Malaysia Cantonese Corpus (MYCanCor)
馬來西亞粵語語料庫

Andreas Liesenfeld  (Twitter: @a_liesenfeld) 

Introduction 簡介

The Malaysia Cantonese Corpus (MYCanCor) is a collection of recordings of Malaysian Cantonese speech mainly collected in Perak, Malaysia. The corpus consists of around 20 hours of video recordings of spontaneous talk-in-interaction (56 settings) typically involving 2-4 speakers. A short scene description as well as basic speaker information is provided for each recording. The corpus is transcribed in CHAT (minCHAT) format and presented in traditional Chinese characters (UTF8) using the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS). MYCanCor is expected to be a useful resource for researchers interested in any aspect of spoken language processing or Chinese multimodal corpora. 

馬來西亞粵語語料庫(MYCanCor)收錄的馬來西亞粵語對話主要錄影於馬來西亞霹靂州。本語料庫修錄了56個場景、約20小時的自然對話錄影資料，大多數情況下由2至4位參與者進行談話。語料庫附有每一段錄影的發生場景說明以及參與者的基本信息。轉錄格式採用了CHAT（minCHAT），以繁體中文（UTF8）和香港增補字符集（HKSCS）標註。該語料庫致力於為對中文口頭語言處理或對錄音、影像等多種模式的中文素材感興趣的研究者提供分析資源。

Request access to the data  申請訪問資源

   • Sign up to download MYCanCor (200GB) (to appear)

Downloads 下載

• Corpus Specification 語料庫格式 (to appear)
• README (to appear)
• LICENSE (CC BY)
• UTF8 (transcripts only, no media files) (to appear)

 

References 參考文獻

• Liesenfeld, Andreas (2017) MYCanCor: A Video Corpus of spoken Malaysian Cantonese (to appear). 

Links 連結

• PyCantonese: Working with Cantonese corpus data using Python by Jackson L. Lee.
• A collection of tools for Cantonese Natural Language Processing

• The Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus (HKCanCor) by K.K. Luke and May L.Y. Wong.
• A corpus of naturally-occurring Hong Kong Cantonese speech (audio only) of somewhat similar design

• CLAN editor for CHAT by Brian MacWhinney.
• An editor for compiling and checking CHAT transcriptions
  

Transcription Example (CHAT format)

@Begin
@Languages: zho-yue
@Participants: P1 Wong Older Sister, P2 Chan Younger Sister
@ID: zho-yue|mycancor|P1|27;1.10|||| Target_P2|||
@ID: zho-yue|mycancor|P2|39;2.|||| Target_P1|||
*P2: 你食咩啊.
%com: every utterance ends with an utterance terminator (period). 

*P1: 白果薏米.
*P2: 同怡保好似好唔同 哈哈哈.
*P1: 唔同啊(0.1)冇得比啦. 

%com: Utterances are segmented by pauses exceeding 0.1 seconds.

*P2: 依但係.
*P1: 白 但因為 因為佢冇煮溶個. 

%com: All lexical items (onset, nucleus, coda, tone) are transcribed as Chinese characters.

%act: P2 points at the bowl.

%com: Gestures may be annotated as informal descriptions.

*P2: xxx睇下 個腐竹.
%com: Unintelligible or incomplete lexical units are transcribed as xxx.
*P1: 個腐竹 呃 係咯 同埋唔知點解佢 唔係白色咯.
%com: Modal Participles and Modal Particle Morphemes are transcribed following UTF8+HKSDS conventions.

@End 

Tagset

See the paper for a full description.

No.	Tag	POS (in Chinese)	POS (in English)
1	Ag	形语素	Adjective Morpheme
2	a	形容词	Adjective
3	ad	副形词	Adjective as Adverbial
4	an	名形词	Adjective with Nominal Function
5	Bg	区别语素	Non-predicate Adjective Morpheme
6	b	区别词	Non-predicate Adjective
7	c	连词	Conjunction
8	Dg	副语素	Adverb Morpheme
9	d	副词	Adverb
10	e	叹词	Interjection
11	f	方位词	Directional Locality
12	g	语素	Morpheme
13	h	前接成分	Prefix
14	i	成语	Idiom
15	j	简略语	Abbreviation
16	k	后接成分	Suffix
17	l	习用语	Fixed Expression
18	Mg	数语素	Numeric Morpheme
19	m	数词	Numeral
20	Ng	名语素	Noun Morpheme
21	n	名词	Common Noun
22	nr	人名	Personal Name
23	ns	地名	Place Name
24	nt	机构团体	Organisation Name
25	nx	外文字符	Nominal Character String
26	nz	其它专名	Other Proper Noun
27	o	拟声词	Onomatopoeia
28	p	介词	Preposition
29	Qg	量语素	Classifier Morpheme
30	q	量词	Classifier
31	Rg	代语素	Pronoun Morpheme
32	r	代词	Pronoun
33	s	处所词	Space Word
34	Tg	时间语素	Time Word Morpheme
35	t	时间词	Time Word
36	Ug	助语素	Auxiliary Morpheme
37	u	助词	Auxiliary
38	Vg	动语素	Verb Morpheme
39	v	动词	Verb
40	vd	副动词	Verb as Adverbial
41	vn	名动词	Verb with Nominal Function
42	w	标点符号	Punctuation
43	x	非语素字	Unclassified Item
44	Yg	语气语素	Modal Particle Morpheme
45	y	语气词	Modal Particle
46	z	状态词	Descriptive