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| Title | The NOMCO Multimodal Nordic Resource - Goals and Characteristics |
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| Authors | Patrizia Paggio, Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Kristiina Jokinen and Costanza Navarretta |
| Abstract | This paper presents the multimodal corpora that are being collected andannotated in the Nordic NOMCO project. The corpora will be used to studycommunicative phenomena such as feedback, turn management and sequencing. They already include video material for Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Estonian,andseveral social activities are represented. The data will make it possible toverify empirically how gestures (head movements, facial displays, hand gesturesand body postures) and speech interact in all the three mentioned aspects ofcommunication. The data are being annotated following the MUMIN annotation scheme, whichprovides attributes concerning the shape and the communicative functions ofhead movements, face expressions, body posture and hand gestures. After having described the corpora, the paper discusses how they will be usedto study the way feedback is expressed in speech and gestures, and reportsresults from two pilot studies where we investigated the function of headgestures ― both single and repeated ― in combination with feedbackexpressions. The annotated corpora will be valuable sources for research on interculturalcommunication as well as for interaction in the individual languages. |
| Language | Multilinguality |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Multilinguality |
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The NOMCO Multimodal Nordic Resource - Goals and Characteristics |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PAGGIO10.98, author = {Patrizia Paggio, Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Kristiina Jokinen and Costanza Navarretta}, title = {The NOMCO Multimodal Nordic Resource - Goals and Characteristics}, 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} } |