Universität Bielefeld - "Graduiertenkolleg Aufgabenorientierte Kommunikation"

A flexible formal language for the orthographic transcription of spontaneous spoken dialogues

Gernot A. Fink, Michaela Johanntokrax and Brigitte Schaffranietz

Abstract

Orthographic transcriptions of speech are important in most fields of research concerned with spoken language. For spontaneous speech they have to be created manually, resulting potentially in inconsistent or erroneous transcriptions.

We propose a new flexible and easy-to-use formal language for the orthographic transcription of sponataneous speech. All relevant phenomenoma introduced by spontaneous spoken dialogues are covered. The transcription serves as a meta-language from which various representations for different purposes can be generated automatically.


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Anke Weinberger, 1998-05-05