A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs
Wien
Vienna
Österreich
Austria
ARCHE
ÖAW
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Daniel
Schopper
Daniel Schopper
Hannes
Pirker
Hannes Pirker
Universität Wien
Omar
Siam
Omar Siam
ACDH
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Linguistics and Literature
Öffentliche Ressourcen sind ohne Einschränkungen zugänglich.
Public resources are accessible without any further restrictions.
öffentlich
public
Ein Text, der nach den TEI-Richtlinien kodiert ist.
A text that is encoded according to the TEI guidelines.
XML/TEI
Englisch
English
anglais
Digital Humanities
Digital humanities
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Austria (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT)
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
Applied linguistics
Anglistik
English studies
Soziolinguistik
Sociolinguistics
Kennzeichnet Sammlungen oder Ressourcen in ARCHE, die durch das CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory (VLO, https://vlo.clarin.eu) aggregiert werden sollen. Kriterien für die Aufnahme: das Objekt sollte eine Sprachressource darstellen, d.h. es sollte die definierten Kriterien der Klasse E33 'Linguistic Object' in CIDOC CRM erfüllen. Aus der Definition von E33: die Klasse fasst identifizierbare Ausdrucksformen natürlicher Sprache zusammen. Instanzen können in verschiedenen Formen ausgedrück werden: z.B. als geschriebener Text, aufgenommene Sprache oder Zeichensprache. Sie sind unabhängig vom Medium oder der Methode durch die sie ausgedrückt werden. Ausdrücke in formalen Sprachen, wie Computercode oder mathematische Formeln, sind nicht Teil der Klasse. (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/Entity/e33-linguistic-object/version-6.1) Beispiele: die Fotografie einer Inschrift, ein Textdokument, der Scan eines Textdokumentes, eine Wörterbuchdatei, ein Korpus, eine Audioaufnahme, etc.
Denotes Collections or Resources in ARCHE that should be harvested by the CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory (VLO, https://vlo.clarin.eu). Criteria for inclusion: the object should be a language resource, i. e. conform to the criteria defined by the Class E33 'Linguistic Object' in CIDOC CRM. From the definition of E33: the set comprises identifiable expressions in natural language or languages. Instances can be expressed in many ways: e.g. as written texts, recorded speech or sign language. They are independent from the medium or method by which they are expressed. Expressions in formal languages, such as computer code or mathematical formulae, are not part of the set. (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/Entity/e33-linguistic-object/version-6.1) Examples: a photograph of an inscription, a text document, a scan of a text document, a dictionary file, a corpus, an audio recording etc.
CLARIN VLO
Korpuslinguistik
Corpus linguistics
Elsner
Daniel Elsner
öffentlich: 775
public: 775
VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, is a one-million-word corpus of naturally-occurring, non-scripted, face-to-face interactions carried out using English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds. The interactions recorded and transcribed are complete speech events from different domains (educational, leisure, professional) and represent different speech event types (conversation, interview, meeting, panel, press conference, question-answer session, seminar discussion, service encounter, working group discussion, workshop discussion).
VOICE is based on audio-recordings carried out between July 2001 and November 2007, usually using portable mini-disc recorders with external microphones. These audio-recordings capture 151 naturally-occurring, non-scripted, face-to-face interactions involving 753 identified individuals from 49 different first language backgrounds using English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds. Most of the audio-recordings are supplemented by detailed field notes including information about the nature of the speech event and the interaction taking place as well as about the participants engaging in these ELF interactions. The audio-recordings were transcribed, checked and proof-read by trained transcribers and researchers in accordance with the VOICE mark-up and spelling conventions. See sub-collection Documentation for more information on mark-up and spelling conventions. Details for each electronic text are given in the individual text headers. The principles and practices underlying the selection and design of the corpus are documented in the project and sampling description of the Corpus Header.
The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) is stored in a TEI-based XML format. Each sub-collection in ARCHE is one version of VOICE from 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.0 POS to 3.0. These collections were divided in further sub-collections which represent the five domains represented in VOICE (ED: educational, LE: leisure, PB: professional buisness, PO: professional organizational, PR: professional research and science). Domains in VOICE denote socially defined situations or areas of activity. The domain collections contain resources (i.e. the individual corpus texts, which are transcripts of the speech events) in a TEI-based XML format. In addition to versions of VOICE, the Top Collection VOICE in ARCHE also contains the sub-collection Documentation.
year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-30T00:00:00.000000}, editor = {Seidlhofer, Barbara and Pitzl, Marie-Luise and Schopper, Daniel and Breiteneder, Angelika and Breuer, Hans-Christian and Dorn, Nora and Klimpfinger, Theresa and Majewski, Stefan and Osimk-Teasdale, Ruth and Pirker, Hannes and Radeka, Michael and Riegler, Stefanie and Siam, Omar and Stoxreiter, Daniel},
The most wide-spread contemporary use of English throughout the world is that of English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds (Seidlhofer 2011). Nevertheless, linguistic descriptions before the mid-2000s focused almost entirely on English as spoken and written by its native speakers. Starting in 2005, the VOICE project sought to redress the balance by compiling the first general corpus capturing spoken ELF interactions as they happen naturally in various contexts. VOICE was designed and compiled to make possible linguistic descriptions of this most common contemporary use of English by providing a corpus of spoken ELF interactions which has been freely accessible to linguistic researchers all over the world since 2009. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) was initially created by Barbara Seidlhofer (founding director) and Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl (project researchers) from 2005 to 2011 at the English Department at the University of Vienna. VOICE 1.0 Online was released in 2009, VOICE 1.0 XML in 2011. VOICE POS XML 2.0 was the first part-of-speech tagged version of VOICE and was based on the same data as VOICE 2.0 XML. Both VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE 2.0 POS XML were released in 2013. Additional researchers centrally involved in the creation of VOICE 2.0 POS XML were Ruth Osimk-Teasdale, Michael Radeka and Nora Dorn. VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE POS XML 2.0 included minor revisions with regard to previous versions. VOICE 3.0 XML and VOICE 3.0 Online are based on the same data as VOICE 1.0/2.0 and were created from spring 2020 to autumn 2021 in the VOICE CLARIAH project. VOICE 3.0 XML is a new, merged TEI-conform XML version of VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE POS XML 2.0, which contains spoken mark-up as well as part-of-speech and lemma information in TEI-XML format. The members of the VOICE CLARIAH team who created VOICE 3.0 were: Marie-Luise Pitzl (PI), Daniel Schopper, Barbara Seidlhofer, Hans Christian Breuer, Ruth Osmik-Teasdale, Hannes Pirker, Stefanie Riegler, Omar Siam.
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English as a lingua franca
conversation
educational
interaction
interculturality
interview
leisure
meeting
multilingualism
panel
press conference
professional business
professional organizational
professional research and science
question-answer session
seminar discussion
service encounter
working group discussion
workshop discussion
Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) XML
Barbara
Seidlhofer
Barbara Seidlhofer
Marie-Luise
Pitzl-Hagin
Marie-Luise Pitzl-Hagin
Angelika
Breiteneder
Angelika Breiteneder
Hans Christian
Breuer
Hans Christian Breuer
Nora
Dorn
Nora Dorn
Theresa
Klimpfinger
Theresa Klimpfinger
Stefan
Majewski
Stefan Majewski
Ruth
Osimk-Teasdale
Ruth Osimk-Teasdale
Michael
Radeka
Michael Radeka
Stefanie
Riegler
Stefanie Riegler
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | Universität Wien
Department of English and American Studies | University of Vienna
öffentlich: 153
public: 153
VOICE 1.0 XML is stored in a TEI-based XML format. Each sub-collection represents one of five domains in VOICE (ED: educational, LE: leisure, PB: professional buisness, PO: professional organizational, PR: professional research and science). Domains in VOICE denote socially defined situations or areas of activity. The domain collections contain all resources (i.e. the individual corpus texts, which are transcripts of the speech events) in a TEI-based XML format.
year = {2011}, date = {2011-05-31T00:00:00.000000}, author = {Seidlhofer, Barbara and Breiteneder, Angelika and Klimpfinger, Theresa and Majewski, Stefan and Pitzl, Marie-Luise}, version = {}, bookauthor = {},
The most wide-spread contemporary use of English throughout the world is that of English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds (Seidlhofer 2011). Nevertheless, linguistic descriptions before the mid-2000s focused almost entirely on English as spoken and written by its native speakers. Starting in 2005, the VOICE project sought to redress the balance by compiling the first general corpus capturing spoken ELF interactions as they happen naturally in various contexts. VOICE was designed and compiled to make possible linguistic descriptions of this most common contemporary use of English by providing a corpus of spoken ELF interactions which has been freely accessible to linguistic researchers all over the world since 2009. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) was initially created by Barbara Seidlhofer (founding director) and Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl (project researchers) from 2005 to 2011 at the English Department at the University of Vienna. VOICE 1.0 Online was released in 2009, VOICE 1.0 XML in 2011.
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT: 153
VOICE 1.0 XML metadata is stored in a separate corpus header in TEI-based XML format with a version specific binary. Furthermore, each resource binary (i.e. each XML corpus text) containes metadata relevant to the specific speech event in its TEI header.
VOICE 1.0 XML
öffentlich: 23
public: 23
year = {2011}, date = {2011-05-31T00:00:00.000000}, author = {Seidlhofer, Barbara and Breiteneder, Angelika and Klimpfinger, Theresa and Majewski, Stefan and Pitzl, Marie-Luise}, bookauthor = {},
The professional business domain includes all social situations connected with activities of making, buying, selling or supplying goods or services for money.
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Professional Business (PB)
This conversation takes place between three women (S2, S3, S4) during the coffee break of a business meeting. S6 is the researcher and does not participate in the conversation as such. The speakers talk about what it is like to be a successful woman in the business world and share their views and experiences. Then they talk about the university education of S2's son. Towards the end of the conversation, the other employees who participate in the meeting return to the conference room, which marks the end of the break and of their conversation.
Words: 2212
professional business conversation
conversation about being a successful woman in the business world (PBcon594)
This business meeting takes place at [org1], the internationally operating company all participants work for, and is organized by the Austrian headquarters, with S1 and S2 being the German-speaking hosts. The purpose of the meeting is to brief the people in charge on a new campaign and inform them about how to publicly represent a new environmentally friendly product/project. S3, one of the executive staff members, presents new strategies and informs the others about latest developments and the course of action to be taken. Her non-scripted presentation is supported by powerpoint slides throughout a good part of the meeting. S3 also chairs the meeting in a way, though, as becomes evident during the interaction, the others do interrupt her at some points. S3 seems to be one of the company's major PR managers, mediating between company internal and external people. The other participants come from daughter companies/branch offices of the company in different countries and do not seem to converse with each other on a regular basis, although some do appear to be at least acquainted with each other. They are mainly listening, commenting and discussing how to introduce and realize the campaign in their respective countries. S2 appears to be superior to the others in the company's hierarchy. The names of the company's products have been anonymized in this transcript. Note that [thing1] is a plural noun in most cases.
Words: 22585
professional business meeting
business meeting about coordinating a PR campaign across several countries (PBmtg269)
This meeting constitutes an internal staff meeting of [org15], which is a forwarding agency and a daughter firm of [org11]. S1, S3, S4, S5, and S7 are all employees of [org15] and participate in the meeting. S1 is the senior employee and the head of the team and therefore he also chairs the meeting. Immediately before this internal meeting, a sales meeting with a representative from an airline, [org2], took place. Some of the comments at the beginning of the meeting refer to this preceding meeting, the airline [org2] and the sales representative who has just left. Subsequently, the main topics of the meeting are internal organizational matters relating to staff changes, vacation times and business contacts.
Words: 15068
sales team meeting about internal matters of a forwarding agency (PBmtg27)
This business meeting takes place at a company involved in software development. S1, who is the project manager, discusses the project status with the team members. All speakers are colleagues, except S7, the researcher, who actually gets a few questions about the purpose her recording is to serve. At the beginning of the meeting, S1 draws and writes some points on a flipchart to outline project developments.
Words: 4768
business meeting on the status of a project (PBmtg280)
This business meeting takes place at [org1], a food company in Austria. S3, S4 and S5 are colleagues and employees of [org1], S1 and S2 are colleagues and employees of [org6], a distribution company which distributes, markets, and sells the products of [org1] in Korea. The meeting takes place on the occasion of S1's and S2's visit. S1 and S2 have never met S4 and S3, but they have met S5 on a few occasions. This is the main reason why S5 participates in the meeting, as someone acquainted with all participants and because she knows the past history of the two companies and their work. S4 has just taken over responsibility for the Korean market from another colleague who is not present at the meeting. The meeting therefore serves to establish personal contact and working relations between S1, S2 and predominantly S4. S4 also chairs the meeting. S3 has just joined [org1] and is a new employee. He mainly assists S4. In addition to establishing personal contact, the meeting also serves to give S4, S3 and S5 an overview of promotion activities done in Korea and to inform S1 and S2 about product news, which happens in the second portion of the meeting. There is generally a good atmosphere throughout the meeting.
Words: 24601
business meeting at a food company (PBmtg3)
This business meeting is held on the occasion of a sales visit. S2 is a sales representative of the airline [org2] and he has come to visit the forwarding agency [org5], where the meeting is held. [Org5] is a daughter company of org1. S1, S3, S6, S7, S8 and S9 are all employees of the forwarding agency and thus colleagues and very well acquainted. S1 is the head of the team and functions as chair person throughout the meeting. S4 is the researcher and does not take part in the interaction. Different members of the team join the meeting at different times. Only S1, the chair person, and S2, the sales representative, are present throughout the whole meeting. The first portion of the meeting involves S1, S2 and S3. They engage in small talk for about 10 minutes before they actually start talking business. Then they talk about business matters for about 30 minutes and afterwards turn to a couple of minutes of small talk again before S3 leaves. S6 joins S1 and S2 after a few minutes and the next round of business talk starts. Compared to S1 and S2, S6 is not very active in the conversation and there are rather long portions where only S1 and S2 interact even though S6 is also present. A while later S7 joins the group, also at first as a silent participant, but then the meeting turns to his area of responsibility and he joins in. A while later the same happens again as S8 and S9 join the group and first remain silent in the background. Then all speakers get up to help themselves to their lunch, which they have in the conference room. The meeting continues during lunch and switches between business matters and occasional small talk. Almost all of the anonymized items represented as [orgx] refer to either airlines or forwarding companies.
Words: 35277
business meeting at a forwarding agency with a sales representative of an airline (PBmtg300)
This business meeting takes place at [org1]. S3 and S5 are employees of [org1]. S2 and S4 are employees of a distribution company which distributes, markets and sells the products of [org1] abroad. S2 and S4 are visiting [org1] and the meeting happens at the occasion of this visit. S2 and S4 have brought some presentation materials with sales statistics of [org1]'s products, which S4 explains and discusses with S3 and S5. S2 adds some comments with regard to the current circumstances of selling the product in shops and supermarkets. [Thing1] is the main product of [org1]. S2 and S4 also introduce a special product they have created for their country which also includes [thing1]. There is a very friendly and humorous atmosphere and the content of the meeting often leads to jokes and laughter and humorous remarks. S1 is the researcher and does not participate in the meeting. S6 is not a participant either and only enters the room to bring refreshments at one point. The meeting ends when the participants decide to take a break.
Words: 21195
business meeting about the sales of products (PBmtg414)
This business meeting takes place at [org5]. S4, S5 and S6 are employees of [org5]. S1 is the head of [org25], a company which distributes the products of [org5] abroad. S1 and her employees S3 and S7 are visiting [org5] and the meeting happens on the occasion of this visit. After a short introductory small talk phase, the speakers discuss the promotion activities undertaken by S1's company and look at pictures of these activities in materials S1 and her colleagues have brought. In the course of the meeting, they also look at and talk about various promotion products and product samples. All participants have met before and so are acquainted with each other. S7 is a participant but hardly says anything. S2 is the researcher and does not participate in the meeting. [Thing1] is a new product of [org5] which has been launched by S1's company [org25] in Serbia. [Thing2], [thing3], [thing4], [thing5], [thing6] and [thing7] are all food products from other companies; [thing10], [thing11], [thing12] and [thing13] are different magazines in which promotions were placed. [Org5] refers not only to the company itself but also their brand name and all of their products if not further specified. Many [org] items also refer to supermarket chains were the products are being sold.
Words: 15640
business meeting about promotion activities of a distribution company (PBmtg462)
This business meeting takes place at [org1]. S3 and S4 are employees of [org1]. S2 is the head of [org33], a company which distributes the products of [org1] abroad. S2 and her employees S1 and S7 are visiting [org1] and this meeting is part of their visit to Austria. A casual conversation between S2, S3 and S4, which takes place during a coffee break, immediately preceded this meeting. The meeting as such starts when S1 and S7 come back into the room. The speakers talk about the past and future orders [org33] has placed and will place at [org1]. S1 talks on the mobile phone with an employee of S2's company at several points during the meeting to clarify what they are ordering. S1 and S2 mention several supermarket chains and retail shops in their countries which are anonymized as [org] items. [Thing1] and [thing2] are the main products of [org1]. After discussing the orders and figures, S3 introduces the product news for the next year. Ten minutes before the meeting ends, S5, a high representative of [org1], joins the meeting. All participants have met before and so are acquainted with each other. S8 does not participate in the meeting but is responsible for the catering.
Words: 15484
business meeting at a food company about future orders and product news (PBmtg463)
This panel is part of an international investor conference. It deals with the potential accession of Turkey to the European Union. S1 is the chairperson and S2, S3 and S4 are the three panellists. The three panellists are introduced by S1 and then elaborate individually on political and economic issues regarding Turkey and Europe. After about 35 minutes, the audience is invited to ask questions, five of which are answered by the panel. The discussion revolves around Turkey's potential application for membership in the European Union and the economic, political and cultural issues connected with this. As there is an audience of about 120 people, all speakers talk into microphones.
Words: 7898
professional business panel
panel about the potential accession of Turkey to the European Union (PBpan10)
This panel discussion is part of an international investor conference. It deals with the economic situation of the South-eastern European member states of the EU and their potential accession to the European monetary union. The event starts with statements of the panellists, followed by discussion among the panellists and then questions from the audience. S1 chairs the panel. S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7 and S8 are the panellists. S9, S10 and S11 are audience members posing questions. The issues discussed broadly relate to advantages and disadvantages connected to entering the European monetary union as soon as possible. The panellists discuss different strategies of different countries opt. As there is a large audience, there are various background noises throughout the event (like coughing, clearing of throat, murmuring). Due to the large audience, the speakers talk into microphones.
Words: 10873
panel on the economic situation of the South-eastern European member states of the EU and their potential accession to the European Monetary Union (PBpan25)
This panel is part of an international investor conference. It focuses on financial markets in Central and Eastern Europe and deals with issues of liquidity, the effect of pension reforms on the financial markets as well as mortgage markets. Representatives of Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan and Serbia speak about these countries in particular. There are six panellists and one chair (S1). In the end, there is one question raised by someone in the audience.
Words: 9798
panel about financial markets in Central and Eastern Europe (PBpan28)
This panel discussion takes place in a conference room of a hotel. It is part of an international investor conference and deals with demographic developments in Central and Eastern Europe. A number of experts in the areas of demography, economics and finance give a statement in front of an audience of about 100 people. After the statements there are questions from the audience.
Words: 8128
panel on demographic changes in Central and Eastern Europe (PBpan581)
This is a question-answer session after a couple of presentations at a technical business conference focusing on steel technology. S1, who is the chair, assigns speaker turns. The speakers from the audience raise their hands to signal that they have a question, then the microphone is taken to them (which is the reason for the rather long pauses in the conversation). Sometimes speakers also start asking questions before the microphone has arrived. The former panellists (S3, S5, S8), i.e. the speakers who gave presentations preceding this session, then try to provide answers to the questions raised. In the end, S1 thanks all those who actively participated by raising questions and the session is formally closed.
Words: 1824
professional business question-answer session
question-answer session about steel technology (PBqas410)
This question-answer session involves a panel of experts at a conference on steel technology. S3 chairs the sessions in which people from the audience (S1, S5, S9, S11) ask questions to the experts on the panel (S2, S4, S6, S7, S10). The speakers are generally not acquainted with each other and are referring to each other by last names. The speakers are speaking into a microphone which is handed back and forth between panellists and audience. Occasionally, speakers start talking before they are given the microphone.
Words: 1790
question-answer session on issues of steel technology (PBqas411)
This question-answer session is part of a conference on steel technology. The participants are professionals involved in steel production and technology. The panel of presenters (S3, S5, S9, S12, S13) answer questions from the audience about technical details concerning methods of steel production that the speakers have introduced. The session is chaired by S1.
Words: 2341
question-answer session on technology used in steel production (PBqas412)
This question-answer session takes place after several presentations on steelmaking at a conference on this topic. S2 has just finished his presentation on a melt shop. S1, S2 and S4 are on the podium, S3 and S5 in the audience, asking questions.
Words: 728
question-answer session on issues of steelmaking (PBqas523)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S1 wants to prolong his stay for one year and S2 assists him with money matters. There has been an error with regard to the deposit S1 has paid and the question is how much he still needs to pay. There are several long pauses during the service encounter when S2 works on her computer. There is a high level of background noise during the whole service encounter as many other people are in the room, other conversations take place, and telephones ring.
Words: 955
professional business service encounter
service encounter about prolonging stay in Austria (PBsve426)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S2 asks S1 about a confirmation that he needs so that his family can get a visa. S1 prints out the confirmation for S2 and explains that this should be the confirmation he needs.
Words: 297
service encounter about visa application for family members (PBsve430)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S1 wants to know whether it is possible to move into his room earlier than planned. S2 prints out some information for him and tells him to call the manager of the residence hall.
Words: 486
service encounter about moving into a room earlier than planned (PBsve434)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S1 comes to the office because he needs an address printed out. S2 confirms what exactly he needs and prints out the required form.
Words: 154
service encounter about getting an address printed out (PBsve435)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S2 comes to the office because she is moving out of her room and wants to get her deposit back. S1, who works at the housing office, helps S2 to get her money. S2 then poses another question regarding a problem a friend of her has. S3, who also works at the housing office, is not part of the conversation but S1 asks her for advice in German at some point.
Words: 668
service encounter about getting a deposit back (PBsve436)
This service encounter takes place at a university housing office. S1 comes to the housing office because she needs to change her room booking. S2, who works at the housing office, provides S1 with information about the requirements and procedures for securing the room.
Words: 637
service encounter about renting a room (PBsve437)
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