multicastR (version 1.0.1)

multicast: Access Multi-CAST annotation data

Description

multicast downloads the Multi-CAST annotation data from the servers of the Language Archive Cologne (LAC) and outputs it as a data.table. The Multi-CAST collection is amenable to extension by additional data sets and annotation schemes. In the spirit of scientific accountability and reproducability, multicast takes an optional argument to select earlier versions of the annotation data.

Usage

multicast(vkey)

Arguments

vkey

A numeric or character vector of length 1 specifying the requested version of the annotation values. Must be one of the four-digit version keys in the first column of mcindex, or empty. If empty, multicast defaults to the most recent version of the annotations.

Value

A data.table with eleven columns:

[, 1] corpus

The name of the corpus.

[, 2] file

The title of the file. A single long corpus text may be split into multiple files.

[, 3] uid

The utterance identifier. Uniquely identifies an utterance within a file.

[, 4] word

Grammatical words. The tokenized utterances in the object language.

[, 5] gloss

Morphological glosses following the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

[, 6] graid

Annotations using the GRAID scheme (Haig & Schnell 2014).

[, 7] gform

The form symbol of a GRAID gloss.

[, 8] ganim

The person-animacy symbol of a GRAID gloss.

[, 9] gfunc

The function symbol of a GRAID gloss.

[, 10] refind

Referent tracking using the RefIND scheme (Schiborr et al. 2018).

[, 11] reflex

The information status of newly introduced referents, using a simplified version of the RefLex scheme (Riester & Baumann 2017).

Licensing

The Multi-CAST annotation data accessed by the multicast method is published under a Create Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Please refer to the collection documentation for information on how to give proper credit to its contributors.

Citing Multi-CAST

Data from the Multi-CAST collection should be cited as:

• Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2018[2015]. Multi-CAST: Multilinguial Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts. (https://lac.uni-koeln.de/en/multicast/) (Accessed date.)

If for some reason you need to cite this package on its own, please refer to citation(multicastR).

References

• Riester, Arndt & Baumann, Stefan. 2017. The RefLex scheme -- Annotation guidelines. (SinSpeC: Working papers of the SFB 732, 14.) Stuttgart: University of Stuttgart. (http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/9028) (Accessed 2018-03-14.)

• Schiborr, Nils N. & Schnell, Stefan & Thiele, Hanna. 2018. RefIND -- Referent Indexing in Natural-language Discourse: Annotation guidelines. Version 1.0. Unpublished Manuscript. Bamberg / Melbourne: University of Bamberg / University of Melbourne.

See Also

mcindex

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# retrieve and print the most recent version of the
# Multi-CAST annotations
multicast()

# retrieve and print the version of the annotation data
# published in June 2016
multicast(1606)   # or: multicast("1606")
# }