Design and Evaluation of Shared Prosodic Annotation for Spontaneous French Speech: From Expert Knowledge to Non-Expert Annotation

Anne Lacheret (1) , Nicolas Obin (2) , Mathieu Avanzi (1, 3)

1 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
2 STMS - Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son
3 Chaire de Linguistique du Français Moderne

In the area of large French speech corpora, there is a demonstrated need for a common prosodic notation system allowing for easy data exchange, comparison, and automatic annotation. The major questions are: (1) how to develop a single simple scheme of prosodic transcription which could form the basis of guidelines for non-expert manual annotation (NEMA), used for linguistic teaching and research; (2) based on this NEMA, how to establish reference prosodic corpora (RPC) for different discourse genres (Cresti and Moneglia, 2005); (3) how to use the RPC to develop corpus-based learning methods for automatic prosodic labelling in spontaneous speech (Buhman et al., 2002; Tamburini and Caini 2005, Avanzi, et al. 2010). This paper presents two pilot experiments conducted with a consortium of 15 French experts in prosody in order to provide a prosodic transcription framework (transcription methodology and transcription reliability measures) and to establish reference prosodic corpora in French.

Domaines: Linguistique

Anne Lacheret, Nicolas Obin, Mathieu Avanzi. Design and Evaluation of Shared Prosodic Annotation for Spontaneous French Speech: From Expert Knowledge to Non-Expert Annotation. Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden. pp.265-273. ⟨hal-00589193⟩