This paper proposes a surrounding word sense model (SWSM) that uses the distribution of word senses that appear near ambiguous words for unsupervised all-words word sense disambiguation in Japanese. Although it was inspired by the topic model, ambiguous Japanese words tend to have similar topics since coarse semantic polysemy is less likely to occur than that in Western languages as Japanese us...

This work addresses the classification in topics of utterances in Japanese, received by a speech-oriented guidance system operating in a real environment. For this, we compare the performance of Support Vector Machine and PrefixSpan Boosting, against a conventional Maximum Entropy classification method. We are interested in evaluating their strength against automatic speech recognition (ASR) er...

Twitter is an online social networking service on which users worldwide publish their opinions on a variety of topics, discuss current issues, complain, and express many kinds of emotions. Therefore, Twitter is a rich source of data for opinion mining, sentiment and emotion analysis. This paper focuses on this issue by analysing symbols called emotion tokens, including emotion symbols (e.g. emo...

Due to the increased importance of text format, article considers problem multimodality which is acute at turn 20th–21st centuries: specificity term and concept “multimodality”, “multimedia”, functions in modern media texts. A characteristic feature its multimodal character as an interaction verbal non-verbal means. The aim study identify various types neoderivatives determine their functional ...

It has been proposed that distinct neural circuits are activated by reading Japanese ideograms (Kanji) and phonograms (Kana). By measuring high-density event-related potentials, we recently reported that spatial frequency (SF) information is responsible for the dissociation between Kanji and Kana reading. In particular, we found close links between Kana and low SF (LSF) information and between ...

Frequency distribution of word usage in a word sequence generated by capping is estimated in terms of the number of "hits" in retrieval of web-pages, to evaluate structure of semantics proper not to a particular text but to a language. Especially we compare distribution of English sequences with Japanese ones and obtain that, for English and Japanese phonogram, frequency of word usage against r...

In comics as multimodal narratives visual and verbal modes interact to create meaning. Colours play an important role in comics, the choice of warm or cold colour palette, well bright muted, influences a reader’s perception attitude described events. Comics have number narratological, stylistic, structural other characteristics. Events can be presented both with help narrator (extradiegetic int...

pictorial description of the brain depended, in part, upon the rediscovery by artists in the 15th and 16th centuries of the laws of representational drawing. The earliest known brain illustrations, presumably based on descriptions carried forward from Antiquity, date from the 11th century. Later Medieval illustrations, more ideograms than illustrations in the modern sense, depict ventricular th...