Arabic Learner Corpus: Texts Transcription and Files Format
Ayg Alfaifi, Eric Atwell · White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) · 2013
This paper introduces standards used for transcribing texts of the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC) from the hand-written sheets into an electronic format. It describes the transcription process which was performed by three transcribers, and the measurement conducted for keeping consistency in transcription. The paper concludes with a description of the corpus file produced based on the electronic format.