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MumoStance results for culture-specific differences in politial speeches at GeSpIn (Gesture and Speech in Interaction) conference, September 13th-15th 2023, Nijmegen
Maciej Karpiński and Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow actively participated in the GeSpIn international conference and presented the following MumoStance project work:
Maciej Karpiński, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Wojciech Laskowski, Katarzyna Klessa: Culture-specific differences in the multimodal aspects of political speeches: Cross-modal interactions, 8th GeSpIn conference, September 13th -15th 2023, Nijmegen
The MumoStance project presentation at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023 in Prague
The results of the project have been presented at the ICPhS 2023 in Prague and published with Open Access at: https://www.icphs2023.org/programme/proceedings/ – direct link to the paper: https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/1033.pdf
We inspected prosodic features of specific
chunks of the recordings marked as speakers’
“high” or “low” affective engagement areas. Our results show that despite progressing internationalisation, certain differences in the paralinguistic prosody of German and Polish speeches remain significant.
Multimodal stancetaking – the (a) typical case of taking a stance? – a special session at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference
A special session entitled „Multimodal stancetaking – the (a) typical case of taking a stance?” took place during the 18th International Pragmatics Conference in Brussels (9 – 14 July 2023). The session was convened and chaired by Prof. Cornelia Müller.
The following three talks by the MumoSance Project team members were delivered:
Taking an affective stance: How affectivity is mobilized in mediatised political debates by Prof. Cornelia Müller
Affective stancetaking in mediatised political speeches of 'Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen’ (The German ‘Green Party’) by Mrs. Clara Kindler, Prof. Cornelia Müller
Prosodic cues to affective stancetaking in German and Polish parliamentary speeches by Prof. Maciej Karpinski, Prof. Katarzyna Klessa, Prof. Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow
The IPrA conference was an opportunity for another MuMoStance project team meeting and discussion in the context of a wide variety of pragmatic contexts highlighted by the conference programme. More about IPrA: https://event.ipra2023.exordo.com/
Presentation @ICPHS and publication about the prosody of high and low affective engagement in Polish and German parliamentary speeches
The MumoStance project work titled: „The prosody of high and low affective engagement in Polish and German parliamentary speeches” will be presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023, Prague, August 7-11, 2023. The full paper will be published in the ICPHS proceedings.
Authors: Maciej Karpiński, Katarzyna Klessa, Brygida Sawicka-Stępińska, Hanna Kasperek.
Gestural and prosodic characteristics of Polish parliamentary speeches – results of the MumoStance project presented at the 30th conference of the Polish Association of Applied Linguistics
The results of the MumoStance project for the gestural and prosodic characteristics of Polish parliamentary speeches were presented at the 30th conference of the Polish Association of Applied Linguistics PTLS (14-15 April 2023, Poznan, Poland). The speech entitled „Gestykulacyjno-prozodyczna charakterystyka polskich wystąpień parlamentarnych” (Eng.: Gestural-prosodic characteristics of Polish parliamentary speeches) was delivered by: Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Maciej Karpiński and Katarzyna Klessa.
Publication about high-pitched prominences in Polish parliamentary speeches
The proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022 are now published. Link to the MumoStance publication: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/speechprosody_2022/karpinski22_speechprosody.html
Development of speech segmentation tools for desktop using MumoStance data
MumoStance project data have been used as a testing material for a case study in the process of development of automatic segmentation plug-in based on CLARIN-PL solutions for desktop uses (Annotation Pro). Link to publication: https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/annpro-a-desktop-module-for-automatic-segmentation-and-transcrip/23128826
MumoStance paper accepted at Speech Prosody 2022 in Lisbon
The paper High-pitched prominences in the speeches of male Polish members of parliament by Maciej Karpiński, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow & Katarzyna Klessa has been accepted for presentation at: Speech Prosody Conference, in Lisbon (23-26 May 2022).
MumoStance experiences shared in the Linguist in the field monograph (2021)
We share the experiences regarding multimodal data management (along with other reflections) in a book by Maciej Karpiński & Katarzyna Klessa: Linguist in the field: a practical guide to speech data collection, processing, and management. Wydawnictwo Rys. ISBN 978-83-66666-89-4. Open Access: Link
Progress in the MumoStance corpus development
The project database of parialmentary speeches from Polish Sejm and German Bundestag has been launched. The specifications of annotation have been defined and are applied to both Polish and German datasets.
Weekly joint meetings of AMU & EUV Team
Along with the work within each team (AMU and EUV), we established a collaboration scheme based on systematic joint meetings of the Polish and German team using remote work techniques. Every Monday we meet and discuss our progress in a virtual room.