Classification of first personal pronoun and second personal pronoun in conversational sentences within novel corpus

Abstract

　The styles of Japanese conversation change in a complex manner depending on various factors such as the attributes of the speaker and the relationship between the speaker and the listener. In this study, we focused on the variety of expressions of Japanese first personal pronouns and second personal pronouns, and investigated and classified the appeared expressions within conversation sentences based on the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese. In addition, the co-occurrence patterns of first personal pronouns and second personal pronouns were extracted by factor analysis.