A new corpus has been recorded. The transcription and alignment of this “MTX-Corpus” is completed. One aim of the project is to analyze conversational feedback at different interactional situations (spontaneous conversation, task-oriented dialogue and an intermediate condition). While working on the French Map Task we figured out that hit will be interesting to vary the recording condition (remote vs. face-to-face) as it has actually be done on the Edimburg Map Task . These two conditions allow to compare precisely feedback behaviors in different presence situation with the task remaining the same.

The resource is accessible on ortolang at the following place: http://sldr.org/sldr000875

Laurent Prévot

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A new corpus has been recorded. The transcription of this “DVD-Corpus” is nearly finished. One aim of the project is to analyse conversational feedback at different interactional situations (spontaneous conversation, task-oriented dialogue and an intermediate condition). Therefore, a corpus involving discussions and negotiations about movies has been recorded, as the first two conditions are already covered by the CID corpus and the Maptask (remote and audio-visual) corpus.

jangorisch

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage.

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After the visual maptask corpus has been recorded, annotation guidelines for the visual modality are developed. In parallel to the verbal transcriptions, the first version of the visual annotation guidelines is underway to be tested on the pilot recordings. The guidelines are largely informed by guidelines suggested by David McNeill and the MUMIN scheme. The aim was to take the advantages from both schemes and simplifying the new guidelines without a major loss of information and detail. The guidelines are tailored to the needs of (i) annotating nonverbal feedback as well as the movements of the interlocutor and (ii) annotating vast quantities of data. If improvements to the guidelines are necessary, a second version is to be created that is then used for the annotate the visual maptask corpus. According to time constraints, a strict limit to a certain amount of data or a focus on the verbal feedback items might be envisaged, but has not been decided yet.

The annotations of the visual behaviour will be used in two manners. On the one hand, a qualitative analysis of interactional sequences will be performed using methods of CA. On the other hand, a quantitative analysis is used for a general overview on the visual resources used by participants of task-oriented dialogues and in particular for statistical support.

jangorisch

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage.

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This site is about the ANR project “Conversational Feedback”. In a conversation, feedback is mostly performed through short utterances produced by another participant than the main current speaker. These utterances
are among the most frequent in conversational data. They are also considered as
crucial communicative tools for achieving coordination in dialogue. They have
been the topic of various descriptive studies and often given a central role in
applications such as dialogue systems. The present project addresses this issue
from a linguistic viewpoint and combines fine-grained corpus analyses of semi-
controlled data with formal and statistical modeling.

Laurent Prévot

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