Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009
Abstract
Corpus annotation plays an important role in linguistic analysis and computa-tional processing of both written and spoken language. Syntactic annotation of spoken texts becomes clearly a topic of considerable interest nowadays, driven by the desire to improve auto-matic speech recognition systems by incorporating syntax in the language models, or to build language under-standing applications.
Syntactic anno-tation of both written and spoken texts in the Czech Academic Corpus was created thirty years ago when no other (even annotated) corpus of spoken texts has existed. We will discuss how much relevant and inspiring this annotation is to the current frameworks of spoken text annotation.