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en: A pilot study to analyze descriptive questionnaire responses with natural language processing techniques

en: The main purpose of the research reported here is to show that the questionnaire responses in text format can be processed and statistically analyzed to some extent by computer programs. We employ unigram, bigram and trigram frequency calculations with the assistance of Python programming in order to analyze the questionnaire responses in text format. Questionnaire responses chosen from options can be easily statistically analyzed whether they are on a ratio, interval, ordered or nominal scale. In contrast, descriptive questionnaire responses have long been read and interpreted by researchers themselves. They have been analyzed by human labor alone. This could to some extent lead to arbitrary and subjective interpretations and analyses. We demonstrate in this paper that natural language processing techniques in Python could help analyze questionnaire responses in text format more objectively and accurately.

en: Hyperion

ja: Hyperion


en: The Power of Live Delivery: Reading Empowered by Orature or Audio?

en: Proceedings of the Fourth Extensive Reading World Congress, held August 4-7, 2017


en: The Interplay of Silent Reading, Reading-while-listening and Listening-only

en: The Reading Matrix : an International Online Journal


en: Internship in an Australian High School --- Teaching Japanese Language through Japanese Art


en: Do Students Prefer Listening to Texts Read Aloud to them as a Group, or to Audio-books in Solitude Online?

ja: 集団で行うライブ英語音読リスニングと独りで行うオンライン英語リスニングの比較

ja: ハイペリオン


en: Development of a Web-based Concordance Program for BNC World Edition Using Category Reference and Genre Classification Scheme

ja: Category ReferenceとGenre Classification Schemeを利用したBNC World EditionWebベース・コンコーダンサーの開発


en: Webベース英語ディクテーションテスト・採点集計システムの開発と教育利用

ja: Webベース英語ディクテーションテスト・採点集計システムの開発と教育利用

en: Studies in e-Learning Language Education

ja: e-Learning教育研究


en: A Corpus-based Analysis of the Auxiliary Verb NEED in American, British and Australian Newspaper English

en: チョムスキーが1950年代半ばに言語研究の演繹的手法を提唱してから約半世紀，言語研究の本来的手法であるはずの帰納的·経験論的アプローチが過小評価されてきた．しかし，コンピュータの普及により大量の文字列データを短時間のうちに処理可能な環境が整ってきた1990年以降，急速にデータを重視する研究手法が見直されてきたように思う．この論文では，このような手法の有効性を示すために，約2年間にわたって個人的に収集してきた米·英·豪語ニュースのデータ(約470万語)をコーパスとして，法助動詞/一般動詞の両側面を持つNEEDという語の使われ方が現実にどのような状況にあるのか，分析·例証した．分析結果として，英>豪>>米という順序関係が法助動詞的用法の出現頻度に見出された．また，そのような使用頻度差が統計学的に有意であるか，カイ二乗検定を用いて検証した．

en: Lingua

ja: Lingua


en: Implementation of Default Reasoning in Prolog

en: 通常のPrologでは，閉世界仮説(Closed World Assumption)に基づくNegation As Failureという機構を用いて否定を実装しているがために，高速に実行可能な言語に仕上がっているという反面，常識的な推論にあわない現象が回避できない．たとえば，すでに存在する情報に矛盾する新情報が付け加わった場合，情報の非単調的増加が生じ，過去の情報あるいは新たに加わった情報のどちらか一方が証明の際に使われてしまい，正しい推論がなされない．この論文では，これを回避するためにndemo/3という新たな第一階述語論理式を計算機言語上に実装して，実行速度を大きく犠牲にすることなくmeta-levelでの解釈判断過程を有する機構を付け加える試みをした．

en: Research Reports on Educational Technology


en: Searching the image of new technological objects --- by the usage of prepositions

ja: 新しい技術的対象に対する概念イメージを探る --- 前置詞を手がかりにして

en: インターネットの普及で本格的な国際情報化時代に突入し，それに関わるコンピュータ関連用語が一般の英文の中にも多く見られるようになってきた．このような新しく登場してきた技術や製品に対する概念イメージをしっかり捉えておかなければ，英文を書く際に戸惑うことになる．本論文では，これらの概念を探るために，その概念を表わす名詞類がどういう前置詞とともに使われているのか，従来の前置詞論をもとに実例を分析し，また同時にそういった新技術や製品がnative speakerにどういう概念イメージで捉えられているか考察した．

en: 秋田英語英文学

ja: 秋田英語英文学


en: Issues of Character Code in the Computer Network Era --- 解決法としてのLaTeX利用

ja: Computer Network 時代におけるCharacter Codeの問題 --- 解決法としてのLaTeX利用

en: Computer Networkを駆使した国際情報化社会における情報のやりとりに避けて通れないCharacter Codeの問題について考察し，現状のCode体系を放置するならば，そう遠くない将来，言語研究者にとって過去の資産の損失に繋がる可能性が高いことを指摘する．そして，その解決法として，理系の世界で広く使われている組み版ソフトを言語研究へ応用することの有用性を具体的事例を示しながら説明した．


en: On the Treatment of Control-construction in HPSG

en: Syntaxに過度な比重を置く現状のGB理論 (Government and Binding Theory)では，英語におけるSubject Controlや，Object Controlの言語現象を説明するのが困難であるということを具体的に例文を示して説明し，それを解決する一つの方向としてSyntaxとSemanticsを融合した理論であるHPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar)を紹介するとともに，この言語理論の英語におけるControl構造の説明方法を示した．

en: Essays On English Language And Literature


en: Speech Error Evidence for the Phonological Analysis of Japanese

en: 3年間かけて，会話·放送などで聞かれる言い間違いの例を1,000以上収集し，その中から音韻的言い間違いを計算機上でデータベース化した．データを統計処理することによって得られた諸特徴を検討することによって，音韻論で用いられる様々な概念に心理的実在性が認められるかを実証的に考察した．


en: A Study on Metathesis --- 言い間違いを手がかりとして

ja: Metathesis に関する考察 --- 言い間違いを手がかりとして

en: English Literature

ja: 英文学


en: Comparison between Metathesis and Reversal

en: 通常，Metathesisは，ギリシャ語をはじめ多くの言語に観察される現象で，共時·通時の区分なく用いられるが，本論文では通時的音位転換をMetathesis，言い間違いなどに見られる共時的音位転換をReversalと区別した．英語·日本語のMetatathesis，Reversalの例をあげながら，相似点，相違点を抽出し，MetathesisがReversalの部分集合にあたり，なぜそうなるのか大脳の言語中枢における言語生成プロセスに関する仮説をたてた．

en: Essays on English Language and Literature


en: Problems of Japanese Phonology through Investigation of Speech Errors

ja: 日本語の音素表記が言語学的考察と心理学的な実在性に基づいているかどうか根拠を得るために言い間違い·失語症のデータを用いる必要性を例証し，海外における言い間違い研究の進展を紹介するとともに，言い間違いのデータを計算機上にデータベース化する際に必要な範疇区分について考察した．

en: Lingua


en: What Makes the Gap between Advanced Level Class and Basic One? Analysis of English Dictation Tests

en: In this paper, an investigation was conducted to find whether or not fill-in-the-blank type English dictation tests could be used to measure students' English general ability by comparing scores of the TOEIC-IP test. In addition, the disadvantages of students filling in blanks on dictation tests in which they listen to English at natural speed were also examined. Substantiated evidence from data analysis results of dictation tests in advanced level classes correlated strongly with student scores of the TOEIC-IP test. These results suggest that dictation tests can be used to measure students' general English ability at the advanced level. Results also clarified weaknesses of students when filling in blanks during dictation tests are commonly irrespective of their English levels. It was also verified that the gap between advanced level English classes and basic level classes derived from the different learning levels of vocabulary, guessing skill, weak sound and mutation (t->r). In conclusion, when teaching classes especially at the basic level, it is extremely important for teachers to design lesson plans and assign homework on the basis of empirical test analysis for students to overcome these weaknesses.

en: Journal of Language and Literature, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima


en: Text-based Pedagogy Using Twitter in Japanese English Education: A Pilot Study

en: Monograph on Foreign Language Education 2011


en: A Preliminary Study for Developing a Concordance Program of British National Corpus Using Category and Genre Information

ja: カテゴリ情報とジャンル情報を利用したBNCコーパス検索システム開発のための予備的考察

en: This paper begins with a brief survey of several epoch-making language corpora. The British National Corpus (BNC), which was completed in 1994 after three years of development, is one of the most representative and reliable corpora in terms of both quality and quantity. The first version of the BNC was limited to EU countries, but the World Edition has been available on CD-ROM since 2000. In order to develop an efficient concordance program for the BNC World Edition, it is crucially important to conduct a fundamental analysis of the structure of corpus data. The CDIF (Corpus Data Interchange Format), which was strongly influenced by TEI Guidelines, has been adopted in the BNC. This provides ample contextual information as well as grammatical information about the corpus data. In order to develop my Web-based BNC concordance program, I will refer to this enriched tagged information including Text Classification Codes and David Lee's Genre Classification Scheme. This paper concludes with a basic strategy to develop my BNC concordance program named 'BNCfinder+'.

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: Development of a Corpus-based Search System using Regular Expression: An Inductive Approach

ja: 正規表現を使った英語コーパス検索システムの開発と帰納的言語教育の可能性

en: In English language classrooms in Japan we have experimented with a wide range of teaching methods over the decades, such as the Grammar-Translation Method, the Direct Method, the Oral Approach and the Communicative Approach. However, this has not lead to the discovery of a superior teaching method. These approaches, despite their variety, share the common theme of being deductive top-down approaches. It is relatively straightforward to teach English grammar and collocations to students because the answers are fixed and absolute. We all know that this methodology is unnatural and completely different from the first language acquisition process. Although I recognize that the traditional deductive and top-down approach is very efficient in teaching a second language (L2) in environments which are not conducive to natural second language acquisition, I think that we should make an attempt to fuse the less efficient but more natural inductive and bottom-up approach with the traditional approach in order to develop incentives for the students to learn the L2. I have developed a CGI-based English search system named SKWICS with an easy-to-use interface and regular expression search function, which will help teachers to exploit both inductive and bottom-up English teaching approaches as a study aid. SKWICS may also serve to free students from the typical drudgery inherent in rote memorization.

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: Development of CGI-based Automatic Scoring and Tabulation System and its Application to English Education

ja: CGIを利用した自動採点・集計システムの開発と英語教育への応用

en: The educational environment at colleges and universities has been exposed to keen competition in Japan. The increased competition in education unfortunately leads to the poor communication between students and teachers. Teachers cannot have enough time to communicate or consult with the students due to the pile of papers they have to deal with. In addition most teachers have to spend a lot of time to mark. Teachers in Japan have not enjoyed the benefit of advanced information technology. The computers and network technology on campus are exclusively used to improve students' computer skills and for correspondences between staff members. This technology should also help teachers save time in everyday educational jobs and have more time to communicate and consult with their students. So far, many of the application software in education field have been programmed to help students learn in curriculums. This time I designed the CGI-based application named `SokuShukei-kun' with easy-to-use interface which helps teachers save much time in making and scoring multiple-choice questions frequently used in English tests. This application also functions as simple tabulation system for sending out questionnaires on the Web. The detailed functions of this software are explained in this paper. Its effectiveness and efficiency are also elaborated based on the questionnaires completed by the users including the teachers and the students.

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: CGIを用いた自学自習用英語教材の開発とその教育効果

ja: CGIを用いた自学自習用英語教材の開発とその教育効果

en: CGIアプリケーションの開発が可能なコンピュータ言語Perlを用いて，日本人学生の英語語彙力増強を手助けするための自学自習用プログラム「ボキャビルダ」(VocaBuilder)を開発した．多数の学生たちと共同で問題データファイルを構築することが容易になるようなデータ構造を提案し，そのようなデータ形式のファイルからランダムに選び出された各問題に対応したもっともらしい選択肢を自動的に生成するプログラムの仕組みを考案した．さらにアンケートをもとに学生と教師双方の視点からオンラインソフトのもつ利点と欠点を明らかにし，これからの学習教材の一つのあり方としての可能性を示した．

en: Bulletin of the Center for Educational Research and Practice

ja: 教育実践研究紀要


en: A Sound - between digital and analog

ja: 音 ー デジタルとアナログの狭間で

en: 広報

ja: 広報


en: Current Movement of Lingustic Theories --- With Focusing on Unification Grammar

ja: 言語理論の動向 --- 単一化文法を中心に

en: VOX

ja: VOX


en: On Psychological Reality

ja: On Psychological Reality