Papers by Wakako Kashino
Construction of the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation: An Interim Report (L18-1)
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Hanae Koiso, Yasuharu Den, Yuriko Iseki, Wakako Kashino, Yoshiko Kawabata, Ken’ya Nishikawa, Yayoi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Usuda
| Challenge: | a new corpus of everyday conversations is being developed in the field of everyday conversation . the corpus is based on 94 hours of recordings of everyday Japanese conversations . |
| Approach: | They propose to build a large-scale corpus of everyday Japanese conversation in a balanced manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus will be published in 2022 and consist of more than 200 hours of recordings. |
Annotation and Quantitative Analysis of Speaker Information in Novel Conversation Sentences in Japanese (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a qualitative lexicological analysis of conversation sentences in novels is performed . gender and age of conversation sentence information is not used as actual speech . |
| Approach: | They performed a quantitative lexicological analysis using attributed speaker information . they also examined the differences between Japanese novels and translations of foreign novels . |
| Outcome: | The results show that conversation sentences in novels are representative of spoken language . the authors conclude that conversation sentence data are not useful as speech materials . |
Design and Evaluation of the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation (2022.lrec-1)
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Hanae Koiso, Haruka Amatani, Yasuharu Den, Yuriko Iseki, Yuichi Ishimoto, Wakako Kashino, Yoshiko Kawabata, Ken’ya Nishikawa, Yayoi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Usuda, Yuka Watanabe
| Challenge: | a corpus of everyday conversations that includes video data is a new approach . a large corpus contains 200 hours of speech, 577 conversations, about 2.4 million words . |
| Approach: | They have constructed a corpus of everyday conversations that includes video data . they will publish the corpus in march 2022, and part of it in 2018 on trial basis . |
| Outcome: | The corpus of everyday Japanese conversation (CEJC) contains audio and video data . the study shows that the corpus includes a good balance of adult conversants . |