General reference:
Alsop, S. and Nesi, H. (2013) Annotating a corpus of spoken English: The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC). In Mello, H. Pettorino, M and Raso, T. (eds) Proceedings of GSCP 2012: Speech and Corpora. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 58-62.
The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) is available to researchers who agree to the following conditions:
Corpus holdings should not be reproduced in full for a wider audience/readership (ie. for publication or for teaching purposes), although researchers are free to quote short passages of text up to 100 running words, with a total of 200 running words from any given text.
No part of the corpus holdings should be reproduced in teaching materials intended for publication (in print or via the internet).
The corpus developers should be informed of all presentations and publications arising from analysis of the corpus.
Researchers must acknowledge their use of the ELC corpus project using the following form of words:
The transcriptions (and recordings) used in this study come from the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) project. The corpus was developed at Coventry University under the directorship of Hilary Nesi, with assistance from Siân Alsop. The corpus currently contains lectures from Coventry University in the UK, under the leadership of Hilary Nesi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), under the leadership of Ummul Khair Ahmad, and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), under the leadership of Lynn Grant. Corpus development has been assisted by a British Council PMI2 Research Cooperation grant.