VOICE XML

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The most wide-spread contemporary use of English throughout the world is that of English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds (Seidlhofer 2011). Nevertheless, linguistic descriptions before the mid-2000s focused almost entirely on English as spoken and written by its native speakers. Starting in 2005, the VOICE project sought to redress the balance by compiling the first general corpus capturing spoken ELF interactions as they happen naturally in various contexts. VOICE was designed and compiled to make possible linguistic descriptions of this most common contemporary use of English by providing a corpus of spoken ELF interactions which has been freely accessible to linguistic researchers all over the world since 2009. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) was initially created by Barbara Seidlhofer (founding director) and Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl (project researchers) from 2005 to 2011 at the English Department at the University of Vienna. VOICE 1.0 Online was released in 2009, VOICE 1.0 XML in 2011. VOICE POS XML 2.0 was the first part-of-speech tagged version of VOICE and was based on the same data as VOICE 2.0 XML. Both VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE 2.0 POS XML were released in 2013. Additional researchers centrally involved in the creation of VOICE 2.0 POS XML were Ruth Osimk-Teasdale, Michael Radeka and Nora Dorn. VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE POS XML 2.0 included minor revisions with regard to previous versions. VOICE 3.0 XML and VOICE 3.0 Online are based on the same data as VOICE 1.0/2.0 and were created from spring 2020 to autumn 2021 in the VOICE CLARIAH project. VOICE 3.0 XML is a new, merged TEI-conform XML version of VOICE 2.0 XML and VOICE POS XML 2.0, which contains spoken mark-up as well as part-of-speech and lemma information in TEI-XML format. The members of the VOICE CLARIAH team who created VOICE 3.0 were: Marie-Luise Pitzl (PI), Daniel Schopper, Barbara Seidlhofer, Hans Christian Breuer, Ruth Osmik-Teasdale, Hannes Pirker, Stefanie Riegler, Omar Siam.