ALICO: A multimodal corpus for the study of active listening

• Main Authors: Buschmeier, Hendrik, Malisz, Zofia, Skubisz, Joanna, Wlodarczak, Marcin, Wachsmuth, Ipke, Kopp, Stefan, Wagner, Petra
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: European Language Resources Association (ELRA) 2014
• Subjects: head gestures; active listening; multimodal feedback; attention; biphonetics; ddc:410; Reykjavík; Iceland
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-26648256; https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2664825; https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2664825/2677102

Buschmeier H, Malisz Z, Skubisz J, et al. ALICO: A multimodal corpus for the study of active listening. In: LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings . Reykjavík, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA); 2014: 3638-3643. The Active Listening Corpus (ALICO) is a multimodal database of spontaneous dyadic conversations with diverse speech and gestural annotations of both dialogue partners. The annotations consist of short feedback expression transcription with corresponding communicative function interpretation as well as segmentation of interpausal units, words, rhythmic prominence intervals and vowel-to-vowel intervals. Additionally, ALICO contains head gesture annotation of both interlocutors. The corpus contributes to research on spontaneous human–human interaction, on functional relations between modalities, and timing variability in dialogue. It also provides data that differentiates between distracted and attentive listeners. We describe the main characteristics of the corpus and present the most important results obtained from analyses in recent years.