English GUM
Overview
| type | mixed |
| available since | 2.2 |
| link | https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_English-GUM |
| genre | academic blog email fiction government legal news nonfiction social spoken web wiki |
| contact | amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu |
| sentences | 14353 |
| tokens | 252284 |
Issue draft: UD_English-GUM
Modality identification
Is spoken part clearly identifiable? yes - via meta::genre. Checked directly against en_gum-ud-dev.conllu and en_gum-ud-test.conllu (dev: 30 documents/1575 sentences, test: 30 documents/1464 sentences; 15 genres, 2 documents each per split). Of the 15 genres, 5 are spoken: vlog, speech, podcast, court, conversation
The other 10 genres (academic, bio, essay, fiction, interview, letter, news, textbook, voyage, whow) are written or mixed-modality (e.g. interview here is written Q&A, not transcribed speech).
Advise: add # modality = spoken to the genres listed above and # modality = written to the rest, per the Document-level metadata conventions. .
Interaction parameters (optional add-on): checked source/summary metadata for one document per spoken genre to ground the proposal below :
| Genre | degree_of_spontaneity |
number_of_participants |
context |
setting |
channels |
symmetry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
conversation |
unplanned | dialogic/multi-party | private | face-to-face | phonic-auditory; gestural-visual | symmetric |
court |
planned | multi-party | professional | face-to-face | phonic-auditory; gestural-visual | asymmetric |
podcast |
unplanned | multi-party | public | online | phonic-auditory | asymmetric |
speech |
planned | monologic | public | broadcast | phonic-auditory; gestural-visual | asymmetric |
vlog |
planned | monologic | public | online | phonic-auditory; gestural-visual | asymmetric |
Notes: conversation is Santa Barbara Corpus audio (no video) of private family/partner talk; court is audio-only Supreme Court oral argument (live Q&A elicited by justices’ questions, hence elicited rather than unplanned); podcast (Global Voices) has editors plus 2 guests, audio-only; speech and vlog are both video-recorded (C-SPAN and YouTube respectively) with a single speaker/creator addressing an audience with no back-and-forth, hence asymmetric.
Metadata review
speaker metadata
| Field | Advice |
|---|---|
speaker |
change to speaker_id |
doc (and paragraphs) metadata
| Field | Advice |
|---|---|
newdoc id |
OK |
modality metadata
| Field | Advice |
|---|---|
meta::genre |
consider switching to genre |