The Construction Scheme of a Graded Spoken Interaction Corpus for Mandarin Chinese

摘要

This paper introduces the construction scheme of a graded spoken interaction corpus for Mandarin Chinese. Material selection and collection principals, corpus annotation and assistant software development are explained. This paper also points out the important and difficult issues in the construction process. The corpus proposed in this paper consists of 1 million words (transcribed from 1.5 TB data), and it is graded and tagged with interaction annotation. This corpus can provide naturally occurring interactions with transcriptions and annotations for researchers, by which the quantitative analysis of SI can be realized. In addition, exemplars grading according to Conversation Analysis (CA) is also provided in the corpus for the reference of other researchers.