[Corpora-List] Looking for interpersonal communication corpora

[Rich Cooper]

Dear Frederik,

There is a TV show about a shrink and his patients
which also has subtitle files for each episode.
It is scripted (since it's a show) rather than
unplanned, but the conversational material is
excellent for establishing emotional driving
forces, individual histories, and the reactions of
each person are followed.  The shrink even has
problems with his wife and kids, and he discusses
them in conversation with his own shrink, who was
his supervisor in shrink college.  The series is
called "In Treatment", and it is a fascinating
watch.  

You can notice the Jungian typologies in the
character of the individuals.  Each episode is
about thirty minutes with video, so you can
further annotate the displayed emotions of each
character in addition to the dialog itself.  Using
the transcribed text of the language, and the
instantaneous emotionally honest responses of the
speakers, lets you correlate all kinds of
interesting factors that come out in analysis of
each character's internal psychological
structures.  

Season 1 (of three seasons total) has about 43
episodes, so video, subtitles and all take up a
23GB file for downloading via torrents:

http://dl.btjunkie.org/torrent/In-Treatment-Season
-1-720p-Complete/4239f2458f962306af1b96ee3f8e26a05
d667d3f3b2f/download.torrent

There are two other seasons so far, but depending
on how you use the material, it may (or may not)
be considered under the "fair use" doctrine that
evolved from the days of copiers being used in
small volume to support other work.  You may have
to seek legal advice (IANAL) if you have fancy
ideas of how to use it, but I would think (again,
IANAL) that you could get a lot of research and
insight from analyzing the language and
correlating observed emotions with the sequence of
statements.  

JMHO,
-RIch

Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Frederik Vaassen
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:31 AM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Looking for interpersonal
communication corpora

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to apply text classification
techniques to
interpersonal communication in a business setting.
Specifically, my
research has involved trying to automatically
place sentences from
conversations on the Interpersonal Circumplex
(also known as Leary's
Rose, a two-dimensional framework defined by
dominance and affinity
dimensions).

The data I've used to experiment on was gathered
manually, and it's been
sufficient for a good few experiments, but I'm
looking to expand my
research. For that, I need more data.

Which is why I turn to you!


Does anyone know of any corpora that contain
conversations between two
parties, captured in a business setting?
Some examples: e-mail conversations; transcripts
of face-to-face
conversations, phone conversations and meetings;
scripts for
professional role play sessions...

Ideally, I'd like the documents to be in English
or in Dutch.

I'm already aware of the Enron corpus as well as
of Nelson (2000)'s
Business English corpus, but it'd be great if I
could find more and
different data.


Any input is greatly appreciated!

Regards,


Frederik Vaassen
CLiPS Research Center
University of Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/~frederik

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