AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English

Dominique Estival; Steve Cassidy; Felicity Cox; Denis Burnham

AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English

Dominique Estival, Steve Cassidy, Felicity Cox, Denis Burnham

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014)
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Place of Publication	Reykjavik, Iceland
Publisher	European Language Resources Association
Pages	3105-3109
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9782951740884
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (9th : 2014) - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 26 May 2014 → 31 May 2014

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Conference	International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (9th : 2014)
City	Reykjavik, Iceland
Period	26/05/14 → 31/05/14

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Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Cox, F., & Burnham, D. (2014). AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, H. Loftsson, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014) (pp. 3105-3109). European Language Resources Association. http://aclweb.org/anthology/L/L14/

Estival, Dominique ; Cassidy, Steve ; Cox, Felicity et al. / AusTalk : an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Khalid Choukri ; Thierry Declerck ; Hrafn Loftsson ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Asuncion Moreno ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. Reykjavik, Iceland : European Language Resources Association, 2014. pp. 3105-3109

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Estival, D, Cassidy, S , Cox, F & Burnham, D 2014, AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. in N Calzolari, K Choukri, T Declerck, H Loftsson, B Maegaard, J Mariani, A Moreno, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). European Language Resources Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3105-3109, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (9th : 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, 26/05/14. <http://aclweb.org/anthology/L/L14/>

AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. / Estival, Dominique; Cassidy, Steve ; Cox, Felicity et al.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Khalid Choukri; Thierry Declerck; Hrafn Loftsson; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Asuncion Moreno; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association, 2014. p. 3105-3109.

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Estival D, Cassidy S , Cox F, Burnham D. AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. In Calzolari N, Choukri K, Declerck T, Loftsson H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Moreno A, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association. 2014. p. 3105-3109

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