Modeling the acquisition process of bird song grammars based on computational learning theory

• Project/Area Number: 20300056
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: The University of Electro-Communications
• Principal Investigator: NISHINO Tetsuro The University of Electro-Communications, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 教授 (10198484)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TOMITA Etsuji 電気通信大学, 名誉教授 (40016598) ; OKANOYA Kazuo 理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, チームリーダ (30211121) ; TANAKA Shigeru 電気通信大学, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 特任教授 (70281706) ; YAMAZAKI Tadashi 理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 研究員 (40392162)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥14,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,270,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000)
• Keywords: 学習と知識獲得 / 計算論的学習理論 / 鳥の歌文法 / 文法学習 / 言語獲得 / 機械学習アルゴリズム / k可逆オートマトン / 正例からの学習 / ノイズ除去

Research Abstract

Songbird has been actively studied as a good model for their complex brain mechanism in song learning. Male Bengalese Finch learns singing by imitating external models. Birdsongs are strings of sounds as represented by sequence of alphabets. We implemented an automatic system which extracts a song grammar from a given phoneme data by using computational method, and use it to build a model of development processes of song grammars whose validity was checked by real data. Our experimental results suggest such kind of experiment on behavioral sequence is important to discover new knowledge.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Information-Theoretic Analysis forUnderstanding the Behavior of Song Learning by the Bengalese Finch (2011)
  • Author(s): K.Md.A.Salam, M.Khan, T.Nishino, et al
  • Journal Title: IPSJ Journal (to appear)
  • NAID: 130000968792
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Information-Theoretic Analysis for Understanding the Behavior of Song Learning by the Bengalese Finch (2011)
  • Author(s): K.Md.M.Salam, T.Nishino, K.Sasahara, et al.
  • Journal Title: IPSJ Journal Volume: (掲載確定)
  • NAID: 130000968792
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The P Versus NP Problem (2009)
  • Author(s): Tetsuro Nishino
  • Journal Title: SUGAKU Expositions Vol.22 Pages: 215-228
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The P Versus NP Problem (2009)
  • Author(s): Tetsuro Nishino
  • Journal Title: SUGAKU Expositions Vol. 22 Pages: 215-228
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 小脳顆粒層をモデル化したスパイキングネットワークの研究:NMDA受容体を介した同期発火状態と時間表現状態の遷移 (2008)
  • Author(s): 本多武尊, 山崎匡, 田中繁, 西野哲朗
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌D Vol.J91-D, No.11 Pages: 1-10
  • NAID: 110007380946
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Ethological Data Mining : An Automata-based Approach to Extract Behavioral Units and Rules (2008)
  • Author(s): Y.Kakishita, K.Sasahara, T.Nishino, M.Takahasi, K.Okanoya
  • Journal Title: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery DOI:10.1007/s10618-008-0122-1
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 小脳顆粒層をモデル化したスパイキングネットワークの研究 : NMDA受容体を介した同期発火状態と時間表現状態の遷移 (2008)
  • Author(s): 本多武尊, 山崎匡, 田中繁, 西野哲朗
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌 D Vol. J91-D Pages: 20100110-20100110
  • NAID: 110007380946
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Ethological Data Mining : An Automata-based Approach to Extract Behavioral Units and Rules (2008)
  • Author(s): Y. Kakishita, K. Sasahara, T. Nishino, M. Takahasi, K. Okanoya
  • Journal Title: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery DOI : 10. 1007/sl0618-008-0122-l 18 Pages: 446-471
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] A spiking network model of the cerebellar granular layer shows stimulus-dependent state transition between synchronized oscillation and randomly repetitive brust (2010)
  • Author(s): T.Honda, T.Yamazaki, S.Tanaka, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: 7^<th> Forum of European Neuroscience Program No.052.17
  • Place of Presentation: The Neitherlands
• [Presentation] Information-theoretic analysis on evolution in learning birdsong by Bengalese finch (2010)
  • Author(s): K.Md.M.Salam, T.Nishino, K.Sasahara, et al
  • Organizer: Neuroscience 2010
  • Place of Presentation: San Diego, USA
• [Presentation] English-Bengali Parallel Corpus : A Proposal (2010)
  • Author(s): K.Md.A.Salam, S.Yamada, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: TriSAI 2010
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
• [Presentation] Strength of a conditional stimulus controls the timing of a conditional Response (2010)
  • Author(s): T.Honda, T.Yamazaki, S.Tanaka, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Society for Neuroscience(SfN 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA
• [Presentation] Automation in extracting the songnote and it's sequence of the Bengalese finch song by using image prceessing (2010)
  • Author(s): K.Md.M.Salam, T.Nishino, KSasahara, et al.
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009(TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Example based English-Bengali machine translation using word-net (2010)
  • Author(s): K.Md.A.Salam, M.Khan, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009(TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Strength of a conditional stimulus controls the timing of a conditional response (2009)
  • Author(s): T.Honda, T.Yamazaki, S.Tanaka, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Society for Neuroscience (SfN 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA.
• [Presentation] Automation in extracting the songnote and it's sequence of the Bengalese finch song by using image processing (2009)
  • Author(s): K.Md.M.Salam, T.Nishino, K.Sasahara, et al
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009 (TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan.
• [Presentation] Example based English-Bengali machine translation using word-net (2009)
  • Author(s): K.Md.A.Salam, M.Khan, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009 (TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan.
• [Presentation] Strength of a conditional stimulus controls the timing of a conditional response (2009)
  • Author(s): T.Honda, T.Yamazaki, S.Tanaka, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Society for Neuroscience (SfN 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA
• [Presentation] Automation in extracting the songnote and it's sequence of the Bengalese finch song by using image processing (2009)
  • Author(s): K.Md.M.Salam, T.Nishino, K.Sasahara, et al.
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009 (TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Example based English-Bengali machine translation using word-net (2009)
  • Author(s): K.Md.A.Salam, M.Khan, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT 2009 (TriSAI 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Information Theoretic Analysis on Behavioral Sequences : A Study between Birdsong and Human's Song (2008)
  • Author(s): K.Md.Mahfuzus Salam, K.Sasahara, T.Nishino, M.Takahasi, K.Okanoya
  • Organizer: ICT Triangle Forum 2008
  • Place of Presentation: Daejeon, Korea
• [Presentation] New Cryptographic System Based on Quantum Cellular Automata (2008)
  • Author(s): T.Gima, S.Okubo, T.Nishino
  • Organizer: ICT Triangle Forum 2008
  • Place of Presentation: Daejeon, Korea
• [Presentation] Information Theoretic Analysis on Behavioral Sequences : A Study between Birdsong and Human' s Song (2008)
  • Author(s): Khan Md. Mahfuzus Salam, K. Sasahara, T. Nishino, et al.
  • Organizer: ICT Triangle Forum 2008 (AICT2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Daejeon, Korea
• [Presentation] New Cryptographic System Based on Quantum Cellular Automata (2008)
  • Author(s): Takeaki Gima, Seiya Okubo, Tetsuro Nishino
  • Organizer: ICT Triangle Forum 2008 (AICT2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Daejeon, Korea
• [Book] P=NP?問題へのアプローチ (2009)
  • Author(s): 西野哲朗著
  • Total Pages: 223
  • Publisher: 日本評論社
• [Book] P=NP? 問題へのアプローチ (2009)
  • Author(s): 西野哲朗
  • Total Pages: 223
  • Publisher: 日本評論社