Annotating Information Structure in a Corpus of Spoken Danish

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)

Abstract

This paper presents the work done to annotate a corpus of spoken Danish with information structure tags, and describes a preliminary study in which the corpus has been used to investigate the relation between focus and intra-clausal pauses. The study indicates that the pauses that do fall within the focus domain tend to precede property-expressing words by which the object in focus is distinguished from other similar ones.