The BigBrother Corpus – downloadable transcriptions

The BigBrother Corpus is a speech corpus with recordings from the first season of the BigBrother show, sent on Norwegian television by TVNorge in the first half of 2001. The participants in BigBrother speak different dialects, but primarily they come from the east of Norway. They are aged 23-36 years.

The BigBrother Corpus contains audio and video recordings of almost all the 100 broadcasts that was shown on television. The downloadable version of the corpus contains approx. 440 300 tokens, orthographically transcribed.

The BigBrother Corpus is a unique speech corpus where the participants work together, discuss, argue, quarrel, cries, laugh, shout, make love etc. In contrast to controlled recordings that are limited to interviews and dialogue, the BigBrother-material has conversations about all possible topics and within different genre. Sometimes strong feelings are in turn, which also can conceivably have an impact on the language.

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  - resource Name: The BigBrother Corpus – downloadable transcriptions
  - resource Name: BigBrother-korpuset – nedlastbare transkripsjoner
  - description: BigBrother-korpuset er et talespråkskorpus som består av den første sesongen av realityserien BigBrother som ble sendt på TVNorge våren 2001. Deltakerne i BigBrother er i alderen 23-36 år og snakker ulike dialekter. BigBrother-korpuset inneholder lyd- og videoopptak av nesten alle de 100 sendingene som ble vist på tv. Denne nedlastbare versjoner inneholder transkripsjonene, cirka 44 300 tokens. Materialet er ortografisk transkribert. BigBrother-korpuset er et unikt talespråkskorpus der deltakerne arbeider sammen, diskutere, argumenterer, krangler, gråter, ler, roper og elsker. I motsetning til kontrollerte talespråksinnspillinger som ofte er begrenset til intervjuer og dialog, har BigBrother-materialet samtaler om alle mulige temaer og innen ulike genre. Noen ganger er sterke følelser i sving, og dette kan tenkes å innvirkning på språket.
  - description: The BigBrother Corpus is a speech corpus with recordings from the first season of the BigBrother show, sent on Norwegian television by TVNorge in the first half of 2001. The participants in BigBrother speak different dialects, but primarily they come from the east of Norway. They are aged 23-36 years. The BigBrother Corpus contains audio and video recordings of almost all the 100 broadcasts that was shown on television. The downloadable version of the corpus contains approx. 440 300 tokens, orthographically transcribed. The BigBrother Corpus is a unique speech corpus where the participants work together, discuss, argue, quarrel, cries, laugh, shout, make love etc. In contrast to controlled recordings that are limited to interviews and dialogue, the BigBrother-material has conversations about all possible topics and within different genre. Sometimes strong feelings are in turn, which also can conceivably have an impact on the language.
  - resource Short Name: BigBrother – transcriptions
  - url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/bigbrother/index.html
  - P I D: http://hdl.handle.net/11538/0000-0005-E7C1-C
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    - user Category: Public
    - distribution Access Medium: downloadable
    - download Location: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/bigbrother/index.html#transkripsjon
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      - licence Family: Creative Commons (CC)
      - licence Name: Creative_Commons-BY-NC-SA (CC-BY-NC-SA)
      - licence Url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
      - conditions Of Use: BY
      - conditions Of Use: NC
      - conditions Of Use: SA
      - non Standard Conditions Of Use: The corpus has audio and video recordings classified as personal data. The production company Nordic Entertainment has generously given their consent to the usage of the videos as a speech corpus, but the audio and video files are accessible only through Glossa, a search and post-processing tool developed by the Text Laboratory. Every individual researcher is responsible for treating the participants with respect and sincerity. Furthermore, the informants in the corpora should be anonymized, e.g. by changing their names, in every published paper or other output.
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        organization Name: University of Oslo
        organization Name: Universitetet i Oslo
        organization Short Name: UiO
        organization Short Name: UoO
        department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
        department Name: Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier (ILN)
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        email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
        url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/
        address: Box 1102 Blindern
        zip Code: 0317
        city: OSLO
        country: Norway
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        organization Name: University of Oslo
        organization Name: Universitetet i Oslo
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        organization Short Name: UoO
        department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
        department Name: Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier (ILN)
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        email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
        url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/
        address: Box 1102 Blindern
        zip Code: 0317
        city: OSLO
        country: Norway
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        organization Name: Nordic Entertainment (ipr holder of the videos)
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      - organization Name: The Text Laboratory
      - organization Short Name: Textlab
      - department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
    - communication Info
      - email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
      - url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
      - address: Box 1102 Blindern
      - zip Code: 0317
      - city: OSLO
      - country: Norway
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  - metadata Creation Date: 24.02.2015
  - metadata Last Date Updated: 06.04.2021
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        surname: Hagen
        given Name: Kristin
      - organization Info
        organization Name: The Text Laboratory
        organization Short Name: Textlab
        department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
      - communication Info
        email: kristin.hagen@iln.uio.no
        url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
        address: Box 1102 Blindern
        zip Code: 0317
        city: OSLO
        country: Norway
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  - version: Second version
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  - validated: true
  - validation Type: content
  - validation Mode: manual
  - validation Mode Details: The transcriptions are proof read against the audio files.
  - validation Extent: full
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  - actor Info
    - actor Type: organization
    - organization Info
      - organization Name: The Text Laboratory
      - organization Short Name: Textlab
      - department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
    - communication Info
      - email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
      - url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
      - address: Box 1102 Blindern
      - zip Code: 0317
      - city: OSLO
      - country: Norway
- resource Documentation Info
  - documentation Unstructured
    - role: documentation
    - document Unstructured: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/bigbrother/index.html
- resource Creation Info
  - creation Start Date: 01.08.2007
  - creation End Date: 31.12.2009
  - resource Creator
    - actor Info
      - actor Type: organization
      - organization Info
        organization Name: The Text Laboratory
        organization Short Name: Textlab
        department Name: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
      - communication Info
        email: tekstlab-post@iln.uio.no
        url: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/
        address: Box 1102 Blindern
        zip Code: 0317
        city: OSLO
        country: Norway
  - funding Project:
  - project Info
    - project Name: Developing and completing language resources: The Big Brother show as a modern speech corpus
    - url: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/bigbrother/index.html
    - funding Type: nationalFunds
    - funder: The Research Council of Norway, the KUNSTI program (Kunnskapsutvikling for norsk språkteknologi).
    - funding Country: Norway
    - project Start Date: 31.08.2007
    - project End Date: 31.12.2007

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dc:title	The BigBrother Corpus – downloadable transcriptions
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dc:description	The BigBrother Corpus is a speech corpus with recordings from the first season of the BigBrother show, sent on Norwegian television by TVNorge in the first half of 2001. The participants in BigBrother speak different dialects, but primarily they come from the east of Norway. They are aged 23-36 years. The BigBrother Corpus contains audio and video recordings of almost all the 100 broadcasts that was shown on television. The downloadable version of the corpus contains approx. 440 300 tokens, orthographically transcribed. The BigBrother Corpus is a unique speech corpus where the participants work together, discuss, argue, quarrel, cries, laugh, shout, make love etc. In contrast to controlled recordings that are limited to interviews and dialogue, the BigBrother-material has conversations about all possible topics and within different genre. Sometimes strong feelings are in turn, which also can conceivably have an impact on the language.
dc:publisher
dc:format	downloadable
dc:date	2007-08-01
dc:date	2009-12-31
dc:rights	Public
dc:rights	Creative Commons (CC)
dc:rights	Creative_Commons-BY-NC-SA (CC-BY-NC-SA)
dc:rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc:creator	The Text Laboratory
dc:lang	Norwegian
dc:lang	Norwegian Bokmål

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