Paper Info
Title
Survey of Conversational Behavior: Towards the Design of a Balanced Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation.
Abstract
In 2016, we set about building a large-scale corpus of everyday Japanese conversation-a collection of conversations embedded in naturally occurring activities in daily life. We will collect more than 200 hours of recordings over six years, publishing the corpus in 2022. To construct such a huge corpus, we have conducted a pilot project, one of whose purposes is to establish a corpus design for collecting various kinds of everyday conversations in a balanced manner. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of everyday conversational behavior, with about 250 adults, in order to reveal how diverse our everyday conversational behavior is and to build an empirical foundation for corpus design. The questionnaire included when, where, how long, with whom, and in what kind of activity informants were engaged in conversations. We found that ordinary conversations show the following tendencies: i) they mainly consist of chats, business talks, and consultations; ii) in general, the number of participants is small and the duration of the conversation is short; iii) many conversations are conducted in private places such as homes, as well as in public places such as offices and schools; and iv) some questionnaire items are related to each other. This paper describes an overview of this survey study, and then discusses how to design a large-scale corpus of everyday Japanese conversation on this basis.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
LREC 2016 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
corpus of everyday Japanese conversation,corpus design,survey of everyday conversational behavior
Field
DocType
Citations 
Conversation,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Linguistics
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hanae Koiso18612.10
Tomoyuki Tsuchiya200.68
Ryoko Watanabe300.34
Daisuke Yokomori400.34
Masao Aizawa500.34
Yasuharu Den614526.23