Re: [Corpora-List] Corpora of comic strips/books

From: Chris Callison-Burch (callison-burch@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 23:00:47 MET

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    Dear Axel,

    There is a web site called "Oh No Robot" (http://www.ohnorobot.com/)
    which provides search services for web comics. They use
    "crowdsourcing" to have users transcribe the comics. They've got
    50,000 transcribed strips from 600 series at the moment.

    Yours,
    Chris Callison-Burch

    Quoting Axel Herold <aherold@informatik.hu-berlin.de>:

    > Dear all,
    >
    > I'm planning to write my master's thesis on the nature of the dialog data
    > from comic strips/books that might be seen somewhere in between spoken and
    > written language. Is anyone of you aware of corpora containing comic texts
    > (any language, though I'll focus on German)? Ideally the data should
    > indicate speaker--utterance(s) relations.
    >
    > So far, I've seen a description of a comic corpus of bosnian, croatian and
    > serbian comic series that was tailor made for a special survey on a slavic
    > deictic system and marked up accordingly:
    > http://tusnelda.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de/TUSNELDA/b8/comics/comicheader.html
    >
    > Any further pointers would be most welcome.
    >
    > Best regards, Axel Herold.
    >
    > --
    > [...] er mißtraute den Worten, die sich euphonisch und rhythmisch fügten,
    > mit dem behaglichen Schnurren, das den Leser hypnotisiert,
    > nachdem der Schriftsteller als erster ihm zum Opfer gefallen ist.
    > (Cortázar: Rayuela)
    >
    >
    >
    >



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