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How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond
Martin Weisser
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 84] 2018
► pp. 187–211

Chapter 6
The annotation process

Article outline
  • 6.1Issues concerning the general processing of spoken dialogues
    • 6.1.1Pre-processing – manual and automated unit determination
    • 6.1.2Fillers, pauses, backchannels, overlap, etc
    • 6.1.3Handling initial connectors, prepositions and adverbs
    • 6.1.4Dealing with disfluent starts
    • 6.1.5Parsing and chunking for syntactic purposes
  • 6.2Identifying and annotating the individual unit types automatically
    • 6.2.1Splitting off and annotating shorter units
    • 6.2.2Tagging wh-questions
    • 6.2.3Tagging yes/no-questions
    • 6.2.4Tagging fragments, imperatives and declaratives
  • 6.3Levels above the c-unit
    • 6.3.1Answers and other responses
    • 6.3.2Echoes
  • 6.4Identifying topics and modes
  • 6.5Inferencing and determining or correcting speech acts
  • Notes