[Lingtyp] Resource for corpus-based typology: Multi-CAST (Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts)

[Geoffrey Haig]

*APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*
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*We are delighted to announce the launch of  "Multi-CAST" (the 
Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts), now available at:*
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https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/
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*Multi-CAST in a nutshell:*
Multi-CAST is an online collection of annotated spoken language corpora 
from a steadily expanding range of typologically diverse languages.

It features standardized annotations across multiple levels, targeting 
morphosyntactic structure and reference.
Multi-CAST has been designed as a tool for quantitative, corpus-based 
typology.
It is based on open-source software resources, and all data are fully 
accessible under a Creative Commons licence.

  - 11 corpora from diverse languages
  - each corpus comprises at least 1000 clauses, for a total of 20000 
clauses (c. 85000 words)
  - 10 additional corpora in preparation
  - multiple annotation layers for morphosyntax and referent tracking 
(including zero anaphora) using unified annotation schemes (GRAID, RefIND)
  - a companion R package facilitates quantitative cross-corpus analysis

For a comprehensive one-stop overview, see the following document:

https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/data/docs/general/collection-overview/mc_collection-overview.pdf

Enjoy!

The Multi-CAST team

Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, Nils Schiborr

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Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Institut fuer Orientalistik
Universität Bamberg

Schillerplatz 7
96047 Bamberg

Office:+49 951 863 2490;
Admin:+49 951 863 2491; email: admin.aspra at uni-bamberg.de
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/aspra/team/prof-dr-geoffrey-haig/

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