2014-05-26
Croatian Memories : speech, meaning and emotions in a collection of interviews on experiences of war and trauma.
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In this contribution we describe a collection of approximately 400 video interviews recorded in the context of the project Croatian Memories (CroMe) with the objective of documenting personal war-related experiences. The value of this type of sources is threefold: they contain information that is missing in written sources, they can contribute to the process of reconciliation, and they provide a basis for reuse of data in disciplines with an interest in narrative data. The CroMe collection is not primarily designed as a linguistic corpus, but is the result of an archival effort to collect so-called oral history data. For researchers in the fields of natural language processing and speech analysis this type of life-stories may function as an 'objet trouvé' containing real-life language data that can prove to be useful for the purpose of modelling specific aspects of human expression and communication.
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Organisation | Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) |
de Jong, F., van Hessen, A., Petrovic, T., & Scagliola, S. (2014). Croatian Memories : speech, meaning and emotions in a collection of interviews on experiences of war and trauma. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77348 |