ESCA/NATO Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Under Stress Lisbon, Portugal September 14-15, 1995

The DCIEM Map Task Corpus: Spontaneous Dialogue under Sleep Deprivation and Drug Treatment

Ellen G. Bard (1), C. Sotillo (1), A. H. Anderson (1), M. M. Taylor (2)

(1) Human Communication Research Centre, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, UK
(2) Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Canada

This paper describes a corpus of 216 unscripted task-oriented dialogues which were produced by normal adults in the course of a sleep deprivation experiment under 3 drug conditions. The materials on which the dialogues were based limit vocabulary and genre. Preliminary examination of length and task performance measures indicate effects of drug treatments and sleep deprivation. The corpus and accompanying materials are being made available on CD-ROM.

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Bibliographic reference.  Bard, Ellen G. / Sotillo, C. / Anderson, A. H. / Taylor, M. M. (1995): "The DCIEM map task corpus: spontaneous dialogue under sleep deprivation and drug treatment", In SUS-1995, 25-28.