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，使多个领域的科学家能够解决语音和语言研究中的新颖研究问题、群体决策问题以及人类传播学术前沿的问题。 美国最高法院 (SCOTUS) 自 1955 年 10 月 3 日以来一直在记录其公开诉讼程序。这些录音现已保存在国家档案馆中，时间跨度近 50 年，主要包括法官和律师以各种形式进行说服和辩论的口头辩论。法官和律师之间的沟通，以及法官之间的间接沟通。整个时期的论点都经过专业转录，创建了无与伦比的音频材料集和高度准确的文字记录。音频以及通过音频捕获的其他活动，例如意见的宣布，为各个学科的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，让他们能够参与曾经被认为超出研究人员能力范围的新颖且变革性的研究项目。这项工作的主要成果将是是超过六千小时 SCOTUS 音频的完整且持续的档案。 它将提供集合的同步（即时间编码）转录本，识别和标记单个说话者，为这些新领域构建新的标记工具，并与研究人员和教师共享语料库。政治学家、法律学者、语言学家和计算机科学家之间的这种互动的结果将产生：具有复杂目标的多方讨论建模中的新知识、小组决策过程分析中的新颖策略以及解决动态问题的扩展协作评论的开创性方法SCOTUS 档案将作为共享公共资源进行维护，以加强对美国最高法院的研究和了解。任何可以访问万维网的人都可以使用它。根据过去的经验，主要受众包括：不同领域的研究人员、教师和学生、律师和诉讼当事人，以及视听障碍者。如今，每月有超过一百万的唯一用户访问选定的 SCOTUS 材料。凭借完整且更新的 SCOTUS 档案以及改进的查询和搜索能力，用户数量应该会大幅增加。通过利用不同研究社区之间的共同兴趣和有益互动，该项目将创建大量数字对象。该项目与在数据共享方面经验丰富的合作伙伴合作，旨在彻底改变与分散的研究人员及其学生团队协作的能力。