Techniques for transcribers: assessing and improving consistency in transcripts of spoken language.
Spoken discourse is a uniquely valuable source of data in cognitive research. A natural way of representing spoken discourse is in the form of a transcript in standard orthography. However, since transcribing is, for neuroscientists at any rate, no more than a means to an end, many researchers give...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 389 - 406 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2011
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