KOTONOHA: A Corpus Concordance System for Skewer-Searching NINJAL Corpora

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Teruaki Oka, Yuichi Ishimoto, Yutaka Yagi, Takenori Nakamura, Masayuki Asahara, Kikuo Maekawa, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hanae Koiso, Kumiko Sakoda, Nobuko Kibe

The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan (NINJAL, Japan), has developed several types of corpora.

`BonTen' -- Corpus Concordance System for `NINJAL Web Japanese Corpus'

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Masayuki Asahara, Kazuya Kawahara, Yuya Takei, Hideto Masuoka, Yasuko Ohba, Yuki Torii, Toru Morii, Yuki Tanaka, Kikuo Maekawa, Sachi Kato, Hikari Konishi

The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan (NINJAL) has undertaken a corpus compilation project to construct a web corpus for linguistic research comprising ten billion words.

Morphological Analysis

Design and development of an RDB version of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Hanae Koiso, Yasuharu Den, Ken{'}ya Nishikawa, Kikuo Maekawa

In this paper, we describe the design and development of a new version of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), which is a large-scale spoken corpus released in 2004.

BCCWJ-TimeBank: Temporal and Event Information Annotation on Japanese Text

no code implementations • PACLIC 2013 • Masayuki Asahara, Sachi Yasuda, Hikari Konishi, Mizuho Imada, Kikuo Maekawa

Temporal Information Extraction

Prediction of Non-Linguistic Information of Spontaneous Speech from the Prosodic Annotation: Evaluation of the X-JToBI system

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Kikuo Maekawa

Speakers' gender and age-group were predicted using the symbolic information of the X-JToBI prosodic labelling scheme as applied to the Core of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (44 hours, 155 speakers, 201 talks).

Open-Ended Question Answering