DGD 2.0: A Web-based Navigation Platform for the Visualization, Presentation and Retrieval of German Speech Corpora

摘要

The "Institut fur Deutsche Sprache" (IDS) is hosting a wide collection of historical and contemporary German speech corpora. Many of the historical corpora, especially the dialectological corpora like for example the Zwirner Corpus can be accessed online via the "Database for Spoken German" (DGD). Currently we are developing a new, generic speech corpus management system at the IDS where the normalized integration of historical and more recent speech corpora under sustainability aspects and an object-oriented user interface for corpus exploration and querying are monitored as main objectives. The XML schema-based standardization on meta documentation and transcript data level allows the implementation of exact mapping mechanisms for the import and export of existing and future speech corpora. Furthermore, the specific characteristics of individual speech corpora are preserved.