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Books and Translations (An Excerpt)
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Statistical Universals of Language: Between Mathematical Chance and Human Choice. Springer, April 2021. Acquired 75th Mainichi Publication Award.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Semiotics of computing : Filling the gap between humanity and mechanical inhumanity, International Handbook of Semiotics, Springer , chapter 44, 981--1002, 2015.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Semiotics of Programming. Cambridge University Press, May 2010. Acquired 19th Ohkawa Book Award and 32nd Suntory Academic Award (Philosophy and History).
  • Ferdinand de Saussure. Joint Translation by Kyo Kageura and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii of ``3eme Cours de Linguistique Generale (1911) ---From notes taken by Emile Constantin---''. University of Tokyo Press, 2007.
    • Some other book chapters and translations.
Publications (Journals, Conferences, Invited Articles: An Excerpt)
  • Xin Du and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Semantic field of words represented as non-linear potental functions. 36th Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022. in press.
  • Xin Du and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Stock portfolio selection balancing variance and tail risk via stock vector representation acquired from price data and texts. Knowledge-Based Systems, August 2022.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Menzerath's law in the syntax of languages compared with random sentences. Entropy, May 2021. e23060661. Selected as Editor's Choice Articles of Entropy 2022.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Shuntaro Takahashi. A comparison of two fluctuation analyses for natural language clustering phenomena: Taylor vs. Ebeling\& Neiman methods. Fractals, 29(2), May 2021. 2150033.
  • Shuntaro Takahashi and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Evaluating computational language models with scaling properties of natural language. Computational Lingusitics, 45(3):1--33, September 2019.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Tatsuru Kobayashi. Taylor's law for linguistic sequences and random walk models. Journal of Physics Communications, 2(11):115024, November 2018. 089401.
  • Kobayashi Tatsuru and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Taylor law of human linguistic sequences. Annual Conference of Association for Computational Lingusitics, pages 1138--1148, 2018.
  • Daiki Hirano, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Andrew Finch. Extraction of templates from phrases using sequence binary decision diagrams. Natural Language Engineering, 24:1--33, 2018.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Long-range correlation underlying childhood language and generative models. Frontiers Psychology, 2018. in press.
  • Shuntaro Takahashi and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Do Neural NetsLearn Statistical Laws behind Natural Language PLoS One, 2017, in press. Online Journal.
  • Ryosuke Takahira, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Debowski Lukasz. Large scale verification of entropy of natural langauge. Entropy, 2016. Online Journal.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Armin Bunde. Long-range memory in literary texts: On the universal clustering of the rare words. PLoS One, 2016. Online Journal.
  • Andrew Finch, Taisuke Harada, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Eiichiro Sumita. Inducing a bilingual lexicon from short parallel multiword sequences. Transaction on Asian Low-resource Language Information Processing, 2016. Accepted, to appear.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Shunsuke Aihara. Text Constancy Measures. Computational Linguistics, 41(3): 481--502, 2015.
  • Daisuke Kimura and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. A Study on Constants of Natural Language Texts. Journal of Natural Language Processing, pages 877-895, 21(4), 2014. Special issue of awarded papers: English version of the 2011 best journal paper.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Information Bias in English Words. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 19(1): 77-94, 2012.
  • Hiroshi Yamaguchi and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length. Proceedings of Annual Conference for Computational Linguistics, pages 969--978, 2012,
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Hiroshi Terada. Word familiarity and frequency. Studia Linguistica, 65(1), pages 96--116, 2011.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Satoshi Tezuka, and Hiroshi Terada. Sorting by readability. Computational Linguistics, volume 36, issue 2, pages 203--227, 2010.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Julian Godon. Kansuke: A logograph look-up interface based on a few modified stroke prototypes. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 16(2), pages 11:1-11:17 2009.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. An instance vs. the instance. Journal of Minds and Machines, 19(1):117--128, 2008.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii et al. From phoneme to morpheme ---another verification using corpus in English and Chinese---. Studia Linguistica, 62(2)155-179, 2008.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Yuichiro Ishii. Multilingual phrase-based concordance generation in real-time. Information Retrieval, 10:275--295, 2007.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Word-based text entry techniques using adaptive language models. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 13(1):51--74, 2006.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Dyadic and triadic sign models. Semiotica, 158:213--232, 2006. Walter de Gruyter.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Yuichiro Ishii. Thirdness as self-reference in computing. Semiotica, 160:327--343, 2006. Walter de Gruyter.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Hiroshi Nakagawa. A multilingual usage consultation tool based on internet searching -more than a search engine, less than QA-. In WWW Conference, pages 363--371, 2005. Best presentation award.
  • Gal Kaminka, Ian Frank, Katsuto Arai, and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Performance competitions as research infrastructure: Large scale comparative studies of multi-agent teams. journal of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 7:1--30, 2003. Kluwer.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa, and Masato Takeichi. Acquiring vocabulary for predictive text entry through dynamic reuse of a small user corpus. In Annual Meeting for Association of Computational Linguistics, pages 407--414, 2003.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Yusuke Inutsuka, and Masato Takeichi. Entering text using a four button device. In the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 988--994, 2002.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Yusuke Inutsuka, and Masato Takeichi. Japanese input system with digits --Can Japanese be input only with consonants?--. In Human Language Technology Conference, pages 211--218, 2001.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Ian Frank, and Katsuto Arai. Trying to understand Robocup. Artificial Intelligence Magazine, Autumn(21):19--24, 2000.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Ian Frank. Multi-agent explanation strategies in real-time domains. In the 36th Annual Meeting for Association of Computational Linguistics, pages 158--165, 2000.
  • Elizabeth Andre, Kim Binstead, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Sean Luke, Gerd Herzog, and Thomas Rist. Three RoboCup simulation league commentator systems. Artificial Intelligence Magazine, Spring(21):73--85, 2000.
  • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Itsuki Noda, Ian Frank, Hideyuki Nakashima, Koiti Hasida, and Hitoshi Matsubara. MIKE: An automatic commentary system for soccer -- System design and control --. In International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pages 285--292. IEEE Computer Society, 1998.
  • Kumiko Tanaka and Hideya Iwasaki. Extraction of lexical translations from non-aligned copora. In the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 580--585, 1996.
  • Kumiko Tanaka and Kyoji Umemura. Construction of a bilingual dictionary intermediated by a third language. In the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 297--303, 1994.
Awards
  • 2021.12.13 Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. 75th Mainichi Publication Award ("Statistical Universals of Language")
  • 2012.03.15 Daisuke Kimura and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2011 journal best paper Award.
    • 2011.03.09 The 19th Ohkawa Book Award ("Semiotics of Programming", The 19th Ohkawa Publication Award
  • 2011.02.16 Best Paper Award in IUI2011 with Wei Song, Andrew Finch (NICT) and Eiichiro Sumita (NICT).
  • 2010.12.06 The 32nd Suntory Academic Award ("Semiotics of Programming", The 32nd Suntory Academic Award (Philosophy and History)
  • 2009 Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan, Presentation Award ("Bias of Information Quantity Underlying Words")
  • 2008 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists' Prize
  • 2008 Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan, Presentation Award ("A Kanji Lookup Interface for Beginners: Kansuke")
  • 2005.05 WWW Conference Best Presentation Award
  • 2003 PACLING Best Paper Award ("Categorization of Movies using Comments")
  • 2003 Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan, Presentation Award ("KIWI: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Search Engines")
  • 1999 Scientific Challenge Award for the "development of automated and statistical game analysis systems and methodologies".
  • 1998 Scientific Challenge Award for the "development of fully automatic commentator systems for RoboCup simulator league".
  • 1998 Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan, Presentation Award ("MIKE: A Real-Time Commentary System for Artificial Soccer Games")