JEC Basic Sentence Data †

Update History †

• 2011/07/26 Delete empty lines (V1-2)
• 2011/07/13 Distribute the first version (V1)

Description †

• Japanese Basic Sentence Data (2011/7/13 Kurohashi-Kawahara Lab., Kyoto University)

• Automatically extracted basic Japanese sentences based on Kyoto University Case Frame data. It contains manually modified 5304 sentences. Meta-characters in the sentences mean as follows:

X : a noun phrase or a clause
～: quotation
    (NOTE: except those between numerals, such as 「２～３」)

• English, Chinese Basic Sentence Data (2011/7/13 NICT MASTAR Project, Multilingual Translation Lab.)

• Manually translated data from Japanese Basic Sentence Data into English and Chinese.

Sample †

#0001
  日: Xではないかとつくづく疑問に思う
  英: I often wonder if it might be X.
  中: 难道不会是X吗，我实在是感到怀疑。
#1000
  日: 私はXを視野にしっかり入れています
  英: I put more focus on X.
  中: 我非常重视X。
#2000
  日: 彼がレストランで昼食をとる
  英: He eats lunch at a restaurant.
  中: 他在餐馆吃午饭。

License †

Kurohashi-Kawahara Lab. has the copyright of Japanese Basic Sentence Data, and NICT MASTAR Project, Multilingual Translation Lab. has the copyright of English and Chinese Basic Sentence Data. You can use all the data under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Download †

• Excel file containing all the sentences in Japanese, English and Chinese (1MB)

JEC_basic_sentence_v1-2.xls

Contact and Bug Report †

• MAIL: basic-sentence at nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp