(in German)

The RUEG-Korpus' general guidelines for normalisaton apply: Step 2: Normalisation

In the following, a few principles will be repeated and language specific decisions included.

• orthographic normalisation
• no normalisation in the syntax
• no grammatical normalisation
• discontinuities and pauses are erased and receive an empty event (on language level the value for discontinuities and pauses is erased -> empty event); EXCEPT word internal discontinuities (dipl: vorbeige$le$ rollt, norm: vobeigerollt)
• repetitions remain
• spoken: non-verbal material, such as [laughing], is not transferred -> empty event
• punctuation marks are not included

• this counts also for the written files - (change 7.10.2019)

reductions of determiners, adjectives and nouns are not normalised with respect to case and gender information*:

reductions and slip of the tongues of verbs, nouns etc. not related to case and gender marking are normalised:

short forms of indefinite articles are normalised as:

• normalise 'nen' as 'ein' in cases of nominative masculine and nominative/accusative neuter, e.g.:

  • dipl: "da is nen auto um die ecke gebogen". norm: "da ist ein auto..."
  • dipl: "ich hab nen auto gesehen". norm: "ich habe ein auto..." BUT not in: dipl: "nen ne vollbremsung" as norm: "einen eine vollbremsung"

• so=n either as "so ein" or as "so einen", depending on the context:

  • dipl: "so=n typ hat mitm ball...". norm: "so ein Typ hat mitm Ball"
  • dipl: "die frau hat so=n hund dabei". norm: "die Frau hat so einen Hund dabei"

According to the Duden and scholarly literature (e.g. Vogel 2006, Schäfer & Sayatz 2014), 'n' and 'nen' can each represent both ('ein', 'einen'). One normalises according to the principle of minimal deviation from the standardly expected form.

• hesitation markers are all normalised as „äh“, these include äh, ähm, öh, hm etc.

• when meaning is clearly constant, determine and document a standard, such as:

• when change of meaning is possible or when context is restricted, leave lexemes as they are, the variations remain:
  • daran, dran
  • darin, drin, drinnen
  • drauf, darauf
  • sone (as in "sone autos", so only for plural nouns), solche
  • reinfahren, hereinfahren, hineinfahren
  • auffahren, rauffahren, drauffahren
  • reinpacken, einpacken, hineinpacken

• FM with German inflection, e.g.:

• material that is included in the Duden, such as sorry, Van etc. are marked as deu on language level. The Online-Duden serves as a reference, the date of the viewing must be documented (list FM).

• until twelve: spelled out
• beginning with 13: numerals
• in the written texts, keep the variation the subject chose

• gender gap
  • dipl: Fußgänger innen; norm: Fußgänger_innen

• include CU level

• 'dass' as conjunction if spelled 'das' is normalised to 'dass'

• punctuation marks:

  • do not add any, do not correct any, except when missing a space:

  dipl	norm
  eingepackt.auf	eingepackt / . / auf

  • several punctuation marks one behind the other without space, e.g. three dots: … leave in an event

  dipl	norm
  ...	/ ... /

  • if there is a space in between, then also leave it, e.g. . /. / .

  dipl	norm
  . . .	/. / . / . /

• Emojis

  • include Emojis such as :) on norm

• abbreviations/acronyms

  • conventionalised abbreviations are left on norm
  • unconventionalised abbreviations or acronyms are spelled out, e.g. dipl: kp norm: kein | Plan
  • acronyms that are also "action words" (e.g., lol) are left this way on norm