The OTIM Formal Annotation Model: A Preliminary Step before Annotation Scheme

Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand, Mathilde Guardiola, Marie-Laure Guénot, Christine Meunier, Irina Nesterenko, Berthille Pallaud, Laurent Prévot, Béatrice Priego-Valverde, Stéphane Rauzy


Abstract
Large annotation projects, typically those addressing the question of multimodal annotation in which many different kinds of information have to be encoded, have to elaborate precise and high level annotation schemes. Doing this requires first to define the structure of the information: the different objects and their organization. This stage has to be as much independent as possible from the coding language constraints. This is the reason why we propose a preliminary formal annotation model, represented with typed feature structures. This representation requires a precise definition of the different objects, their properties (or features) and their relations, represented in terms of type hierarchies. This approach has been used to specify the annotation scheme of a large multimodal annotation project (OTIM) and experimented in the annotation of a multimodal corpus (CID, Corpus of Interactional Data). This project aims at collecting, annotating and exploiting a dialogue video corpus in a multimodal perspective (including speech and gesture modalities). The corpus itself, is made of 8 hours of dialogues, fully transcribed and richly annotated (phonetics, syntax, pragmatics, gestures, etc.).
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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)
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2010
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Valletta, Malta
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias
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Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand, Mathilde Guardiola, Marie-Laure Guénot, Christine Meunier, Irina Nesterenko, Berthille Pallaud, Laurent Prévot, Béatrice Priego-Valverde, and Stéphane Rauzy. 2010. The OTIM Formal Annotation Model: A Preliminary Step before Annotation Scheme. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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