We present GRAIN (German RAdio INterviews) as part of the SFB732 Silver Standard Collection. GRAIN contains German radio interviews and is annotated on multiple linguistic layers. The data has been processed with state-of-the-art tools for text and speech and therefore represents a resource for text-based linguistic research as well as speech science. While there is a gold standard part with manual annotations, the (much larger) silver standard part (which is growing as the radio station releases more interviews) relies completely on automatic annotations. We explicitly release different versions of annotations for the same layers (e.g. morpho-syntax) with the aim to combine and compare multiple layers in order to derive confidence estimations for the annotations. Therefore, parts of the data where the output of several tools match can be considered clear-cut cases, while mismatches hint at areas of interest which are potentially challenging or where rare phenomena can be found.
@InProceedings{SCHWEITZER18.320, author = {Katrin Schweitzer and Kerstin Eckart and Markus Gärtner and Agnieszka Falenska and Arndt Riester and Ina Roesiger and Antje Schweitzer and Sabrina Stehwien and Jonas Kuhn}, title = "{German Radio Interviews: The GRAIN Release of the SFB732 Silver Standard Collection}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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