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Developing Statistical Methods for Measures of Word Difficulty for Diverse Readers

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K16059
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Intelligent informatics
Research InstitutionNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (2016-2017)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (2015)

Principal Investigator

Ehara Yo  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 研究員 (60738029)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords語学学習支援 / 語彙学習 / 項目反応理論 / 機械学習 / 単語難易度 / 能力測定 / テスト理論 / e-learning / 単語親密度 / 回帰 / 確率モデル / 人工知能 / クラウドソーシング
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we developed a statistical method for the construction of word-difficulty measures. Existing measures require intensive effort to build and do not account for the various specialties of language learners. Nor are they comparable between languages. The method we constructed can estimate the probability that a second-language learner knows a word by taking their specializations into account, using multiple language resources. This method could help estimate the psychological properties of words, such as word familiarity and word imagery. We also constructed datasets for measures of word difficulty, as well as a method for estimating the translation ability of language learners by using only vocabulary tests.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Mining Words in the Minds of Second Language Learners for Learner-specific Word Difficulty2018

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara, Issei Sato, Hidekazu Oiwa, Hiroshi Nakagawa.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Information Processing

      Volume: 26 Issue: 0 Pages: 267-275

    • DOI

      10.2197/ipsjjip.26.267

    • NAID

      130006507582

    • ISSN
      1882-6652
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Building an English Vocabulary Knowledge Dataset of Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language Learners Using Crowdsourcing2018

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018)

      Volume: なし

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Language-Independent Prediction of Psycholinguistic Properties of Word2017

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

      Volume: なし

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Assessing Translation Ability through Vocabulary Ability Assessment2016

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara, Yukino Baba, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Building an English Vocabulary Knowledge Dataset of Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language Learners Using Crowdsourcing2018

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] クラウドソーシングを用いた語彙テスト結果データセット作成2018

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥
    • Organizer
      言語処理学会第24回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Language-Independent Prediction of Psycholinguistic Properties of Word2017

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara
    • Organizer
      the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 論述上重要な英語表現を専門分野に合わせて自動抽出する手法の試案2017

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥
    • Organizer
      第231回自然言語処理研究会・第116回音声言語情報処理研究会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 生コーパスからの単語難易度関連指標の予測2017

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥
    • Organizer
      言語処理学会第23回年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      筑波大学(茨城県つくば市)
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Assessing Translation Ability through Vocabulary Ability Assessment2016

    • Author(s)
      Yo Ehara, Yukino Baba, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
    • Organizer
      The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16)
    • Place of Presentation
      New York, USA
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-09
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 語彙知識予測問題の概説~ロジスティック回帰と項目反応理論の対応関係を中心に~2016

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥,石川 博
    • Organizer
      言語処理学会第22回年次大会(NLP2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学,仙台
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-07
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 単語分散表現と単語難易度2016

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥
    • Organizer
      NLP若手の会 第11回シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      ホテルシーモア(和歌山県西牟婁郡白浜町)
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 語彙能力と翻訳能力の関係2015

    • Author(s)
      江原 遥,馬場 雪乃,内山 将夫,隅田 英一郎
    • Organizer
      NLP若手の会 (YANS) 第10回シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      和倉温泉,石川
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Vocabulary Prediction

    • URL

      http://vocabularyprediction.com/

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 個人ページ

    • URL

      http://yoehara.com/

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 語彙予測問題に関するまとめページ(研究代表者の個人ページ下に作成した)

    • URL

      http://yoehara.com/vocabulary-prediction/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 研究代表者の個人ページ

    • URL

      http://yoehara.com/

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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