MaTaCOp

The Map Task Corpus of the Open University of Israel (MaTaCOp) is a corpus of Hebrew dialogues within the Map Task framework (Anderson, 1991).

The corpus was compiled at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies at the Open University of Israel.

Full transcriptions are available. We wold like to thank the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, and OMILab at the Open University of Israel for funding the transcriptions.

The corpus consists of 32 speakers who participated in two sessions, once as a "leader" and once as a "follower", thus creating a set of 32 dialogues.

To listen to demos, you can check our YouTube playlist:

MaTaCOp - Hebrew Map Task Corpus of the Open University of Israel

here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnwfBKn2A5U7fYVEvkymkBb1VVtW7FHTN

(Please note that not all of the dialogues are published).

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By using the MaTaCOp corpus, you agree to:
• use it for non-commercial research and teaching purposes only
• not redistribute it to third parties
• cite the following source in any published work which is based on the corpus:
Azogui, J., Lerner, A., and Silber-Varod, V. The Open University of Israel Map Task Corpus (MaTaCOp).

DOI:

10.13140/RG.2.2.19362.56004

Available at: http://www.openu.ac.il/en/academicstudies/matacop/.

Documentation

The following documentation is available:
• A

presentation explaining the design and structure of the corpus.

Downloadable data

The following data can be downloaded for offline use:

The recordings are stored as audio files (in .WAV format). In order to get access to the corpus you should fill the application form and send it by email to MaTaCOp. This email address is also available for questions about the corpus and the use of it.

MaTaCOp metadata and entrainment acoustics can be downloaded Here.

MaTaCOp lexicon lists:

2. Map words

5. Hedge words

7. Most frequent words

Publications

Phonology

Phoneme catalogue - with Dr. Evan Cohen, Mr. Evyatar Cohen, and Prof. Vered Aharonson.

Pre-print: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360463146_Towards_a_Public_Segment_Catalogue_of_Spoken_Hebrew

Prosody

Narrow focus – with Dr. Noam Amir and Nitzan Bachar (2020-2022)

Silber-Varod, V. , Alfon, E., & Amir, N. (2022). Perception of the strength of prosodic breaks in three conditions: Explicit pause, implicit pause, and no pause. Speech Prosody Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

Narrow focus in spontaneous Hebrew – with Dr. Noam Amir and Tzafnat Soffer (January 2019-2021).

Silber-Varod, V., Khorshidi, N., Levi, L., & Amir, N. (2019). The Influence of lexical stress on formant values in spontaneous Hebrew speech. In: The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne 5–9 August 2019.

Conversation intelligence

Silber-Varod, V., Amit, D., Lerner, A. (2020). Tracing changes over the course of the conversation: A case study on filled pauses rates. Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (pp. 754-758), DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-154.

Silber-Varod, V., Lerner, A., & Jokisch, O. (2018). Prosodic Plot of Dialogues: A Conceptual Framework to Trace Speakers' Role. The 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018). Leipzig, Germany, 18-22 September 2018.

Sociolinguistic studies

Weise, A., Silber-Varod, V., Lerner, A., Hirschberg, J., and Levitan, R. (2021). “Talk to me with left, right, and angles”: Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue", Proceedings of The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), Online conference 19 to 23 of April, 2021.

Weise, A., Silber-Varod, V., Lerner, A., Hirschberg, J., & Levitan, R. (2020). Entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogues. In: J. Pardo, E. Pellegrino, V. Dellwo, & B. Möbius (Eds.), Special Issue on Vocal Accomodation in Speech Communication, Journal of Phonetics, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.101005

MaTaCOp metadata and entrainment acoustics can be downloaded Here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YxQgNhujNeax_s8kPTcCRYMObfZHOXpN/view?usp=sharing

Silber-Varod, V., Malayev, S., & Lerner, A. (2020). Positioning Oneself in Different Roles: Structural and Lexical Measures of Power Relations between Speakers in Map Task Corpus. speech communication, 117: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2020.01.002

Lerner, A., Miara, O., Malayev, S., & Silber-Varod, V. (2018). The influence of the interlocutor's gender on the speaker's role identification. The 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018). Leipzig, Germany, 18-22 September 2018.

Silber-Varod, V., Lerner, A., Jokisch, O. (2017). Automatic Speaker's Role Classification With a Bottom-up Acoustic Feature Selection. Proc. GLU 2017 International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, 52-56, DOI: 10.21437/GLU.2017-11.

NLP research

Language-driven navigation – Dr. Reut Tsarfaty, NLP Lab.