Prof. Eric FRIGINAL, Department of English and Communication

Compiling and annotating professional spoken corpora: Trends, tools, and recommendations. AELFE-LSPPC International Conference, Zaragoza, Spain. 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Languages for Specific Purposes & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC), University of Zaragoza, Spain, Zaragoza, Spain, 20-28 June 2023.

Abstract
This lecture and mini workshop overviews the process of designing, compiling, and annotating professional spoken corpora, in particular, English-based workplace interactions across multiple (multilingual and multicultural) settings. I will present a summary of corpus-based approaches to text transcription and annotation, advancements in Multimodal Annotation, and current/future approaches and directions.