[Corpora-List] CNN Transcripts

From: Mark Davies (Mark_Davies@byu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 18:31:10 MET

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    Has anyone here done much with the CNN transcripts:
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ?

    I'm aware of one publication (below), but would be interested in others
    as well:

    Hoffmann, Sebastian. "From Web-Page to Mega-Corpus: The CNN
    Transcripts." In: Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf and Carolin Biewer
    (eds.) Corpus Linguistics and the Web. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

    I'm also aware of some LDC Corpora that contain CNN transcripts, but in
    general these appear to be either from the newspaper or from scripted
    news broadcasts, e.g.:

    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC98T25
    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T11

    At any rate, even though the genre/register of these transcripts is
    fairly homogenous, they do contain more than 170 million words of
    unscripted spoken English, so it seems like it might be a nice resource.

    Thanks in advance for any information that you might have.

    Mark Davies

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