Chiba Annotation System That Enables Comparing University Under a JSPS Postdoctoral Fel- Spoken Data of Typologically Different Lan- Lowship Since November 2007
Series Research and Life in Japan by a JSPS Fellow (18) Hailing from Moscow, Russia, Dr. Zoya Japan is to gather corpora of Japanese Viktorovna Efimova has been conducting narratives and develop systematic princi- research with her host Dr. Wakana Kono at ples of universal transcription along with an the Graduate School of Humanities, Chiba annotation system that enables comparing University under a JSPS postdoctoral fel- spoken data of typologically different lan- lowship since November 2007. Dr. Efimova guages. Together with my colleague Dr. did her doctoral work under the supervision Kono, a specialist in Russian language, we of Prof. Vera Podlesskaya at the Institute of are working out principles for text repre- Linguistics, Russian State University for the sentation, which can apply to either Japa- Humanities (RSUH) in Russia, where Dr. nese or Russian. Based on the materials we Kono has conducted her own research in have prepared, I am also doing some con- the Russian language. Over about the past trastive studies of Japanese and Russian 10 years, the two have continued their re- discourse. Dr. Zoya Viktorovna Efimova search collaboration in the field of corpus Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Russian linguistics. Why did you originally choose Japanese as State University for the Humanities (RSUH) the object of your research? Ph.D. (Linguistics), RSUH, Russia, 2006 By the time this volume of the JSPS Quar- I chose Japanese almost accidentally. M.A. (Linguistics), RSUH, Russia, 2001 terly is issued, Dr. Efimova will have become I had entered the linguistics department at the mother of her second child.
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