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| Title | FOLKER: An Annotation Tool for Efficient Transcription of Natural, Multi-party Interaction |
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| Authors | Thomas Schmidt and Wilfried Schütte |
| Abstract | This paper presents FOLKER, an annotation tool developed for the efficienttranscription of natural, multi-party interaction in a conversation analysisframework. FOLKER is being developed at the Institute for German Language inand for the FOLK project, whose aim is the construction of a large corpus ofspoken present-day German, to be used for research and teaching purposes. FOLKER builds on the experience gained with multi-purpose annotation tools likeELAN and EXMARaLDA, but attempts to improve transcription efficiency byrestricting and optimizing both data model and tool functionality to a single,well-defined purpose. The tool’s most important features in this respect arethe possibility to freely switch between several editable views according tothe requirements of different steps in the annotation process, and an automaticsyntax check of annotations during input for their conformance to the GATtranscription convention. This paper starts with a description of the GAT transcription conventions andthe data model underlying the tool. It then gives an overview of the toolfunctionality and compares this functionality to that of other widely usedtools. |
| Language | Usability, user satisfaction |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Usability, user satisfaction |
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FOLKER: An Annotation Tool for Efficient Transcription of Natural, Multi-party Interaction |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SCHMIDT10.18, author = {Thomas Schmidt and Wilfried Schütte}, title = {FOLKER: An Annotation Tool for Efficient Transcription of Natural, Multi-party Interaction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |