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Analysis of structural characteristics of Japanese and English sentences based on Dependency Grammar and Graph theory

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370500
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionMejiro University

Principal Investigator

OYA Masanori  目白大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (60318748)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords日英対訳コーパス / グラフ理論 / グラフ中心性 / 構造的不一致 / 依存文法 / 日英語対訳コーパス / 統語的不一致 / 語彙機能文法
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In 2014, I have obtained the parse output (dependency trees) of the Japanese sentences and their English translations in a English-Japanese parallel corpus, and compared the graph centrality of these dependency trees. It has been shown as numerical data that English sentences tend to contain more embedded syntactic structure than their Japanese translations.
In 2015, I have applied the notion of structural divergence between the dependency trees of English sentences and those of their Japanese counterparts. I focused on the Japanese noun phrases with the case particle "-ga" which have been found in the same English-Japanese parallel corpus, and on how they are translated in their English counterparts. The divergence pattern have been categorized according to the notion of structural divergence.
In 2016, the frequent dependency types are found to be different between English texts written by Japanese learners of English and those written by native speakers of English.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Syntactic Divergence Patterns among English Translations of Japanese One-Word Sentences in a Parallel Corpus2017

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Journal Title

      英語コーパス研究

      Volume: 24

    • NAID

      40021248022

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Japanese One-Word Sentences and their English Translations in a Parallel Corpus2015

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Journal Title

      目白大学人文学研究

      Volume: 11 Pages: 237-248

    • NAID

      110009916403

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Typed-dependency Tree Pairs of English and Japanese2014

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Journal Title

      目白大学人文学研究

      Volume: 10 Pages: 205-215

    • NAID

      110009839438

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Study of Syntactic Typed-Dependency Trees for English and Japanese and Graph-centrality Measures2014

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Journal Title

      博士学位請求論文

      Volume: 1 Pages: 0-593

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] An English-Japanese bilingual corpus-based comparison of their syntactic dependency structures2014

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 19th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics

      Volume: 19 Pages: 69-70

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Dependency Types in Learner English and Authentic English2016

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Organizer
      The 21st Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Tamkang University, New Taipei City (Taiwan)
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日英語パラレルコーパス中の対訳文間における格助詞「が」を伴う名詞句の依存関係の構造的不一致2015

    • Author(s)
      大矢 政徳
    • Organizer
      英語コーパス学会第41回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      愛知大学(愛知県名古屋市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Possibility of Building a Dependency-based Japanese-English Construction Dictionary2015

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Organizer
      Asialex 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-25
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Centrality Measures of Sentences in an English-Japanese Parallel Corpus2015

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Organizer
      PACLING 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      The Stones Hotel, Bali, Indonesia
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-19
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 統語依存関係コーパスからの構造特性特徴量抽出2014

    • Author(s)
      大矢 政徳
    • Organizer
      英語コーパス学会第40回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      熊本学園大学 (熊本県熊本市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-04 – 2014-10-05
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] An English-Japanese bilingual corpus-based comparison of their syntactic dependency structures2014

    • Author(s)
      Masanori Oya
    • Organizer
      Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      早稲田大学 (東京都新宿区)
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-17 – 2014-08-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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