Contents

 
• Author
• Introduction
  • Scope of the guidelines
  • Transcription and representation needs in different research communities
    • The corpus linguistics community
    • The speech community
    • Differences
    • Towards convergence
  • Existing transcription and representation practices for spoken texts
    • Events represented in the transcription of spoken texts
    • Transcription conventions adopted by the Network of European Reference Corpora (NERC)
    • The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) recommendations
  • Evaluation of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) recommendations on symbolic transcription of spoken language
    • Elements in a text
    • Transcription practices
  • Levels of transcription and encoding
    • Levels of transcription in speech-oriented research
    • Levels of transcription in corpus linguistics-oriented research: the NERC proposal
    • Relationship between the two types of transcription: a proposal
  • Interface between the transcription and the speech signal
• Recommendations for data acquisition
• Recommendation for a minimal set of encoding for spoken texts
  • Recommendations for the orthographic representation of spoken texts
• Symbolic transcription system
  • Segmental level
    • Transcription systems
    • Computer phonetic alphabets
    • Proposals for the transcription of the segmental level
  • Suprasegmental level
    • Transcription systems
    • Proposals for the transcription of the suprasegmental level
• Summary of proposals and recommendations
• References