1 code implementation • LT4HALA (LREC) 2022 • Masayuki Asahara, Nao Ikegami, Tai Suzuki, Taro Ichimura, Asuko Kondo, Sachi Kato, Makoto Yamazaki
This article presents a word-sense annotation for the Corpus of Historical Japanese: a mashed-up Japanese lexicon based on the ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’ (WLSP).
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Masayuki Asahara
This study examines how differences in human vocabulary affect reading time.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2024 • Felix Virgo, Fei Cheng, Lis Kanashiro Pereira, Masayuki Asahara, Ichiro Kobayashi, Sadao Kurohashi
We propose a voting-driven semi-supervised approach to automatically acquire the typical duration of an event and use it as pseudo-labeled data.
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Fei Cheng, Masayuki Asahara, Ichiro Kobayashi, Sadao Kurohashi
Temporal relation classification is a pair-wise task for identifying the relation of a temporal link (TLINK) between two mentions, i. e. event, time, and document creation time (DCT).
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Takumi Ito, Ryo Yoshida, Masayuki Asahara, Kentaro Inui
Overall, our results suggest that a cross-lingual evaluation will be necessary to construct human-like computational models.
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2021 • Masayuki Asahara
Gamification approaches have been used as a way for creating language resources for NLP.
1 code implementation • WS 2020 • Lis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu, Fei Cheng, Masayuki Asahara, Ichiro Kobayashi
We propose an AdversariaL training algorithm for commonsense InferenCE (ALICE).
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Teruo Hirabayashi, Kanako Komiya, Masayuki Asahara, Hiroyuki Shinnou
However, because our method utilized the embedding vectors of the word senses, the relations of the sense tags corresponding to concept tags could be examined by mapping the sense embeddings to the vector space of the concept tags.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Teruaki Oka, Yuichi Ishimoto, Yutaka Yagi, Takenori Nakamura, Masayuki Asahara, Kikuo Maekawa, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hanae Koiso, Kumiko Sakoda, Nobuko Kibe
The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan (NINJAL, Japan), has developed several types of corpora.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Yohei Oseki, Masayuki Asahara
Importantly, this inter-fertilization between NLP, on one hand, and the cognitive (neuro)science of language, on the other, has been driven by the language resources annotated with human language processing data.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Masayuki Asahara
This paper presents research on word familiarity rate estimation using the {`}Word List by Semantic Principles{'}.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Hiroshi Kanayama, Na-Rae Han, Masayuki Asahara, Jena D. Hwang, Yusuke Miyao, Jinho D. Choi, Yuji Matsumoto
This paper discusses the representation of coordinate structures in the Universal Dependencies framework for two head-final languages, Japanese and Korean.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Mai Omura, Masayuki Asahara
In this paper, we describe a corpus UD Japanese-BCCWJ that was created by converting the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ), a Japanese language corpus, to adhere to the UD annotation schema.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Masayuki Asahara, Satoshi Nambu, Shin-Ichiro Sano
This paper presents a statistical model to predict Japanese word order in the double object constructions.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2017 • Masayuki Asahara, Sachi Kato
This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Masayuki Asahara, Hajime Ono, Edson T. Miyamoto
The Dundee Eyetracking Corpus contains eyetracking data collected while native speakers of English and French read newspaper editorial articles.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto, Toshio Morita
ChaKi. NET is a corpus management system for dependency structure annotated corpora.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Masayuki Asahara, Kazuya Kawahara, Yuya Takei, Hideto Masuoka, Yasuko Ohba, Yuki Torii, Toru Morii, Yuki Tanaka, Kikuo Maekawa, Sachi Kato, Hikari Konishi
The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan (NINJAL) has undertaken a corpus compilation project to construct a web corpus for linguistic research comprising ten billion words.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto
Paratactic syntactic structures are difficult to represent in syntactic dependency tree structures.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Takaaki Tanaka, Yusuke Miyao, Masayuki Asahara, Sumire Uematsu, Hiroshi Kanayama, Shinsuke Mori, Yuji Matsumoto
We present an attempt to port the international syntactic annotation scheme, Universal Dependencies, to the Japanese language in this paper.