Shun Ishizaki


2012

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Analysis of Travel Review Data from Reader’s Point of View
Maya Ando | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop in Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis

2010

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An Associative Concept Dictionary for Verbs and its Application to Elliptical Word Estimation
Takehiro Teraoka | Jun Okamoto | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Natural language processing technology has developed remarkably, but it is still difficult for computers to understand contextual meanings as humans do. The purpose of our work has been to construct an associative concept dictionary for Japanese verbs and make computers understand contextual meanings with a high degree of accuracy. We constructed an automatic system that can be used to estimate elliptical words. We present the result of comparing words that were estimated both by our proposed system (VNACD) and three baseline systems (VACD, NACD, and CF). We then calculated the mean reciprocal rank (MRR), top N accuracy (top 1, top 5, and top 10), and the mean average precision (MAP). Finally, we showed the effectiveness of our method for which both an associative concept dictionary for verbs (Verb-ACD) and one for nouns (Noun-ACD) were used. From the results, we conclude that both the Verb-ACD and the Noun-ACD play a key role in estimating elliptical words.

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Study of Word Sense Disambiguation System that uses Contextual Features - Approach of Combining Associative Concept Dictionary and Corpus -
Kyota Tsutsumida | Jun Okamoto | Shun Ishizaki | Makoto Nakatsuji | Akimichi Tanaka | Tadasu Uchiyama
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

We propose a Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) method that accurately classifies ambiguous words to concepts in the Associative Concept Dictionary (ACD) even when the test corpus and the training corpus for WSD are acquired from different domains. Many WSD studies determine the context of the target ambiguous word by analyzing sentences containing the target word. However, they offer poor performance when they are applied to a corpus that differs from the training corpus. One solution is to use associated words that are domain-independently assigned to the concept in ACD; i.e. many users commonly imagine those words against a given concept. Furthermore, by using the associated words of a concept as search queries for a training corpus, our method extracts relevant words, those that are computationally judged to be related to that concept. By checking the frequency of associated words and relevant words that appear near to the target word in a sentence in the test corpus, our method classifies the target word to the concept in ACD. Our evaluation using two different types of corpus demonstrates its good accuracy.

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Homographic Ideogram Understanding Using Contextual Dynamic Network
Jun Okamoto | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Conventional methods for disambiguation problems have been using statistical methods with co-occurrence of words in their contexts. It seems that human-beings assign appropriate word senses to the given ambiguous word in the sentence depending on the words which followed the ambiguous word when they could not disambiguate by using the previous contextual information. In this research, Contextual Dynamic Network Model is developed using the Associative Concept Dictionary which includes semantic relations among concepts/words and the relations can be represented with quantitative distances among them. In this model, an interactive activation method is used to identify a word’s meaning on the Contextual Semantic Network where the activation values on the network are calculated using the distances. The proposed method constructs dynamically the Contextual Semantic Network according to the input words sequentially that appear in the sentence including an ambiguous word. Therefore, in this research, after the model calculates the activation values, if there is little difference between the activation values, it reconstructs the network depending on the next words in input sentence. The evaluation of proposed method showed that the accuracy rates are high when Contextual Semantic Network has high density whose node are extended using around the ambiguous word.

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Evaluating Semantic Relations and Distances in the Associative Concept Dictionary using NIRS-imaging
Nao Tatsumi | Jun Okamoto | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

In this study, we extracted brain activities related to semantic relations and distances to improve the precision of distance calculation among concepts in the Associated Concept Dictionary (ACD). For the experiments, we used a multi-channel Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) device to measure the response properties of the changes in hemoglobin concentration during word-concept association tasks. The experiments’ stimuli were selected from pairs of stimulus words and associated words in the ACD and presented in the form of a visual stimulation to the subjects. In our experiments, we obtained subject response data and brain activation data in Broca's area ―a human brain region that is active in linguistic/word-concept decision tasks― and these data imply relations with the length of associative distance. This study showed that it was possible to connect brain activities to the semantic relation among concepts, and that it would improve the method for concept distance calculation in order to build a more human-like ontology model.

2008

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A Contextual Dynamic Network Model for WSD Using Associative Concept Dictionary
Jun Okamoto | Kiyoko Uchiyama | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Many of the Japanese ideographs (Chinese characters) have a few meanings. Such ambiguities should be identified by using their contextual information. For example, we have an ideograph which has two pronunciations, /hitai/ and /gaku/, the former means a forehead of the human body and the latter has two meanings, an amount of money and a picture frame. Conventional methods for such a disambiguation problem have been using statistical methods with co-occurrence of words in their context. In this research, Contextual Dynamic Network Model is developed using the Associative Concept Dictionary which includes semantic relations among concepts/words and the relations can be represented with quantitative distances. In this model, an interactive activation method is used to identify a word’s meaning on the Contextual Semantic Network where the activation on the network is calculated using the distances. The proposed method constructs dynamically the Contextual Semantic Network according to the input words sequentially that appear in the sentence including an ambiguous word.

2004

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Automatic Extraction of Hyponyms from Japanese Newspapers. Using Lexico-syntactic Patterns
Maya Ando | Satoshi Sekine | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2003

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A Disambiguation Method for Japanese Compound Verbs
Kiyoko Uchiyama | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment

2002

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Extraction of Associative Attributes from Nouns and Quantitative Expression of Prototype Concept
Maya Ando | Jun Okamoto | Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

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A Japanese Semantic Network Built on a Pulsed Neural Network with Encoding Associative Concept Dictionaries
Takuya Sakaguchi | Shun Ishizaki
COLING-02: SEMANET: Building and Using Semantic Networks

1989

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Research and development of cooperation project on a machine translation system for Japanese and its neighboring countries
Hozumi Tanaka | Shun Ishizaki | Akira Uehara | Hiroshi Uchida
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit II

1987

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Machine Translation using Contextual Information
Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit I

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Machine Translation Projects
Shun Ishizaki
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit I

1986

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Context Analysis System for Japanese Text
Hitoshi Isahara | Shun Ishizaki
Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics