Invited Talks
``Dynamic Social Choice and Pronouns", SAET, online, 6/13-16/2021 (invited session chair)
``Score Voting Program for Altruistic Hedonic Games" with Karebu Ozawa, SAET, online, 6/13-16/2021
``Context Change and Negation in East African Languages: Dhaasanac and Somali," English Lecture Series #119　Otaru University of Commerce, 7/9/2019
``Automatic Generation of Multiple Choice Questions in English," MAJ Tokyo 7, Tokyo U of Science, 11/25/2013
``The Discourse Initial Mo and Epistemic Modality," Pre-JK Workshop on Evidentials and Modals, Seoul National University, 10/19/2011, slides
"Nonmonotonic NPI Licensers" SOLIFIC, Sophia University, Tokyo, 6/3/2004
Conference Presentations
2022
``English Word Quiz App with Morphological Information" Tohoku-Hokkaido Chiku Daigakuto Koto Kyotsukyoiku Kenkyukai 71, Iwate University, Sep 1, 2022
``Setsuji, Gokon o Mochiita Eitango Kuizu Apri (English Word Quiz Application with Affix and Root Information)" with Ryo Shimizu, IEICE ET, online, 7/9
``Higher Order Preferences and Pronoun Resolution" SCCW16, Mexico City, 6/25
``Asahikawa shi ni okeru Hogen no Shoshitsu(Disappearance of Dialects in Asahikawa City), with Ao Nomura, NLP 2022, poster, online, 3/14-3/18
``Nihongo no ``Shi" Setsuzoku to ``Shite" Setsuzoku tono Taio kara Mita Kankokugo no Setsuzoku Gobi ``Go" to ``So" no Tsukaiwake no Teian (Distinctive Use of Korean Connecting Particles ``Go" and ``So" in Correspondence with Japanese Connectives ``Shi" and ``Shite")" with Uta Takizawa, NLP2022, poster, online, 3/14-3/18
``Kojin Kissaten ni okeru Kokyaku Kakutoku no tame no Instagram Unyo (Improvement of Instagram to Attract Customers to Coffee Shop)" with Nozuki Kaito, IPSJ84, online, 3/3-3/5
2021
``Nihongo, Eigo, Kankokugo-no Uta-ni-mirareru Hiyuhyogen-no Tokucho (Comparative Study of Metaphors in Japanese, English and Korean Songs)'' with Natsuno Tobe, IPSJ SIGNL250, online, 9/28
``A Utility-based Voting Algorithm and Its Application to Altruistic and Hedonic Games" with Karebu Ozawa, IPSJ83, online, 3/20
``LINE bot that Translates to Young Girls Japanese Language" with Yugo Nagata, Masaki Kato, Eiichi Iwase, and Ryo Shimizu, IPSJ83, online, 3/18
``Indexicals in Chinese" with Zhuoyun Wu, Lu Guo, and Yingxuan Wang, NLP2021, online, 3/17
``Analysis of Biden's Victory Speech" with Reiji Miura, NLP2021, online, 3/16
2020
``Closed Syllables in Japanese Popular Songs" with Nahoko Koyama, IEICE-SP, online, 12/2/-12/3
``Shitakke Conditional and Deontic/Evidential Modality" with Yuta Hirama, PSJ 23, online, 11/25-11/29
``Ni/e Alternations and Change of Location in Japanese" ELSJ 38 workshop ``Case Alternations," online, 11/8
``Corpus of East Cushitic Languages (CEC)" IPSJ82, online, 3/5-3/7
2019
``De Re indexicals in Rendille" LSJ159, Nagoya Gakuin University, 11/16
``Bouletic and Deontic Modaity and Social Choice" SemDial2019 (LondonLogue), Queen Mary University of London, 9/6
``Bouletic/Deontic Modality, Liberalism and Social Choice" The 11th Conference on Economic Design, Corvinus University, Budapest, 6/12
``Bouletic/Deontic Modality, Liberalism and Social Choice" JSAI33, Niigata, 6/7
2018
``Bouletic/Deontic Modality and Social Choice" The 14th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul National University, 6/14-17
``Monsters in English" ELSJ International Spring Forum, Hokkaido University, 5/12
``NPIs in Dhaasanach" ACAL49, Michigan State University, 3/22-25 slides
2017
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``Liberalism and Bouletic/Deontic Modality" TbiLLC2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, 9/22
``Eigo Kijutsu Mondai-no Jidosaiten Program Backscratch-no Kaihatsu (Developing Automated Scoring Program of Written Answers in English: Backscratch)" (2017) (with Kimito Yanagi and Hiroki Watanabe) Kyoiku Kaikaku ICT Senryaku Taikai, Tokyo, 9/7
``Dynamic Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" FADLI: Formal approaches to the dynamics of linguistic interaction, University of Toulouse, 7/17-21
``Pre-glottalization in British English," with Mariko Murayama, 16th meeting of the English Phenetic Society in Japan, Kanto Branch, Waseda University, 7/9
``Dynamic Social Choice for Disambiguation of Pronouns" Conference on Economic Design, University of York, 6/14-16
``Automated Scoring of Short Written Answers", with Kimito Yanagi and Hiroki Watanabe, IEICE-ET, Soka University, 5/27
``Bipolar Items and Wide-scope Even" Negation and Negativity in Natural Language, Ruhr University Bochum, 4/27-29
``Indexical Shifting in Dhaasanac and Somali" ACAL 48, Indiana University, Bloomington, 3/30-4/2
``Dynamic Social Choice for Pronoun Resolution" IPSJ 78, Nagoya University, 3/10
2016
``Dynamic Social Choice for Pronominal Reference" IEICE NLC, NTT, Tokyo, 12/21-22
``Indexical Shifting in Dhaasanac and Somali" TripleA, University of Tuebingen, 7/6-7/8/2016
``Social Choice for Disambiguation of Pronominal Reference" SCW2016, Lund University, 6/28-7/1/2016
``SDRT of Kaette" JSAI2016, Kitakyushu, 6/9/2016
2015
``CCG for Discourse" SemDial2015: goDIAL, University of Gothenburg, 8/24-26/2015
`Noun Phrases in Japanese and Epsilon-Iota Calculi" Epsilon 2015, University of Montpellier, 6/10-12/2015
``Fake Past and Awareness" JSAI2015, Future U of Hakodate, 5/30/2015
``Discourse-Initial Too/Mo and Conventional Implicature" ELSJ Spring Forum 8, Seikei University, 4/18-19/2015
``A Learning Model of Lexicon" IPSJ77, Kyoto University, 3/18/2015
``Bipolar Items and Positive Polarity" DGfS 37, University of Leipzig, 3/4-3/6/2015
2014
``Application of Social Choice Theory in Pronoun Resolution" SSCW12, Boston College, 6/21/2014 slides
``Probabilistic Approach to the Iterative NP Construction in Japanese" NLP2014, Hokkaido U, 3/18/2014 slides
``Introducing a Support System for Enabling the Creation of Moodle Quizzes in English" IPSJ76, Tokyo Denki U, 3/12/2014
2013
``NPI Licensing in Dhaasanac" LSJ147, Kobe City U of Foreign Studies, 11/23-11/24/2013
``Extended Generative Lexicon" GL2013, CNR, Pisa, 9/23-9/24/2013, slides
``Temporal Indexicals in Dhaasanac", Attitudinal Semantics, Keio U, 9/3-9/6/2013, handout
``Application of Social Choice Theory to Pronoun Resoluton" 2nd International Workshop on Game Theory, Epistemic Logic, and Related Topics, U of Tsukuba, 8/27-8/30/2013, slides
``Metalinguistic Negation in Dhaasanac" African Linguistics Workshop, U of Michigan Ann Arbor, 7/7/2013 slides
``Extended GL" NLP2013, Nagoya University, 3/14/2013, slides
``moodleQmaker" IPSJ75, Tohoku University, 3/6/2013
2012
``moodleQmaker" IEICE-ET, Shinshu University, 10/27/2012
``Indexical Shifting in Dhaasanac" Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy and Linguistics, Ruhr Universitat, 9/27-29/2012, slides, poster
``On Ni/E Alternation in Japanese" MLF2012, Tohoku University, 9/22/2012, handout
``Using Internet for Task-based TOEIC Preparation" ICT Strategy for Education Improvement, Tokyo, 9/6/2012
``Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" 11th Meeting of Society for Social Choice and Welfare, New Delhi, 8/17-20/2012, slides
``Improving English with Quiz at LMS" Education Improvement by ICT, Tokyo U of Science, 8/10/2012
``Information Update by Corrections" IPSJ-SIGNL207, 7/26-27/2012, Hokkaido U, Japan, slides
``Comma in Japanese is Conjunction," JSAI2012, Yamaguchi, Japan, 6/12-15/2012, slides
``Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" NLP2012, Hiroshima City University, 3/14/2012, slides
2011
``Metalinguistic Negation in Dhaasanac," PSJ14, Kyoto U of Foreign Studies, 12/3-4/2011, handout
``Shifty Operators in Dhaasanac" LSJ143, Osaka University, 11/26/2011, slides
``Computational Social Choice for Pronoun Resolution" IPSJ SIG-NL, Ishigaki, Japan, 11/22/2011, slides
``CCG for Discourse" TbiLLC-9, Kutaisi, Georgia, 9/29, slides
``Semantic Ambiguity of Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese" CoSLI-2, Boston, 7/20/2011, slides, poster
``CCG of Questions and Focus" JSAI2011, Morioka, Japan, 6/2/2011, slides
``Negation in Dhaasanac" SULA-bar, The University of Manchester, 5/4/2011 slides
``Discourse-Initial Too and Epistemic Modality" ELSJ 4th International Spring Forum, Shizuoka University, 4/24/2011, slide
``The Spatial Language As Relational Nouns," BCCWJ satellite session, Tokyo, 3/14/2011
``A CCG Analysis of Japanese Sentence-final Particles (Nihongo Syujoshi-no Hanchu Bunpo-ni yoru Bunseki)," NLP2011, Toyohashi University of Technology, 3/10/2011, slides
2010
``CCG of Japanese Sentence-final Particles" PACLIC24, Tohoku University, 11/6/2010, poster
``Interpreting Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese" Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt Hood, OR, 8/15/10
``Semantic Disambiguation of NP1-no NP2 Construction by Extended GL" JSAI2010, Nagasaki, 6/10/10, slides
``Possessive Disambiguation," Dynamic Semantics Meeting, Tokushima, Japan, 5/22/10, slides
``Disambiguating ``No" by Yahoo! Chiebukuro（Yahoo! Chiebukuro-o Riyo-shita ``No"-no Aimaisei Kaisho-no Kokoromi)," BCCWJ Monitor Data Satellite Session, The National Institute for Japanese Language, 3/14/10, slide, poster
``Extending Generative Lexicon Theory (Generative Lexicon Riron-no Kakucho)," NLP2010, The University of Tokyo, 3/8-11/10, slides
2009
``Extended GL and Japanese Postposition No," PACLIC 23, City University of Hong Kong, 12/3/09 slides
``Neo-Davidsonian Extension of GL for Possessive Disambiguation'' (2009) Tbilisi2009, Bakuriani, Georgia, 9/25/09 slides
``Extending GL for Possessive Disambiguation" (2009) GL2009, poster session, Pisa, Italy, 9/18/09
``Application of Event Semantics to Qualia Structure of Nouns for Disambiguation of Japanese Postposition No" (2009) PACLING 2009, Hokkaido University, 9/1/09, slides
``Extended
Qualia-based Lexical Knowledge for Disambiguation of Japanese
Postposition "No""
(2009) ESSLLI 2009 Student Session, Bordeaux, France, 7/21/09, slides
``One's Own" (2009) ELSJ 2nd International Spring Forum, Nara Women's University, 4/26/09, slides
``Bipolar Items and Attitude Predicates" (2009) BLS 35, UC Berkeley, 2/14-16/09, slides
``Qualia Based Lexical Knowledge for the Disambiguation of the Japanese Postposition `No'" (2009) IWCS8, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 1/7-9/09, slides, poster
2008
``(Non)floating Quantifiers in Japanese" (2008) ICEAL2, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 11/7-9/08, poster
``Temporally Mismatched Matrix Counterfactuals" (2008) CHRONOS8, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 10/3-5/08, slides
``Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse Initial Too" (2008) ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Formal and Experimental Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs, Hamburg, Germany, 8/4-8/08, abstract, slides
``Continuation-Based CCG of Japanese Quantifiers" (2008) Quantification in East Asian Languages: A Workshop at ICCS2008, Yonsei University, Seoul, 7/27/08, slides
``Possessive Relation Disambiguation of Japanese Genitive Marker No" (2008) Society for the Study of Language and Culture 33, Osaka University, 6/28/08, slides
``Own" (2008) The 80th Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan, Hiroshima University, Japan, 5/24-25/08, slides
``Polarity Focus in Dhaasanac" (2008) 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 4/17-20/08, handout
``Correction by Polarity Reversing Focus in Dhaasanac" (2008) The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) 36, Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL, 3/14-16/08, handout
2007
``Quantifiers in Japanese" (2007) Seventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilisi, Georgia, 10/1-5/07, slides
``Polymorphic Quantifier" (2007) LENLS 2007, Miyazaki International Conference Hall, Japan, 6/18-19/07
``The Dasenach Imperfect" (2007) 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 3/22-25/07, handout
``Prosodic Morpheme in Dasenach" (2007) NACAL 35 Handbook, San Antonio, TX, 12/1/06, 3/16-18/07
``Fake Past and Contexts" (2007) Linguistic Society of America Meeting Handbook 2007, 152, 10/13/06, Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim, CA, 1/4-7/07, slides
2006
``Categorical Ambiguities of Possessives and Adjectives" (2006) The 8th CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini-conference, Stony Brook University, NY, 10/08/06, 11/18/06
``Fake Past and Covert Emotive Modality'' (2006) Abstracts of CHRONOS 7: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, 86, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 1/8/06, slides 9/18-20/06
``Presupposition Accommodation by Discourse-Initial Evidential Marker Mo'' (2006) The Book of Abstracts for International Conference on Revisiting Japanese Modality, 39-40, SOAS, London, 3/25/06, 4/28/06, slides 6/24-25/06
``Covert Emotive Modality Is a Monster'' (2006) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 2006, A Satellite International Workshop of the 20th Annual Conference of The Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), Tower Hall Funabori, Tokyo, Japan, 6/5-6/06, slides
``Bipolar Items and Emotive Modality'' (2006) Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity, Swarthmore College, PA, 3/15/06, slides 4/14-15/06
2005
``Negative Also: A Bipolar Item in Japanese'' (2005) Polarity from Different Perspectives, Workshop, New York University, electronic poster, 2/25/05
``Covert Only and NPI Licensing'' (2005) Linguistic Society of America Meeting Handbook 2005, 120, handout 79th Annual Meeting, Marriott Oakland City Center, Oakland, CA, 1/6-9/05
2004
``Temporal Dynamic Semantics of Factual Counterfactuals,'' Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2004 (LENLS 2004), A Satellite International Workshop of the 18th annual meeting of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) 2004, Ishikawa Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Kanazawa, Japan, 5/31/04
``Five Types of Affective Contexts: Nonmonotonic NPI Licensers,'' The 40th Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 40), Chicago University, Chicago, IL, 4/16/04
2003
``Non-monotonic Negativity'' (2003) 17th Pacific Asian Conference of Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC17), Sentosa, Singapore, 10/3/03 slides
2002
``Scalar Reversal by Negation and
Fictive Scanning in Our Cognitive System" (2002) abstract of The 74th General
Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan (Nihon Eibun Gakkai), Eibungaku Kenkyu 79, 185 (English
translation),
Hekusei Gakuin University, 5/02
last updated on 9/7/2022