Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch)
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Breen, Mara
Dilley, Laura C.
Kraemer, John
Gibson, Edward A.
Date Issued
October 2012
Journal
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
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Walter de Gruyter
Citation
Breen, Mara, Laura C. Dilley, John Kraemer, and Edward Gibson. “Inter-Transcriber Reliability for Two Systems of Prosodic Annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch).” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 8, no. 2 (Oct. 2012) p.277-312.
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Abstract
Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation systems: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) (Silverman et al., 1992), and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) (Dilley & Brown, 2005), which was designed to address several limitations of ToBI. The paper reports two large-scale studies of inter-transcriber reliability for ToBI and RaP. Comparable reliability for both systems was obtained for a variety of prominence- and boundary-related agreement categories. These results help to establish RaP as an alternative to ToBI for research and technology applications
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2012-0011
