Gesture, prosody and lexicon in task-oriented dialogues: Multimedia corpus recording and labelling

Abstract

The aim of the DiaGest Project is to study interdependencies between gesture, lexicon, and prosody in Polish dialogues. The material under study comprises three tasks realised by twenty pairs of subjects. Two tasks involve instructional, task-oriented dialogues, while the third is based on a question answering procedure. A system for corpus labelling is currently being designed on the basis of current standards. The corpus will be annotated for gestures, lexical content of utterances, intonation and rhythm. In order to relate various phenomena to the contextualized meaning of dialogue utterances, the material will also be tagged in terms of dialogue acts. Synchronised tags will be placed in respective annotation tiers in ELAN. A number of detailed studies related to the problems of gesture-prosody, gesture-lexicon and prosody-lexicon interactions will be carried out on the basis of the tagged material. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.