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Anonymous speaker? #29

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TomazErjavec opened this issue Jan 30, 2021 · 3 comments
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Anonymous speaker? #29

TomazErjavec opened this issue Jan 30, 2021 · 3 comments
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It might happen that for a certain speech (i.e. <u>) it is not known who the speaker was. Of the V1 corpora, this is only the case in BG, where this speaker was specified as:

<person xml:id="Anonymous">

However, it is not clear that this is the best way to do it, it would be more XMLish if such speeches simply did not have the @who attribute. This would mean fixing BG, undoing #21 and esp. being aware in any user-facing applications that the attribute can be missing, and that such cases must be processed appropriatelly (probably by showing "Anonymous").

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From application and statistics perspectives: Using Anonymous looks like it is one single (chatty) person.

If we don't fill @who, we are saying that we don't know the speaker.

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I agree and we will change in the new versions.

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OK, I will make u/@who optional, as this also seems to solve the problem in #33.
Of course, now all utterances can be without their speaker, so the validation is weaker now. So I will change the conversion to vertical, to output a warning in such cases though.

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