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

[Steve Pepper]

Congratulations! What a wonderful resource. I shall drink a Rauchbier to
your health!

Steve


On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 at 07:56, Geoffrey Haig <geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de>
wrote:

> *APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*
>
> *We are delighted to announce the launch of  "Multi-CAST" (the
> Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts), now available at:*
>
> https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/
>
> *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
>
> --
> Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
> Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
> Institut fuer Orientalistik
> Universität Bamberg
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> 96047 Bamberg
>
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> Admin:+49 951 863 2491; email: admin.aspra at uni-bamberg.dehttps://www.uni-bamberg.de/aspra/team/prof-dr-geoffrey-haig/
>
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