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，用于转录通信交互的视频和音频数据。这些互动将包括母亲与他们的孩子交谈，家庭餐桌谈话，课堂互动，动物叫声，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。 有些演讲者会有语言障碍，有些会是语言学习者。TalkBank中的数据正式规范将使用一个名为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; transmittance将与语音和视频相关联;并且将广泛支持从竞争角度进行协作评论。研究人员将能够找到一个特定的互动片段，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，语言和情况的比较。 IECs还提供了对单一人群进行详细研究的工具，以及针对恒定数据集测试竞争性解释的协作评论。该倡议在计算机科学家、语言学家、心理学家、社会学家、政治学家、犯罪学家、教育家、动物行为学家、电影摄影师、精神病学家和人类学家之间建立了持续的互动。

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.