Multimodal Russian Corpus and its use in emotional studies

Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper introduces the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO) as a part of the Russian National Corpus (RNC). MURCO provides users with a great amount of linguistic information related to Russian. Moreover, the deeply annotated part of the MURCO contains data concerning Russian gesticulation, speech act system, types of vocal gestures and interjections in Russian, and so on. It should be noted that there is no specific annotation of emotions in MURCO, because it was initially designed as a tool for the linguistic research of different types of oral discourse. However, using various types of annotation, and relying on the correlation between emotions and corresponding language features, we can find a great number of emotional contexts for further study. This article describes the main types of annotation and the structure of the MURCO interface; and demonstrates various ways to extract the necessary information for emotional studies.