Degrees of Orality in Speech-like Corpora: Comparative Annotation of Chat and E-mail Corpora
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This paper describes and evaluates the automatic grammatical annotation of a chat and an e-mail corpus of together 117 million words, using a modular Constraint Grammar system. We discuss a number of genre-specific issues, such as emoticons and personal pronouns, and offer a linguistic comparison of the two corpora with corresponding annotations of the Europarl corpus and the spoken and written subsections of the BNC corpus, with a focus on orality markers such as linguistic complexity and word class distribution.
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