README File for the JEIDA (JCSD) documentation directory -------------------------------------------------------- The "document" directory contains the following: 0readme.doc : this file USRGUIDE.ps : main (complete) corpus documentation brackets.lst : list of bracketed strings in transcriptions promptxt.tbl : table of prompt strings (romanized, ASCII) sp_count.tbl : table of numbers of files per speaker/prompt type spkrinfo.tbl : table of demographic/session information per speaker summary.txt : ASCII versions of summary tables from USRGUIDE.ps The "*.tbl" files are ASCII-formatted tables extracted from the main PostScript documentation file; these tables are provided as plain text files with tab-separated columns to provide easy access for sorting or selecting subsets of the data by programmatic means. They have been formatted in a way that allows for both easy manual inspection (using any plain-text display or editing program), and easy incorporation into a spreadsheet or database: each line in the table file (except for comments; see next paragraph) represents one data row and begins with the first column of data; each following column of data on the line is immediately preceded by exactly one tab character, and tab characters are not used within any data field. Each of the "*.tbl" files contains "comment" and "heading" lines, which all begin with the ``#'' (pound-sign) character. The "comment" lines explain the table contents, do not contain tab characters, and always begin with the characters ``# -- '' (pound-sign, space, two hyphens, space); the "heading" lines have tab-separated column labels following the initial ``#'' character.