Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch)
Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation systems: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) (Silverman et al., 1992), and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) (Dilley & Brown, 2005), which was d...
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| author | Breen, Mara Dilley, Laura C. Kraemer, John Gibson, Edward A. |
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| description | Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation systems: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) (Silverman et al., 1992), and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) (Dilley & Brown, 2005), which was designed to address several limitations of ToBI. The paper reports two large-scale studies of inter-transcriber reliability for ToBI and RaP. Comparable reliability for both systems was obtained for a variety of prominence- and boundary-related agreement categories. These results help to establish RaP as an alternative to ToBI for research and technology applications |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/885392022-09-23T11:19:10Z Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) Breen, Mara Dilley, Laura C. Kraemer, John Gibson, Edward A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Gibson, Edward A. Kraemer, John Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation systems: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) (Silverman et al., 1992), and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) (Dilley & Brown, 2005), which was designed to address several limitations of ToBI. The paper reports two large-scale studies of inter-transcriber reliability for ToBI and RaP. Comparable reliability for both systems was obtained for a variety of prominence- and boundary-related agreement categories. These results help to establish RaP as an alternative to ToBI for research and technology applications National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant BCS 0847653) 2014-08-05T19:32:36Z 2014-08-05T19:32:36Z 2012-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1613-7035 1613-7027 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88539 Breen, Mara, Laura C. Dilley, John Kraemer, and Edward Gibson. “Inter-Transcriber Reliability for Two Systems of Prosodic Annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch).” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 8, no. 2 (Oct. 2012) p.277-312. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2012-0011 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Walter de Gruyter MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Breen, Mara Dilley, Laura C. Kraemer, John Gibson, Edward A. Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title | Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title_full | Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title_fullStr | Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title_short | Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) |
| title_sort | inter transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation tobi tones and break indices and rap rhythm and pitch |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88539 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X |
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