Abstract
The "Kato Yasuhiko Mobile-mail Corpus" presented in this study is based on the corpus collected and created by the late KATO Yasuhiko between 2004 and 2010 at the Kato Yasuhiko Seminar, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Senshu University. As part of KATO's legacy, TANAKA Yukari and MIYAKE Kazuko were tasked with standardizing the corpus and making it publicly available for future research and were joined by MIYAZAKI Yumi and HAYASHI Naoki in undertaking this project. This corpus, which consists of 271,598 mobile-phone messages (462,874 lines) sent and received between 2001 and 2010, was compiled in xlsx format and made available in June 2023 by the Association for Language Resources as no. GSK2023-B (https://www.gsk.or.jp/catalog/). This corpus is distinct in that it contains data, collected over a decade, of actual messages sent and received by university students in the 2000s, when the use of mobile phone communication was rapidly expanding. In particular, the rich array of examples of historic pictogram usage and the inclusion of additional information such as the interactants’ backgrounds and degrees of intimacy will likely make this a valuable resource for future research.
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