Experiences from the Spoken Dutch Corpus Project

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the ongoing development of a large corpus of spoken Dutch in Flanders and the Netherlands.We outline the design of this corpus and the various layers of annotation with which the speech signal is enriched.Special attention is paid to the problems we have encountered, and to the tools and protocols developed for obtaining consistent and reliable annotations.We also discuss the outcome of a recent external evaluation of our project by an international committee of experts.