ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 24624 First edition 2016-08-15 Language resource management Transcription of spoken language Gestion des ressources linguistiques - Transcription du langage parle Reference number ISO 24624:2016(E) ISO International Organization for Standardization @IS02016 vided by IHS under ted without license from IHS IS0 24624:2016(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS0 2016, Published in Switzerland All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Ch. de Blandonnet 8 . CP 401 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland Tel. +41 22 749 01 11 Fax+412274909 47 [email protected] www.iso.org Intenationai br PrganizationforStandardization I by IHS unde etworking permitted without license from IHS IS0 24624:2016(E) Contents Page Foreword ..V Introduction.. ...vi 1 Scope.. 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 Metadata ..2 4.1 Description of the electronic file (<fileDesc>) 2 .2 4.1.1 Distribution information (<publicationStmt>) 4.1.2 Recording information (<recordingStmt>). 2 4.2 Description of circumstances (<profileDesc>) 4.2.1 Participant information (<particDesc>) 4 4.2.2 Settinginformation(<settingDesc>) 4.3 Description of source (<encodingDesc>), ..5 5 Macrostructure .5 5.1 Timeline (<timeline>) ..5 5.2 Utterances (<u>) ..6 5.3 Free dependent annotations (<spanGrp>, <span>) > 5.4 Grouping of utterances and dependent annotations (<annotationBlock>) ..9 5.5 Independent elements outside utterances (<pause> and <incident>) .10 5.6 Inline paralinguistic annotation (<shift>) ..10 5.7 Global divisions of a transcription (<div>) ..11 6 Microstructure. ..12 6.1 Tokens (<w>) ..12 6.1.1 Characterization ..12 6.1.2 Representation as <w> ..12 6.1.3 Further constraints. .13 6.1.4 Examples. ..13 6.2 Pauses (<pause>) ..14 6.2.1 Characterization. ..14 6.2.2 Representation as <pause> .14 6.2.3 Further constraints.. .14 6.2.4 Examples. .15 6.3 Audible and visible non-speech events (<vocal>, <kinesic> and <incident>) ..15 6.3.1 Characterization. ..15 6.3.2 Representation as <vocal>, <kinesic> or <incident> .16 6.3.3 Examples. .16 6.4 Punctuation (<pc>) .17 6.4.1 Characterization ..17 6.4.2 Representation as <pc> ..17 6.4.3 Further constraints. .17 6.4.4 Examples... ..18: 6.5 Uncertainty, alternatives, incomprehensible and omitted passages (<unclear>, <choice>,<gap>) ..18 6.5.1 Characterization. ..18 6.5.2 Representation as <unclear> or <gap> .18 6.5.3 Further constraints.. ..18 6.5.4 Examples. .19 6.6 Units above the token and below the <u> level (<seg>) .20 6.6.1 Characterization 20 6.6.2 Representation as <seg> 20 6.6.3 Further constraints.. 20 6.6.4 Examples.... .20 iii ed without license from IHS