The ATAROS (Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Stance) project aims to identify acoustic signals of stance-taking (opinions, evaluations, judgments, etc.) in order to inform the development of automatic stance recognition in natural speech. Because existing corpora generally have a low frequency of stance-taking in conversation, we have created an audio corpus of dyads completing collaborative tasks designed to elicit a high density of stance-taking at increasing levels of involvement. Funded by NSF grant IIS-1351034 awarded to PIs Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, Mari Ostendorf.
For access to the corpus for research purposes, send an email to ataros@uw.edu with your institutional affiliation and a short description of the type of data you want and how you plan to use it. The most complete description of the corpus is in Ch. 2 of the Freeman 2015 dissertation below.
Freeman, V. (2019). Prosodic features of stances in conversation. Laboratory Phonology, 10(1), 19. DOI:10.5334/labphon.163.
Freeman, V. (2016). Prosodic features of stance strength and polarity. 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Washington DC, Jan. 7-10. [slides]
Freeman, V. (2015). Prosodic features of stance acts. 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Jacksonville FL, Nov. 2-6. [slides]
Freeman, V. (2015). Exploring task and gender effects on stance-taking in a collaborative conversational corpus. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44: Intersections), Toronto, Oct. 22-25. [slides]
Freeman, V. (2015). The phonetics of stance-taking. Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington. [manuscript]
Freeman, V., Levow, G.-A., Wright, R., & Ostendorf, M. (2015). Investigating the role of ‘yeah’ in stance-dense conversation. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2015), Dresden, Germany, Sept. 6-10. [manuscript]
Freeman, V., Wright, R., & Levow, G.-A. (2015). The prosody of negative ‘yeah.’ Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Portland, OR, Jan. 8-11. Extended abstract published in LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts (ExtAbs). [handout] [manuscript]
Levow, G.-A., Freeman, V., Hrynkevich, A., Ostendorf, M., Wright, R., Chan, J., & Tran, T. (2014). Recognition of stance strength and polarity in spontaneous speech. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014), South Lake Tahoe, Dec. 7-10. [manuscript]
Freeman, V., Wright, R.A., Levow, G.-A., Luan, Y., Chan, J., Tran, T., Zayats, V., Antoniak, M., & Ostendorf, M. (2014). Phonetic correlates of stance-taking. Poster presented at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Indianapolis, Oct. 27-31. [handout]
Freeman, V., Chan, J., Levow, G.-A., Wright, R.A., Ostendorf, M., & Zayats, V. (2014). Manipulating stance and involvement using collaborative tasks: An exploratory comparison. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014), Singapore, Sept. 14-18. [manuscript]
Luan, Y., Wright, R.A., Ostendorf, M., & Levow, G.-A. (2014). Relating automatic vowel space estimates to talker intelligibility. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014), Singapore, Sept. 14-18. [manuscript]
Freeman, V., Levow, G.-A., & Wright, R.A. (2014). Phonetic marking of stance in a collaborative-task spontaneous-speech corpus. Poster presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Providence, RI, May 5-9. [handout]
Freeman, V., Chan, J., Levow, G.-A., Wright, R., Ostendorf, M., Zayats, V., Luan, Y., Morrison, H., Fox, L., Antoniak, M., & Parsons, P. (2014). ATAORS Technical Report 1: Corpus collection and initial task validation. Technical Report, Linguistic Phonetics Lab, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington. [manuscript]