The Hebrew CHILDES corpus: Transcription and morphological analysis

Aviad Albert; Brian MacWhinney; Bracha Nir; Shuly Wintner

doi:10.1007/s10579-012-9214-z

The Hebrew CHILDES corpus: Transcription and morphological analysis

Aviad Albert, Brian MacWhinney, Bracha Nir, Shuly Wintner

University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

We present a corpus of transcribed spoken Hebrew that reflects spoken interactions between children and adults. The corpus is an integral part of the CHILDES database, which distributes similar corpora for over 25 languages. We introduce a dedicated transcription scheme for the spoken Hebrew data that is sensitive to both the phonology and the standard orthography of the language. We also introduce a morphological analyzer that was specifically developed for this corpus. The analyzer adequately covers the entire corpus, producing detailed correct analyses for all tokens. Evaluation on a new corpus reveals high coverage as well. Finally, we describe a morphological disambiguation module that selects the correct analysis of each token in context. The result is a high-quality morphologically-annotated CHILDES corpus of Hebrew, along with a set of tools that can be applied to new corpora.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	973-1005
Number of pages	33
Journal	Language Resources and Evaluation
Volume	47
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-012-9214-z
State	Published - Dec 2013

Keywords

CHILDES
Hebrew
Morphological analysis
Morphological disambiguation
Transcription of spoken language

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Language and Linguistics
Education
Linguistics and Language
Library and Information Sciences

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