Annotation of prominent words, prosodic boundaries and segmental lengthening by non-expert transcribers in the Spoken Dutch Corpus

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)

Abstract

This paper first describes the aims of the prosodic annotation for (part of) the Spoken Dutch Corpus (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, CGN), and the procedures that are currently being developed to produce the annotation. It further reports on a pilot study that was run to estimate the costs and the attainable quality (in terms of inter-transcriber consistency) of the envisaged annotation. It is our claim that high-quality prosodic annotation (of prominence, prosodic breaks, and unusual segmental lengthening) can be obtained by nonexperts, provided these are given a strict, written protocol and a short period of supervision and feedback.