Survey of Conversational Behavior: Towards the Design of a Balanced Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Hanae Koiso, Tomoyuki Tsuchiya, Ryoko Watanabe, Daisuke Yokomori, Masao Aizawa, Yasuharu Den

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.

Towards Automatic Transformation between Different Transcription Conventions: Prediction of Intonation Markers from Linguistic and Acoustic Features

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Yuichi Ishimoto, Tomoyuki Tsuchiya, Hanae Koiso, Yasuharu Den

Because of the tremendous effort required for recording and transcription, large-scale spoken language corpora have been hardly developed in Japanese, with a notable exception of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ).