Metadata harmonisation: align spoken-data fields with UniDive naming conventions
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Repo: https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Alemannic-DIVITAL
Cross-posting from the UniDive WG1 T1.5 (spoken language guidelines) metadata harmonisation review. We compared UD_Alemannic-DIVITAL’s current CoNLL-U metadata against the proposed naming conventions (see also the full treebank status table). This is a suggestion for maintainers to review - feel free to push back on anything that doesn’t fit the corpus.
1. Mark spoken documents with # modality
The spoken portion of this treebank is clearly identifiable via the form field: all 97 documents carry a # form = ... value (dialog 18, mixed (form) 38, prose 40, verse 1).
Suggestion: Add # modality = spoken to the 18 documents with form = dialog, and # modality = written to the remaining 79 (form = mixed (form), prose, or verse), per the Document-level metadata conventions. We also suggest interpreting the existing channel field as phonic-auditory, gestural-visual, or graphic-visual.
2. Speaker-level (naming conventions)
| Field | Suggestion |
|---|---|
author |
make tags: speaker_id |
3. Sentence-level (naming conventions)
| Field | Suggestion |
|---|---|
language_variety |
corpus-specific (sentence-level) - verify against metadata.html |
This issue was prepared as part of the UniDive WG1 T1.5 spoken language guidelines effort. Happy to help implement these changes ourselves if that’s easier than doing it on your end - just let us know.