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Corpus of British Isles Spoken English

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Corpus of British Isles Spoken English
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UGIIWD
 
Creator Coats, Steven
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Corpus of British Isles Spoken English (CoBISE) is a corpus of geolocated automatic speech recognition (ASR) YouTube transcripts from the United Kingdom and Ireland, created for the study of linguistic and interactional phenomena in contemporary English. Transcripts are linked to videos accessible through the YouTube platform, allowing the study of multimodal phenomena.


The corpus was created from 38,680 ASR transcripts from 497 YouTube channels, corresponding to more than 12,800 hours of video. The size of the corpus is 111,563,614 tokens. The channels sampled in the corpus are associated with local government entities such as county or city councils. The transcripts are primarily of recordings of public meetings, although other genres are also present. Video transcripts have been assigned exact latitude-longitude coordinates using a geocoding script.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Computer and Information Science
Social Sciences
Other
corpus linguistics
dialectology
spoken language
speech transcripts
United Kingdom
Ireland
 
Language English
 
Contributor Coats, Steven