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

ITR-SCOTUS：语音技术、语言学、决策过程和法律合作研究的资源

• 批准号: 0325739
• 负责人: Mark Liberman
• 金额: $ 72.5万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0325739&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; SCOTUS; Resource; Collaborative; Research

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.

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。美国最高法院（最高法院）自1955年10月3日以来一直在记录其公开诉讼程序。这些录音现在保存在国家档案馆中，跨度近50年，主要由口头辩论组成，法官和律师在法官和律师之间进行各种形式的说服和沟通，间接地在法官自己之间进行。这些争论在整个时期都被专业地转录下来，创造了无与伦比的音频材料集合，加上高度准确的转录。音频-以及其他通过音频捕获的活动，如发表意见-为跨学科的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，使他们能够参与曾经被认为超出研究人员范围的新颖和变革的研究项目。这项工作的主要成果将是一个完整的、持续的超过6000小时的最高法院音频档案。它将提供同步的(即。（时间编码）收集的转录本，识别和标记个人演讲者，为这些新领域建立新的标记工具，并与研究人员和教职员工共享语料库。政治学家、法律学者、语言学家和计算机科学家之间的这种互动的结果将产生：具有复杂目标的多方讨论建模的新知识，小团体决策过程分析的新策略，以及解决人类交流动态的扩展协作评论的开创性方法。最高法院档案将作为共享的公共资源保存，以加强对美国最高法院的研究和了解。任何人都可以访问万维网。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的人。如今，每月有超过100万的独立用户访问SCOTUS精选材料搜索。随着完整和更新的SCOTUS档案和改进的查询和搜索能力，用户数量应该大大增加。通过利用不同研究团体之间的共同兴趣和有益的互动，该项目将创建一个庞大的数字对象集合。与在数据共享方面经验丰富的合作伙伴合作，这项努力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。