230093 Multimodal corpus work: manual annotation, validation and computer-driven analysis (S) (SoSe 2012)

This hands-on course takes you through the processes involved in
working with multimodal corpora: the manual annotation of relevant
phenomena and transcription of speech; techniques for speeding up
manual work and making it more reliable; the construction of
validation criteria and the creation of tools to perform automatic
validation; the creation and execution of tools performing automatic
annotation; and the analysis of annotated data with the aim of
answering research questions and creating computational models of
conversational phenomena. The course also includes a discussion of the
practical purposes of annotation, what annotations to aim for first,
and the pros and cons of generality vs. purpose-build annotation
schemes.