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| Title | The IFADV Corpus: a Free Dialog Video Corpus |
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| Authors | Rob van Son, Wieneke Wesseling, Eric Sanders and Henk van den Heuvel |
| Abstract | Research into spoken language has become more visual over the years. Both fundamental and applied research have progressively included gestures, gaze, and facial expression. Corpora of multi-modal conversational speech are rare and frequently difficult to use due to privacy and copyright restrictions. A freely available annotated corpus is presented, gratis and libre, of high quality video recordings of face-to-face conversational speech. Annotations include orthography, POS tags, and automatically generated phonemes transcriptions and word boundaries. In addition, labeling of both simple conversational function and gaze direction has been a performed. Within the bounds of the law, everything has been done to remove copyright and use restrictions. Annotations have been processed to RDBMS tables that allow SQL queries and direct connections to statistical software. From our experiences we would like to advocate the formulation of “best practises” for both legal handling and database storage of recordings and annotations. |
| Language | Single language |
| Topics | Speech resource/database, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Dialogue & Natural Interactivity |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VANSON08.132, author = {Rob van Son, Wieneke Wesseling, Eric Sanders and Henk van den Heuvel}, title = {The IFADV Corpus: a Free Dialog Video Corpus}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |