Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (version 1.1 XML)

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title
  • Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (version 1.1 XML)
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • VOICE XML 1.1
  • VOICE XML
creator
  • researcher Barbara Seidlhofer (Project Director, University of Vienna)
subject
  • transcript corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • applied_linguistics
  • discourse_analysis
  • computational_linguistics
  • language_acquisition
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • This is the xml version of VOICE Online, the computer-readable corpus of English spoken by non-native English speakers in different contexts. It comprises 1 million words of transcribed spoken ELF (English as a lingua franca) from professional, educational and leisure domains and various speech event types.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • Freely available for non-commercial research purposes
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • VOICE, Department of English, University of Vienna
contributor
  • sponsor FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
  • sponsor OUP (Oxford University Press)
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • non_native experienced ELF speakers
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • speakers from a wide range of first language backgrounds (50 different first languages. Mainly, European ELF speakers)
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • 753 speakers
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
  • 2001-00-00 2009-00-00
date.issued
  • 2009-00-00
date.modified
  • 2011-05-00 XML Version 1.1
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
  • interactive_discourse
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
  • S1:, S2: ... : Speakers ID
    SS: Utterances assigned to more than one speaker (e.g. an audience), spoken either in unison or staggered
    SX: Utterances that cannot be assigned to a particular speaker
    SX-f: or SX-m: Utterances that cannot be assigned to a particular speaker, but where the gender can be identified, are marked SX-f or SX-m.
    SX-1:, SX-2:...: If it is likely but not certain that a particular speaker produced the utterance in question, this is marked SX-1, SX-2, etc.
    ?: Words spoken with rising intonation are followed by a question mark “?” .
    .: Words spoken with falling intonation are followed by a full stop “.” .
    capital letter: If a speaker gives a syllable, word or phrase particular prominence, this is written in capital letters (no tag).
    (.): Every brief pause in speech (up to a good half second) is marked with a full stop in
    parentheses.

    The rest is omitted.

    http://www.univie.ac.at/voice/documents/VOICE_mark-up_conventions_v2-1.pdf
    VOICE TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS [2.1]
type.sample
format.extent
  • Size: 1,023,043 words
format.medium
  • download
format.encoding
format.markup
  • XML
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English 1.1
language
  • English ELF (English used as a lingua franca)
language.area
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 2001-2007
coverage.spacial
rights
  • VOICE XML is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License