SIDGrid: A Framework for Distributed, Integrated Multimodal Annotation, Archiving, and Analysis

The SIDGrid architecture provides a frame- work for distributed annotation, archiving, and analysis of the rapidly growing volume of multimodal data. The framework inte- grates three main components: an annota- tion and analysis client, a web-accessible data repository, and a portal to the dis- tributed processing capability of the Ter- aGrid. The architecture provides both a novel integration of annotation, analysis, and search for multimodal data and a pow- erful framework for web-based, distributed collaborative annotation and analysis. The flexibility and capabilities of the system have been demonstrated through archiving Talkbank and other spoken discourse and dialogue data and performing joint multi- modal analysis of lexical, prosodic, turn- taking, and other multimodal factors.