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 recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/27918
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2011.12.002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Prosody
Prosodic labeling
Inter-transcriber consistency
ToBI
Descripción
Sumario: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.