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title = "{A}us{T}alk: an audio-visual corpus of {A}ustralian {E}nglish",
author = "Estival, Dominique and
Cassidy, Steve and
Cox, Felicity and
Burnham, Denis",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/520_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3105--3109",
abstract = "This paper describes the AusTalk corpus, which was designed and created through the Big ASC, a collaborative project with the two main goals of providing a standardised infrastructure for audio-visual recordings in Australia and of producing a large audio-visual corpus of Australian English, with 3 hours of AV recordings for 1000 speakers. We first present the overall project, then describe the corpus itself and its components, the strict data collection protocol with high levels of standardisation and automation, and the processes put in place for quality control. We also discuss the annotation phase of the project, along with its goals and challenges; a major contribution of the project has been to explore procedures for automating annotations and we present our solutions. We conclude with the current status of the corpus and with some examples of research already conducted with this new resource. AusTalk is one of the corpora included in the HCS vLab, which is briefly sketched in the conclusion.",
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%T AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English
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%A Cox, Felicity
%A Burnham, Denis
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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%P 3105-3109
Markdown (Informal)
[AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/520_Paper.pdf) (Estival et al., LREC 2014)
ACL
- Dominique Estival, Steve Cassidy, Felicity Cox, and Denis Burnham. 2014. AusTalk: an audio-visual corpus of Australian English. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3105–3109, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).