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The paper explores the relationship between expert manual annotation of German spontaneous speech and annotator’s individuality with regard to personality traits, working memory capacity and processing speed. The research question is whether there is a relationship between the annotated sentence length and individual traits of the annotator. The participants were asked to detect sentence boundaries in the transcripts of German spontaneous monologues and to perform several test tasks. Personality traits were examined using the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Working memory capacity was measured through reading span and operation span tasks. To compute processing speed we used Letter Comparison and Pattern Comparison tasks. Linear mixed modelling revealed the significant effect of the personality trait “Neuroticism” on the length of annotated sentences. Contrary to the initial hypothesis, working memory capacity of annotators was not related to sentence length. Processing speed did not have any effect on sentence length either.
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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities, project No. 15-04-00165, and fellowship programme “Dmitri Mendeleev” of St. Petersburg University and DAAD, project No. 31.23.951.2016. We are grateful to Natalia Gagarina, Hubert Truckenbrodt and Nathalie Topaj from Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, for their help in organising the experiment. We also thank Susanne Fuchs (ZAS) for her valuable suggestions in the process of experimental design and all the participants of the experiment.
We are also grateful to Beata Beigman Klebanov, Su-Youn Yoon, Jill Burstein and the three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.
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Stepikhov, A., Loukina, A. (2018). Personality, Working Memory Capacity and Expert Manual Annotation of German Spontaneous Speech. In: Karpov, A., Jokisch, O., Potapova, R. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_67
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