Wanpela deitabeis long Tok Pisin bilong baim tiket bilong balus. (An ATIS database in Tok Pisin.) Methodological observations with regard to the collection of human–human data

This paper describes the collection of authentic human–human air travel information data in Tok Pisin, the pidgin/creole language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Pros and cons of authentic data are discussed, as compared to data collected in more controlled settings like Wizard-of-Oz simulations. Some unexpected real-life phenomena that affect the data, and normally do not occur in corpora compiled from Wizard-of-Oz simulations, are described.