Sep. 6, Convergent Media Laboratory Seminar: “Interactive Daily Conversation“ & “An analysis of sense of community through tetranomial interaction among object, self, other, and environment“

By admin August 30, 2013 NEWS

Date: 14:00-16:00, September 6 (Fri), 2013
Place: E30
Timetable:

14:00 – 15:00:
Title: Interactive Daily Conversation
Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Iida
Professor of School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology
15:00 – 16:00:
Title: An analysis of sense of community through tetranomial interaction among object, self, other, and environment
Speaker: Dr. Mika Enomoto
Assistant Professor of School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology

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Title: Interactive Daily Conversation

Abstract:
My talk is focusing on ‘interaction and conversation.’ From viewpoints of understanding Japanese daily conversations, there can be seen many dialogue characteristics in situation depended various expressions; fragment, omission, substitution, inversion, and so on. By exploring some intimate daily conversations we can say that both a target and a reference point in ‘cognitive linguistics’ are expressed dynamically and relatively, and no linguistic information provides their identifications. I’ll talk about a computational model to understand such a daily conversation in addition to introducing our university’s interactive media research.

Title: An analysis of sense of community through tetranomial interaction among object, self, other, and environment

Abstract:
Nozawa(located in the northern part of Nagano prefecture) has a Japanese old rural community. the community is self-governed and territorially-bounded community(Sou: 惣) which is the only Sou remaining today. Dosojin Festival is held on Janualy 15 every year to whelcom Dosojins who are trabeler’s fuardian deities and to ask them for prosperity and good harvests. This festival is managed by men’s groups of three consecutive generation from 42 to 44-year-ord. The peaple in Nozawa believe that the management of this festival makes a man of the groups and establish a close ties themselves. I analyzed the scenes in which they are preparing the festival and reveal the sense of the community through tetranomial interaction among object, self, other, and environment. I wish this study leads tofard an archiving of the ethos inherited.

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CV of Prof. Hitoshi Iida:

Organization/Institution:

Professor of School of Media Science
Tokyo University of Technology

Degree: Doctor of Engineering

Speech and Language Information Processing Lab.
Sony Computer Science Labs, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan

Research/Education career:
1974-1985: Inference System and Knowledge Representation in AI/
Story Understanding/Conventional QA System and MT
(in NTT Basic Research Labs., Tokyo, Japan)

1986-1998: Spoken Dialogue Processing/Speech Translation
(in ATR International, Kyoto, Japan; Department Heads of
Interpreting Telecommunications Reseach Labs.)

1998-2002: Multi-modal Agent and Secretary/Speech Acquisition
(in SONY Computer Science Labs., Tokyo, Japan;
Director of Speech and Language Information Processing Lab.)

2002- : Prof. of the School of Media Science, and
the Graduate School of Bio, Information and Media Sciences, Tokyo Univ. of Tech.

2009-2012: Dean of the School of Media Science, Tokyo Univ. of Tech.

Awards:
1994: Attractive Invention Award of Science and Technology Agency, Japan;
“Method of Example-Based Machine Translation”
1995: Director-General Award of Science and Technology Agency, Japan;
“Example-Based Machine Translation”
1996: JICST Prize of the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology, Japan;
“Studies on Example-Retrieval and Its Speed-up”
2011: Award of Honor; International Association of Machine Translation

Association career:
1998-2000: President of the Association for Natural Language Processing
2000: General Chair of the 38th ACL Annual Meeting in Hong Kong
2006- : Vice-President of Asia and Pacific Assoc. of Machine Translation

CV of Dr. Mika Enomoto:

I have been investigating the multi-modal communication mechanizam by meand of utter-

ances, gestures, eye-gaze and so on. Recently, I reveal the fact that the hearer who is gazed
by a speaker are likely to take the next turn in multi-party conversation. Additionally, I start
to investigate a inter-generation collaborative interaction that supports handing down of un-
documented knowledge and skills in a Japanese old rural community. I am planing to study
followings:
1. Structure of the workplace: Co-presence of different groups of people in terms of
their roles in the work, i.e., principals and backups, who have acquired enough knowledge
and skills, vs. apprentices, who are in the process of learning them
2. Investigation of synchronic characters: Multi-modal interaction through physical
objects to operate Instruction for effective use of instruments
3. Investigation of diachronic characters: Development of the individual according
to the change of his associated role Development of the group as a whole according to
the change of members occupying each role

Work experience
2000.6-2001.3 Advanced Telecommunications Research Insitute International. Doctoral re-
searcher.
2004.4-2005.9 Faculty of Letters, Chiba University. Researcher, Grant-in-Aid for Scienti
c Research Project.
2006.4-200.2008.3 Fuculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and 　Technology.
Business-Academia-Government Collaboration Researcher.
2007.4-2008.3 Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo University of Technology.
Contact Employee Research Assistant.
2008.4-2012.3 School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology. Aesearch Associate.
2013.4-present School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology. Assistant Professor