KDI: TalkBank: A Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction

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The goal of TalkBank is the creation of a distributed, web-based, dataarchiving system for transcribed video and audio data on communicativeinteractions. These interactions will include mothers talking with theirchildren, family dinner table talk, classroom interactions, animal cries,signed language, formal debates, phone calls, talk with foreigners, clubmeetings, and dozens of other types of communicative interactions. The datawill come from speakers of many languages, professions, and ages. Somespeakers will have language disabilities and some will be language learners.The formal specification for data in TalkBank will use a system called Codon.Tools will be created for the entry of new and existing data into the Codonformat; transcriptions will be linked to speech and video; and there will beextensive support for collaborative commentary from competing perspectives. Researchers will be able to locate a particular segment of an interaction andimmediately play that section back on their computer monitors. TalkBank willfacilitate comparisons across social groups, languages, and situations. Itwill also provide tools for working in detail on single populations, as wellas collaborative commentaries that test competing interpretations against aconstant set of data.The initiative establishes an ongoing interaction between computerscientists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists,criminologists, educators, ethologists, cinematographers, psychiatrists, andanthropologists.