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Self Organizing Maps for the Visual Analysis of Pitch Contours

Dominik Sacha
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Yuki Asano
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Christian Rohrdantz
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Felix Hamborg
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Daniel Keim
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Bettina Brau
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Miriam Butt
Data Analysis and Visualization Group & Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany

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Published in: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 109:23, p. 181-189

NEALT Proceedings Series 23:23, p. 181-189

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Published: 2015-05-06

ISBN: 978-91-7519-098-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

We present a novel interactive approach for the visual analysis of intonation contours. Audio data are processed algorithmically and presented to researchers through interactive visualizations. To this end, we automatically analyze the data using machine learning in order to find groups or patterns. These results are visualized with respect to meta-data. We present a flexible, interactive system for the analysis of prosodic data. Using realworld application examples, one containing preprocessed, the other raw data, we demonstrate that our system enables researchers to interact dynamically with the data at several levels and by means of different types of visualizations, thus arriving at a better understanding of the data via a cycle of hypothesis generation and testing that takes full advantage of our visual pro- cessing abilities.

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