spokenBNC1994_metadata: Speaker metadata for the Spoken BNC1994
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Speaker metadata for the Spoken BNC1994
Description
This dataset provides some metadata for speakers in the demographically sampled part of the Spoken BNC1994 (Crowdy 1995), including information on age, gender, and the total number of word tokens contributed to the corpus.
Usage
spokenBNC1994_metadata
Format
spokenBNC1994_metadata
A data frame with 1,017 rows and 7 columns:
- speaker_id
Speaker ID (e.g. "PS002", "PS003")
- age_group
Age group, based on the BNC1994 scheme ("0-14", "15-24", "25-34", "35-44", "45-59", "60+", "Unknown")
- gender
Speaker gender ("Female" vs. "Male")
- age
Age of speaker; if actual age is not available, imputed based on age_group and age_bin
- n_tokens
Number of word tokens the speaker contributed to the corpus
- age_bin
Age group, based on the BNC2014 scheme ("0-9", "10-19", "20-29", "30-39", "40-49", "50-59", "60-69", "70+")
Source
Crowdy, Steve. 1995. The BNC spoken corpus. In Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers & Jenny Thomas (eds.), Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Mark-Up and Annotation, 224–234. Harlow: Longman.
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Speaker metadata for the Spoken BNC1994
Description
This dataset provides some metadata for speakers in the demographically sampled part of the Spoken BNC1994 (Crowdy 1995), including information on age, gender, and the total number of word tokens contributed to the corpus.
Usage
spokenBNC1994_metadata
Format
spokenBNC1994_metadata
A data frame with 1,017 rows and 7 columns:
- speaker_id
Speaker ID (e.g. "PS002", "PS003")
- age_group
Age group, based on the BNC1994 scheme ("0-14", "15-24", "25-34", "35-44", "45-59", "60+", "Unknown")
- gender
Speaker gender ("Female" vs. "Male")
- age
Age of speaker; if actual age is not available, imputed based on
age_groupandage_bin- n_tokens
Number of word tokens the speaker contributed to the corpus
- age_bin
Age group, based on the BNC2014 scheme ("0-9", "10-19", "20-29", "30-39", "40-49", "50-59", "60-69", "70+")
Source
Crowdy, Steve. 1995. The BNC spoken corpus. In Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers & Jenny Thomas (eds.), Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Mark-Up and Annotation, 224–234. Harlow: Longman.
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