Name of your website?MDE Structural Metadata for Czech
Your name?
Jachym Kolar
Your Location (city, etc)
Plzen
Please give us a short summary of your website?
The reasons for annotating structural events in spontaneous speech are straightforward. Raw streams of words do not convey complete information, because the structural information beyond the words (metadata) is of the same importance. The structural information is critical both to increase human readability of the transcripts and to allow applying downstream NLP methods typically requiring a fluent and formatted input. The metadata annotation can be viewed as a post-processing to the standard verbatim transcription. It involves identification of a range of spontaneous speech phenomena (fillers and disfluencies) and insertion of syntactic/semantic breakpoints (SUs) to the flow of speech. Under SimpleMDE, annotators will identify fillers, deletable regions of words within edit disfluencies and SUs ("syntactic/semantic" units). Transcripts annotated for metadata can be "cleaned up" to enhance readability; for instance, delreggs and fillers might be removed and each SU presented on a separate line within the transcript. Each metadata type is described in detail in the sections below. Annotators not only work with the pre-existing verbatim transcripts, but also listen to the audio and use prosody to resolve potential syntactic ambiguities.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
advertise our research
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
2002, just my profile
How did you decide on a name for your website?
it's a common abbrev.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
our research
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
advertise our research and publications
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
ivest more time
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
hire a professional designer
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
no
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
i am not good designer, probably
What has been your biggest challenge?
research
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
conferences
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
expected more feedback
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
2 years
What is your website address?
MDE Structural Metadata for Czech
