Parliament Speech Corpus

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Parliament Speech Corpus

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Alþingisumræður

Attribution details: Sigrún Helgadóttir, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir and Hrafn Loftsson. 2012. The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MÍM). Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages -SaLTMiL 8 - AfLaT2012. Istanbúl, Tyrklandi.

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Icelandic speech corpus, 20 hours, about 190,000 running words, of unprepared speeches from the Icelandic Parliament, synchronized text and sound files

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Distribution

Availability: Available

Licences

CC - BY 4.0

Distribution Details

User Nature: Academic, Commercial

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Distribution Access/Medium: Downloadable

Attribution Details: Sigrún Helgadóttir, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir and Hrafn Loftsson. 2012. The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MÍM). Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages -SaLTMiL 8 - AfLaT2012. Istanbúl, Tyrklandi.

Licensors:

Guðrún Nordal

Distribution Rights Holders:

The Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies

IPR Holders:

The Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies

Contact Person

Ásta Svavarsdóttir

text
audio

Monolingual text corpusLanguages

Icelandic

Linguality

Linguality type: Monolingual

Text Format

XML

Plain text

MP3

Size

190,000 Tokens

Character encoding

ISO - 8859 - 1

Modalities

Spoken Language

AnnotationSegmentation

StandOff: False

Segmentation level: Sentence, Word

Morphosyntactic Annotation - Pos Tagging

Tagset: Icelandic Tagset (http://www.malfong.is/files/tagset_en.pdf) (Icelandic)

StandOff: False

Segmentation level: Sentence, Word

Lemmatization

StandOff: False

Segmentation level: Sentence, Word

Time Coverage

2004-2005

Geographic coverage

Iceland

Link to Other Media

Other media: Audio

Synchronized with audio: True

Monolingual audio corpusLanguages

Icelandic

Linguality

Linguality type: Monolingual

Size

20 Hours

Modalities

Spoken Language

Content

Speech items: Free Speech

Setting

Naturality: Natural

Scenario: Other

Audience: Few

Link to Other Media

Other media: Text

Synchronized with text: True

Metadata

Created: 29/11/2011

Last Updated: 13/03/2013

Metadata Creator

Sigrún Helgadóttir

Version

Version: 1.0

Usage

Foreseen UseNlp Applications

Use specific to NLP: Speech Analysis, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis

Actual Use - Nlp Applications

Documentation

Helgadóttir, Sigrún, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir og Hrafn Loftsson. 2012. The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MÍM). Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages -SaLTMiL 8 - AfLaT2012. Istanbúl, Tyrklandi. Svavarsdóttir, Ásta . 2007. Talmál og málheildir - talmál og orðabækur. [Spoken language and corpora - spoken language and dictionaries.] Orð og tunga 9: 25-50. Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. 2007. The Icelandic (Pilot) Project in ScanDiaSyn. In Bentzen and Vangsnes (eds), Scandinavian Dialect Syntax 2005, special issue of Nordlyd - Tromsø University Working Papers in Language & Linguistics, pp. 87-124. Tromsø: The University Library of Tromsø.