Dr. Takehiko Maruyama

Department of Japanese Language and Linguistics, School of International Communication, Senshu University
Professor
Address: 3-8, Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8425, Japan

E-mail: maruyama (at) isc.senshu-u.ac.jp

Research Area

• Japanese Corpus Linguistics (Design, compilation and syntactic analyses)
• Utterance units for spontaneous speech
• Disfluencies and speech grammar

Research Projects

• 2020- : Disfluencies in spontaneous speech
  • Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (S), ``Interdisciplinary Empirical Research Project on Disfluent Utterance Patterns''
• 2016-2022: SSC (Showa Speech Corpus)
  • NINJAL ``A Multifaceted Study of Spoken Language Using a Large-scale Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation'', Visiting Professor.
  • Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), ``Diachronic change of spoken Japanese through the Corpus of Spoken Japanese in Showa period'', Principal Investigator.
• 2010-2015: Syntax and Semantics of Japanese Complex Sentence Constructions [link]
• 2005-2011: BCCWJ (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese)
• 2002-2006: CSJ (Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese)
• 2000-2004: Development of speech to speech translation system
• 1999-2004: Interface between Phonology and Syntax

Selected Papers / Presentations / Workshops

1. Maruyama, Takehiko (2023) ``A classification of self-repairs in Japanese monologue: a corpus study'', The 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), 19. August. Ghent, Belgium. [link]
2. Maruyama, Takehiko (2023) ``The Multiple Clause Linkage Structure of Japanese speech'', 18th International Pragmatics Conference, 10. July. Brussels, Belgium. [link]
3. Maruyama, Takehiko (2023) Workshop on Spoken Language: Czech and Japanese. 2023.5.4-5. Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech. [link]
4. Maruyama, Takehiko (2022) Designs and Analyses of Japanese Speech Corpora, Corpora e Studi Linguistici, Atti del LIV Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, 65-74. Officinaventuno. (ISBN 978-88-97657-56-9) [link] / [PDF]
5. MARUYAMA, Takehiko, Wakako KASHINO, Hanae KOISO, and Aiko SASAKI. (2022) Design, construction, and application of Japanese language corpora. 2022.2.23 Univerzita Karlova v Praze, online. [link]
6. Maruyama, Takehiko (2021) ``Design and Analyses of Japanese Speech Corpora'', International Congress of the Italian Linguistic Society "Corpora e Studi Linguistici", Università degli Studi di Firenze e Accademia della Crusca (Congresso online). September, 7, 2021. [link]
7. Maruyama, Takehiko (2021) ``Showa Speech Corpus: Design, Compilation and Analysis'', 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, August 26, 2021. [link]
8. Maruyama, Takehiko (2021) ``Diachronic Change of Spoken Japanese in the 20th Century: A Corpus Study'' Seiko Suzuki, Pascal Cordereix, and Gabriel Bergounioux (Ed.), Mémoire sonore du Japon : le disque, la musique et la langue. 17-32. Bibliothèque nationale de France. (ISBN 978-2-913454-46-1)
9. Maruyama, Takehiko, Yasuharu Den and Hanae Koiso (2020) ``Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese'' Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi, and Tommaso Raso (Ed.), In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach. 155-180. John Benjamins. (ISBN 9789027204974) [link] / [link] / [doi]
10. Maruyama, Takehiko (2020) ``Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU'' Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi, and Tommaso Raso (Ed.), In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach. 359-366. John Benjamins. (ISBN 9789027204974) [link] / [link] / [doi]
11. Maruyama, Takehiko (2020) ``Real Time Utterance Production and Disfluencies'' In (Eds.) Céleste Guillemot, Shinichiro Sano and Seunghun J. Lee ICU Working papers in linguistics Vol10: Festschrift for Prof. Junko Hibiya in the occasion of her retirement from ICU. pp.53-56. [PDF]
12. Maruyama, Takehiko (2020) ``On the Possibility of a Diachronic Speech Corpus of Japanese'', Andrej Bekeš and Irena Srdanović (Ed.), Japanese Language from Empirical Perspective: Corpus-based studies and studies on discourse. 219-234. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba FF. (ISBN 978-961-237-886-8 / 978-961-06-0217-0) [link] / [PDF]
13. Maruyama, Takehiko (2019) ``Corpora and Japanese Linguistics Workshop''. 2019.11.8-11, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech. [PDF]
14. Maruyama, Takehiko (2019) ``Diachronic change in spoken Japanese in the 20th century''. Mémoire sonore du Japon : le disque, la musique et la langue, Bibliothèque nationale de France, January 25, 2019. [link] / [PDF]
15. Maruyama, Takehiko and Hanae Koiso (2018) ``Diachronic Change of Spoken Japanese in the 20th Century: a corpora-based Study''. 50 ans de linguistique sur corpus oraux : apports a l'etude de la variation, Orleans, France, November 15, 2018. [link]
16. Maruyama, Takehiko (2017) ``What's left for diachronic research of Japanese Speech?''. International Symposium on Diachronic Speech Corpora. NINJAL, 4th September, 2017. [link]
17. Maruyama, Takehiko, Stephen W. Horn, Kerri L. Russell and Bjarke Frellesvig (2017) ``On the Multiple Clause Linkage Structure of Japanese: A Corpus-based Study'', Nobuo Kazashi and Marcella Mariotti (ed.) New Steps in Japanese Studies: Kobe University Joint Research (Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies 5), 131-154. Edizioni Ca' Foscari. (ISBN 978-88-6969-153-9, doi: 10.14277/6969-152-2/CFJS-5-7) [link] / [PDF]
18. Tian, Ye, Takehiko Maruyama, and Jonathan Ginzburg (2016) ``Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation'', Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. pp.1-12. [link]
19. Maruyama, Takehiko (2015) ``Two-Level Utterance Units: Cognitive and Communicative Aspects of Spontaneous Speech''. IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop: Units of Reference for Spontaneous Speech Analysis and their correlations across languages, Belo Horizonte, 6th August, 2015. [link]
20. Maruyama, Takehiko (2015) ``Segmentation of two English short texts through different theoretical views''. IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop: Units of Reference for Spontaneous Speech Analysis and their correlations across languages, Belo Horizonte, 3rd August, 2015. [link]
21. Maruyama, Takehiko (2014) ``A Corpus-based Study of Colloquial Japanese: Retrospect and Prospect''. The 14th International Conference of EAJS, Ljubljana, 29th August 2014. [link]
22. Maekawa, Kikuo, Makoto Yamazaki, Toshinobu Ogiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Hideki Ogura, Wakako Kashino, Hanae Koiso, Masaya Yamaguchi, Makiro Tanaka, Yasuharu Den (2013) ``Balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese'', Language Resources and Evaluation, 10.1007/s10579-013-9261-0, Springer. [link] / [PDF]
23. Silber-Varod, Vered and Takehiko Maruyama (2013) ``The Linguistic Role of Hesitation Disfluencies: Evidence from Hebrew and Japanese''. Proceedings of DiSS 2013 The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 67-70, Stockholm, August 2013. [link] / [PDF]
24. Maruyama, Takehiko (2013) ``Analysis of Parenthetical Clauses in Spontaneous Japanese''. Proceedings of DiSS 2013 The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 44-48, Stockholm, August 2013. [link] / [PDF]
25. Maruyama, Takehiko (2012) ``Speech segmentation by clausal and non-clausal boundaries in Japanese''. The Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Abstracts Volume 2: Workshop ``Spoken discourse corpora as a window on cognitive mechanisms of speech production'' , 782-783, Kaliningrad, June 2012. [PDF]
26. Maruyama, Takehiko, Katsuya Takanashi, and Nao Yoshida (2010) ``An Annotation Scheme for Syntactic Unit in Japanese Dialog''. Proceedings of DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010. The 5th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, and The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, 51-54, Tokyo, September 2010. [PDF]
27. Maekawa, Kikuo, Makoto Yamazaki, Takehiko Maruyama, Masaya Yamaguchi, Hideki Ogura, Wakako Kashino, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hanae Koiso, and Yasuharu Den (2010) ``Design, Compilation, and Preliminary Analyses of Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'', Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), 1483-1486, Valletta, Malta, May 2010. [link] / [PDF]
28. Den, Yasuharu, Hanae Koiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Kikuo Maekawa, Katsuya Takanashi, Mika Enomoto, and Nao Yoshida (2010) ``Two-level annotation of utterance-units in Japanese dialogs: An empirically emerged scheme'', Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), 2103-2110, Valletta, Malta, May 2010. [link] / [PDF]
29. Maruyama, Takehiko, Makoto Yamazaki, and Kikuo Maekawa (2009) ``Statistical sampling method used in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'', Current ISSUES in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the papers selected from the CIL 18, 3864-3876. LSK (The Linguistic Society of Korea)
30. Maruyama, Takehiko, Makoto Yamazaki, and Kikuo Maekawa (2008) ``Statistical sampling method used in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'', 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, July 2008.
31. Sano, Motoki and Takehiko Maruyama (2008) ``Lexical Density in Japanese Texts: classifying text samples in Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'', 35th International Systemic Functional Congress, 359-364, Sydney, July 2008.
32. Ohno, Tomohiro, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Hideki Tanaka, and Yasuyoshi Inagaki (2007) ``Dependency Parsing of Japanese Monologue Using Clause Boundaries'', Language Resources and Evaluation , 40(3-4). 263-279. Springer Netherlands. [link] / [PDF]
33. Maruyama, Takehiko and Shin'ichiro Sano (2006) ``Classification and Annotation of Self-Repairs in Japanese Spontaneous Monologues'', LPSS - Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, 283-298, Taipei, November 2006.
34. Ohno, Tomohiro, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, and Yasuyoshi Inagaki (2006) ``Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries'', Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the ACL, 169-176, Sydney, July 2006. [link] / [PDF]
35. Uchimoto, Kiyotaka, Ryoji Hamabe, Takehiko Maruyama, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara, and Hitoshi Isahara (2006) ``Dependency-structure Annotation to Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese'', Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 635-638, Genoa, May 2006. [link] / [PDF]
36. Kashioka, Hideki and Takehiko Maruyama (2004) ``Segmentation of Semantic Units in Japanese Monologues'', International Conference on Speech and Language Technology & Oriental-COCOSDA 2004 (ICSLT-O-COCOSDA 2004), 87-92, India.
37. Kashioka, Hideki, Takehiko Maruyama and Hideki Tananka (2003) ``Building a Parallel Corpus for Monologue with Clause Alignment'', Proceedings of the Ninth Machine Translation Summit. 216-223.
38. Maruyama, Takehiko, Hideki Tanaka, and Hideki Kashioka (2003) ``Japanese copula marker works as a filler in spontaneous speech'', Proceeding of ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition. 195-198. Tokyo. [link] / [PDF]
39. Takanashi, Katsuya, Takehiko Maruyama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Hitoshi Isahara (2003) ``Identification of ``Sentence'' in Spontaneous Japanese -- Detection and modification of clause boundaries --'', Proceeding of ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition. 183-186. Tokyo. [link] / [PDF]
40. Tanaka, Hideki, Stephen Nightingale, Hideki Kashioka, Kenji Matsumoto, Masamichi Nishiwaki, Tadashi Kumano and Takehiko Maruyama (2002) ``Speech to Speech translation system for monologues - data driven approach'', The 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002) 1717-1720. [link]