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Title A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora
Authors Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski and Matthias Woelfel
Abstract Laughter is an intrinsic component of human-human interaction, and current automatic speech understanding paradigms stand to gain significantly from its detection and modeling. In the current work, we produce a manual segmentation of laughter in a large corpus of interactive multi-party seminars, which promises to be a valuable resource for acoustic modeling purposes. More importantly, we quantify the occurrence of laughter in this new domain, and contrast our observations with findings for laughter in multi-party meetings. Our analyses show that, with respect to the majority of measures we explore, the occurrence of laughter in both domains is quite similar.
Language Single language
Topics Dialogue & Natural Interactivity, Emotions, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.)
Full paper A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora
Slides A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora
Bibtex @InProceedings{BURGER08.815,
  author = {Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski and Matthias Woelfel},
  title = {A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora},
  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}
  }

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