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A Dynamic Semantic Algorithm for Interpreting Action Verbs Based on a Sequential Model

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610457
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionSaitama University

Principal Investigator

NISHINA Hiroyuki  Saitama University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (20125777)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Keywordsinterpretation procedure / semantic model / moving parts / rotation formula / formal semantics / action verb / individual as a set / movements / 行為関数 / 運動複合体 / 内容点集合関数 / 回帰移動関数 / 他動行為
Research Abstract

We conducted a preliminary research to construct a cognitive semantic interpretation theory for action verbs based on a formal model as follows :
1. A new semantic model was proposed in which each individual is defined as a set forming a volume shifting in a temporal space. Focusing on the subsets of an individual performing an action, its parts involved in each interval were abstracted for the semantic definition of the relevant action verb, i.e. the name for that action. With these, we were enabled to describe an action complex spatiotemporally.
2. An interpretive theory for action verbs based on spatiotemporal model was proposed (Nishina '98). To define an action verb, we proposed a sequence of feature sets referring to the parts involved in the action denoted by the verb. An algorithm using a feature sequence was devised for deciding which action is contained in a complex of movements. Several interpretive rules reflecting this algorithm was also defined.
3. This model is being further refined as a wire-frame model and its effectiveness was discussed (Nishina '00). The skeleton of an individual was described in a wire frame and its movements were shown to be expressed in rotation formulae, which describe each point as rotating round some axis. Complex action structure was achieved by converting these formulae to individual functions on axis. We confirmed that by comparing this structure with some operations added on it with the defining sequence for an action verb, we can decide if that complex contains the action whose name is that verb. Thus, this model proved to be a test bench for a cognitive formal model for semantic interpretation.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All Other

All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "Action as Repositioning Function of Target and Kinetic Description of Action Sentences"Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE joint Conference of ISIC/CIRA/ISAS,. 814-819 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小林昌博・仁科弘之: "束縛理論によるPRO構文の扱い"東北大学情報処理センター年報. 17号. 3-11 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 仁科弘之: "生物を模倣する文法--計算言語学の周辺"学燈. 96巻・7号. 12-15 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "The Interpretation Procedure of Action Sentences Based on Rotation Formulae"Proceedings of the IASS-AIS-1999. (to be published). (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "Action as Repositioning Function of Target and Kinetic Description of Action Sentences"Proceedings of IEEE Joint Conference of ISIC/CIRA/ISAS. 814-819 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masahiro Kobayashi & Hiroyuki Nishina: "PRO Theorem in Binding Theory ( in Japanese)"Annual Report of Center for Information Processing, Tohoku University. No.17. 3-11 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "Grammars Approaching a Creature (in Japanese)"Gakutou (Lamplight), Tokyo : Maruzen. Vol.96, No.7. 12-15 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "The Interpretation Procedure of Action Sentences Based on Rotation Formulae (To be published in 2000)"Proceedings of the International Congress of the IASS Sigh Processes in Complex Systems. (to be published). (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "Action as Repositioning Function of Target and Kinetic Description of Action Sentences"Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Joint Conference of ISIC/CIRA/ISAS. 814-819 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小林昌博,仁科弘之: "束縛理論によるPRO構文の扱い"東北大学情報処理センター年報. 17号. 3-11 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 仁科弘之: "生物を模倣する文法--計算言語学の周辺"学燈. 96巻・7号. 12-15 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki Nishina: "The Interpretation Procedure of Action Sentences Based on Rotation Formulae"Proceedings of the IASS-AIS-1999. to be published.

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hiroyuki NISHINA: "Action ag Repositioning Function of Target and Kinetic Deseription of Action Sentence" Proceedings of ISIC/CIRA/ISAS'98(IEEE Computer Society). 814-819 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Masahiro KOBAYASHI & Hiroyuki NISHINA: "束縛理論によるPRO構文の扱い" 東北大学情報処理教育センター年報. 17号. 3-11 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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