The SmartKom Multimodal Corpus at BAS
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)
Abstract
In this contribution we announce and describe in detail the new multimodal corpus evolving from the publicly funded German SmartKom project. The first release of the corpus (BAS SK-P 1.0) has been finished end of 2001 and will be ready for distribution to the scientific community in July 2002. The SmartKom corpus will be the first of a new generation of Language Resources (LR) designed for a more or less complete data gathering of human-machine communication combining acoustic, visual and tactile input and output modalities. Since the funding of about EU 2 Mio for this LR is 100% public, the corpus will be available without royalties via the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) at the University of Munich.