DocumentCode :
3517562
Title :
Querying databases of annotated speech
Author :
Cassidy, Steve ; Bird, Steven
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Linguistics, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
fYear :
2000
fDate :
2000
Firstpage :
12
Lastpage :
20
Abstract :
Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic `transcriptions´. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneous and dynamic. These properties present a number of tough challenges for representation and query. The temporal nature of the data adds an additional layer of complexity. This paper presents and harmonises two independent efforts to model annotated speech databases, one at Macquarie University, and one at the University of Pennsylvania. Various query languages are described along with illustrative applications to a variety of analytical problems. The research reported here forms a part of several ongoing projects to develop platform-independent open-source tools for creating, browsing, searching, querying and transforming linguistic databases, and to disseminate large linguistic databases over the Internet
Keywords :
data compression; query languages; query processing; speech coding; Internet; annotated speech databases; browsing; linguistic databases; open-source tools; query languages; signal data; time-aligned symbolic transcriptions; Birds; Database languages; Electrical capacitance tomography; Internet; Multidimensional systems; Natural languages; Reactive power; Relational databases; Research and development; Speech;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Database Conference, 2000. ADC 2000. Proceedings. 11th Australasian
Conference_Location :
Canberra, ACT
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0528-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ADC.2000.819808
Filename :
819808
Link To Document :
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