Organization
Undergraduate School School of Global Japanese Studies Professor
Title
Professor
Homepage
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Degree
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Master of Arts ( Waseda University )
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Master of Science ( Dublin City University )
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Ph.D ( Waseda University )
Research Interests
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Linguistics
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Lexical-Functional Grammar
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Learner corpus
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Esperanto
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Multi-lingual parallel corpus
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Corpus linguistics
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Dependency distance
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Dependency Grammar
Research Areas
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Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics / Corpus linguistics
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Humanities & social sciences / English linguistics / Dependency Grammar
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Humanities & social sciences / English linguistics / Lexical-Functional Grammar
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Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics / Esperanto
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Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education / English education
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Humanities & social sciences / Japanese linguistics / Lexical-Functional Grammar
Education
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Dublin City University School of Computing
2005.10 - 2010.3
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Waseda University Graduate School of Education Doctoral Program, Course Education Major
1997.4 - 2002.3
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Waseda University Graduate School of Education Master's Program, English Education Major
1995.4 - 1997.3
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Department of English Language and Literature, School of Education, Waseda University
1991.4 - 1995.3
Research History
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Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies Professor
2022.4
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School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University Associate Professor
2019.4 - 2022.3
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School of Education, Waseda University Part-time lecturer
2009.4
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Mejiro University Department of English Language Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies Associate Professor
2014.9 - 2019.3
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Department of English Language Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Mejiro University Assistant Professor
2011.4 - 2014.9
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School of Education, Waseda University Part-time lecturer
2002.4 - 2006.3
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Kokugakuin University Part-time lecturer
1999.4 - 2006.3
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Waseda University School of Education 助手
1999.4 - 2002.3
Professional Memberships
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PAN-PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
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THE ASSOCIATION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
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THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENGLISH CORPUS STUDIES
Committee Memberships
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The 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 39) Program Committee
2025.6 - 2025.12
Committee type：Academic society
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JACET Director
2023.6 - 2024.8
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Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics (PAAL) Vice Co-chair
2021.9
Committee type：Academic society
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一般社団法人 大学英語教育学会(JACET) 総務委員会副委員長（副代表幹事）
2021.6 - 2024.8
Committee type：Academic society
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JACET Editorial Board member of JACET Journal
2021.4 - 2023.3
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JACET A committee member of JACET Prize Selection Committee
2021.4 - 2023.3
Committee type：Academic society
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JACET Committee member of JACET 60th Anniversary Commemoration Week
2020.10 - 2021.3
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一般社団法人 大学英語教育学会 (JACET) 国際大会組織委員会本部委員
2017.4 - 2024.8
Committee type：Academic society
Papers
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Degree centrality as a measure of robustness of dependency structures of the sentences in a large-scale learner corpus of English Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (QUASY, SyntaxFest 2025) 9 - 16 2025.8
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UD Treebanks for Esperanto as a natural language Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025) 22 - 29 2025.8
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Complexity of English Sentences in English Textbooks for High School Students in Japan Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review 17 ( 1 ) 1 - 10 2025.3
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Low-Frequency Long-Distance Dependencies as “Long Tails” Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing (PACLIC) 37 2024.1
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Cross-Linguistic Variances of Dependency Distances in Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus. Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 38) 1166 - 1171 2024
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Propositional Idea Density of a Japanese Text and its English Translation in a Parallel Corpus Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review 15 ( 1 ) 97 - 105 2023.3
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Differences of Mean Dependency Distances of English Essays Written by Learners of Different Proficiency Levels Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Glottometrics 53 24 - 41 2023.1
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Curve-fitting of frequency distributions of dependency distances in a multi-lingual parallel corpus Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conferenceon Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36) 396 - 404 2022.10
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The Relevance of Dependency Distances in the Study of L2 Production Invited Reviewed
Masanori Oya
The 41st Thailand TESOL Conference Proceedings 2022.8
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Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review 14 ( 1 ) 13 - 26 2022.4
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Three Types of Average Dependency Distances of Sentences in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 35 2021.11
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Syntactic Similarity of the Sentences in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus Based on the Euclidean Distance of Their Dependency Trees Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 34 225 - 233 2021.5
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Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review, Meiji University 13 ( 1 ) 15 - 38 2021.3
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Structural Divergence Between Root Elements in English-Japanese Translation Pairs Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review, Meiji University 12 ( 1 ) 107 - 126 2020.3
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Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 33 516 - 521 2019
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Utilization of Dependency Type per Sentence to Identify Differences Among Genres of English Texts Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 32 2018.12
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Masanori Oya
English Corpus Studies ( 24 ) 19 - 40 2017.3
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Japanese One-Word Sentences and Their English Translations in a Parallel Corpus Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Mejiro Journals of Humanity 11 ( 11 ) 237 - 248 2015.3
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An English-Japanese Bilingual Corpus-Based Comparison of Their Syntactic Dependency Structures Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 69 - 70 2014.8
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Masanori Oya
Waseda University 1 - 594 2014.6
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Typed-dependency Tree Pairs of English and Japanese Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Mejiro Journal of Humanities 10 ( 10 ) 205 - 215 2014.4
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Treatment of Zero Pronouns in the Framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Selected Papers from the 18th Conference of Pan-Pacific Applied Linguistics 2014.3
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Lexical-Functional Grammar and Dependency Grammar Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Information Communication Technology Practice & Research 2012 19 - 32 2013.8
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Syntactic Dependency Structures of English and Japanese Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Mejiro Journal of Humanities 9 ( 9 ) 151 - 164 2013.3
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Degree Centralities, Closeness Centralities, and Dependency Distances of Different Genres of Texts Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Selected Papers from the 17th Conference of Pan-Pacific Applied Linguistics 42 - 53 2013.3
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Syntactic Dependency Distance as Sentence Complexity Measure Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Pan-Pacific Association 313 - 316 2011.8
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Treebank-based Automatic Acquisition of Wide Coverage, Deep Linguistic Resources for Japanese Reviewed
Masanori Oya
School of Computing, Dublin City University 2010.3
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On the Properties of Japanese Case Marker ‘-ga’: An LFG Account Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 8th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 349 - 360 2004.3
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An LFG Account of Contrastive Particle –wa in Japanese Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 7th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 167 - 180 2003.5
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Lexical-Functional Grammar and Its Pedagogical Implication of Japanese EFL Students: Theoretical Issues on the Acquisition of the Progressive Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 5th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 183 - 189 2000.8
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Part-of-Speech Alternations of English Predicates; An Optimality Hypothesis Account Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics 172 - 185 1998.9
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Beyond Lexical Aspect Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics 127 - 147 1998.8
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Lexical Analysis on Middle Constructions in English Reviewed
Masanori Oya
( 5 ) 127 - 147 1997.3
Books
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依存文法概説
（ Role： Sole author）
開拓社 2022.10 （ ISBN:9784758918305 ）
MISC
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UD Esperanto-Prago (the Universal Dependencies syntax annotation on Manifesto de Prago (Prague Manifesto))
Masanori Oya
Universal Dependencies 2025.1
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A Report of NAFSA 2025 Annual Conference Reviewed
Masanori Oya
Global Japanese Studies Review 18 ( 1 ) 103 - 111 2026.4
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Toward the development of standard skill description in language learning based on CEFR
JACET-KANTO journal ( 8 ) 48 - 59 2012.3
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A Study of the Measurement of Learner Factors : Cognitive Style, Learner Preferences, Motivation, and Learner Strategies(English as an 'International Language' : Educational Goals and Standards)
Ueda Norifumi, Owada Kazuharu, Oya Masanori, Tsutsui Eiichiro, Kodachi Kota
43 144 - 144 2004.9
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A Study of Developing a Placement Test for English Class Based on Item Response Theory
NAKANO Michiko, UEDA Norifumi, OYA Masanori, TSUTSUI Eiichiro
Waseda review of education 18 ( 1 ) 25 - 41 2004.3
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Report on Placement Test at Waseda University('National Policy' for Foreign Language Education : Searching for the Ideal)
Ueda Norifumi, Ohya Masanori, Tsutsui Eiichiro, Kodachi Kota, Ohwada Kazuharu
42 79 - 80 2003.9
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A Report on Tutorial English Program at Waseda Univeresity
Ueda Norifumi, Oya Masanori, Owada Kazuharu, Ano Kouichi, Yamazaki Tae, Kato Akiharu, Hosomura Rie
Chem. Int. Ed. 41 179 - 179 2002.9
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A Study of Topicalization in Japanese in the Framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar
OYA Masanori
Waseda review of education 16 ( 1 ) 87 - 107 2002.3
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A Quantitative Analysis of Annotated Learners' Spoken Corpus(JACET 40^<TH> ANNUAL CONVENTION)
Ano Koichi, Oya Masanori, Ueda Norifumi, Owada Kazuharu, Yamazaki Tae, Kato Akiharu, Sunaga Minako, Tsutsui Eiichiro
40 127 - 127 2001.9
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English Language Education and Applied Discourse Analysis in Cyber Learning
Nakano Michiko, Berendt Eric A, Yano Yasutaka, Owada Kazuharu, Ohya Masanori, Tsutsui Eichiro
39 49 - 49 2000.11
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The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education of Waseda University ( 11 ) 33 - 48 2000
Presentations
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The propositional idea densities of different languages in multi-lingual parallel corpus
Yuka Kaise, Yuto Tsuchiya, Masanori Oya
The 39th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 38) 2025.12
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Degree centrality as a measure of robustness of dependency structures of the sentences in a large-scale learner corpus of English
Masanori Oya
Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (QUASY) (Syntaxfest 2025) 2025.8
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UD Treebanks for Esperanto as a Natural Language
Masanori Oya
Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW) (Syntaxfest 2025) 2025.8
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A Study of Comprehension of the English Passage by Japanese Learners of English on the Analysis of Written and Oral Summary
Norifumi Ueda, Masanori Oya, Eiichiro Tsutsui
The 29th International Conference of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 2025.8
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Curve-fitting of frequency distributions of dependency distances in a multi-lingual parallel corpus
Masanori Oya
The 36th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36) 2022.10
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Idea Density of English Textbooks for Japanese Junior-High School Students
Oya Masanori, Norifumi Ueda, Kazuharu Owada, Koichi Ano, Tetsuya Kashiwagi
PALL 2022 Conference 2022.8
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The Relevance of Dependency Distances in the Study of L2 Production Invited
Masanori Oya
The 41st Thailand TESOL International (Virtual) Conference 2022.1
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Cross-Linguistic Variances of Dependency Distances in Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus
Oya, Masanori
The 38th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 38) 2024.12
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Low-Frequency Long-Distance Dependencies as “Long Tails”
Oya, Masanori
The 37th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37) 2023.12
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技能統合型評価法をつかったL2学習者の能力評価についての考察
上田倫史, 大矢政徳
大学英語教育学会(JACET)九州・沖縄支部 第33回支部研究大会 2023.10
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Three Types of Average Dependency Distances of Sentences in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
Masanori Oya
Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 35 2021.11
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Syntactic Similarity of the Sentences in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus Based on the Euclidean Distance of Their Dependency Trees
Masanori Oya
Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 34 2020.10
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A Corpus-Based Investigation of Collexemes for Active-Passive Alternation in the English Part of an English-Japanese Parallel Corpus International conference
OYA, Masanori
Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 33 2019.9
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Collostructional Analysis of English Future Tenses in a Learner Corpus International conference
OYA, Masanori
The 24th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 2019.8
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Utilization of Dependency Type per Sentence to Identify Differences Among Genres of English Texts International conference
OYA, Masanori
Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 32 2018.12
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Analysis of Learner-corpus Data Based on the Dependency-Grammar Formalism International conference
OYA, Masanori
Asia TEFL 2018 2018.6
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日英対訳コーパス中の「～ことになる」構文とその英訳文間の構造的不一致
大矢 政徳
英語コーパス学会 第43回大会 2017.10
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Dependency Types in Learner English and Authentic English International conference
OYA, Masanori
the 21st Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 2016.8
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依存文法に基づく日英語構文辞書構築の可能性
大矢 政徳
JACETリーディング研究会・英語辞書研究会合同研究会 2016.3
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Structural mismatches of dependency relations of Japanese nouns with the case particle "-ga" in a Japanese-English parallel corpus
OYA, Masanori
Japan Association for English Corpus Studies 2015.10
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The Possibility of Building a Dependency-based Japanese-English Construction Dictionary International conference
OYA, Masanori
Asialex 2015 2015.6
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Centrality Measures of Sentences in an English-Japanese Parallel Corpus International conference
OYA, Masanori
PACLING 2015 2015.5
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Lexical Information for Japanese Zero Pronouns International conference
OYA, Masanori
MAPLEX 2015 2015.2
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Extracting Structural Properties from Syntactic Dependency Corpus
OYA, Masanori
40th Conference of Japan Association for English Corpus Studies 2014.10
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An English-Japanese Bilingual Corpus-Based Comparison of Their Syntactic Dependency Structures International conference
OYA, Masanori
the 19th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 2014.8
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Dependency-Grammar Analyses of Different Genres of English International conference
OYA, Masanori
Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014) 2014.3
Research Projects
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Analyses of English learners' production data using propositional idea density as a complexity measure
Grant number：24K04089 2024.4 - 2027.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Authorship：Principal investigator
Grant amount：\1040000 （ Direct Cost: \800000 、 Indirect Cost：\240000 ）
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Development of an English corpus with visualized interrelationships among sentences in the framework of dependency grammar
Grant number：20K00583 2020.4 - 2023.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Grant amount：\1040000 （ Direct Cost: \800000 、 Indirect Cost：\240000 ）
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Grant number：17K02740 2017.4 - 2020.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Oya Masanori
Grant amount：\1430000 （ Direct Cost: \1100000 、 Indirect Cost：\330000 ）
In 2017, significant suggestions have been made based on objective data with respect to the procedure to categorize the possibilities between English and Japanese according to a set of principles.
In 2018, some instances have been observed in which certain dependency types are more frequent than others (1) in the texts produced by learners of English from certain countries or regions, or (2) in all the texts produced by learners of English regardless of their countries or regions.
In 2019, research has enabled us to describe the syntactic divergence among plural sentences in transparent manners and to deepen our understanding for statistical analyses of corpus data. -
Grant number：26370500 2014.4 - 2017.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
OYA Masanori
Grant amount：\1170000 （ Direct Cost: \900000 、 Indirect Cost：\270000 ）
In 2014, I have obtained the parse output (dependency trees) of the Japanese sentences and their English translations in a English-Japanese parallel corpus, and compared the graph centrality of these dependency trees. It has been shown as numerical data that English sentences tend to contain more embedded syntactic structure than their Japanese translations.
In 2015, I have applied the notion of structural divergence between the dependency trees of English sentences and those of their Japanese counterparts. I focused on the Japanese noun phrases with the case particle "-ga" which have been found in the same English-Japanese parallel corpus, and on how they are translated in their English counterparts. The divergence pattern have been categorized according to the notion of structural divergence.
In 2016, the frequent dependency types are found to be different between English texts written by Japanese learners of English and those written by native speakers of English. -
Grant number：24320109 2012.4 - 2015.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
NAKANO Michiko, KONDO Yusuke, NAGAOKA Keizo, SONGMUANG Pokpong, YOSHIDA Satoshi, HIRASAWA Shigeichi, KOIZUMI Daiki, OWADA Kazuharu, UEDA Norifumi, OYA Masanori, SUGITA Yoshihito, TSUTSUI Eiichiro, NAKAZAWA Makoto
Grant amount：\18330000 （ Direct Cost: \14100000 、 Indirect Cost：\4230000 ）
The model of Global Literacy Education includes Communication Management, Learning Strategies, Team Work, Critical Thinking, Synthesis Skills, Analytic Skills, Problem Solving, Project Management and Diversity Management. Global Literacy education is realized in the package of three-staged courses: English Tutorials, Critical Reading and Academic Writing (critical thinking, analytic skills, synthesis skills and problem solving skills), Discussion English Tutorials (communication management, learning strategies and problem solving sills) and Cross-Cultural Distance Learning course (project management skills, problem solving skills. project management skills and diversity management skills). All of these courses are based on Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Course Contents are digitalized and provided with automatic assessment of learning outcomes, along with interactive widgets and learner logs to assist instructors to give personalized feedbacks.
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ICT-based classroom activities and the assessment of cross-cultural social skills
Grant number：20320085 2008 - 2011
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
NAKANO Michiko, OWADA Kazuharu, UEDA Norifumi, OYA Masanori, SUGITA Yoshihito, TSUTSUI Eichiro, KONDO Yusuke, YOSHIDA Satoshi, ISHIDA Masachika, NISHIHORI Yuri, AOKI Kumiko, WATANABE Akiko, KUAMKI Hideyuki
Grant amount：\19500000 （ Direct Cost: \15000000 、 Indirect Cost：\4500000 ）
English should be taught as a lingua franca in Asia. This means that shifting the traditional model from that of a native speaker to a bilingual model. Instead of deriving linguistic benchmarks from a native speaker, communication styles and pragmatic norms can be derived from successful bilinguals in Asia. ICT-based education styles enable us to achieve this goal. In order to obtain experimental evidence, we proposed the reliable and valid measurement scales for motivation and social skills as well as automatic assessment of oral production in English.
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Developing Digitized Oral Production Practice Materials Based on Learner Corpus among Junior High School and University Students
Grant number：10680290 1998 - 1999
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
NAKANO Michiko, HARADA Yasunari, TANABE Yoji, KOIKE Ikuo, OHYA Masanori, SAITO Toshiharu
Grant amount：\3300000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 ）
The purpose of this research is to develop digitized teaching materials for oral production among junior high school, high school and university students. In order to do this, we have collected not only oral production data, but also diary data, essay data, e-mail data, computer mediated communication data and digitized all the data with part-of-speech annotation. We have called these corpora, 'Waseda Learner Corpora of English.' We also analyzed the textbook the learners learned, in order to see the relationships between input and output. Some of our experimental works also focussed on 'chunks' which are supposed to be internalized in the interlanguage system each learner is assumed to possess.
On the basis of our corpora analysis, we have found that Japanese learners have a very limited range of sentence patterns and chunks, particularly in the area of speech functions such as thanking, apologizing, refusing, offering and requesting. For this reason, digitized teaching materials provide the remedial materials to instruct the weaknesses of our learners of English. The teaching materials are uploaded on http : // 163.47.27.25/. This is going to be supplemented with more extensive and richer materials this year. Most of the digitized materials adopt Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and cover grammar drills, usage explanations, intonation exercises and pragmatic drills. -
Establishing a Teaching and Evaluation Method Through the Developmental Analysis of the Four Skills in the New Course of Study
Grant number：23K20479 2021.4 - 2026.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Grant amount：\16770000 （ Direct Cost: \12900000 、 Indirect Cost：\3870000 ）
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Establishing a teaching and evaluation method through the developmental analysis of the four English skills in the new Course of Study
Grant number：21H00546 2021.4 - 2026.3
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Grant amount：\16770000 （ Direct Cost: \12900000 、 Indirect Cost：\3870000 ）
Teaching Experience
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英文法概論
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English Linguistics
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応用言語学
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