[Corpora-List] Info on audiovisual corpora

Mon Dec 8 10:57:34 UTC 2008

Hi folks

Apologies also for the lateness of this response, but you can also check
out the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
There are 80 000 words of transcribed speech (plus recordings and some
video files) available. We hope to double the number of audio-recorded
spoken documents in the next year to 18 months. The corpus is freely
available online, and the audio-visual files, and transcripts can be
downloaded for educational purposes.

To identify the AV files:

1. Go to www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
2. Click on Standard Search
3. Click on Browse (Browse all documents)
4. Click on Multimedia

The documents will then be ordered with video documents at the top,
audio second, text-only third... Click on a document to view the
transcript, and then click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the
screen to view and hear the document. You'll need apple quicktime for
this.

John

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Creating audio-visual corpora (Leech, Geoffrey)
   2. Re:  Wanted: info on audio-visual corpora (CRuehlemann at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:33:14 -0000
From: "Leech, Geoffrey" <g.leech at lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Creating audio-visual corpora
To: <corpora at uib.no>

Paul,

Sorry this reply is a bit late - but have you heard of the Spoken
Chinese Corpus of Situated Discourse collected in Beijing by Yueguo Gu
under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Science? (SCCSD
BJ-500 for short). It has 500 hours of discourse and is the most
ambitious and interesting audio-visual corpus I have come across. You
can find out about it here:
http://ling.cass.cn/dangdai/gu_papers/sampling%20situated%20discourse.pd
f

Geoff

Geoffrey Leech
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster
University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK g.leech at lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593036
Fax: +44 (0)1524 843085

Message: 5
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:40:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Wanted: info on audio-visual corpora
To: Corpora list <corpora at uib.no>

On 30 Nov 2008, Paul Thompson <p.a.thompson at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am preparing a chapter on 'Creating audio-visual corpora' and would
like
> to get an idea of what the state of the art is, from a corpus
developer's
> point of view. I am primarily interested in corpus projects in which
the
> developers have linked digital audio and/or video files to the
transcripts,

You might be interested in the BSL Corpus project at UCL, Bangor, and
other UK universities. They are working with video of sign language
discourse and transcribing it (some parts into English). Go check out
http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/

Regards, Trevor

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:48:50 EST
From: CRuehlemann at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Wanted: info on audio-visual corpora
To: CORPORA at UIB.NO

Dear Paul,

Another belated reply to your  query: 

Two  multimodal corpora (you may already know of) are reported on in
Baldry & Thilbault (2006) who take a systemic-functional approach to
analyse gaze  in a corpus of TV car advertisements and  Carter &
Adolphs?s (2008). This latter project, called Headtalk, is based on  a
small corpus of several hours of video-taped MA and PhD supervision
sessions  at Nottingham University and intended to explore the
patterning of  multi-modal backchannels, focussing specifically on head
nods as a type of  nonverbal backchannel in co-occurrence with verbal
backchannels. 

Best

Chris
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Refs:

Baldry, A. & P. Thibault (2006) ?Multimodal  corpus linguistics?. In
Thompson, G. and S. Hunston (eds) System and Corpus:  Exploring
Connections. 
London/Oakville: Equinox, 164?83. 
Carter, R. & S. Adolphs. (2008). ?Linking the verbal and the visual:
new directions for corpus linguistic?. Language and Computers 64:
275-291

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