Abstract
We have been constructing the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation, CEJC, under the NINJAL collaborative research project since 2016. The main features of the CEJC are i) that we target conversations embedded in naturally occurring activities in daily life; ii) that we collect various kinds of everyday conversations in a balanced manner so as to capture the diversity of everyday conversations and to observe natural conversational behavior; and iii) that we collect and publish not only audio but also video data in order to precisely understand the mechanism of our real-life social behavior. Prior to the publication of the whole corpus scheduled for 2022, we published the monitor version of the CEJC in December 2018. In this article, we first outline the design of the monitor version of the CEJC. Then, we conduct a preliminary analysis, showing possible implications of the corpus.
