Marking up Japanese Map Task Dialogue Corpus

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2006-11, Vol.120 (5_Supplement), p.3044-3044
• Main Authors: Ohsuga, Tomoko, Itahashi, Shuichi, Tutiya, Syun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0001-4966; 1520-8524
• DOI: 10.1121/1.4787233

This presentation reports an outline of marking up the Japanese Map Task Dialogue Corpus. The project was conducted by an independent group of researchers from the faculties of Chiba University and other institutions. This corpus contains 128 dialogues by 64 Japanese native speakers. The basic design of the dialogues and recordings conform to the original HCRC Map Task Corpus of the University of Edinburgh. Two speakers participated in the map task dialogues; an instruction giver who has a map with a route and an instruction follower who has a map without a route. The giver verbally instructs the follower to draw the route on his/her map. The corpus is marked up according to XML-based TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) P5 format, which is developed in an effort to provide interchangeable and shareable text data. The transcriptions of TEI format are viewed as ‘‘tags‘‘ that describe the start and end times of utterances, the duration of pauses, nonverbal events, and synchronization of overlapping utterances. This corpus will be available through NII-SRC (Speech Resources Consortium).