Purchase of Transcription Software, Server Upgrade, and Computer Workstations for Advanced Video Analysis of Discourse

购买转录软件、服务器升级和计算机工作站以进行高级话语视频分析

• 批准号: 9712581
• 负责人: Joel Kuipers
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9712581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Purchase; Transcription; Software; Server; Upgrade

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Joel Kuipers will purchase a computer based system to facilitate the analysis of discourse. The system integrates audio and visual data and therefore allows researchers to examine not only spoken language per se but also the crucial role that gestures and facial expressions play in human communication. The instrumentation includes 8 Power Mac 8500 AV computer workstations, vPrism software which permits full-screen, real time digital video to be linked with transcriptions and annotations of that data on the same computer screen and permits key word searches on transcribed words. An Apple Macintosh Power 8500 AV will also be purchased to run the vPrism software. This system will be employed by multiple departments, including Anthropology and Linguistics to pursue a number of projects. These include study of topic changes in Indonesian meetings, the comparative analysis of discursive changes over time, interaction of Zairian pygmies with villages and foreigners and the analysis of referential communication in aphasia. The enhanced retrieval and analysis capabilities will permit new standards of ethnographic and linguistic documentation and reveal the richly interactional and communicative aspects of human behavior. The instrumentation will be extensively used for instructional purposes and have a significant impact on both undergraduate and graduate education.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Joel Kuipers博士将购买一个基于计算机的系统来促进话语的分析。该系统集成了音频和视觉数据，因此研究人员不仅可以研究口语本身，还可以研究手势和面部表情在人类交流中所起的关键作用。仪器包括8台Power Mac 8500 AV计算机工作站，vPrism软件允许全屏实时数字视频与同一计算机屏幕上的数据转录和注释相关联，并允许对转录的单词进行关键字搜索。还将购买苹果Macintosh Power 8500 AV来运行vPrism软件。这一系统将被多个系所采用，包括人类学和语言学来进行一些项目。这些研究包括印度尼西亚会议中话题变化的研究，随着时间的推移话语变化的比较分析，扎伊尔俾格米人与村庄和外国人的互动以及失语症中参照交流的分析。增强的检索和分析能力将允许新的民族志和语言文献标准，并揭示人类行为丰富的相互作用和交流方面。该仪器将广泛用于教学目的，并对本科和研究生教育产生重大影响。