@inproceedings{7ab2819086b54819897fbb7521545d9b,
title = "Querying databases of annotated speech",
abstract = "Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic 'transcriptions'. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneous and dynamic. These properties present a number of tough challenges for representation and query. The temporal nature of the data adds an additional layer of complexity. This paper presents and harmonises two independent efforts to model annotated speech databases, one at Macquarie University, and one at the University of Pennsylvania. Various query languages are described along with illustrative applications to a variety of analytical problems. The research reported here forms a part of several ongoing projects to develop platform-independent open-source tools for creating, browsing, searching, querying and transforming linguistic databases, and to disseminate large linguistic databases over the Internet.",
author = "S. Cassidy and S. Bird",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1109/ADC.2000.819808",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000",
publisher = "IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "12--20",
editor = "Orlowska, {Maria E.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000",
address = "United States",
note = "11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000 ; Conference date: 31-01-2000 Through 03-02-2000",
}