Development of the Interactive Method for Foreign Language Learning Based on Linguistic Knowledge Extracted from the Web Corpus

• Project/Area Number: 24520668
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Hajime Nozawa 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (30450696)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWAHARA Daisuke 京都大学, 情報学研究科, 准教授 (10450694) ; LEE Jae-ho 筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (20450695) ; 渋谷 良方 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (70450690)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 言語学 / 情報工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a survey with a large scale English newspaper corpus to see what types of nouns are frequently used for various verbs as their subjects and objects, and defined the patterns of the co-occurring verbs and nouns extracted from the corpus as the grammatical knowledge which learners of English need to acquire to master the use of verbs. We created grammatical exercises for learners which are more natural and consistent with encyclopedic knowledge, by manually editing the examples of such usages taken from the corpus. We also developed a gamelike e-learning system on which learners can interactively do the exercises.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Inducing Example-based Semantic Frames from a Massive Amount of Verb Uses (2014)
  • Author(s): Daisuke Kawahara, Daniel W. Peterson, Octavian Popescu and Martha Palmer
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2014) Volume: 1 Pages: 58-67
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] コーパスから算出した語の親和性によって構文パターンの曖昧性を解消する試み (2014)
  • Author(s): 野澤 元・河原 大輔
  • Journal Title: 言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集 Volume: 20 Pages: 189-192
• [Presentation] How to urge people to buy with words - cognitive scenarios underlying advertising copies in Japanese (2015)
  • Author(s): Nozawa, Hajime and Hideo Tominaga
  • Organizer: The 14th International Pragmatics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: the University of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-25
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 認知言語学と外国語教育のデザイン (2014)
  • Author(s): 野澤元
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会関西支部第9回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学衣笠キャンパス(京都市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-21
• [Presentation] A Self-correcting Approach to Solve Syntactic Ambiguities based on Collocational Strength (2014)
  • Author(s): Hajime Nozawa and Daisuke Kawahara
  • Organizer: 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC2014
  • Place of Presentation: the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-22 – 2014-05-24
• [Presentation] コーパスから算出した語の親和性によって構文パターンの曖昧性を解消する試み (2014)
  • Author(s): 野澤 元・河原 大輔
  • Organizer: 言語処理学会第20回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学大学院工学研究院・大学院工学院・工学部
• [Presentation] A Self-correcting Approach to Solve Syntactic Ambiguities based on Collocational Strength (2014)
  • Author(s): Hajime Nozawa and Daisuke Kawahara
  • Organizer: 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• [Presentation] 均衡コーパスから抽出した基本動詞１００語の格フレーム (2012)
  • Author(s): 李在鎬・赤瀬川史
  • Organizer: 日本語教育国際大会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋大学
• [Book] 日本語教育のための言語テストガイドブック (2015)
  • Author(s): 李在鎬
  • Total Pages: 248
  • Publisher: くろしお出版
• [Remarks] 英語の動詞用法学習ゲーム
  • URL: http://www.jlptreading.com/html5_quiz_game/#/70344550