This corpus is a subpart of the CoMeRe corpus databank. The CoMeRe (Communication Médiée par les Réseaux) project aims to build a kernel corpus assembling existing corpora of different CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) genres and new corpora build on data extracted from the Internet. These heterogenous corpora will be structured and processed in a uniform way, complemented with metadata. CoMeRe will be released as OpenData through the national infrastructure Ortolang, following constraints which will be reused for the forthcoming “Corpus de Référence du Français”. Project supported by the national consortium Corpus-écrits, sub-part of Huma-Num, and Ortolang (French correspondant to DARIAH).

The TEI structure used is an extension of TEI for CMC genres. This extension is developped by a European project which participants are : Michael Beißwenger (DE), Thierry Chanier (FR), Isabella Chiari (IT), Maria Ermakova (DE), Maarten van Gompel (NL), Iris Hendrickx (NL), Axel Herold (DE), Henk van den Heuvel (NL), Lothar Lemnitzer (DE), Angelika Storrer (DE).

CMC Environment

MSN-Messenger : Definition of the modality textchat according to MSN Messenger, version 2008

• chat-message : ordinary textchat turn corresponding to @type of post
• connexion : one participant enters the textchat room; value corresponding to @type of action
• disconnexion : one participant leaves the textchat room ; value corresponding to @type of action

Structure of interactions
text: One per course for its Interaction Space
div: Divisions correspond to synchronous textchat sessions.
post: one post corresponds to one texchat turn.

• xml:idID of the post.
• whendate and time of the textchat turn. In some sessions time of the textchat turn is not known (only the date). On other occasion the time is not precise: several posts may have the same time. All posts are ordered following their order of display in the channel. Generally only enter and leave times are known. Hence beginning time of a chat act corresponds to the last enter (or leave) time.
• whoid of the author of the message. Every participant has been described in the particDesc.
• typepost type cf. taxononomy.

action: when a participant enters or leaves the textchat

Data Collection

Data collected : From 2006-01-31 to 2006-05-10
rs: Paris, France
rs: 7008038

Language of the data: French

Types of interaction

channel: mode: w , Textchat system MSN Messenger
constitution: This corpus is made of textchat logfiles which include interactions among participants: tutors of French as a foreign language and learners of French, PhD and Master's students coming from abroad.
derivation: type: original ,
domain: education
factuality: type: fact ,
interaction: type: complete , active: many , Interactions happened acordingly to the guidelines of the learning activities (see projectDesc for access to guidelines)
preparedness: type: spontaneous ,
purpose: degree: high , learn and practise French in an academic context

Participants (extract)

Durant l’expérience-pilote (faviep), 3 tuteurs (dont 2 natifs) animent toutes les séances de clavardage. Lors de la seconde expérience (favie2), 2 tuteurs participent aux activités et se partage les rôles : l’un est un tuteur linguistique et l’autre s’occupe de la conception des activités de clavardage et de la modération de la séance. Le public cible est des étudiants en master, en doctorat et en post-doctorat de l’Université Paris 3 et de l’Université Paris Dauphine.

Person ID= cmr-favi-TUT1
sex: male
residence: France
affiliation: Université Paris 3
langKnowledge: First language
persName: Tutor1

Person ID= cmr-favi-TUT2
sex: female
residence: France
affiliation: Université Paris 3
langKnowledge: First language
persName: Tutor2

Person ID= cmr-favi-TUT3
sex: female
nationality: key: kor , Korean
affiliation: Université Paris 3
langKnowledge: First language
persName: Tutor3

Person ID= cmr-favi-MEXO
sex: male
nationality: key: mex , Mexico
affiliation: Université Paris Dauphine
langKnowledge: First language
persName: Octavio