VERBMOBIL dialogues: multifaced analysis
Akira Kurematsu, Youichi Akegami, Susanne Burge, Susanne Johanna Jekat, Brigitte Lause, Victoria MacLaren, Daniela Oppermann, Tanja Schultz · 2000
This paper describes the outline of collecting and transcribing spontaneous spoken dialogues for VERBMOBIL, the German research project on multilingual processing of spontaneous speech. The method and conditions of data collection performed using the same scenario and the transliteration convention of spontaneous speech were described. The characteristics of VERBMOBIL corpus were presented in terms of the size of dialogues, turns, sentences, words, perplexity based on the linguistic analysis. 1