Title
AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English.
Abstract
This paper describes the AusTalk corpus, which was designed and created through the Big ASC, a collaborative project with the two main goals of providing a standardised infrastructure for audio-visual recordings in Australia and of producing a large audio-visual corpus of Australian English, with 3 hours of AV recordings for 1000 speakers. We first present the overall project, then describe the corpus itself and its components, the strict data collection protocol with high levels of standardisation and automation, and the processes put in place for quality control. We also discuss the annotation phase of the project, along with its goals and challenges; a major contribution of the project has been to explore procedures for automating annotations and we present our solutions. We conclude with the current status of the corpus and with some examples of research already conducted with this new resource. AusTalk is one of the corpora included in the Alveo Virtual Lab, which is briefly sketched in the conclusion.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
audio-visual corpus,Australian English,standardised infrastructure,collection protocol,annotations
Field
DocType
Citations 
Australian English,Data collection,Annotation,Virtual lab,Computer science,Automation,Artificial intelligence,Corpus linguistics,Natural language processing
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominique Estival120226.25
Steve Cassidy22510.04
Felicity Cox3205.48
Denis Burnham4609.16