A study on text communication using statistical data analyses and experiments

• Project/Area Number: 26730162
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Takafumi 東洋大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (70507037)
• Research Collaborator: YOSHIKANE Fuyuki ; COLLET Christian ; KOBAYASHI Tetsuro ; KOBAYASHI Yuichiro ; MIYATA Rei ; KATO Gento ; TAKEI Chizuko ; YOSHIMOTO Ryosuke ; HOAOYA Mai ; MIZUKAMI Maki ; YAMASHITA Natsumi ; TAKIZAWA Keita ; AMAGASA Misaki
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 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 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 計算文体論 / 計量情報学 / テキスト分析 / 統計的データ解析 / テキストマイニング / 被験者実験 / 機械学習

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study collected a various types of text data from a wide variety of media, and conducted empirical researches on the relation between textual characteristics and communication styles using statistical data analyses and experiments. This study extended the methods on text analyses and obtained empirical findings on text communication.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Investigating the Chronological Variation of Popular Song Lyrics ThroughLexical Indices (2017)
  • Author(s): Yuichiro Kobayashi, Misaki Amagasa, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Pages: 90-107
  • DOI: 10.17928/jjadh.2.1_90
  • NAID: 130006069096
  • ISSN: 2188-7276
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Analyzing the Content and Text of Tweets by Japanese Academic Researchers (2015)
  • Author(s): Arakawa, Yui; Yoshimoto, Ryosuke; Yoshikane, Fuyuki and Suzuki, Takafumi
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-9
  • DOI: 10.17928/jjadh.1.1_1
  • NAID: 130005096575
  • ISSN: 2188-7276
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Computational stylistic analysis of popular songs of Japanese female singer-songwriters (2014)
  • Author(s): SUZUKI, Takafumi, HOSOYA, Mai
  • Journal Title: Digital Humanities Quarterly Volume: 8(1)
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] Network Structure Analysis of the Articles in the Japanese Civil Code (2017)
  • Author(s): Ryosuke Yoshimoto, Chizuko Takei, Takafumi Suzuki, Fuyuki Yoshikane
  • Organizer: ALEAP 2017
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Threatening Event, National Identity and Network Dynamics of Motivated Information Communication: Exploring Japanese Twitter during the Rise of Territorial Disputes, April through October 2012 (2017)
  • Author(s): Gento Kato, Takanori Fujiwara, Christian Collet, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Organizer: APSA 2017
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Investigating the chronological variation of lyrics of popular songs through lexical indices (2016)
  • Author(s): Yuichiro Kobayashi, Misaki Amagasa, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Organizer: International Quantitative Linguistics Conference 2016
  • Place of Presentation: Universitaet Trier, Trier, Germany
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 語彙指標を用いた流行歌の歌詞の通時的分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小林雄一郎・天笠美咲・鈴木崇史
  • Organizer: じんもんこん2015
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学京田辺キャンパス、京田辺
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-19
• [Presentation] Comparative analysis of purchasing behavior at physical and onling bookstores by university studiesnts (2015)
  • Author(s): Suzuki, Takafumi, Mizukami, Maki
  • Organizer: ACTIS2015
  • Place of Presentation: Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-05
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 六法全書の参照条文を用いたネットワーク構造の分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 吉元涼介・瀧澤啓太・宮田玲・芳鐘冬樹・鈴木崇史
  • Organizer: 第63回日本図書館情報学会研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 学習院女子大学、東京
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-17
• [Presentation] Iterative application of random forests to extract less frequencly used but important features from texts (2015)
  • Author(s): Suzuki, Takafumi
  • Organizer: PACLING2015
  • Place of Presentation: The Stones Hotel, Legian, Bali
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-19
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A comparative analysis of shoppers' information behavior in commercial districts and shopping malls using a questionnaire survey (2014)
  • Author(s): YOSHIMOTO, Ryosuke, YOSHIKANE, Fuyuki, SUZUKI, Takafumi
  • Organizer: 2014 ANPOR Annual Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Toki Messe (Niigata, Japan)
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-30
• [Presentation] 質問紙調査を用いた商店街とショッピングモール利用行動の比較分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 吉元涼介・芳鐘冬樹・鈴木崇史
  • Organizer: 日本行動計量学会第42回大会発表論文抄録集
  • Place of Presentation: 東北大学川内北キャンパス（仙台）
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-05
• [Presentation] Analysis of perspectives in contemporary Japanese novels using computational stylistic methods (2014)
  • Author(s): SUZUKI, Takafumi, YAMASHITA, Natsumi
  • Organizer: Digital Humanities 2014
  • Place of Presentation: University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-10