(illustration by Mariana Sharp)
Downloadable Files:
Files are compressed with bzip. To extract files from the tar archives, use option -xjf- Quicktime movies (.mov)
- Video time-aligned transcriptions and annotation in Anvil format. Anvil is a video annotation software tool free for research. The anvil files include a reference to this annotation specification and they use the quicktime movies.
- Audio-aligned word-level transcriptions in Praat textgrid format. Praat is a sound annotation tool free for research.
- Game log files. in dm2 format. Using the game log and the world description file (and some textures and player models), you can replay the action from one game session.
- Plaintext transcriptions.
- Audio files.
- The map of the virtual environment:
- Overview map(pdf) of both upstairs and downstairs levels. ID numbers shown on the map are used to identify mentioned objects in the anvil annotation
- Textual information about the objects in the world: text, xml
- All the above files, in a separate tar for each session (in case the file sizes of the above files pose a problem for you).
- Files needed to reproduce the virtual environment
- This map can be rendered by the Quake game engine, and we also used this training session map
- Player models and custom textures for the game world. Put these files in the baseq2 directory of your quake installation.
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Key Publications describing the corpus:
- Technical Report describing the hardware and software set-up for data collection (pdf)
- LREC paper describing the data collection. Please cite this paper if you are using the SCARE corpus in your research (pdf)BibTeX
- Laura Stoia's dissertation, which describes a system designed using models developed from the corpus. It includes an appendix with the instructions and questionnaires completed by the subjects who provided data for the corpus. (pdf)
