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This paper discusses the importance of facilitating collaboration and bringing together existing work in the field of multimodal resources. It explores initiatives to provide links and metadata, encouraging openness and making software, tools, and data more widely useful. The paper covers topics related to collection, archiving, distribution, annotation, search, metadata, evaluation, and coordination.
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Cocosda multimodal Nick Campbell ATR, Japan
“facilitation” • Facilitating collaboration • bringing existing work together • Taking initiatives to provide • links & metadata • Encouraging openness • very small changes may be necessary to make software/tools/data etc., much more widely useful
Cocosda topics • Collection • Archiving • Distribution • Annotation • Search • Metadata • Evaluation • Coordination
Collection • Facilitating & informing • Collection paradigms • Collection setups • Collection resources • Collection techniques • etc.,
Archiving • Pointers to existing corpora • Links to metadata • Metadata wikis • ‘archaeology’
Distribution • Pre-packaging / pre-competitive / neutral • Central (neutral) repository for links • encouraging openness/sharing
Annotation • Levels of metadata • Who is doing what? • Can we translate between them? • Are meta-metadata levels required?
Search • Initial links to top-level sites • Software (SWISH-E) for searching metadata and transcriptions • Video-based search? • There is work to be done here!
Metadata • Facilitating search • Across sites / methodologies / theories • Groups provide ‘internal’ metadata • Only cocosda can provide ‘global’ links • Suggesting/requesting additional levels
Evaluation • A central (neutral) store for descriptors • A validation wiki? • A centre for information/ progress updates
Cocosda coordination • Facilitating collaboration • software sharing? • common resources? • inter-group info? • Encouraging openness • Providing information (& facilities?)
standards • Encouraging common interfaces/metadata • Encouraging open software/tools • Providing central (neutral) resources • Providing regular information
Multimodal? • Speech & Vision, or Text & A/V ? • Facilitating links between the 2 communities • establishing a ‘new’ community towards a common core of interests