BabyExp: Constructing a Huge Multimodal Resource to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge Like Children Do

The BabyExp project is collecting very dense audio and video recordings of the first 3 years of life of a baby. The corpus constructed in this way will be transcribed with automated techniques and made available to the research community. Moreover, techniques to extract commonsense conceptual knowledge incrementally from these multimodal data are also being explored within the project. The current paper describes BabyExp in general, and presents pilot studies on the feasability of the automated audio and video transcriptions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Massimo Poesio, Marco Baroni, Oswald Lanz, Alessandro Lenci, Alexandros Potamianos, Hinrich Schütze, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Luca Surian
• Keywords: Commonsense Conceptual Knowledge, Dense Audio, Education, LREC 2010, Video Recordings