The goal of the TalkBankAnno project is the creation of a system
to support online commentary and annotation of TalkBank materials. The project
includes eight goals and we have focused so far on the first of these, which is
the system for Collaborative Commentary (CC).
Collaborative Commentary
This page illustrates the use of CC for
annotating transcriptions in AphasiaBank, TBIBank, and RHDBank. These tasks were used by a group of colleagues and their research staff to learn how to use CC.
This page illustrates the use of CC for
annotating transcriptions in CHILDES. It was used as an assignment in a class at CMU.
The Full Project
The full TalkBankAnno project will provide support for eight types of
annotation activities, each of which supports new approaches to research
across wide swaths of the social sciences. Additional types may be added
at a later date.
Collaborative Commentary (already implemented) involves work within focused research
groups who are seeking to test empirical hypotheses against language
transcript data by adding commentary to select transcript segments.
Transcript Coding involves adding codes across all segments in a
transcript in order to compile interaction profiles.
Media Coding involves adding codes or comments to data that has
not yet been transcribed. It can be either a variant of Collaborative
Commentary or a variant of Transcript Coding.
Automated Analysis involves the use of programs that run
automatically over large segments of data to create a series of new
codes.
Online Transcription involves the creation of a basic
transcription from either audio or video media.
Citizen Science opens up media and transcripts to the larger world
for crowd-sourced annotation.
Teaching through Commentary involves Collaborative Commentary
between teachers and their students to foster learning about
conversation analysis and linguistic analysis.
Curation involves improvement, refinement, and correction of
transcripts and codes in the database.