Analysis of inter-transcriber consistency in the Cat_ToBI prosodic labeling system

A set of tools to analyze inconsistencies observed in a Cat_ToBI labeling experiment are presented. We formalize and use the metrics that are commonly used in inconsistency tests. The metrics are systematically applied to analyze the robustness of every symbol and every pair of transcribers. The res...

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Autores: Escudero Mancebo, David, Aguilar Cuevas, Lourdes, Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositório:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/27918
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2011.12.002
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Prosody
Prosodic labeling
Inter-transcriber consistency
ToBI
Descrição
Resumo:A set of tools to analyze inconsistencies observed in a Cat_ToBI labeling experiment are presented. We formalize and use the metrics that are commonly used in inconsistency tests. The metrics are systematically applied to analyze the robustness of every symbol and every pair of transcribers. The results reveal agreement rates for this study that are comparable to previous ToBI inter-reliability tests. The inter-transcriber confusion rates are transformed into distance matrices to use multidimensional scaling for visualizing the confusion between the different ToBI symbols and the disagreement between the raters. Potential different labeling criteria are identified and subsets of symbols that are candidates to be fused are proposed.