TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-modal annotation of quest games in Second Life
AU - Small, Sharon Gower
AU - Stromer-Galley, Jennifer
AU - Strzalkowski, Tomek
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We describe an annotation tool developed to assist in the creation of multimodal actioncommunication corpora from on-line massively multi-player games, or MMGs. MMGs typically involve groups of players (5-30) who control their avatars 1, perform various activities (questing, competing, fighting, etc.) and communicate via chat or speech using assumed screen names. We collected a corpus of 48 group quests in Second Life that jointly involved 206 players who generated over 30,000 messages in quasisynchronous chat during approximately 140 hours of recorded action. Multiple levels of coordinated annotation of this corpus (dialogue, movements, touch, gaze, wear, etc) are required in order to support development of automated predictors of selected real-life social and demographic characteristics of the players. The annotation tool presented in this paper was developed to enable efficient and accurate annotation of all dimensions simultaneously.
AB - We describe an annotation tool developed to assist in the creation of multimodal actioncommunication corpora from on-line massively multi-player games, or MMGs. MMGs typically involve groups of players (5-30) who control their avatars 1, perform various activities (questing, competing, fighting, etc.) and communicate via chat or speech using assumed screen names. We collected a corpus of 48 group quests in Second Life that jointly involved 206 players who generated over 30,000 messages in quasisynchronous chat during approximately 140 hours of recorded action. Multiple levels of coordinated annotation of this corpus (dialogue, movements, touch, gaze, wear, etc) are required in order to support development of automated predictors of selected real-life social and demographic characteristics of the players. The annotation tool presented in this paper was developed to enable efficient and accurate annotation of all dimensions simultaneously.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859083290
SN - 9781932432879
T3 - ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
SP - 171
EP - 179
BT - ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
T2 - 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011
Y2 - 19 June 2011 through 24 June 2011
ER -