Framework for Studying Language Evolution using Large Scale Data

• Project/Area Number: 15K12158
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Jatowt Adam 京都大学, 情報学研究科, 特定准教授 (00415861)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: language evolution / semantic word change / across-time similarity / word semantic change / document age / historical linguistics / term similarity / term semantic change / temporal counterparts

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The outcomes of the project involve both research methods and online demonstration systems. We have developed method and system for estimating the degree and character of semantic word evolution. We also proposed approaches and system for finding similar terms across time in document archives.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Temporal Analog Retrieval using Transformation over Dual Hierarchical Structures (2017)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the ACM CIKM 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Singapore Volume: - Pages: 717-726
  • DOI: 10.1145/3132847.3132917
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Interactive System for Reasoning about Document Age (2017)
  • Author(s): Jatowt Adam、Campos Ricardo
  • Journal Title: CIKM 2017 Volume: ACM Press Pages: 2471-2474
  • DOI: 10.1145/3132847.3133166
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Timestamping Entities using Contextual Information (2017)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt, Daisuke Kawai, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan Volume: - Pages: 1205-1208
  • DOI: 10.1145/3077136.3080762
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The Past is Not a Foreign Country: Detecting Semantically Similar Terms across Time (2016)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Volume: 28 Issue: 10 Pages: 2793-2807
  • DOI: 10.1109/tkde.2016.2591008
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Towards understanding word embeddings: Automatically explaining similarity of terms. (2016)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: IEEE BIGDATA Volume: 1 Pages: 823-832
  • DOI: 10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840675
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] HistoryComparator: Interactive Across-Time Comparison in Document Archives (2016)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt, Marc Bron
  • Journal Title: COLING2016 Volume: 1 Pages: 84-88
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Causal Relationship Detection in Archival Collections of Product Reviews for Understanding Technology Evolution (2016)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-41
  • DOI: 10.1145/2937752
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Detecting Evolution of Concepts based on Cause-Effect Relationships in Online Reviews (2016)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: The 25th International Conference on World Wide Web Volume: ACM Pages: 649-660
  • DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883013
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit: Connecting Past with Present by Finding Corresponding Terms across Time. (2015)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, S Bhowmick, Katsumi Tanaka
  • Journal Title: The 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume: ACL Pages: 645-655
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Temporal Analog Retrieval using Transformation over Dual Hierarchical Structures (2017)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt
  • Organizer: CIKM 2017
• [Presentation] Interactive System for Reasoning about Document Age (2017)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt
  • Organizer: CIKM 2017
• [Presentation] HistoryComparator: Interactive Across-Time Comparison in Document Archives (2016)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt
  • Organizer: COLING2016
  • Place of Presentation: Osaka
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-13
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Detecting Evolution of Concepts based on Cause-Effect Relationships in Online Reviews (2016)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang
  • Organizer: The 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
  • Place of Presentation: Montreal, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2016-04-11
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Bridging Past with Present: Improving Retrieval and Understanding of Past Texts using 'Big' Historical Data (2016)
  • Author(s): Adam Jatowt
  • Organizer: ATR AI seminar
  • Place of Presentation: ATR, Odaiba, Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2016-04-01
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit: Connecting Past with Present by Finding Corresponding Terms across Time (2015)
  • Author(s): Yating Zhang
  • Organizer: The 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Funded Workshop] The 1st Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2018) in conjunction with 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2018) (2017)
• [Funded Workshop] The 4th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2017) in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017) (2017)
• [Funded Workshop] The 1st workshop on User Interfaces for Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA 2018) in conjunction with the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI 2018) (2017)