Sumiyo Nishiguchi, PhD

Associate Professor, Center for Language Studies, School of Commerce, Otaru University of Commerce

Visiting Researcher, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

office: 3.20 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB, Edinburgh, UK

  • email: nishiguchi(AT)res.otaru-uc.ac.jp, v1snish4(AT)ed.ac.uk

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    Book publications

    Sound and Meaning in East Cushitic Languages: Dhaasanac, Burji, Rendille, Somali, and Afar (2021) Springer

    Disambiguation of Possessives: The Extended Generative Lexicon (2012) LAP

    Journal articles

    ``Only and Polarity Items in Djiboutian Somali" (2024) Journal of Afroasiatic Languages/Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture (JAAL) 13(2) 235-243

    ``Noun Phrases in Japanese and epsilon-iota-tau Calculi" (2017) IfCoLog: Journal of Logics and their Applications 4(2), 367-380

    ``Bipolar Items" (2016) Topics in Linguistics 17:2, 1-11

    ``Mirative Past in Japanese" (2014) Semantics-Syntax Interface 1(2), 118-132

    ``Shifty Operators in Dhaasanac" (2012) Snippets 26, 14-15

    ``Fake Past and Covert Emotive Modality" (2011) Cahiers Chronos 23: In the Mood for Mood, 159-174, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 4/1/07, 12/15/07, 3/17/10

    ``Polarity Focus in Dhaasanac" (2009) IHAFA: A Journal of African Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, 244-259, 2008, 8/31/08, 9/12/08

    ``Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse-Initial Too" (2009) SDV - Sprache und Datenverarbeitung, 33:1-2, 109-121, 10/20/08

    ``Bimoraic Filter and Sonority Sensitive Syllable Contact in Dasenach Imperfective" (2007) Research in African Languages and Linguistics (RALL) 7, 43-58, 2005/2006, Hope Publications, 7/29/06

    ``E.M.Husband On the Compositional Nature of States, 2012" (2014) EL 31:2, 693-702, book review

    ``C.Barker and P.Jacobson (eds) Direct Compositionality, 2007" (2010) Studies in English Literature 87, 149-159, book review

    Other reviewed publications

    ``Dynamic Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" (2017) Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal Approaches to the Dynamics of Linguistic Interaction 2017 co-located within the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2017), Toulouse, France, July 17-21, 2017, ceur-ws.org

    ``Indexical Shifting in Dhaasanac and Somali" (2017) Proceedings of TripleA3: Fieldwork Perspectives on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, 47-55.

    ``Bipolar Items and Attitude Predicates" (2010) Proceedings of BLS 35, 424-435, Berkeley Linguistic Society, 5/16/09

    ``Quantifiers in Japanese" (2009) Logic, Language and Computation: TbiLLC 2007, 153-164, eds. by P. Bosch et al., Springer, 4/2/08, 9/12/08

    ``Five Types of Affective Contexts: Nonmonotonic NPI Licensers'' (2004) CLS 40-1, 249-264, eds. by N. Adams et al., The Chicago Linguistic Society, 1/24/04, 3/8/04, 5/21/04

    ``Covert Emotive Modality Is a Monster" (2007) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2006, 191-204, eds. by T. Washio et al., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 8/10/06, 10/13/06. ps

    ``Temporal Dynamic Semantics of Factual Counterfactuals'' (2007) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004, 438-448, eds. by A. Sakurai et al., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 8/20/04, 12/5/04 final version accepted

    ``Categorical Ambiguity of Possessives and Adjectives" (2007) Linguistics in the Big Apple: The Proceedings of the 8th SCN Mini-Conference, 4/15/07

    Conference proceedings

    ``Native Japanese Speakers' Evaluation of the Similarity between Literal Translation and Meaning of English Metaphors" (2024) with Shogo Sato and Atsushi Oho, IPSJ86:2, 441-442

    ``Keitaiso Kaiseki o Mochiita (Young) Jump Comics Keiretsu no Taitoru no Bunseki (Morphological Analysis of (Young) Jump Comics Series Titles" (2024) with Soma Otoka, IPSJ 86:2 907-908

    ``Nikkan-no Rekishikyoiku-ni okeru Kankoku Heigo-no Atsukai-ni tsuite: Shinryaku to Heigo no Gokan-ni kanshite (About the Treatment of Invasion/Annexation of South Korea in the History Education of Japan and South Korea - Regarding the Sense of Invasion and Annexation)" (2024) with Tsumuka Koshio, IPSJ 86:2, 913-914

    ``YOASOBI Gakkyoku-ni kansuru Kosatsu" (A Study of Songs by YOASOBI) (2024) with Sena Ikeda, NLP2024

    "New Chinese Network Jargons" (2023) with Xinyuan Chen, NLP29 2270-2273

    ``Study of ``Emo-i" Emotion" (2023) with Ryota Aoyama, NLP 29 Proceedings, 1745-1749

    "Contraction of Particles and Auxiliaries in Japanese Spoken by Young People and Energy Saving" (2023) with Rikuto Hirasawa, NLP 29 Proceedings, 755-758

    ``SuzuPoli: Political Party Matching App" (2023) with Suzu Akegawa, IPSJ, 4, 649-650

    "Tense: Comparison between Japanese and English" (2023) with Toshiyuki Ogihara, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Naoko Komoto, Atsuko Nishiyama, Vera Hohaus, Giuliano Armenante, Britta Stolterfoh, JELS, 40 135-136

    ``PPI in Maasai" (2022) Proceedings of the 165th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 63-67

    ``Setsuji, Gokon o Mochiita Eitango Kuizu Apri (English Word Quiz Application with Affix and Root Information) (2022) with Ryo Shimizu, IEICE Technical Report, ET2022-8, 1-4

    ``Tense and Intention" (2022) with Takako Nakaike, Karebu Ozawa and Lu Guo, JELS39, 140-141

    ``Nihongo no Shi Setsuzoku to Shite Setsuzoku tono Taio kara Mita Kankokugo no Setsuzokugomi Go to So no Tsukaiwake no Teian (Distinctive Use of Korean Connecting Particles ``Go" and ``So" in Correspondence with Japanese Connectives ``Shi" and ``Shite"") (2022) with Uta Takizawa, NLP 2022, 1624-1629

    ``Asahikawa-shi ni okeru Hogen no Shoshitsu (Disappearance of Dialects in Asahikawa City)"" (2022) with Ao Nomura, NLP2022, 1511-1514

    ``Kojin Kissaten ni okeru Kokyaku Kakutoku no tameno Instagram Unyo (Improvement of Instagram to Attract Customers to Coffee Shop)" (2022) with Kaito Nozuki, IPSJ 84

    ``Nihongo, Eigo, Kankokugo-no Uta ni Mirareru Hiyuhyogen-no Tokucho (Comparative Study of Metaphors in Japanese, English and Korean Songs)" (2021) with Natsuno Tobe, IPSJ SIG Technical Report 250:1

    ``Shitakke Conditional and Deontic/Evidential Modality in Hokkaido Dialect of Japanese," (2021) with Yuta Hirama, PSJ23: 16 161-164

    ``Indexicals in Chinese" (2021) with Zhuoyun Wu , Lu Guo and Yingxuan Wang, NLP27, 762-764

    ``Analysis of Biden's Victory Speech" (2021) with Reiji Miura, NLP27, 175-177.

    ``A Utility-based Voting Algorithm and Its Application to Altruistic and Hedonic Games" (2021) with Karebu Ozawa, IPSJ83

    ``LINE bot that Translates to Young Girls Japanese Language" with Yugo Nagata, Masaki Kato, Eiichi Iwase, and Ryo Shimizu, IPSJ83, to appear

    ``Closed syllables in Japanese Popular Songs" (2020) (with Nahoko Koyama) IEICE Technical Report

    ``Corpus of East Cushitic Languages (CEC)" (2020) IPSJ82, 2:49-50

    ``De Re Indexicals in Rendille" (2019) LSJ159 Proceedings 339-345

    `` Bouletic and Deontic Modality and Social Choice " (2019) Proceedings of SemDial (LondonLogue), 207-209

    ``Bouletic/Deontic Modality, Liberalism and Social Choice" (2019) JSAI33 Proceedings

    ``A Monster in English" (2019) JELS 36, 248-253

    ``Shift-together in Burji" (2017) LSJ155 Proceedings, 99-104

    ``Liberalism and Bouletic/Deontic Modality" (2017) TbiLLC2017 Handbook

    ``Eigo Kijutsu Mondai-no Jidosaiten Program Backscratch-no Kaihatsu (Developing Automated Scoring Program of Written Answers in English: Backscratch)" (2017) (with Kimito Yanagi and Hiroki Watanabe) Kyoiku Kaikaku ICT Senryaku Taikai Shiryo, 172-173

    ``Eigo Tanbun Kijutsu Mondai-no Jidosaiten Program: Backscratch (Automated Scoring of Short Written Answers in English: Backscratch)" (2017) (with Kimito Yanagi and Hiroki Watanabe) IEICE Technical Report ET2017-10, 51-53

    ``Dynamic Social Choice for Pronoun Resolution" (2017) IPSJ78 Proceedings

    ``Dynamic Social Choice for Pronominal Reference" (2016) IEICE Technical Report, NLC20116

    ``SDRT of Kaette" (2016) JSAI2016 Proceedings

    ``CCG for Discourse" (2015) Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL), 196-197

    ``Fake Past and Awareness" (2015) JSAI2015 Proceedings

    ``A Learning Model of Lexicon" (2015) IPSJ77 Proceedings, 1:241-242

    ``Probabilistic Approach to the Iterative NP Construction in Japanese" (2014) NLP2014 Proceedings

    ``Introducing a Support System for Enabling the Creation of Moodle Quizzes in English" (2014) (with Ikuma Ishizawa) IPSJ76 Proceedings

    ``NPI Licensing in Dhaasanac" (2013) LSJ 147 Proceedings, 182-186

    ``Extended Generative Lexicon" (2013) GL2013 Proceedings

    ``Extended GL" (2013) NLP2013 Proceedings

    ``moodleQmaker" (2013) (with Ikuma Ishizawa) IPSJ75, 4, 323-324

    ``Metalinguistic Negation in Dhaasanac" (2012) PSJ14 proceedings 7

    ``moodleQmaker"(2012) (with Ikuma Ishizawa) IEICE Technical Report 112:269, ET-2012-42, 27-29

    ``Using Internet for Task-based TOEIC Preparation" (2012) H24 Kyoikukaikaku ICT Senryakutaikai Shiryo, 124-125

    ``Improving English with Quiz at LMS" (2012) H24 ICT Riyoniyoru Kyoikukaizen Kenkyuhappyokai Shiryochu, 52-53

    ``Information Update by Corrections" (2012) IPSJ-SIGNL207(2), 1-2

    ``Comma in Japanese is Conjunction" (2012) JSAI2012 Proceedings

    ``Negation in Dhaasanac" (2012) SULA6: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas and SULA-Bar, GLSA

    ``Discourse Initial Too and Epistemic Modality" (2012) JELS29, 288-292

    ``Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" (2012) NLP2012 Proceedings, 97-100

    ``Computational Social Choice for Pronoun Resolution" (2011) IPSJ SIG-NL Vol.2011-NL-204, 10/24/2011

    ``Shifty Operators in Dhaasanac" (2011) LSJ meeting Handbook, 340-345, 10/12/2011

    ``Semantic Ambiguity of Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese" (2011) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshp on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation, 52-55

    ``CCG of Questions and Focus" (2011) Proceedings of JSAI2011

    ``The Spatial Language as Relational Nouns (Kankei Meishi to shiteno Kukanteki Ichihyogen)" (2011) Nihongo Corpus Workshop Proceedings, 49-56

    ``A CCG Analysis of Japanese Sentence-final Particles (Nihongo Shujoshi-no Hanchu Bunpo-ni yoru Bunseki)" (2011) NLP2011 Proceedings

    ``CCG of Japanese Sentence-final Particles" (2010) Proceedings of PACLIC24,497-502.

    `` Interpreting Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese" (2010) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop COSLI'10, 45-48, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073.

    ``Semantic Disambiguation of NP1-no NP2 Construction by Extended GL" (2010) Proceedings of JSAI2010.

    ``Disambiguating ``No" by Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Yahoo! Chiebukuro-o Riyo-shita ``No"-no Aimaisei Kaisho-no Kokoromi)," (2010) Proceedings of BCCWJ Monitor Version User Satellite Session, The National Institute for Japanese Language, 51-60, Nihongo Corpus Sokatsu-han, 2/15/10

    ``Extending Generative Lexicon Theory (Generative Lexicon Riron-no Kakucho)," (2010) Proceedings of NLP2010, 828-831, 1/12/10

    ``Prosodic Morpheme in Dasenach" (2009) Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference of Afroasiatic Lingusitics (NACAL 35), 296-310, ed. by C. Häberl, Cambridge Scholars, 4/11/07

    ``Extended GL and Japanese Postposition No" (2009) Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Vol 1, 385-394, ed. by O. Kwong, City University of Hong Kong Press

    ``Extending GL for Possessive Disambiguation" (2009) Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, 8/10/09

    ``Application of Event Semantics to Qualia Structure of Nouns for Disambiguation of Japanese Postposition No" (2009) Proceedings of PACLING 2009, 7/7/09

    ``Extended Qualia-based Lexical Knowledge for Disambiguation of Japanese Postposition "No"" (2009) Proceedings of the 14th Student Session of ESSLLI, ed. by T. Icard, 137-147, 6/13/09

    ``(Non)floating Quantifiers in Japanese" (2009) Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 2, Proceedings of the ICEAL 2, eds., by D. Potter et al, 1/13/09

    ``Qualia Based Lexical Knowledge for the Disambiguation of the Japanese Postposition `No'" (2009) Proceedings of the IWCS-8, 310-315, eds. by H. Bunt et al., Tilburg, Netherlands, 11/28/08

    ``Temporally Mismatched Matrix Counterfactuals" (2008) CHRONOS8 book of abstracts, 34-35, University of Texas, Austin, 8/5/08

    ``Own" (2008) The 80th General Meeting Proceedings of the English Literary Society of Japan, 116-118, 6/30/08

    ``Continuation-based CCG of Japanese Quantifiers" (2008) Proceedings of ICCS 6, 777-780, The Korean Society of Cognitive Science, Seoul, 6/2/08

    ``Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse-Initial Too" (2008) ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Formal and Experimental Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs, 19-23, Hamburg, 5/9/08

    ``Possessive Relation Disambiguation of Japanese Genitive Marker No" (2008) SSLC 33 Proceedings, 41-44, Osaka University, 6/19/08

    ``Polymorphic Quantifier" (2007) Proceedings of JSAI 21 International Workshop LENLS 2007 284-293, Miyazaki, Japan, 2/15/07, 5/12/07

    ``Presupposition Accommodation by Discourse-Initial Evidential Marker Mo'' (2006) The Book of Abstracts for International Conference on Revisiting Japanese Modality, 39-40, SOAS, London, 3/25/06, 4/28/06

    ``Covert Emotive Modality Is a Monster'' (2006) Proceedings of JSAI 20 International Workshop LENLS 2006, 113-144, Tokyo, Japan, 2/15/06, 3/20/06, 4/19/06

    ``Temporal Dynamic Semantics of Factual Counterfactuals'' (2004) Proceedings of JSAI 18 International Workshop LENLS 2004, 73-81, Kanazawa, Japan, 2/25/04, 4/30/04

    ``Non-monotonic Negativity'' (2003) Proceedings of PACLIC 17, 204-215, eds by D. H. Ji et al., COLIPS, Sentosa, Singapore, 8/19/03

    ``Scalar Reversal by Negation and Fictive Scanning in Our Cognitive System" (2002) abstract of ELSJ 74, Eibungaku Kenkyu 79, 185 (English translation)

    Book chapters

    ``The Semantics of Reduplication"(2020) Shin Handai Eibungakkai Sosho 2 Eigogaku no Fukamari, Eigogaku karano Hirogari, Eihosha

    Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages (2019) 345-354, Springer

    ``On Ni/E Alternation in Japanese" (2015) Kotoba-no Shinso: A Festschrift for Professor Yukio Oba, 373-384, Eihosha, Tokyo, 3/3/2013

    ``Hikako-no Ta-to Modariti (Non-past Ta and Modality)" (2011) Handai Eibungakkai Sosho 6, 73-84, eds. by Yukio Oba and Sadayuki Okada, Eihosha, Tokyo, 5/31/10

    ``Monogataribun no Genzai Jisei ni okeru Shiten to Bunmyaku no Henka (Narrative Present and Viewpoint - Context Shifts)" (2007) Kotoba to Shiten (Language and Viewpoint), Handai Eibungakkai Sosho 4, 170-176, eds. by Seisaku Kawakami and Kazumi Taniguchi, Eihosha, Tokyo, 8/26/06

    ``Nonmonotonic Negative Contexts'' (2004) Kotoba no Karakuri: Kawakami Seisaku Kyoju Taikan Kinen Ronbunshu (The Mechanism of Language: A Festschrift for Professor Seisaku Kawakami on the Occasion of His Retirement from Osaka University), 337-354, eds. by Yukio Oba et al., Eihosya, Tokyo

    Working papers

    ``Nasal Lengthening in Japanese Traditional Jiuta Songs" (2024) Jinbunkenkyu 147 35-42, Otaru University of Commerce

    ``On "Ni/E" Alternation and Change of Location in Japanese" (2022) Language Studies 30, 25-35, Center for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce

    ``Japanese Loanwords in Northeast Chinese Dialect" (2021) with Siyu Ge, The Review of Liberal Arts 141, 87-94, 2021, Otaru University of Commerce

    ``Vowel Shift and Coda Deletion in Handan Dialect of Chinese" (2020) (with Xu Han and Lining Chen) Language Studies 28, 19-28, Center for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce

    ``Pre-glottalization in British English" (2020) (with Mariko Murayama) The Review of Liberal Arts 138-139, Otaru University of Commerce

    ``Logophor in Japanese and Context Shift" (2018) Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences 50, 31-38, Tokyo University of Science

    ``Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution" (2016) Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences 48, 147-156, Tokyo University of Science

    ``Metalinguistic Negation in Dhaasanac" (2015) Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences 47, 93-103, Tokyo University of Science

    ``CCG for Discourse" (2013) Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences 45, 99-111, Tokyo University of Science

    ``Temporally Mismatched Matrix Counterfactuals" (2012) Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences 44, 35-46, Tokyo University of Science

    ``Own," (2010) Theoretical Approach to Natural Language (Shizengengo-e-no Rironteki Apurochi), 55-66, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

    ``Categorical and Semantic Ambiguity of Possessives and Adjectives" (2007) OUPEL 11, 73-83, 5/25/07

    ``Fake Past and a Monster'' (2006) Stony Brook Occasional Papers in Linguistics I, 152-171, 7/1/06, 7/14/06

    ``Consonant Assimilation and Sonority: A Case Study in Daasanach'' (2005) OUPEL 9, 39-51, 5/31/05 sil ipa

    ``Categorial Grammar and Type Ambiguity of Japanese Particles'' (2003) Osaka Literary Review 42 (OLR 42), 153-167, 8/25/03

    ``Logical Properties of Japanese Kakari Zyosi'' (2003) OUPEL 7, 115-133, 5/31/03

    Dissertation & theses

    ``Possessive Disambiguation" (2009) PhD Dissertation, Osaka University, 11/09, errata

    ``Non-monotonic Negativity'' (2003) MA Thesis, Osaka University, 1/8/03 (full text)

    ``Music Therapy in Japan: Current Problems" (2001) BA Thesis, Osaka University, 1/01

    Electronic poster

    ``Negative Also: A Bipolar Item in Japanese'' (2005) Polarity from Different Perspectives, Workshop, New York University, electronic poster, 2/25/05

    Ms.

    ``Presupposition Accommodation by Discourse-Initial Evidential Marker Mo" (2007) ms. Stony Brook University, 4/3/07

    ``Bipolar Items and Emotive Modality" (2006) ms. Stony Brook University, 9/2/06

    ``Semantic Categories of Japanese Focus Particles'' (2004) ms. UCLA, 6/16/04

    ``De Re, De Dicto and Predicates'' (2002) ms., Osaka University, 10/1/02

    ``Non-monotonic Affective Contexts'' (2002) ms. Osaka University, 9/29/02

    Textbook

    Let's Learn English with Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (2016) with Hiroyuki Takemura, PMP Educational