The document on spoken texts (EAGLES, 1996f) is devoted to the specific problems that arise when spoken language is represented in written form, and is closely related to several parts of the report from the EAGLES Spoken Language Working GroupWorking Group.
The report starts by discussing and comparing the needs of the speech community and the corpus linguistics community in terms of materials and transcription. Existing transcription and representation practices for spoken texts are reviewed, with special attention to the proposals of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Network of European Reference Corpora (NERC). Levels of transcription are also discussed.
The other sections are devoted to recommendations based on the previous review concerning data acquisition, events to be encoded in a spoken text, orthographic representation and segmental and suprasegmental transcription.