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The NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) provides library support for working with multimodal language corpora. We describe work in progress to explore its potential for the AMI project by applying it to the ICSI Meeting Corpus. We discuss converting existing data into the NXT data format; using NXT’s query facility to explore the corpus; hand-annotation and automatic indexing; and the integration of data obtained by applying NXT-external processes such as parsers. Finally, we describe use of NXT as a meeting browser itself, and how it can be used to integrate other browser components.
This work was carried out under funding from the European Commission (AMI, FP6-506811).
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Carletta, J., Kilgour, J. (2005). The NITE XML Toolkit Meets the ICSI Meeting Corpus: Import, Annotation, and Browsing. In: Bengio, S., Bourlard, H. (eds) Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. MLMI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30568-2_10
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