Enhancing Speech Corpus Resources with Multiple Lexical Tag Layers

Andreas Witt, Harald Lüngen, Dafydd Gibbon · 2000

We describe a general two-stage procedure for re-using a custom corpus for spoken language system development involving a transformation from character-based markup to XML, and DSSSL stylesheet-driven XML markup enhancement with multiple lexical tag trees.The procedure was used to generate a fully tagged corpus; alternatively with greater economy of computing resources, it can be employed as a parametrised 'tagging on demand' filter.The implementation will shortly be released as a public resource together with the corpus (German spoken dialogue, about 500k word form tokens) and lexicon (about 75k word form types).

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