An exchange format for multimodal annotations

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Schmidt;Susan Duncan;Oliver Ehmer;Jeffrey Hoyt;Michael Kipp;Dan Loehr;Magnus Magnusson;Travis Rose;Han Sloetjes

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Hamburg;University of Chicago;University of Freiburg;MITRE Corporation;DFKI Saarbrücken;MITRE Corporation;Human Behavior Laboratory Reykjavik;Virginia Tech;MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen

  • Venue:
  • Multimodal corpora
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a joint effort of a group of multimodality researchers and tool developers to improve the interoperability between several tools used for the annotation and analysis of multimodality. Each of the tools has specific strengths so that a variety of different tools, working on the same data, can be desirable for project work. However this usually requires tedious conversion between formats. We propose a common exchange format for multimodal annotation, based on the annotation graph (AG) formalism, which is supported by import and export routines in the respective tools. In the current version of this format the common denominator information can be reliably exchanged between the tools, and additional information can be stored in a standardized way.