KDI: TalkBank: A Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction

TalkBank的目标是创建一个分布式的、基于网络的数据存档系统，用于在通信互动中转录视频和音频数据。这些互动将包括母亲与孩子交谈、家庭餐桌交谈、课堂互动、动物叫喊、手语、正式辩论、电话、与外国人交谈、俱乐部会议，以及数十种其他类型的交流互动。这些数据将来自不同语言、职业和年龄的人。TalkBank中数据的正式规范将使用一种名为Codon的系统。将创建工具，用于将新的和现有的数据输入Codon格式；抄本将与语音和视频链接；将为来自不同角度的协作评论提供广泛支持。研究人员将能够定位互动的特定片段，并立即在他们的计算机显示器上播放该片段。TalkBank将促进跨社会群体、语言和情景的比较。它还将提供对单身人群进行详细研究的工具，以及针对一组恒定数据测试相互竞争的解释的协作评论。该倡议建立了计算机科学家、语言学家、心理学家、社会学家、政治学家、犯罪学家、教育家、行为学家、电影摄影师、精神病学家和人类学家之间的持续互动。

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.