This work deals with some interesting issues that arose when the ITC-irst broadcast news transcription system was applied to transcribe the audio track of historical documentary films. Due to an evident acoustic and linguistic mismatch between the broadcast news and the new application domain, the initial word error rate was of 46.4%. By exploiting a limited amount of manually annotated trainin...

Terminal Time is a machine that constructs ideologically-biased documentary histories in response to audience feedback. The audience answers multiple-choice questions via an applause meter. The answers to these questions influence which historical events are chosen from a knowledge base, how these events will be slanted to embody the bias implied in the audience's answers, and how the events wi...

Pin Up! The Movie: An Interactive Documentary uses oral history to explore an international subculture. In it, women and men adopt vintage style advocate for social political change. Specifically, they use the subculture anti-racist practices, call body positivity, lobby full equity acceptance of LGBTQI subcultural members. These advocates do this with acknowledgement historical racism sexism, ...