List] Tutoring corpus

[Scott A. Crossley]

Dear all,

 

Is anyone aware of a corpus of tutoring dialogs? I am most interested in
writing tutoring, but all types of tutoring would be helpful. We are
designing an intelligent tutoring system for writing strategies and would
love to analyze human to human interaction for discourse and linguistic
features.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Scott Crossley, Ph.D.

Linguistics/TESOL

 

Department of English

Mississippi State University

http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/tesol/tesolfaculty.html

(662) 325-2355

 

Institute for Intelligent Systems

University of Memphis

http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/

 

From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
CRuehlemann at aol.com
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:35 AM
To: CORPORA at UIB.NO
Subject: [Corpora-List] Narrative Corpus

 

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
(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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