Published Papers and Oral Presentations by Osamu Takizawa

(up to Feb. 2002)

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IEICE(IECE): The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan
IEE: The Institute of Electrical Enginnering of Japan
ASJ: The Acoustical Society of Japan
IPSJ: Information Processing Society of Japan
JSAI: Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
JPA: the Japanese Psychological Association
JSSS: Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

Published Papers (as the first author)


O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Detection of Hidden Semantic Structures in Spoken Language", Trans. IEICE, Vol.J72-D-2, No.8, pp.1313-1319 (1989).

O.Takizawa: "A Study on Detection of "puns" in Spoken Language", Communication Disorder Research, Vol.18, No.2, pp.47-57 (1990).

O.Takizawa: "Characteristics of Some Sorts of Connotations in Spoken Language", Journal of the Communications Research Laboratory, Vol.40, No.3, pp.171-178 (1993).

O.Takizawa and A.Ito: "A Method for Detecting an Ironic Expression", Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.9, No.6, pp.875-882 (1994).

O.Takizawa: "Several Phonemic Features of Written Puns", Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.2, No.2, pp.3-22 (1995).

O.Takizawa and H.Isahara: "A Computational Model for Understanding Rhetorical Tautologies", International Journal of Psycholinguistics, Vol.13, No.1, pp.55-65 (1997).

O.Takizawa: "A Study on Computational Processing of Japanese Rhetorical Expressions", Review of the Communications Research Laboratory, Vol.44, No.4, pp.183-219 (1998).


Oral Presentations at International Conferences (as the first author)


O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Deep Understanding of Speech", 13th International Congress on Acoustics, Vol.2, pp.403-406 (1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Method for Expressing Associative Relations Using Fuzzy Concepts", The International Conference on Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks (IIZUKA90), pp.871-874 (1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Numerical Expression for Association Chains in Natural Language", International Congress of Mathematicians, p.263 (1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Method for Expressing Associative Relations Using Fuzzy Concepts", 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 27.17, pp.1253-1256 (1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "DUJAL -A Spoken Joke Understanding System Aimed at Advanced Speech Recognition", Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Acoustics, pp.234-238 (1991).

Osamu TAKIZAWA and Hitoshi ISAHARA: "Machine-understanding Model of Rhetorical Tautology Using Saliency"
Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium '95, pp.77-82 (Dec.1995).

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Masuzo YANAGIDA, Akira ITO and Hitoshi ISAHARA: "On Computational Processing of Rhetorical Expressions -Puns, Ironies and Tautologies"
International Workshop on Computational Humor, pp.39-52 (1996).


Oral Presentations at Domestic Conferences (as the first author)


O.Takizawa*, T.Aso* and M.Abe* (*: Kyoto Univ.): "Simulation of Nonlinear Resonant Phenomena Taking into Account the Inflation of Hysteresis Loop Caused by Eddy Current", Technical Report of IECE, NLP86-68 (Jan.1987).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "The Necessity of a Mechanism to Envoke Additional Acoustic Processing in Speech Understanding System", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 1-2-2 (Mar.1988).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Understanding Cheap Jokes", Proc. of the 1988 IEICE Spring Conference, SA-1-13 (Mar.1988).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "An Experimental Frame System for Processing Hidden Meanings", Proc. of the 1988 IEICE Fall Conference, D-147 (Sep.1988).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Mechanism for Analyzing Speech with Hidden Meanings", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 3-3-15 (Oct.1988).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Frame Representation Scheme for Deep Understanding of Speech", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 3-6-19 (Mar.1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Study on "Puns" as an Object of Language Processing", Proc. of the 1989 IEICE Spring Conference, D-315 (Mar.1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Proposal of Associtaion Mechanism for Deep Understanding", Proc. of the 1989 IEICE Fall Conference, D-127 (Sep.1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Detection Algorithm for a Pun of Separately-located Similar Phonemes", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 3-1-20 (Oct.1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Estimation Methods of Association Score to Detect Hidden Meanings", Record of the 1989 Kansai-section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical Engineering, G8-34 (Oct.1989).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Introduction of the Fuzzy Concept into the Frame-Based Association Mechanism", Proc. of the 1990 IEICE Spring Conference, D-87 (Mar.1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Study of a Method of Expression for Associative Relations Using the Fuzzy Concept", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 3-3-18 (Mar.1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "An Association Mechanism to Reduce Candidate Words Aiming at a Large-vocaburary Speech Recognition System", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 3-8-3 (Sep.1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "An Expression for Associative Relations Using Fuzzy Sets -A Basic Study Using Psychological Experiments-", Proc. of the 1990 IEICE Fall Conference, D-73 (Oct.1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Proposal of Large-vocabulary Speech Recognition System using Association Mechanism to Reduce Candidate Words", Record of the 1990 Kansai-section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical Engineering, G8-34 (Oct.1990).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "DUJAL -A Joke Understanding System for Advanced Speech Recognition", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 3-5-11 (Mar.1991).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "An Integrated Speech Understanding System Based on Frame Representation", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 2-P-20 (Oct.1991).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Detection of Hidden Semantic Structures Using an Association Mechanism", Proc. of the 43th Conference of IPSJ, 4H-8 (Oct.1991).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Temporal Association Transition by Incremental Presentation of Sentences", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 3-1-3 (Mar.1992).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "A Consideration of Pun Processing", Technical Report of JSAI, SIG-SLUD-9202-05 (Jul.1992).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida: "Psychological Experiments using Incremental Presentation of Sentences Written in Erring Phoneme Symbols", Proc. of the 56th Conference of JPA, Session of "Language and Thought", 2-P74 (Sep.1992).

O.Takizawa: "A Consideration on Irony Detection", Technical Report of IPSJ, NL-92-8 (Nov.1992).

O.Takizawa: "An Irony Detection System -Estimation Methods of Opposition Relations and Praiseful Characteristics in Denotative Senses-", Technical Report of IEICE, NLC92-57 (Mar.1993).

O.Takizawa and A.Ito: "An Ironic Expressions in Natural Language", Proc. of the 47th Conference of IPSJ, 1M-9 (Oct.1993).

O.Takizawa: "Models for Determining Utter's Belief for Some Connotative Expressions", Technical Report of IPSJ, NL-100-9 (Mar.1994).

O.Takizawa: "Several Phonemic Features of Written Puns (Separately-located Type)", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 1-8-19 (Oct.1994).

O.Takizawa and M.Yanagida* (*: Doshisha Univ.): "On Necessity of Machine Processing of Rhetorics as a Natural Language Interface", Record of the 1994 Kansai-section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical Engineering, S7-8 (Nov.1994).

O.Takizawa: "Toward machine Understanding of Tautology", Technical Report of IPSJ, NL-104-14 (Nov.1994).

Osamu Takizawa: "Machine Understanding of Tautology -A Consideration on Detection Mechanism-", Proc. of the First Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, B2-3 (Mar.1995).

Osamu TAKIZAWA: "A Study on COomputational Processing of Japanese Rhetorical Expressions", The 5th Meeting of the Frontier Research Project in Telecommunications (Jun.1995).

Osamu TAKIZAWA and HItoshi ISAHARA: "A Method for Mechanically Detecting Japanese Tautological Expressions Using Template Matching of POS", Technical Report of IPSJ, 95-NL-110-3, pp.13-20 (Nov.1995).

Osamu TAKIZAWA and Hitoshi ISAHARA: "On Detection Method of Japanese Pleonastic Expressions", Proc. of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, C1-7, pp.305-308 (Mar.1996).

Osamu TAKIZAWA and Kim Binsted: "A Survey of Research on the Computational Processing of Puns", Proc. of the 3rd Meeting of Special Interest Group on Hot Topics and Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence, pp.19-26 (1997).

Osamu TAKIZAWA and Hitoshi ISAHARA: "A Consideration on Japanese Pleonastic Expressions -Toward Automatic Detection-", Proc. of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, D3-6, pp.345-348 (Mar.1997).

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Masuzo YANAGIDA, Akira ITO and Hitoshi ISAHARA: "A Computational Processing of Rhetorical Expressions -Puns, Ironies, and Tautologies-", Technical Report of IEICE, TL97-2.
Osamu TAKIZAWA, Yoshinobu SAITO and Fujio MARUYAMA: "A Plan of Experimental Computer Network in Wakkanai-city", The 1999 Communications Society Conference of IEICE, B-7-12 (1999).

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Tsutomu MATSUMOTO, Ichiro MURASE, Kyoko MAKINO, Shingo INOUE and Hiroyuki Ohno, "A Proposal of Steganography on Plain Text and XML", The 7th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, C2-4, pp.135-138 (Mar.2001).

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Yoshinobu SAITO and Hiroyuki OHNO, A Consideration on Availability of Radio Link for the "I Am Alive" System", JSSS Fourth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2001), SP-1 (Sep.2001).

Osamu Takizawa and Akihiro YAMAMURA, "A Proposal of Secret Sharing Using Natural Language Text", IPSJ Computer Security Symposium 2001, pp.343-348 (Nov.2001).

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Kyoto MAKINO, Ichiro MURASE, Tsutomu MATSUMOTO and Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, "Hiding Information into Natural Language Text by Adjustment of New-line Positions", The 2002 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security, pp.997-1002 (Jan. 2002).

Other Publications or Presentations


O.Takizawa: "A Remark on "Speech Recognition" Presented by Dr.R.Nakatsu of NTT", A Bulletin of AVIRG, Vol.23, No.6, pp.2-3 (Dec.1987).

O.Takizawa: "Joke Understanding System", TRIGGER, Vol.7, No,12, pp.58-59 (Oct.1988).

O.Takizawa: "Toward Understanding Hidden Meanings of Spoken Language", CRL NEWS, No.151, pp.4-5 (Oct.1988).

O.Takizawa: "Toward Deep Understanding of Natural Language", The 78th Conference of CRL, pp.43-57 (Jun.1990).

O.Takizawa: "Toward Association Computer", CRL NEWS, No.178, pp.6-7 (Jan.1991).




Published Papers (as a co-author)


A.Ito and O.Takizawa: "A Formulation of Irony Based on a Dialogue Model", Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.9, No.2, pp.283-289 (1994).

A.Ito and O.Takizawa: "Formulation of Irony Based on a Dialogue Model", International Journal of Psycholinguistics, Vol.11, No.1, pp.75-86 (1995).

Midori SASAKI, Teruaki TSUSHIMA, Osamu TAKIZAWA, and Morio KOHNO: "Developmental Changes in Speech Perception Abilities by Infants", Grammar Research and English Teaching, Vol.17, pp.123-134 (1995).

Teruaki TSUSHIMA, Osamu TAKIZAWA, Midori SASAKI, Satoshi SHIRAKI, Kanae NISHI, Morio KOHNO, Paula Menyuk and Catherine Best: "Discrimination of English /r-l/ and /w-y/ by Japanese Infants at 6-12 Months: anguage-Specific Developmental Changes in Speech Perception Abilities", The Emergence of Human Cognition and Language, Vol.3, pp.57-61 (Mar.1996).

Hitoshi ISAHARA, Qing MA, Tamotsu SHIRADO, Hiromi OZAKU, Kiyotaka UCHIMOTO, Osamu TAKIZAWA, Yasuichi KITAMURA, Masuzo YANAGIDA, Naohito SATO, Jun MURATA and Mahito SOGA: "Research on the Engineering Realization of Advanced Intelligent Functions", Review of the Communications Research Laboratory, Vol.43, No.4, pp.705-714 (1997).

Kim Binsted and Osamu TAKIZAWA: " "BOKE" - A Japanese Punning Riddle Generator", Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.13, No.6, pp.920-927 (1998).


Oral Presentations at International Conferences (as a co-author)


M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "A Frame-based System for Deep Understanding: Toward Understanding Puns and Metaphors", Second Joint Meeting of Acoustical Society of America & Acoustical Society of Japan, PPP24 (1988).

M.Yanagida, H.Ozaku and O.Takizawa: "Employing Associative Relations for Candidate Word Selection", Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Acoustics, pp.127-132 (1992).

M.Yanagida, H.Ozaku and O.Takizawa: "Associative Retrieval for Activating Expected Words in a Large Vocabulary", 14th International Congress on Acoustics, G5-9 (1992).กก

T.Tsushima*1, O.Takizawa, M.Sasaki*2, S.Shiraki*2, K.Nishi*2, M.Kohno*2, Paula Menyuk*1 and Catherine Best*3 (*1:Boston Univ., *2:Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, *3:Wesleyan Univ.& Haskins Lab.): "Discrimination of English /r-l/ and /w-y/ by Japanese Infants at 6-12 Months: Language-Specific Developmental Changes in Speech Perception Abilities", 1994 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, S28F-1 (1994).

M.Yanagida* and O.Takizawa (*:Doshisha Univ.): "Prosodic Features of Ironical Utterance in terms of Speaker's Mental State", Cognitive Processes in Spoken and Written Communication, pp.95-98 (Sep.1995).

Akira ITO and Osamu TAKIZAWA, "Why Do People Use Irony? -The Pragmatics of Irony Usage", International Workshop on Computational Humor, pp.21-28 (Sep.1996).

Kim Binsted and Osamu TAKIZAWA, "A Model of Japanese Puns and its Implementation", 4th Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society (Sep.1997).

Shingo INOUE, Kyoko MAKINO, Ichiro MURASE, Osamu TAKIZAWA, Tsutomu MATSUMOTO and Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, "Proposal on Information Hiding Method using XML", The 1st Workshop on NLP and XML (Nov.2001).[PDF]


Oral Presentations at Domestic Conferences (as a co-author)


T.Koterazawa, O.Takizawa, T.Takayama, T.Aso and M.Abe (Kyoto Univ.): "Simulation of Nonlinear Resonant Phenomena Taking into Account the Inflation of Hysteresis Loop Caused by Eddy Current", 1986 Annual Conference of IEE, 21 (Mar.1986).

M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "On Convergence Properties of Multi-stage Weighted Linear Prediction", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 2-1-16 (Mar.1988).

M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "On Exraction Reliability of Acoustic Features for Deep Understanding", Research Report of Studies on Advanced Techniques for Speech Feature Extraction supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Advanced Man-Machine Interface Through Spoken Language", No.PASL 63-2-3 (Oct.1988).

M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "A Frame-based System for Deep Understanding", Technical Report of IEICE, SP88-78 (Oct.1988).

M.Yanagida, O.Takizawa, T.Yamaguchi* and O.Kakusho* (*:ISIR Osaka Univ.): "A Study on Building an Expert System for Acoustic Field Designing", Proc. of the 1989 IEICE Spring Conference, A-176 (Mar.1989).

M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "Fuzzy Processing in Associiation-based Concept Retrieval", STA Fuzzy System Symposium, (Nov.1991).

A.Ito and O.Takizawa: "A Formulation of Irony Based on a Dialogue Model", Technical Report of IPSJ, NL-94-2 (Mar.1993).

A.Ito and O.Takizawa: "A Formulation of Irony Based on a Dialogue Model", Proc. of the 7th Annual Conference of JSAI, 19-6 (Jul.1993).

A.Ito and O.Takizawa: "Toward Understanding of Irony Based on a Dialogue Model", Technical Report of JSAI, SIG-SLUD-9302-04 (Sep.1993).

M.Yanagida and O.Takizawa: "Consciousness by Search into Knowledge", Proc. of the 47th Conference of IPSJ, 2P-3 (Oct.1993).

T.Tsushima*1, O.Takizawa, M.Sasaki*2, S.Shiraki*2, K.Nishi*2 and M.Kohno*2 (*1:Boston Univ., *2:Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies): "Perceptual Discrimination of "l/r" and "w/y" by Japanese Infants from six to twelve months of Age: Developmental Changes in Perceptual Abilities and their Implications for Theories of Developmental Speech Perception", Meeting on Science of Language (Nov.1993).

T.Tsushima*1, O.Takizawa, M.Sasaki*2, S.Shiraki*2, K.Nishi*2, M.Kohno*2, Paula Menyuk*1 and Catherine Best*3 (*1:Boston Univ., *2:Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, *3:Wesleyan Univ.& Haskins Lab.): "Developmental Changes in Perceptual Discrimination of Non-native Speech Contrasts by Japanese Infants -on Discrimination of American English /r,l/ and /w,y/-", Technical Report of IEICE, SP94-31 (Jul.1994).

M.Yanagida* and O.Takizawa (*:Doshisha Univ.): "Prosodic Features of Sarcasm", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 1-P-26 (Oct.1994).

M.Sasaki*1, T.Tsushima*2, O.Takizawa, S.Shiraki*1, K.Yoshida*1 and M.Kohno*1 (*1:Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, *2:Boston Univ.): "Deveropmental Changes in Japanese Infants' Perception of Nonnative Phonetic Contrasts", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 1-9-2 (Oct.1994).

S.Shiraki*1, T.Tsushima*2, M.Sasaki*1, K.Yoshida*1, O.Takizawa and M.Kohno*1 (*1:Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, *2:Boston Univ.): "Relative Importance of Duration and Formants in Perception of English Tense/lax Vowels by Native Speakers of Japanese", Proc. of the Fall Meeting of ASJ, 2-5-16 (Nov.1994).

M.Yanagida* and O.Takizawa (*:Doshisha Univ.): "Prosodic Features of Ironic Utterances in terms of Speaker's Mental Situation", Proc. of the Spring Meeting of ASJ, 2-4-4 (Mar.1995).

Morio Kohno, Toshihiro Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Gashuu, Shuhei Kadota and Osamu Takizawa: "A Role of Prosody in the Development of Human Cognition and Language Ability", Annual Meeting of "The Emergence of Human Cognition and Language" of Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Feb.1996).

Kim Binsted, Graeme Ritchie, Osamu Takizawa and Helen Pain: "Multilingual Pun Generation", Technical Report of JSAI, SIG-LSE-9901-3 (Mar.1999).

Noriyo KANAYAMA, Fujio MARUYAMA, Tatsuo UEDA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Osamu TAKIZAWA and Yoshinobu SAITO, "A Construction of Educational Computer Network Using Wireless Link", NORTH 2001 Internet Symposium (Mar.2001).

Noriyo KANAYAMA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO and Osamu TAKIZAWA, "A Construction of Educational Computer Network Using Wireless Link and Multicast Broadcasting", The Symposium on Information Processing for Education 2001 (Oct.2001).

Shingo INOUE, Kyoko MAKINO, Ichiro MURASE, Osamu TAKIZAWA, Tsutomu MATSUMOTO and Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, "A Proposal on Steganography Methods using XML", The 2002 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security, pp.301-306 (Jan. 2002).

Akihiro YAMAMURA and Osamu TAKIZAWA, "Text Secret Sharing", The 2002 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security, pp.787-792 (Jan. 2002).

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