37.796, FYI: Publication of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECI)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-796. Thu Feb 26 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.796, FYI: Publication of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECI)

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Date: 26-Feb-2026
From: Siegwalt Lindenfelser [lindenfelser at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: Publication of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECI)


The program area “Oral corpora” at the Leibniz Institute for the
German Language (IDS Mannheim) is pleased to announce that the
“Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction” (PECI) has been
released this week as part of version 2.25 of the “Database for Spoken
German” (DGD). The corpus is now available online for scientific
research and academic teaching purposes after registration:
https://dgd.ids-mannheim.de/
The PECI corpus is a multilingual comparative corpus of spoken
everyday social interaction. It was collected as part of the project
“Norms, Rules, and Morality across Languages” (NoRM-aL, 2020-2023, led
by Jörg Zinken, IDS Mannheim, funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) and
contains audio and video recordings in four languages: German,
(British) English, Italian and Polish. For each language, three social
activities were recorded from two camera angles: Family breakfasts,
game nights with friends and relatives as well as car rides with
friends.
The PECI corpus contains 83 recordings with 254 speakers with a total
length of around 77 hours and transcripts with around 600.000
transcribed tokens. In addition, detailed metadata on the interactions
and the participants is provided in four languages as well as
additional materials (in English and German).
If you are interested in the new data and functionalities included in
Release 2.25 of the DGD, you can read more about the details in the
DGD release mail here (in German):
https://agd.ids-mannheim.de/Releasemails/Release-Text_2_25.html

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Polish (pol)




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