Resources
Useful Websites
ELAN
Homepage - https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan
The ELAN manual in PDF format - https://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
ELANport (a series of tutorial videos on using ELAN): https://beyzasumer.com/elanport/
Rosenfelder, I. (2011). A Short Introduction to Transcribing with ELAN.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/L560/ELAN_introduction.pdf
Praat
Homepage - https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Video/audio editing software
Any Video Converter - https://www.any-video-converter.com/en6/for_video_free/
FFMPEG - https://ffmpeg.org/
HandBrake - https://handbrake.fr/
Transcription/alignment tools
EasyAlign - http://latlcui.unige.ch/phonetique/easyalign.php
Montreal Forced Aligner (https://montreal-forced-aligner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html)
Motion Tracking / Post-annotation analyses
EnvisionBox (Platform which contains a series of modules that will help you process and analyze multimodal data streams - particularly useful for motion tracking techniques, database building, and statistical analyses!) - https://envisionbox.org/
Collection of the mentioned resources (organized by challenge)
Learning about M3D
M3D Resources (Labeling Manual, ELAN Template, and the M3D-TED Corpora) - https://osf.io/ankdx/
Kendon, A. (2004). Gesture: Visible action as utterance. Cambridge University Press.
McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought. University of Chicago press.
McNeill, D. (2005). Gesture and thought. University of Chicago Press.
Getting started with ELAN
Rosenfelder, I. (2011). A Short Introduction to Transcribing with ELAN.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/L560/ELAN_introduction.pdf
ELANport (a series of tutorial videos on using ELAN): https://beyzasumer.com/elanport/
ELAN website
Download ELAN: https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download
Media Encoding Document: https://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/docs/Video_encoding_guidelines_ELAN.pdf
Any Video Converter - https://www.any-video-converter.com/en6/for_video_free/
FFMPEG - https://ffmpeg.org/
HandBrake - https://handbrake.fr/
A note about the assessment of annotations
Artstein, R., & Poesio, M. (2008). Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics. Computational linguistics, 34(4), 555-596.
Gullberg, M. (1998). Gesture as a communication strategy in second language discourse: A study of learners of French and Swedish. Lund University Press.
Passonneau, R. (2006). Measuring Agreement on Set-Valued Items (MASI) for Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC ’06). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/636_pdf.pdf
Identifying Gesture Form
MIT Speech Communication Group’s Gesture Coding Manual - https://speechcommunicationgroup.mit.edu/gesture/coding-manual.html
Identifying Rhythmic Properties: Beat-like-ness
McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought. University of Chicago press.
McNeill, D. (2005). Gesture and thought. University of Chicago Press.
Tuite, K. (1993). The production of gesture. Semiotica, 93(1–2), 83-105. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.83
Identifying the Pragmatic Domain
Du Bois, J. W. (2007). The stance triangle. In R. Englebretson (Ed.), Stancetaking in discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction (Vol. 164, pp. 139–182). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164.07du
Kendon, A. (2017). Pragmatic functions of gestures: Some observations on the history of their study and their nature. Gesture, 16(2), 157–175. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.16.2.01ken
Publications/Corpora
Publication about M3D:
Rohrer, P. L. (2022). A temporal and pragmatic analysis of gesture-speech association: A corpus-based approach using the novel MultiModal MultiDimensional (M3D) labeling system [Doctoral dissertation]. Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Nantes Université. https://theses.hal.science/tel-03994053/
M3D-TED corpora:
Gilbert, E. (2009, February). Your elusive creative genius. [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Johnson, S. (2010, July). Where good ideas come from. [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from
Keith, D. (2007, September). A critical look at geoengineering against climate change. [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_climate_change
Sadowski, A. (2010, April). How to engineer a viral music video. [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_sadowsky_how_to_engineer_a_viral_music_video
Stewart, M. G. (2010, February). How YouTube thinks about copyright. [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_gould_stewart_how_youtube_thinks_about_copyright
Stone, E. (2016, October). Academic research is publicly funded - why isn't it publicly available? [video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
TEDx Talks. (2014, June 12). Ca donnerait quoi si on prenait des cours de cerveau ? | Kevin Finel [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksB80XYiYzI
TEDx Talks (2015, April 14). Comment oser prendre des risques pour vivre une vie intense ? | Frederique Bedos [video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjEfmB0DV0k
TEDx Talks (2016, July 5). Et si votre rêve devenait possible... | David Laroche [video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGfe78_2jc
TEDx Talks. (2018, March 24). L'amour dure 90 secondes | Marine Duvouldy [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxo9YJhnG8
TEDx Talks. (2018, December 18). Négociation: ne cherchez pas le compromis | Julien Pelabere [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9duDfWSfU4
M3D applied:
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2023). Multimodal Development in Children’s Narrative Speech: Evidence for Tight Gesture–Speech Temporal Alignment Patterns as Early as 5 Years Old. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 888–900. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00451
Meissl, K., Sambre, P., & Feyaerts, K. (2023). Contrast Pairs in Orchestra Instruction as a Window into the Multimodal Expression of Stance. In Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium (Vol. 16, pp. 1–16). Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek.
Rohrer, P. L., Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I. and Prieto, P. (2022). Children Use Non-referential Gestures in Narrative Speech to Mark Discourse Elements Which Update Common Ground. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:661339. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661339
Rohrer, P. L., Prieto, P., & Delais-Roussarie, E. (2022). Le rythme prosodique guide le rythme gestuel. XXXIVe Journées d’Études sur la Parole - JEP 2022, 588–596. https://doi.org/10.21437/JEP.2022-62
Vilà-Giménez, I., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Coego, S., Gurrado, G., & Prieto, P. (2023). Audiovisual corpus of Catalan children’s narrative discourse development. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NPZ3W
Vilà-Giménez, I., Demir-Lira, Ö. E., & Prieto, P. (2020). The role of referential iconic and non-referential gestures in children's narrative production: Iconics signal oncoming changes in speech. Proceedings of the 7th Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). KTH Speech, Music & Hearing and Språkbanken Tal. Stockholm, Sweden.
M3D cited (selected works):
Fisher, V. J. (2021). Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:624689. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.624689
Kosmala, L. (2021). A multimodal contrastive study of (dis)fluency across languages and settings: Towards a multidimensional scale of inter-(dis)fluency [Doctoral dissertation]. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28161.58726
Please be sure to cite M3D when applying it to your own data (see below). If you have used or described M3D and have cited us, please let us know by contacting us so that we can include your publication on our website.