Making use of largescale naturalistic audio recording: An introductory tutorial on HomeBank and the DARCLE Annotation Scheme

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Abstract

The last decade has seen the emergence of technologies that allow an unprecedented window into young children’s real world auditory experiences, by unobtrusively recording those daily-life experiences on a large scale. HomeBank, a component of the TalkBank system, provides access to a number of corpora of already-collected recordings, as well as associated annotation and transcription, and useful scripts for analysis. HomeBank corpora include both longitudinal and cross-sectional recordings of both typically developing children and special populations such as children with hearing impairment and children born to young mothers. The DARCLE annotation scheme (DAS) was developed as a means to harmonize annotations across corpora collected in diverse languages and with diverse research goals. In this tutorial, I will a) describe the corpora available on HomeBank and how to access them, and b) provide an overview of the DAS and give an illustrative example of how it is currently being used (the ACLEW project). Time will be provided at the end to discuss specific project ideas members of the audience may have for which HomeBank and/or DAS may be appropriate resources.

Author

• Melanie Soderstrom, University of Manitoba
  Presenting Author