SmallTalkAtWork


Goal#

target:
    1000 unique workplace small talk utterances

scope:
    before meeting
    after meeting
    project-related small talk
    week check-in
    remote work
    team rapport
    neutral short answers

Source Plan#

Source Use
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/real-easy-english/250311 workplace small talk examples
https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/office_english/260209_OfficeEnglish_small_talk_transcript__.pdf office English transcript
https://www.english-exercises.org/business-english/small-talk business small talk phrases
https://www.apoven.com/small-talk-listening/ office listening phrases
https://tatoeba.org/en/downloads CC-licensed generic sentence corpus

Collection Rules#

do:
    collect short neutral workplace utterances
    tag opener / answer / follow-up / close
    keep source_url and license
    filter out travel and consumer-service scenes
    deduplicate common greetings

do not:
    include private-life-heavy questions
    include restaurant / travel / hotel style language
    mix generated sentences into the corpus

Corpus Schema#

id utterance tag source_url source_license note
Backward Interview