German Radio Interviews: The GRAIN Release of the SFB732 Silver Standard Collection

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We present GRAIN (German RAdio INterviews) as part of the SFB732 Silver Standard Collection. GRAIN contains German radio interviews and is annotated on multiple linguistic layers. The data has been processed with state-of-the-art tools for text and speech and therefore represents a resource for text-based linguistic research as well as speech science. While there is a gold standard part with manual annotations, the (much larger) silver standard part (which is growing as the radio station releases more interviews) relies completely on automatic annotations. We explicitly release different versions of annotations for the same layers (e.g. morpho-syntax) with the aim to combine and compare multiple layers in order to derive confidence estimations for the annotations. Therefore, parts of the data where the output of several tools match can be considered clear-cut cases, while mismatches hint at areas of interest which are potentially challenging or where rare phenomena can be found.

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