Nexing Corpus

Data

• Written transcriptions:
  Verbal data (30 hours) elicited during an experiment on syllogistic reasoning (each of 27 participants x the 64 syllogistic problems): Thinking aloud task; reflexive conversation



• Performance data:
  Latencies; answer provided; confidence level; correct solution

Format

• Annotation conventions:
  XML-conformant; adaptation of the EAGLES recommendations



• Transcription conventions:
  EAGLES recommendations

Tools

• Annotation tool:
  Filling in templates implemented with NoteTab Light macros



• Visualization tool:
  XSL-compliant viewer

Availability

• 27 files (ISO-8859-1) with around 15000 tokens each

Authorship

• José Leitão (experiment design and data gathering)
  University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology
• António Branco (corpus encoding)
  University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences
• João Silva (corpus encoding)
  University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences
• Luís Miguel Gomes (data transcription)
  University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology

The Nexing Project
 
The Nexing Corpus is one of the results of the Nexing Project.

This is a multi-disciplinary project fostering the convergence of methods, results and expertise from Informatics, Applied Logic, Cognitive Psychology and Formal Linguistics in the modeling and processing of natural language, with special focus on negation.

Funding
 
The Nexing Project, and the Nexing Corpus were funded by the FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology under the contract FCT/SAPIENS99/34076/99.

• Nexing Corpus (zip), size:448 K