The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

An accessible introduction to the phonetic analysis of speech corpora, this workbook-style
text provides an extensive set of exercises to help readers develop the necessary skills to …

This paper describes a recently completed common resource for the study of spoken
discourse, the NXT-format Switchboard Corpus. Switchboard is a long-standing corpus of …

The past decade has seen a revolution in the field of spoken dialogue systems. As in other
areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, data-driven methods are now being …

This paper presents GATE Teamware—an open-source, web-based, collaborative text
annotation framework. It enables users to carry out complex corpus annotation projects …

The AMI and AMIDA projects are concerned with the recognition and interpretation of
multiparty meetings. Within these projects we have: developed an infrastructure for …

ANNIS (see Dipper & Götze 2005; Chiarcos et al. 2008) is a flexible web-based corpus
architecture for search and visualization of multi-layer linguistic corpora. By multi-layer we …

Abstract 'Open Data'has become very important in a wide range of fields. However for
linguistics, much data is still published in proprietary, closed formats and is not made …

The TEI has served for many years as a mature annotation format for corpora of different
types, including linguistically annotated data. Although it is based on the consensus of a …

We present a general framework for integrating annotations from different tools and tag sets.
When annotating corpora at multiple linguistic levels, annotators may use different expert …