The Nagoya University Conversation Corpus is a corpus that has been created as part of the KAKEN Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (2) project "A Study of Collocation based on Corpora toward Compiling a Dictionary for Learners of Japanese" (FY2001-FY2003) (Principal Investigator: OHSO Mieko), composed of transcripts of 129 uncontrolled, natural conversations between native Japanese speakers, amounting to about 100 hours in total. It has subsequently been transferred to the control of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, where the transcripts and other data are published.
For use
To use the Nagoya University Conversation Corpus in publishing your research results or for other publication purposes, one of the following items of literature information must be provided:- Itsuko Fujimura, Mieko Ohso, David Yoshikazu Oshima, 2011
"Kaiwa Corpus no Kochiku niyoru Communication Kenkyu (A Study of Communication Based on Conversation Corpus Construction)"
"Gengo Kenkyu no Gihou: Data no Syusyu to Bunseki (Language Research Technique: Data Collection and Analysis)," 43-72, compiled by Itsuko Fujimura and Naohiro Takizawa, published by Hituzi Syobo - Itsuko Fujimura, Shoju Chiba, Mieko Ohso, 2012,
Lexical and Grammatical Features of Spoken and Written Japanese in Contrast:
Exploring a lexical profiling approach to comparing spoken and Written corpora,
Proceedings of the VIIth GSCP International Conference. Speech and Corpora, 393-398.
The Nagoya University Conversation Corpus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
*Regarding the name of the corpus*
Although the corpus was temporarily renamed "Nihongo Shizen Kaiwa Kakiokoshi Corpus (Natural Japanese Conversation Transcription Corpus)" immediately after it was transferred to the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, it has returned to its original name of "Nagoya University Conversation Corpus." Note that the two names refer to the same corpus.