Central Asian Turkic Discourse Corpus (CATDiC) v1.1

The Central Asian Turkic Discourse Corpus (CATDiC) is a pilot corpus of discourse data from five Turkic languages: - Uzbek - Kazakh - Turkmen - Kyrgyz - Uyghur Each dataset consists of approximately 2 minutes and 15 seconds of annotated dialogue. The corpus includes: - Video recordings (.mp4)- Audio recordings (.wav)- ELAN annotation files (.eaf)- Structured metadata (metadata.csv, speakers.csv) However, Turkmen data is excluded due to consent restrictions. ## Annotation The corpus is annotated using ELAN with multiple tiers. Each tier name consists of an annotation label and a speaker identifier, separated by the "@" symbol. The part before "@" indicates the type of annotation, and the part after "@" indicates the speaker ID. Speaker identifiers vary across recordings and are anonymized. Detailed speaker information is provided in the metadata. The annotation layers include: - transcription- Japanese translation- segmentation- morpheme-level annotation- glossing- discourse annotation (DA_dim, DA_func)- annotation indices ## Notes This is a pilot dataset. Some annotation layers may be incomplete or exploratory. Sensitive information has been anonymized. Proper names in the recordings have been masked in both audio and transcription where necessary. ## Usage CATDiC is intended for: - Discourse analysis- Turkic linguistics- Comparative studies- Annotation research ## License This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. ## Data Format Data files are provided as compressed archives (.zip). Please extract them before use. ##Note Metadata files (metadata.csv, speakers.csv) have been added in this version.