multicastR: multicastR: A companion to the Multi-CAST collection.

In multicastR: A Companion to the Multi-CAST Collection

Description

The multicastR package provides a basic interface for accessing the annotated corpus data in the Multi-CAST collection (edited by Geoffrey Haig and Stefan Schnell), a database of spoken natural language texts that draws from a diverse set of languages. The corpus data are downloaded on command from the servers of the University of Bamberg via the multicast method. Details on the Multi-CAST project and a list of publications can be found online at https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/.

Licensing

The Multi-CAST annotation data accessed by this package are 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 Multi-CAST website 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.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilinguial Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts. (https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/) (Accessed date.)

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

See Also

multicast, mc_index, mc_metadata, mc_referents, mc_clauses

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