Takako Aikawa
Takako Aikawa is a computational linguist in the Natural Language Processing Unit.
Background Information
Takako Aikawa joined Microsoft Research in October 1998 as a Japanese lexicographer and is currently developing the Japanese on-line dictionary at NLP. Prior to Microsoft, she had been teaching Japanese at MIT while doing research on Japanese linguistics. She received her B.A. in English language and literature from Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics from the Ohio State University. Her dissertation examines the binding behavior of Japanese reflexives, exploring a new approach to their binding conditions.
Publications:
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2002 Brockett, C. T. Aikawa, A. Aue, A. Menezes, C. Quirk and H. Suzuki, "English-Japanese Example-Based Machine Translation Using Abstract Semantic Representations," in COLING 2002 Workshop, Taiwan.
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2002 Campbell, R, T. Aikawa, Z. Jiang, C. Lozano, M. Melero and A. Wu, "A Language-Neutral Representation of Temporal Information," in the Workshop Proceedings of Annotation Standards in Natural Language, LREC workshop, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
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2002 Aikawa, T. and M. Suzuki, "Analysis of Lexical Compound Verbs using Corpus Data," in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese at San Francisco State Univ.
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2001 Aikawa, T., M. Melero, L. Schwartz, and A. "Sentence Generation for Multilingual Machine Translation," in Proceedings of the MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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2001 Aikawa, T., M. Melero, L. Schwartz, and A. Wu. "Multilingual Sentence Generation," in Proceedings of 8th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Toulouse.
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2001 Aikawa, T. "Reflexives," in A Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (ed. By N. Tsujimura), Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
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1999 Aikawa, T. "Case-dropping and Unaccusatives in Japanese Acquisition, " (in collaboration with E.
Miyamoto, Wexler, K. and Miyagawa, S.), in the BUCLD Proceeding, Boston University.
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1998 Aikawa, T. "Nature of Local Zibun SelfEand Reflexive-marking in Japanese, " in Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies 30, Keio University, Japan.
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1996 N. Tsujimura and T. Aikawa. "Intrinsic Reflexivity and Inalienable Possession in Japanese," in The Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Japanese
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1994 Aikawa, T. "Logophoric Use of the Japanese Reflexivizer Zibun-zisin 'self-self'," in The Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics.
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1993 Aikawa, T. Reflexivization in Japanese and LF-analysis of Zibun-binding, Ph. D dissertation, The Ohio State University, circulated by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
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1992 Aikawa, T. "Bound Variable Interpretation and Overt Pronouns in Japanese," in FLSM II.
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1991 Aikawa, T. "Behavior of Japanese Anaphoric Expressions in Sloppy Identity: Karera 'they' and Zibun 'self', in The Proceedings of the MIT Student Conference in Linguistics.
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1988 Aikawa, T. participated as one of the authors, Japanese For You: the Art of Communication (eds., by Prof. M. Ohso and Prof. Y. Koyama), Taishukan Publishing Company, Tokyo.
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