The POETICON Corpus: Capturing Language Use and Sensorimotor Experience in Everyday Interaction

Natural language use, acquisition, and understanding takes place usually in multisensory and multimedia communication environments. Therefore, for one to model language in its interaction and integration with sensorimotor experiences, one needs a representative corpus of such interplay. In this paper, we will present the first corpus of language use and sensorimotor experience recordings in everyday human:human interaction, in which spontaneous language communication has been recorded along with corresponding multiview video recordings, recordings of 3D full body kinematics, and 3D tracking of objects in focus. It is a twelve-hour corpus which comprises of six everyday human:human interaction scenes, each one performed 3 times by 4 different English-speaking couples (interaction between a male and a female actor), each couple acting each scene in two settings: a fully naturalistic setting in which 5-camera multi-view video recordings take place, and a high-tech setting, with full body...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Katerina Pastra, Christian Wallraven, Michael Schultze, Argyro Vataki, Kathrin Kaulard
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2010, Multiview Video Recording, Sensorimotor Experience Recordings, Sensorimotor Experiences