2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Quantitative Analysis for Simultaneous Interpreters using Large Scale Corpus

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22720154
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Nagoya University
Principal Investigator	RYU Koichiro 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 助教 (40397451)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Keywords	通訳研究 / 自然言語処理 / 機械翻訳
Research Abstract	This research discusses corpus-based analyses of English-Japanese simultaneous interpreters'speech rates. We used the Simultaneous Interpretation Database of Nagoya University in order to conduct the quantitative analyses that require a large scale corpus. We analyzed a total of 88 sets of simultaneous interpretations by 17 interpreters covering 22 different lectures given in English. As a result, we confirmed that the lecturers' speech rates had little relevance to the interpreters' speech rates. Moreover, it became clear that the interpreters' average speech rate was faster after each source utterance finished than before it finished.

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