Semantic annotation of a Japanese speech corpus

• Main Authors: Bond, Francis, Fry, John.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Semantics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83172; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6434
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper describes the semantic annotations we are performing on the CallHome Japanese corpus of spontaneous, unscripted telephone conversations (LDC, 1996). Our annotations include (i) semantic classes for all nouns and verbs; (ii) verb senses for all main verbs; and (iii) relations between main...