NITE

Acronym:
NITE
Title:
Natural Interactivity Tools Engineering
Type of Project:
European
Funding Body:
European Commission
Funding Programme:
5th Framework Programme
Grant Agreement:
FP5-IST-2000-26095
Start Date:
01/04/2001
End Date:
31/07/2003
Status:
Ended
Role of ILC:
Beneficiary
Project Chair:
Staff:
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The overall objective of NITE is to build an integrated best practice workbench for multi-level, cross-level and cross-modality annotation, retrieval and exploitation of multi-party natural interactive human-human and human-machine dialogue data.
Building on the MATE workbench and on the Noldus Observer software, the project aims at:
- specifying the architecture, the functionality and the usability of the NITE workbench to support best practice handling of the speech, the gesture and the facial expression;
- defining best practice coding schemes for the gesture, the facial expression and the cross-modality coding;
- specifying a markup framework;
- constructing a workbench according to the specification and incorporating coding schemes for the gesture, the facial expression and cross-modality issues;
- documenting the NITE workbench thoroughly;
- ensuring its usability for both expert and (computationally) novice users communities through an extensive testing with differently skilled users;
- evaluating the workbench iteratively with world-wide users to make it a standard.