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ASW-HSSproject
1) ASW-HSS is the acronym for “Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop for the
description of audiovisual corpora in Human and Social Sciences”.
2) ASW-HSS is a research project of the ESCoM/FMSH financed by the ANR
(National Research Agency) in France. Its reference number is: ANR-08-BLAN-
0102-01. ASW-HSS was started in January 2009 and officially finished in late
December 2011. However, the results from this project can be used in new research
projects.
3) The main objective of the ASW-HSS project is to develop
metalinguistic
resources*
(i.e. a
metalanguage*
) for describing audiovisual corpora in order to
transform them into resources
per se
, i.e. “tools”, “instruments” of knowledge in
specific contexts and uses (particularly in research itself, education, promotion of
cultural and scientific heritage, etc.).
4) The elaboration of metalinguistic resources for describing audiovisual corpora
relies on the semiotics of the audiovisual text ([STO 03]) as well as on discourse
analysis. The
ASW metalinguistic resources*
are notably comprised of i)
meta-
lexicons of conceptual terms
(or concepts) that are necessary for describing an
audiovisual text, ii) specialized
modelsofdescription
on analyzing a given structural
aspect of an audiovisual text e.g. the visual or acoustic shot, the thematic or
discourse level, etc. iii) an extensive
thesaurus
of predefined terms or “descriptors”.
5) The ASW metalinguistic resources are used in a sophisticated working
environment called
ASW Studio*
composed of a workshop for segmenting
audiovisual corpora, a workshop for describing audiovisual corpora, a workshop for
publishing the described audiovisual corpora and a workshop for managing the
metalinguistic resources themselves.
6) The ASW metalinguistic resources themselves as well as the ASA Studio
were developed, tested and validated in several
experimental workshops*
,
consisting of intensive works of description, publishing and promotion of
audiovisual corpora. All these experimental workshops may be consulted on the
ASW-HSS portal: http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/asa-shs/.
7) All the activities and all the results of the ASW-HSS project are publicly
available for consultation on its official site: http://www.asa-shs.fr/.
ASW
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Studio
1) The ASW Studio is a working environment which facilitates the
segmentation, analysis (description, annotation, indexation, linguistic adaptation,
