Annotating and Measuring Multimodal Behaviour – Tycoon Metrics in the Anvil Tool
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)
Abstract
We demonstrate how the Tycoon framework can be put to practice with the Anvil tool in a concrete case study. Tycoon offers a coding scheme and analysis metrics for multimodal communication scenarios. Anvil is a generic, extensible and ergonomically designed annotation tool for videos. In this paper, we describe the Anvil tool, the Tycoon scheme/metrics, and their implementation in Anvil for a video sample. A new Anvil feature, motivated by the Tycoon scheme, is presented: non-temporal annotation objects - an important concept, we argue, of general interest. We also outline future plans for automatizing Tycoon metrics computation using Anvil plug-ins.