Miraikan SC corpus : A trial for data collection in a semi-open and semi-controlled environment

National Institute of Informatics/SOKENDAINational Institute of InformaticsWaseda UniversityThe University of Shiga PrefectureLREC 2018 Special Speech Sessions "Speech Resources Collection in Real-World Situations"; Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki; 2018-05-09This paper shows the concept and design of our Miraikan SC Corpus. A well-structured and well-prepared corpus would be useful to engineers for understanding the mechanism of speech production and the nature of social interaction with regard to informing the design of their systems. Applications of the corpus range from speech recognition and dialogue processing to human-agent interaction systems, among others. We started collecting audio-visual data using multiple video cameras and microphones in October 2012 at a science museum in Tokyo, Japan. In this paper, we describe the reason why we chose the museum as a research field for data collection, how we audio-video-recorded the interactions, and how we dealt with personal information in the data set, such as participants’ names, jobs, and places of residence

Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Special Speech Sessions

LREC 2018 Special Speech Sessions "Speech Resources Collection in Real-World Situations"; Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki; 2018-05-0

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The aim of the conference was to contribute to moving forward the field of multimodal research and to help connect the diverse community of scholars working within it. 6ICOM is a place where we can explore the full range of different ways in which multimodality has been taken up and where we can recognize their points of connection. The conference was organised with support from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, who fund MODE. MODE is a node of the National Centre for Research Methods based in the Institute of Education and aims to develop and promote multimodal methods for researching digital data and environments. 6ICOM’s programme includes an impressive set of paper presentations (125) and invited keynotes (5). The presenters engage with a wide range of disciplines, ideas and methods, reflecting the diverse character of multimodality and latest developments in the field. They speak to a range of contexts, theoretical and methodological approaches, technologies and types of data

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Discourse and Digital Practices

Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing. This cutting-edge book: draws together fourteen eminent scholars in the field including James Paul Gee, David Barton, Ilana Snyder, Phil Benson, Victoria Carrington, Guy Merchant, Camilla Vasquez, Neil Selwyn and Rodney Jones answers the central question: "How does discourse analysis enable us to understand digital practices?" addresses a different type of digital media in each chapter demonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologies examines digital practices from a wide variety of approaches including textual analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, object ethnography, geosemiotics, and critical discourse analysis. Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices