Good practices in the compilation of FOLK, the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German

Thomas Schmidt
2016 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics  
This paper presents practices in the compilation of FOLK, the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German, a large collection of spontaneous verbal interaction from diverse discourse domains. After introducing the aims and organisational circumstances of the construction of FOLK, the general idea discussed is that good practices cannot be developed without considering methodological, technological and organisational aspects on equal footing. Starting from this idea, this paper inspects more
more » ... osely some actual practices in FOLK, namely the handling of legal (especially privacy protection) issues, the decisions taken for the transcription and annotation workflow, and the question of how to best disseminate a corpus like FOLK. The final section sketches some possible future improvements for practices in FOLK.
doi:10.1075/ijcl.21.3.05sch fatcat:byc4lluv5rf2lp2cw7iopw2bxa