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Preliminary Recommendations

Definitions

Corpus
-- A collection of pieces of language that are selected and ordered according to explicit linguistic criteria in order to be used as a sample of the language.
Spoken language corpus
-- A corpus consisting of recordings of speech which are accessible in computer readable form, and which are transcribed orthographically, or into a recognised phonetic or phonemic notation.