온라인 멀티미디어 코퍼스 구축 -일본 텔레비전 대담방송을 자료로-

Abstract

Corpus, a collection of data on the language used in day-to-day life that can be processed through computers, is highly useful in linguistics and education. It can examine how a language is used during natural communication. In the case of spoken Japanese, however, online public corpora that can be utilized for research and education are quite rare. To address such an issue, based on “talk show corpus” data, the current study aims to build an “online multimedia corpus” where spoken Japanese can be found. The study used data from video files of 106 episodes of talk show programs, written text files of voice recordings from each episode, which is 40 hours recording in total, and Japanese-Korean subtitle files produced by Son, Young Suk (2017, 2018). As a result of building the online multimedia corpus, one can easily access the Internet to get information on spoken Japanese and share one’s findings without time or location constraints. A person does not even need advanced computer skills to access this. The contexts of front and rear are arranged in KWIC(Keyword in Context) format, so by using “language entry=keyword” to search, the relevant videos are automatically and continuously played. The implementation of this function, “video KWIC,” is significant, as it allows users to not only study spoken Japanese but also observe how it was spoken in videos.