DiVE-Arabic: Gulf Arabic Dialogue in a Virtual Environment

Andrew Gargett, Sam Hellmuth, Ghazi AlGethami


Abstract
Documentation of communicative behaviour across languages seems at a crossroads. While methods for collecting data on spoken or written communication, backed up by computational techniques, are evolving, the actual data being collected remain largely the same. Inspired by the efforts of some innovative researchers who are directly tackling the various obstacles to investigating language in the field (e.g. see various papers collected in Enfield & Stivers 2007), we report here about ongoing work to solve the general problem of collecting in situ data for situated linguistic interaction. The initial stages of this project have involved employing a portable format designed to increase range and flexibility of doing such collections in the field. Our motivation is to combine this with a parallel data set for a typologically distinct language, in order to contribute a parallel corpus of situated language use.
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L14-1584
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4434–4439
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Andrew Gargett, Sam Hellmuth, and Ghazi AlGethami. 2014. DiVE-Arabic: Gulf Arabic Dialogue in a Virtual Environment. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4434–4439, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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DiVE-Arabic: Gulf Arabic Dialogue in a Virtual Environment (Gargett et al., LREC 2014)
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