Depends on What the French Say - Spoken Corpus Annotation with and beyond Syntactic Functions

Abstract

We present a syntactic annotation scheme for spoken French that is currently used in the Rhapsodie project. This annotation is dependency-based and includes coordination and disfluency as analogously encoded types of paradigmatic phenomena. Furthermore, we attempt a thorough definition of the discourse units required by the systematic annotation of other phenomena beyond usual sentence boundaries, which are typical for spoken language. This includes so called “macrosyntactic ” phenomena such as dislocation, parataxis, insertions, grafts, and epexegesis. 1