Corpora: Release of HCRC Map Task Corpus Annotations

From: Jean Carletta (jeanc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 20:28:01 MET DST

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    The Human Communication Research Centre is pleased to announce the
    availability of the HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations, at

        http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/

    In 1992, the HCRC publicly released the HCRC Map Task Corpus, a corpus
    of task-oriented dialogues, on CD. The CDs contained the sound files,
    dialogue transcription, and the materials which subjects used to
    complete the task.

    We are now making HCRC's annotations of the Map Task Corpus publicly
    available. These annotations include updated transcription of the
    speech, dialogue structure at three levels (moves, games, and transactions),
    part of speech tags, syntax,gaze, landmark references, and when the
    participants were using their pens. The annotations are represented in
    XML using a technique called ``stand-off annotation'' (see
    http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/bidialog-paper.ps). Pointers to times
    in the original sound files allow the speech material to be located easily.

    Jean Carletta
    Amy Isard
    Henry S. Thompson

    Human Communication Research Centre
    University of Edinburgh



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