LINGUIST List 22.1938

Thu May 05 2011

FYI: VOICE XML and VOICE 1.1 Online Available

Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org>


        1.     Marie-Luise Pitzl , VOICE XML and VOICE 1.1 Online Available

Message 1: VOICE XML and VOICE 1.1 Online Available
Date: 05-May-2011
From: Marie-Luise Pitzl <marie-luise.pitzlunivie.ac.at>
Subject: VOICE XML and VOICE 1.1 Online Available
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We are pleased to inform you that as of today, VOICE XML is available fordownload via the VOICE website (www.univie.ac.at/voice)!

VOICE seeks to redress the balance by providing a sizeable,computer-readable corpus of English as it is spoken by this non-nativespeaking majority of users in different contexts. These speakers useEnglish successfully on a daily basis all over the world, in theirpersonal, professional or academic lives. We therefore see them primarilynot as language learners but as language users in their own right. It istherefore clearly worth finding out just how they use the language. This isexactly what VOICE seeks to make possible.

VOICE XML is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) and includes all corpustexts in XML format as well as derived HTML and TXT versions of the corpuswith reduced mark-up. For more information on VOICE XML seehttps://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_xml and consult theREADME file included in the download package.

In addition, the release of VOICE XML also marks the release of VOICE 1.1,an updated version of the corpus that includes minor revisions in some ofthe corpus texts. As of today, the web interface of VOICE Online istherefore updated to VOICE 1.1 Online(https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_online).

We hope you will find these additional resources helpful, and we arelooking forward to receiving any kind of feedback you might have (pleasemail to voiceunivie.ac.at).

We have recently started a new subsection on VOICE-based publications onour website and would like to invite you to let us know when you (have)publish(ed) or present(ed) work which makes use of VOICE Online and/orVOICE XML.

Best wishes,

Barbara Seidlhofer, Stefan Majewski, Ruth Osimk, Marie-Luise Pitzl, MichaelRadeka

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
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