CLeLfPC

Corpus de Lecture en Langue française Parlée Complétée

Created in 2021 by Brigitte Bigi and Maryvonne Zimmermann

The corpus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It can be used for any research or teaching purpose.

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We asked the 23 volunteer participants to read aloud and to cue one topic among the 10 we prepared. Two participants accepted to read 2 different topics. Each topic was made of 4 sessions; the sessions were recorded separately for the participant to have a short break:

1. 32 isolated “CV” syllables;
2. 32 isolated words or phrases;
3. isolated sentences;
4. a text divided into 4-7 parts.

The corpus is made of 4 hours of high quality audio-video recordings.

Corpus Grenelle II and its annotations

Created in 2010-2011 by Brigitte Bigi, Cristel Portes, Agnès Steuckardt, Marion Tellier.

• Video downloaded from a FTP server (after authorization), a flv file with poor quality
• Audio extracted from the video
• A large amount of time-aligned annotations
• Freely available: SLDR 000729

Demo

Grenelle II annotations

1. Enriched orthographic transcription (manual), time-aligned at the utterance level (automatic)
2. Time-aligned phonemes, tokens and events (automatic)
3. Time-aligned syllables (automatic)
4. Prosodic contours and intonation (manual)
5. Morpho-syntax time-aligned at the token level (automatic)
6. Hand gestures
7. Self-repetitions (semi-automatic)
8. Interruptions (manual)

Publications

B. Bigi, C. Portes, A. Steuckardt, M. Tellier
Multimodal Annotations and Categorization for Political Debates,
ICMI Workshop on Multimodal Corpora for Machine learning (ICMI-MMC), Alicante (Espagne), 2011

B. Bigi, C. Portes, A. Steuckardt, M. Tellier
A Multimodal Study of Answers to Disruptions.,
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 55-66, Springer (Publisher). ISSN 1783-7677. DOI 10.1007/s12193-012-0110-zi, 2012

Corpus MARC-Fr

Created in 2011 by Brigitte Bigi and Pauline Péri

Description :

Corpus in French manually phonetized and time-aligned at the phoneme level. Its duration is 7 minutes (5400 phones), and made of 3 extracts of the following corpora: CID, AixOx and Grenelle.

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• the audio files in wav format
• the orthographic transcription, time-aligned in IPUs, in TextGrid format
• the manually time-aligned phonemes in TextGrid and ctm formats

Freely available for downloads:SLDR 000786

Publication

B. Bigi, P. Péri, R. Bertrand
Orthographic Transcription: Which Enrichment is required for Phonetization?,
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Istanbul (Turkey), pages 1756-1763, ISBN 978-2-9517408-7-7. 2012

Corpus AixOx

Read corpus created between 2010 and 2012 by Sophie Herment, Anastassia Loukina, Anne Tortel, Daniel Hirst, Brigitte Bigi

Description

40 paragraphes of about 1 minute in French and English, from EUROM 1 corpus. French texts are read by French native speakers (mainly from Aix-en-Provence) and by English native speakers (from Oxford). English texts are read by native English speakers and by French native speakers.

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• the audio files in wav format
• the orthographic transcription, time-aligned in IPUs, in TextGrid format

Freely available for downloads:SLDR 000784

Publication

S. Herment, A. Loukina, A. Tortel, D. Hirst, B. Bigi
AixOx, a multi-layered learners corpus: automatic annotation
Proceedings of international conference on corpus linguistics, Jaèn (Spain), March 2012.

CID - Corpus of Conversational Data

• Face-to-face conversations in French
• Created by Roxane Bertrand and Béatrice Priego-Valverde
• 8 semi-guided dialogs (110,000 words)
• Recorded in 2003 and 2005
• A very large amount of time-aligned annotations
• Available at:
  • http://sldr.org/sldr000027/
  • http://sldr.org/sldr000720/

Demo

CID - Some of the annotations

Enriched orthographic transcription (manual), time-aligned at the IPU level (automatic)

Time-aligned phonemes and tokens and events like noises, laughter (automatic) and time-aligned syllables (automatic)

Prosodic contours (manual), Momel - Modelization of melody (automatic) and INternational Transcription System for INTonation (automatic)

Morpho-syntax and syntax time-aligned at the token level (automatic) and time-aligned lemmas (automatic);

Dysfluencies (manual), Discourse and interaction (manual), Other- and Self- Repetitions (semi-automatic)

Publication

P. Blache, R. Bertrand, B. Bigi, E. Bruno, E. Cela, R. Espesser, G. Ferré, M. Guardiola, D. Hirst, E.-P. Magro, J.-C. Martin, C. Meunier, M.-A. Morel, E. Murisasco, I Nesterenko, P. Nocera, B. Pallaud, L. Prévot, B. Priego-Valverde, J. Seinturier, N. Tan, M. Tellier, S. Rauzy
Multimodal Annotation of Conversational Data,
The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, ACL 2010, pages 186-191, Uppsala, Suède, 2010.