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How to get the Reference

Typically in the first working step you will browse through the corpus contents and other data provided by the producer / client and find one of the following situations: Beware: It is not wise to use the term correctness in all contexts. For instance the reference of a speech corpus should not contain phrases like:
``85% of the phonemic segmentations are correct.''
The problem with the concept of phonemic segmentation (as well as with other linguistic annotations) is that it is hard to agree on what is correct and what is not. Therefore we recommend formulating specifications on items like the phonemic segmentation more cautiously, e.g.:
``The interlabeler agreement in the phonemic segmentation is at least 85%.''
The same is probably true for the transcript, the prosodic labeling, all kinds of segment boundaries etc.


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Angela Baumann 2004-06-03