2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Improvement Communicative Skills in English and Technological Development for Creation and Accumulation of Multimodal Contents for its Purpose
| Project/Area Number |
15520354
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka University |
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Principal Investigator |
HORIUCHI Hiroaki Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (40221569)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ASAMA Masamichi Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (60262797)
SHEFTALL Mordecai, George Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Associate Professor, 情報学部, 助教授 (90334953)
SUGIYAMA Takahiro Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Associate Professor, 情報学部, 助教授 (70293595)
TAKANASHI Akira Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Associate Professor, 情報学部, 助教授 (40313928)
TAKEBAYASHI Yoichi Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (10345803)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | English communication / multimodal contents / information technology / supporting system / database / linguistic knowledge / verbal communication / nonverbal communication |
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| Research Abstract |
Thus research is a collaborative work of humanities and information technology ; pushed forward by the researchers on English linguistics, cross-cultural communication, English education, education system, natural language processing, image processing and human interface. Based on several English contents, we have created multimodal contents with annotations of knowledge of communicative skills in English. We have also made three developments in information technology as follows : (1)the development of the technology of automatic extraction of useful communicative knowledge and information in English, (2)the development of the technology of automatic extraction and representation of useful and necessary portions from within enormous quantity of image data, (3)the development of the system of automatic annotation of explanations of English constructions (particularly, the pseudo-deft construction) useful for English communication. The synergy effects, produced by the collaboration of the different fields of research, have made it possible to draw automatically deeper aspects of English knowledge and skills of English communication and to generate attractive and fruitful multimodal contents efficiently and productively. In future research, we will broaden the range of application of our automatic annotation system. We will also pursue the possibility of detecting important portions from the viewpoint of prosody and adding prosodic knowledge and information to multimodal contents automatically, which will lead to the development of more useful and valuable multimodal contents.
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Research Products
(26 results)
