ITR-SCOTUS: A Resource for Collaborative Research in Speech Technology, Linguistics, Decision Processes, and the Law

ITR-SCOTUS：语音技术、语言学、决策过程和法律合作研究的资源

• 批准号: 0324992
• 负责人: Timothy Johnson
• 金额: $ 22.62万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0324992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; SCOTUS; Resource; Collaborative; Research

This project will create a digital audio archive that will enablescientists in several fields to approach novel research issues in speech and languagestudies, issues in group decision-making, and issues at the leading edge ofhuman communication scholarship. The Supreme Court of the United States(SCOTUS) has been recording its public proceedings since 3 October 1955.These recordings - now in the National Archives - span nearly five decadesand consist principally of oral arguments in which justices and attorneysengage in various forms of persuasion and communication between bench andbar and, obliquely, among the justices themselves. The arguments have beentranscribed professionally across the entire period, creating a matchlesscollection of audio materials coupled with highly accurate transcripts. Theaudio - along with other activities captured on audio such as theannouncement of opinions - offers a unique opportunity for researchersacross a wide spectrum of disciplines to engage in novel and transformingresearch projects that were once thought beyond the reach of investigators.The chief result of this work will be a complete and continuing archive ofmore than six thousand hours of SCOTUS audio. It will provide synchronized(i.e., time-coded) transcripts of the collection, identify and tagindividual speakers, build new mark-up tools for these new domains, andshare the corpus with researchers and faculty. The result of thisinteraction among political scientists, legal scholars, linguists, andcomputer scientists will yield: new knowledge in the modeling ofmulti-party discussions with complex goals, novel strategies in small group decisionprocess analysis, and path-breaking approaches to extended collaborativecommentary addressing the dynamics of human communication.The SCOTUS archive will be maintained as a shared public resource toenhance study and understanding of the Supreme Court of the United States. It willbe available to anyone with World Wide Web access. Based on pastexperience, principal audiences include: researchers across diverse domains, teachersand students, lawyers and litigants, and the visually- andhearing-impaired.Today, more than a million unique users access selected SCOTUS materialseach month. With a complete and updated SCOTUS archive and improved abilityto query and search, the number of users should expand substantially.By exploiting common interest and beneficial interactions among diverseresearch communities, this project will create a vast collection of digitalobjects. Working with partners experienced in data-sharing, the effort aimsat revolutionizing the ability to collaborate with physically distributedteams of researchers and their students.

该项目将创建一个数字音频档案馆，该档案将使多个领域的科学家能够处理语音和语言中的新研究问题，小组决策中的问题以及人类通讯奖学金领先的问题。 自1955年10月3日以来，美国最高法院（SCOTUS）一直在记录其公开诉讼。这些录音 - 现在在国家档案馆中 - 跨越了近五十年，主要由口头辩论组成，其中主要是口头辩论，其中以各种形式的说服力和律师在替补和巴尔和巴尔和巴尔之间，在大法官之间进行说服力和沟通。这些论点在整个时期都进行了专业转录，从而创造了无匹配的音频材料和高度准确的成绩单。 Theaudio - 以及在音频上捕获的其他活动（例如意见的典范），为研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，可以为广泛的学科提供独特的机会，可以从事新颖和转化研究人员的思考，这些项目曾经被认为是研究人员超出了研究人员的影响。 它将提供集合，识别和标记的扬声器的同步（即时间编码）的成绩单，为这些新领域构建新的标记工具，并与研究人员和教职员工共享语料库。政治科学家，法律学者，语言学家和计算机科学家之间这种互动的结果将产生：具有复杂目标的新知识，小组决策过程中的新策略，开拓性决策方法的新策略，以及破坏性的方法，以扩展的合作委员会的协作范围，以解决人类交流的动态。国家。它将为拥有万维网访问的任何人使用。基于过去的经验，主要受众包括：跨不同领域，教师和学生，律师和诉讼人的研究人员以及视觉上的 - 觉得障碍。借助完整和更新的Scotus档案以及提高了查询和搜索的能力，用户的数量应大大扩展。通过利用各种搜索社区之间的共同兴趣和有益的互动，该项目将创建大量的数字对象。与与数据共享合作伙伴合作的努力旨在彻底改变与研究人员及其学生的物理分布式合作的能力。