ITR-SCOTUS: A Resource for Collaborative Research in Speech Technology, Linguistics, Decision Processes, and the Law

该项目将创建一个数字音频档案，使多个领域的科学家能够处理语音和语言研究中的新研究问题，群体决策问题以及人类交流学术前沿问题。 自1955年10月3日以来，美国最高法院（SCOTUS）一直在记录其公开诉讼程序。这些录音-现在在国家档案馆-跨越近50年，主要包括口头辩论，其中大法官和律师参与各种形式的说服和交流，在法官和律师之间，间接地，在大法官之间。整个过程中，这些论点都经过了专业的记录，创造了一个无与伦比的音频材料集合，加上高度准确的文字记录。这些音频--沿着通过音频捕捉的其他活动，如发表意见--为各个学科的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，使他们能够从事那些曾经被认为超出研究人员能力范围的新颖和变革性的研究项目。这项工作的主要成果将是一个完整的、持续的超过六千小时的SCOTUS音频档案。 它将提供同步的（即，时间编码的）收集的成绩单，识别和标记个人发言者，建立新的标记工具，这些新的领域，并与研究人员和教师共享语料库。政治科学家、法律的学者、语言学家和计算机科学家之间的这种互动的结果将产生：新的知识，在建模多方讨论与复杂的目标，新的战略，在小组决策过程分析，路，突破性的方法，以扩大合作经济解决人类交流的动态。SCOTUS档案将作为一个共享的公共资源，以加强研究和理解的最高美国法院。它将提供给任何人与万维网访问。根据过去的经验，主要受众包括：不同领域的研究人员，教师和学生，律师和诉讼当事人，以及视力和听力受损者。今天，每月有超过一百万的独立用户访问SCOTUS的精选材料。随着SCOTUS档案库的完整和更新以及查询和搜索能力的提高，用户数量将大幅增加。通过利用不同研究社区之间的共同兴趣和有益互动，该项目将创建大量数字对象。与在数据共享方面经验丰富的合作伙伴合作，这项工作旨在彻底改变与物理分布的研究人员及其学生团队合作的能力。

This project will create a digital audio archive that will enablescientists in several fields to approach novel research issues in speech and languagestudies, issues in group decision-making, and issues at the leading edge ofhuman communication scholarship. The Supreme Court of the United States(SCOTUS) has been recording its public proceedings since 3 October 1955.These recordings - now in the National Archives - span nearly five decadesand consist principally of oral arguments in which justices and attorneysengage in various forms of persuasion and communication between bench andbar and, obliquely, among the justices themselves. The arguments have beentranscribed professionally across the entire period, creating a matchlesscollection of audio materials coupled with highly accurate transcripts. Theaudio - along with other activities captured on audio such as theannouncement of opinions - offers a unique opportunity for researchersacross a wide spectrum of disciplines to engage in novel and transformingresearch projects that were once thought beyond the reach of investigators.The chief result of this work will be a complete and continuing archive ofmore than six thousand hours of SCOTUS audio. It will provide synchronized(i.e., time-coded) transcripts of the collection, identify and tagindividual speakers, build new mark-up tools for these new domains, andshare the corpus with researchers and faculty. The result of thisinteraction among political scientists, legal scholars, linguists, andcomputer scientists will yield: new knowledge in the modeling ofmulti-party discussions with complex goals, novel strategies in small group decisionprocess analysis, and path-breaking approaches to extended collaborativecommentary addressing the dynamics of human communication.The SCOTUS archive will be maintained as a shared public resource toenhance study and understanding of the Supreme Court of the United States. It willbe available to anyone with World Wide Web access. Based on pastexperience, principal audiences include: researchers across diverse domains, teachersand students, lawyers and litigants, and the visually- andhearing-impaired.Today, more than a million unique users access selected SCOTUS materialseach month. With a complete and updated SCOTUS archive and improved abilityto query and search, the number of users should expand substantially.By exploiting common interest and beneficial interactions among diverseresearch communities, this project will create a vast collection of digitalobjects. Working with partners experienced in data-sharing, the effort aimsat revolutionizing the ability to collaborate with physically distributedteams of researchers and their students.