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The recommendations of the
Text Encoding Initiative
(TEI)
8
served as central
references for us in elaborating this taxonomic domain, in that they proved pertinent
for the analysis of a corpus of audiovisual texts. This is the case, for instance, with
conceptual entities such as a
unitary text
or
group of texts
,
body of the text
and
appendix to the text
(e.g. in the context of filmed discussions following a conference
or seminar session),
cutting of the text into segments
(
paragraph, region
) or indeed
interpretation of the text
(in the form of comments, belonging to specific kinds of
commentary).
Finally, a few words on the subject of the taxonomic domain [Language object]
(Figure 13.16) which is fairly frequently thematized in the corpus comprising the
two experimental archives CCA and LHE. The main conceptual terms representing
the taxonomic domain [Language object] were identified and defined, as far as
possible, in reference to GOLD (the
General Ontology for Linguistic Description
)
9
,
which is one of the seminal ontologies for linguistic analysis
perse
.
Only a small subset of the GOLD ontology is actually integrated into the current
version of the ASW meta-lexicon. Indeed, it was not our objective to analyze
languages and linguistic usages. Rather, the main objective was the analysis of
subjects relating to
linguisticwork
- subjects touched upon, for instance, in
interviews, lectures and conferences filmed as part of the
Audiovisual Research
Archives
(ARA) program.
10
Such analysis does not go into the details of describing a
language or a family of languages, nor of the concrete usages of a language by its
speakers.
On the other hand, given that the main terms from GOLD have a clearly
identified place in the taxonomic structure of the ASW meta-lexicon, it would not be
an overly complex task to integrate the rest of this ontology so as to make it
available to the analyses concerned.
In other words, the ASW Description workshop could perfectly well be used for
a systematic and fine-grained description (i.e. which corresponds to the level of
precision of GOLD) of linguistic audiovisual corpora: conversation analyses, lexico-
grammatical analyses, phonetic analyses, etc.
8 For further information relating to electronic encoding of texts using the TEI, see
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/Lite/teiu5_en.html.
9 See http://linguistics-ontology.org/version.
10 URL of the portal: http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/FR/.
