eduhk-compling/GroupE_groupproject_DayoWong_StandUp_Comedy

Project Title

DayoWong StandUp Comedy Last Cantonese word Annotation and Joke Structure

Dataset Description

This corpus annotates the last Cantonese word in every sentence of Dayo Wong's 1999 stand-up set (“黃子華 Dayo 1999 棟篤笑 拾下拾下”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSe3nhopbpg), as well as the structure of the jokes. This corpus excludes the last word if it is in English, using </na> for relevant tags.

The corpus is annotated with pitch(1-5), using the tone system of numbers based on: Chao, Y.-R. (1947), Cantonese Primer (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).

The other categories of tags are as follows:

tones \</rising> \</level> \</falling>: Which describes the movement of the voice pitch.

duration \</elongation> \</truncation> \</nochange>: Which describes the duration of the sound in the recording.

Structure of joke \</setup> \</misdirection> \</punchline> \</tag> \</transition>: Which describes the part of the joke the sentence is.

pic \</name>: Which is the person responsible for annotating the segment.

check1 \</initials1>: Which is the first person checking the segment.

check2 \</initials2>: Which is the second person checking the segment.