Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their… read more
This chapter reports a quantitative and qualitative comparison of seven annotations performed on the same two American English texts: a monologue and a dialogue. The analysis of these data is complex, since the annotations have been made independently by each research group on the basis of their… read more
Embodiment plays an essential role in both concrete and abstract semantic representation. As a consequence, action verbs are extensively involved in the conceptualization and linguistic encoding of figurative meanings. In the light of several theoretical frameworks, this chapter aims to… read more
We present a multi-level XML online database, DB-IPIC, designed specifically for the study of linear relations among information units in spoken corpora. DB-IPIC adopts Language into Act Theory (L-ACT) as the basis for spoken language modeling. According to L-ACT, information is coded at the… read more
