The Brooklyn Multi-Interaction Corpus for Analyzing Variation in Entrainment Behavior

Andreas Weise, Matthew McNeill, Rivka Levitan


Abstract
We present the Brooklyn Multi-Interaction Corpus (B-MIC), a collection of dyadic conversations designed to identify speaker traits and conversation contexts that cause variations in entrainment behavior. B-MIC pairs each participant with multiple partners for an object placement game and open-ended discussions, as well as with a Wizard of Oz for a baseline of their speech. In addition to fully transcribed recordings, it includes demographic information and four completed psychological questionnaires for each subject and turn annotations for perceived emotion and acoustic outliers. This enables the study of speakers’ entrainment behavior in different contexts and the sources of variation in this behavior. In this paper, we introduce B-MIC and describe our collection, annotation, and preprocessing methodologies. We report a preliminary study demonstrating varied entrainment behavior across different conversation types and discuss the rich potential for future work on the corpus.
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2022.lrec-1.183
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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1721–1731
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Andreas Weise, Matthew McNeill, and Rivka Levitan. 2022. The Brooklyn Multi-Interaction Corpus for Analyzing Variation in Entrainment Behavior. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1721–1731, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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