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■ Academic Background

1.	1996/09～2002/12	〔Doctorial Course〕 Linguistics, Graduate School, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Completed, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
2.	1993/04～1995/03	〔Master Course〕 Language & Culture, Graduate School of Language & Culture, Osaka University, Completed, M. A.
3.	1992/04～1993/03	Division of Humanities (Kenkyusei), College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
4.	1981/04～1985/03	Matematics, Dept. of Science & Engineering, Waseda University, Graduated, B.S.

■ #Present Specialized Fields

Linguistics (Key Word：Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of language)

■ #Books and Articles

1.	Book	New frontiers in artificial intelligence　(Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 3609) (Collaboration) 2007/04
2.	Book	Understanding temporal relations in global communication across time zones (Series A: General and theoretical papers, No.678) (Single) 2006/03
3.	Article	Conventional implicature and presupposition Educational Studies 61,pp.11-22 (Single) 2019/03
4.	Article	Semantics and pragmatics of pure indexical reference Journal of Cognitive Science 20(1),pp.53-77 (Single) 2019/03
5.	Article	A pilot study of an enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory based on an analysis of a discourse particle ‘actually’ used in interpersonal settings Proceedings of the 19th annual conference of the Pragmatics Suciety of Japan pp.243-251 (Single) 2017/12
6.	Article	The interpretation of the reference of "now" in written messages: An experimental view Philosophy Study 7(8),pp.455-462 (Single) 2017/08
7.	Article	Pragmatic factors determining the references of indexicals 'I', 'here', and 'now in recorded and written messages The 18th Annual Conference Proceedings of Pragmatic Society of Japan pp.163-170 (Single) 2016/12
8.	Article	A mental spaces analysis of the answering machine paradox: The agent of the context of utterance revisited Journal of Cognitive Science 16(4),pp.535-564 (Single) 2015/12
9.	Article	On the ambiguity of sentences with natural language quantifiers Educational Studies 57,pp.91-98 (Single) 2015/03
10.	Article	On the cancellation of presupposisions: Interactions with negation, scope, and perspectives Educational Studies 56,pp.109-117 (Single) 2014/03
11.	Article	The generating mechanism of the perlocutionary effects of train manner posters Educational Studies 55,pp.149-156 (Single) 2013/03
12.	Article	An analysis of Japanese ‘Class IV verb’ from syntactic and lexical perspectives JSLS2008 Handbook pp.161-161 (Single) 2008/07
13.	Article	Zone analysis in biology articles as a basis for information extraction International Journal of Medical Informatics 75(6),pp.468-487 (Collaboration) 2006/06
14.	Article	Creation of a dataset for zone analysis in biomedical texts: the design process and preliminary investigations Proceedings of the first International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM2005) (Collaboration) 2005/11
15.	Article	Semantic MediaWiki: a user-oriented system for integrated content and metadata management system Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005 Ⅱ,pp.261-264 (Collaboration) 2005/10
16.	Article	A baseline feature set for learning rhetorical zones using full articles in the biomedical domai SIGKDD Explorations 7(1),pp.52-58 (Collaboration) 2005/06
17.	Article	An analysis of Japanese ta / teiru in a dynamic semantics framework and a comparison with Korean temporal markers a nohta / a twuta Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC18) pp.59-70 (Single) 2004/12
18.	Article	Annotation of Biomedical Texts for Zone Analysis NII Technical Report (Collaboration) 2004/10
19.	Article	Zone identification in biology articles as a basis for information extraction Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on NLP in Biomedicine and its Applications (JNLPBA) at COLING2004 pp.29-35 (Collaboration) 2004/08
20.	Article	Integrating deep and shallow semantic structures in Open Ontology Forge Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Ontology, JSAI SIG-SWO-A402-05,pp.1-7 (Collaboration) 2004/07
21.	Article	Annotation scheme for a rhetorical analysis of biology articles Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language and Evaluation (LREC2004) pp.1737-1740 (Collaboration) 2004/05
22.	Article	English present perfect revisited: Unified semantics as a tense and lower-level ambiguity represented in DRT Proceedings of the Intl. Workshop on LENLS in conjunction with JSAI2004 pp.83-94 (Single) 2004/05
23.	Article	The semantics and pragmatics of the English progressive -- John is building a house CLS 38: The Main Session, Papers from the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society pp.453-468 (Single) 2004/04
24.	Article	A study on categories in light of hontou-no Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society pp.130-131 (Single) 1996/06
25.	Article	Nominal-predicate sentences of rhetorical nature Osaka University Journal of Language and Culture 5,pp.75-90 (Single) 1996/03
26.	Article	Cases in which tautologies are meaningful Gengo [Language] (December),pp.52-55 (Single) 1995/12
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2021/12/18	'Nan-nara' as a discourse marker: Its complex semantic structure and developmental path (The 24th Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan)
2.	2021/07/15	Dimensions and qualities involved in human recognition of a cateogory: Insights from the semantic/pragmatic analyses of Japanese hontou-no ('real'/'true') (Pragmasophia 3 (The Third International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy))
3.	2019/06/12	The meaning and usage of ‘today’: Corpus-based quantitative and qualitative analyses (The 16th International Pragmatics Conference)
4.	2018/12/01	The structure of the ambiguity of Japanese kedo-sensences: A continuum model with the polars of contrast and presentation of relevant information (The 21st Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan)
5.	2017/07	The interpretation of the reference of "now" in written messages: An experimental view (The 15th Intl. Pragmatics Conference)
6.	2016/12/11	A pilot study of an enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory based on an analysis of a discourse particle ‘actually’ used in interpersonal settings (The 19th Annual Conference of Pragmatic Society of Japan)
7.	2015/12/06	Pragmatic factors determining the references of indexicals 'I', 'here', and 'now' in recorded and written messages (The 18th Annual Conference of Pragmatic Society of Japan)
8.	2012/05/06	How do manner posters work?: A blended-space analysis of their cognitive effects (The 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC2012))
9.	2009/07/17	A comparative analysis of verb meaning and usage in biological and general contexts: with a special reference to translate and transform (11th International Pragmatics Conference)
10.	2008/08/04	A mental spaces analysis of a voice message ‘I’m not here right now’: On a puzzle about Kaplan’s theory of indexicals (Intl. Conference on Language, Communication, and Cognition)
11.	2008/07/12	An analysis of Japanese ‘Class IV verb’ from syntactic and lexical perspectives (The 10th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences)
12.	2006/06	Semantic Wiki as a Light-Weight Metadata Management System (The 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intellligence)
13.	2006/03/27	Understanding temporal relations in global communication across time zones (The 31st Intl. LAUD Symposium on Intercultural Pragmatics: Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Approaches)
14.	2005/12	The Japanese Bioportal: The development of the basis for sharing bioinformation and a portal site (The 28th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan)
15.	2005/11/24	Creation of a dataset for zone analysis in biomedical texts: The design process and preliminary investigations (The First Intl. Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM))
16.	2005/10	Semantic MediaWiki: a user-oriented system for integrated content and metadata management system (IADIS Intl. Conference on WWW/Internet)
17.	2005/09	A new generation Bioportal: A website useful for science education and genetics education (The 77th Annual Meeting of the Genetic Society of Japan)
18.	2005/06	Construction and utilization of ontologies in the Bioportal project (The 19th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
19.	2004/12/08	An analysis of Japanese ta / teiru in a dynamic semantics framework and a comparison with Korean temporal markers a nohta / a twuta (The 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC18))
20.	2004/12	On the construction and utilization of a Japanese special terms dictionary and ontologies in the Bioportal project (The 27th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan)
21.	2004/12	The development of a system for the utilization of biological information in Japanese – Bioportal - (The 27th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan)
22.	2004/09	The development of a new generation Bioportal: With a view to the popularization of genetics by means of web services (The 76th Conference of the Japanese Society for Genetics)
23.	2004/08/28	Zone identification in biology articles as a basis for information extraction (The Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications(JNLPBA) at the COLING2004 International Conference)
24.	2004/07	Integrating deep and shallow semantic structures in Open Ontology Forge (Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
25.	2004/05/31	English present perfect revisited: Unified semantics as a tense and lower-level ambiguity represented in DRT (The International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) in conjunction with the 18th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI))
26.	2004/05/26	Annotation scheme for a rhetorical analysis of biology articles (The Fourth Intl. Conference on Language and Evaluation (LREC2004))
27.	2003/06	Ken-wa mado-o ake-teiru (‘Ken is keeping the window open’) in relation to Ken-wa mado-o akeru (‘Ken opens the window’) and Mado-ga ai-teiru (‘The window is open’) (The 20th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society)
28.	2002/04	The semantics and pragmatics of the English progressive -- John is building a house (The 38th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS38))
29.	1998/06	The semantics and references of indexicals I, here and now --- Based on the analysis of a voice message I’m not here now (The 15th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society)
30.	1996/06	An analysis of categories in terms of hontoo-no (‘real’,‘true’) (The 13th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society)
31.	1995/06	A cognitive analysis of how tautological expressions yield meanings (The 12th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society)
32.	1995/06	How tautological expressions have substantial meanings and effects (The 13th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan)
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■ #Lectures

1.	2004/10/18	Zone analysis in scientific articles in the biomedical domain -- From an IE perspective
2.	2004/07/15	The semantics of English present perfect: Incorporating an ‘extended-now’ into DRT

■ #Academic Society Memberships

1.	2012～	Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information (Formerly known as Logico-L)
2.	2009～	Pragmatics Society of Japan
3.	2008～	International Pragmatics Association
4.	2008～	Japanese Society for Language Sciences
5.	2004～2012	Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan
6.	1997～2008	Linguistic Society of America
7.	1995～2008	Linguistic Society of Japan
8.	1995～2008	Osaka University Society for Language and Culture
9.	1995～	Japanese Cognitive Science Society
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■ #Patents

1.	1999/10/01	Document management system
2.	1994/01/18	Text document management method adapted for generating plural text documents derived from the same original text document

■ #Social Activities

1.	2017/05～2017/05	Organizing committee of WAFL2017 (the 14th Workshop on Atlantic Formal Linguistics)
2.	2005/06～2005/06	Program committee of LENLS2005 (The International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics in conjunction with the 19th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)

■ #E-Mail Addresses

■ #Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

30413941