Annotation of Transition-Relevance Places and Interruptions for the Description of Turn-Taking in Conversations in French Media Content
Rémi Uro, Marie Tahon, Jane Wottawa, David Doukhan, Albert Rilliard, Antoine Laurent
Abstract
Few speech resources describe interruption phenomena, especially for TV and media content. The description of these phenomena may vary across authors: it thus leaves room for improved annotation protocols. We present an annotation of Transition-Relevance Places (TRP) and Floor-Taking event types on an existing French TV and Radio broadcast corpus to facilitate studies of interruptions and turn-taking. Each speaker change is annotated with the presence or absence of a TRP, and a classification of the next-speaker floor-taking as Smooth, Backchannel or different types of turn violations (cooperative or competitive, successful or attempted interruption). An inter-rater agreement analysis shows such annotations’ moderate to substantial reliability. The inter-annotator agreement for TRP annotation reaches κ=0.75, κ=0.56 for Backchannel and κ=0.5 for the Interruption/non-interruption distinction. More precise differences linked to cooperative or competitive behaviors lead to lower agreements. These results underline the importance of low-level features like TRP to derive a classification of turn changes that would be less subject to interpretation. The analysis of the presence of overlapping speech highlights the existence of interruptions without overlaps and smooth transitions with overlaps. These annotations are available at https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/corpus-allies/.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.110
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1225–1232
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.110
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Rémi Uro, Marie Tahon, Jane Wottawa, David Doukhan, Albert Rilliard, and Antoine Laurent. 2024. Annotation of Transition-Relevance Places and Interruptions for the Description of Turn-Taking in Conversations in French Media Content. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 1225–1232, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Annotation of Transition-Relevance Places and Interruptions for the Description of Turn-Taking in Conversations in French Media Content (Uro et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.lrec-main.110.pdf