ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation
Zheng Yuan, Dorina de Jong, Štefan Beňuš, Noël Nguyen, Ruitao Feng, Róbert Sabo, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D’Ausilio
Abstract
We introduce the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a collection of dyadic sentence reading for studying the entrainment and imitation behaviour in speech communication. The ART corpus features three experimental conditions - solo reading, alternating reading, and deliberate imitation - as well as three subcorpora encompassing French-, Italian-, and Slovak-accented English. This design allows systematic investigation of speech entrainment in a controlled and less spontaneous setting. Alongside detailed transcriptions, it includes English proficiency scores, demographics, and in-experiment questionnaires for probing linguistic, personal and interpersonal influences on entrainment. Our presentation covers its design, collection, annotation processes, initial analysis, and future research prospects.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{yuan-etal-2024-art,
title = "{ART}: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation",
author = {Yuan, Zheng and
de Jong, Dorina and
Be{\v{n}}u{\v{s}}, {\v{S}}tefan and
Nguyen, No{\"e}l and
Feng, Ruitao and
Sabo, R{\'o}bert and
Fadiga, Luciano and
D{'}Ausilio, Alessandro},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.137/",
pages = "1548--1562"
}