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| Title | A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora |
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| Authors | Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski and Matthias Woelfel |
| Abstract | Laughter is an intrinsic component of human-human interaction, and current automatic speech understanding paradigms stand to gain significantly from its detection and modeling. In the current work, we produce a manual segmentation of laughter in a large corpus of interactive multi-party seminars, which promises to be a valuable resource for acoustic modeling purposes. More importantly, we quantify the occurrence of laughter in this new domain, and contrast our observations with findings for laughter in multi-party meetings. Our analyses show that, with respect to the majority of measures we explore, the occurrence of laughter in both domains is quite similar. |
| Language | Single language |
| Topics | Dialogue & Natural Interactivity, Emotions, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
Full paper |
A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora |
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A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BURGER08.815, author = {Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski and Matthias Woelfel}, title = {A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |