CABank English CABNC Corpus

Saul Albert Social Sciences Loughborough University s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk

Laura de Ruiter Department of Psychology Tufts University laura.deruiter@tufts.edu

J.P. de Ruiter Department of Computer Science and Department of Psychology Tufts University jp.deruiter@tufts.edu

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Citation information

Saul Albert, Laura E. de Ruiter, and J.P. de Ruiter (2015) CABNC: the Jeffersonian transcription of the Spoken British National Corpus. https://saulalbert.github.io/CABNC/.

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.

Project Description

The CABNC corpus is a open-licensed, detailed conversation analytic re-transcription of naturalistic conversations from a subcorpus of the British National Corpus amounting to around 4.2 million words in 1436 separate conversations. The project aims to produce transcripts usable for both computational and detailed qualitative analysis. If you are a CA transcriptionist and you use the data, please make sure you re-submit your updated transcripts to help improve the corpus over time. The project website with instructions for contributing is at https://github.com/saulalbert /CABNC

Acknowedgements

• All files are publicly available under a Creative Commons Attribution License (details here)
• BNC spoken audio recordings were created or collected from other sources by Longman Dictionaries for the British National Corpus Consortium. Their usage is governed by the terms of the original recording permissions agreement with the contributors, which requires that they can only be "used for scientific study and publication by writers of dictionaries and educational material and language researchers".
• For use of the AudioBNC and the CABNC please cite: John Coleman, Ladan Baghai-Ravary, John Pybus, and Sergio Grau (2012) Audio BNC: the audio edition of the Spoken British National Corpus. Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford. http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/AudioBNC.
• Many thanks to Dr. Margaret E. L. Renwick for her forced alignment data, which we used to enrich the BNC-XML with word and turn-timing data.