SFU Centering Corpus 
@Maite Taboada, Loreley Wiesemann, 2011

Taboada, Maite and Loreley Wiesemann (2011) SFU Centering Corpus. Simon Fraser University. 

Current version: May 2011

This folder contains two versions of the SFU Centering Corpus. The corpus
includes annotations, according to Centering Theory, of 10 conversations
from the CallHome corpus, 5 in English and 5 in Spanish.

The first file contains the entire annotation. The next files contain
annotations separated by method, what we called "Kameyama", "Miltsakaki",
"Poesio", and "Suri and McCoy", that is, different instantiations of
some of Centering's parameters.

The corpus was annotated by Loreley Wiesemann and Maite Taboada, with
some help by Mayo Kudo. It was converted to XML (from Excel files) by
Dennis Sharkey. The encoding is TEI-compliant.

For more information on the corpus annotation, the project, and the
publications resulting from this corpus, please check:

http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/research/centering-project.html

And the following publications:

Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2010) Subjects and topics in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7): 1816-1828.
Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2008) Deciding on units of analysis within Centering Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4 (1): 63-108. (Pre-publication version, pdf).
Taboada, M. (2008) Reference, centers and transitions in spoken Spanish. In J. Gundel and N. Hedberg (eds.) Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 176-215. (Draft in pdf format).
Hadic Zabala, Loreley and Maite Taboada (2006) Centering Theory in Spanish: Coding Manual. (pdf format).
Taboada, M. (2005) Anaphoric Terms and Focus of Attention in English and Spanish. In C. Butler, MLA Gmez-Gonzlez and S. Doval (eds.) The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and Contrastive Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 195-216.
Taboada, M. (2002) Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish. Proceedings, 6th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, EDILOG. Edinburgh. September 2002: 177-184. Download in pdf format.
Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalizacin en la lengua hablada: Una primera aproximacin. Documentos de Espaol Actual 3-4: 173-200.


This work was supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Standard Research
Grant 410-2006-1009, PI: Maite Taboada) and by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (FFI2010-19380, 
PI: Mara de los Angeles Gmez-Gonzlez).