A web application for filtering and annotating web speech data

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A vast and growing amount of recorded speech is freely available on the web, including podcasts, radio broadcasts, and posts on media-sharing sites. However, finding specific words or phrases in online speech data remains a challenge for researchers, not least because transcripts of this data are often automatically-generated and imperfect. We have developed a web application, “ezra”, that addresses this challenge by allowing non-expert and potentially remote annotators to filter and annotate speech data collected from the web and produce large, high-quality data sets suitable for speech research. We have used this application to filter and annotate thousands of speech tokens. Ezra is freely available on GitHub1, and development continues.
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NSF 1035151 RAPID: Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web (Digging into Data Challenge)
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2013-07-22
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Special Interest Group of the ​Association for Computational Linguistics on Web as Corpus (ACL SIGWAC)
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corpus; speech; web interface; annotation; filtering; prosody
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Stefan Evert, Egon Stemle and Paul Rayson (editors). Proceedings of the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop. July, 2013.
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