Collaborative Research: Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community (AARDVARC)

Information

• NSF Award
• 1244713

Owner

• Eastern Michigan University

• Award Id

  1244713

• Award Effective Date

  9/15/2012 - 12 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  2/28/2015 - 9 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 84,982.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

Audio and video data from understudied languages is useful to linguists, anthropologists, educators, and computer scientists interested in visual action extraction, speech technology or software localization. Terabytes of such data exist, having been collected in large amounts by documentary linguists since the advent of easy digital recording via handheld devices. As records of vanishing languages and cultures, video and audio records are far richer and more captivating than paper records, but they need to be indexed and transcribed so that they reach their full potential as research tools. The current project, AARDVARC (Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community) will address the problem of untranscribed, and therefore unavailable, documentation of understudied languages by building an interdisciplinary community of linguists, anthropologists, and computer scientists to share knowledge and collaborate on the specification of a repository and suite of tools to facilitate transcription. It will provide for two workshops and a symposium to design a "take one leave one" repository and to explore recent advances in speech and video processing that will allow anthropologists and linguists to break the 'transcription bottleneck' for language data. Even partial automation will greatly facilitate the work of the analyst and dramatically increase the amount of transcribed audio and video available to researchers in multiple disciplines.

• Program Officer

  William J. Badecker

• Min Amd Letter Date

  9/23/2012 - 12 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  4/8/2013 - 11 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Eastern Michigan University

• City

  YPSILANTI

• State

  MI

• Country

  United States

• Address

  Office of Research Development

• Postal Code

  481972212

• Phone Number

  7344873090

• First Name

  Helen

• Last Name

  Aristar-Dry

• Email Address

  hdry@linguistlist.org

• Start Date

  9/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  04/08/2013

• First Name

  Anthony

• Last Name

  Aristar

• Email Address

  aristar@linguistlist.org

• Start Date

  9/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  03/31/2013

• First Name

  Damir

• Last Name

  Cavar

• Email Address

  dcavar@indiana.edu

• Start Date

  9/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  04/08/2013

• First Name

  Damir

• Last Name

  Cavar

• Email Address

  dcavar@indiana.edu

• Start Date

  4/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

• Text

  Data Infrastructure

• Code

  8068

• Text

  CyberInfra Frmwrk 21st (CIF21)

• Code

  7433