Adding Gesture, Posture and Facial Displays to the PoliModal Corpus of Political Interviews

Daniela Trotta, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli, Annibale Elia


Abstract
This paper introduces a multimodal corpus in the political domain, which on top of transcribed face-to-face interviews presents the annotation of facial displays, hand gestures and body posture. While the fully annotated corpus consists of 3 interviews for a total of 90 minutes, it is extracted from a larger available corpus of 56 face-to-face interviews (14 hours) that has been manually annotated with information about metadata (i.e. tools used for the transcription, link to the interview etc.), pauses (used to mark a pause either between or within utterances), vocal expressions (marking non-lexical expressions such as burp and semi-lexical expressions such as primary interjections), deletions (false starts, repetitions and truncated words) and overlaps. In this work, we describe the additional level of annotation relating to nonverbal elements used by three Italian politicians belonging to three different political parties and who at the time of the talk-show were all candidates for the presidency of the Council of Minister. We also present the results of some analyses aimed at identifying existing relations between the proxemics phenomena and the linguistic structures in which they occur in order to capture recurring patterns and differences in the communication strategy.
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2020.lrec-1.532
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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4320–4326
Language:
English
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Daniela Trotta, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli, and Annibale Elia. 2020. Adding Gesture, Posture and Facial Displays to the PoliModal Corpus of Political Interviews. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4320–4326, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Adding Gesture, Posture and Facial Displays to the PoliModal Corpus of Political Interviews (Trotta et al., LREC 2020)
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