Noriko Nagata 永田憲子
Professor
Chair, Department
of Modern and Classical Languages
Director, Japanese Studies
Program
Phone: (415) 422-6227;
Fax: (415) 422-6928
E-mail: nagatan@usfca.edu
Research Areas
Intelligent Computer Assisted Language
Instruction
Natural Language Processing
Second Language Acquisition
Japanese Linguistics
Awards
Winner of the 2004-2005 USF Distinguished Research Award
Publications
Computer Software
ROBO-SENSEI: Personal
Japanese Tutor, Cheng & Tsui Company, Boston,
Massachusetts, 2004.
Special
features:
- Based on newly developed artificial intelligence technology (morphological and syntactic parsers).
- Allows the learner to compose any sentence in response to a question.
- Provides immediate, detailed feedback tailored to the learner’s mistakes (like a real teacher).
- Incorporates twenty-four modular lessons, readily integrated as supplements into a standard high school or college curriculum.
- Organizes lessons by the grammatical topics commonly covered in beginning through advanced level Japanese textbooks.
- Provides five types of exercises in each lesson, including word-level, phrase-level, and sentence-level production, paragraph-level reading, and sentence-level dictation.
- Based on real-life communicative situations.
- Unified
by a variety of cultural themes, including
information about travel in
- Presents
colorful photographic and cartoon images of
- Handles Japanese character (kana and kanji) input.
- Provides detailed, on-line reference notes describing the grammatical constructions covered.
- Maintains an on-line vocabulary glossary for each lesson.
- Provides Japanese pronunciations of correct responses.
- Written entirely in Java and runs directly on the user's web browser over the Internet for distance learning applications.
ROBO-SENSEI Lessons:
1.
Verb -Masu Form Lesson (At the Train Station)
2.
Particle
Lesson 1 (
3.
Particle
Lesson 2 (
4.
Particle
Lesson 3 (
5.
Particle
Lesson 4 (
6.
Noun
Modifier Lesson 1 (
7.
Noun
Modifier Lesson 2 (
8.
Verb
Direct Form Lesson 1 (At the Supermarket)
9.
Verb
Direct Form Lesson 2 (At the Restaurant)
10.
Verb
Direct Form Lesson 3 (At the Supermarket)
11.
Verb
–Te Form Lesson 1 (Izu Tour)
12.
Verb
–Te Form Lesson 2 (Izu Tour)
13.
Honorifics
Lesson 1 (
14.
Honorifics
Lesson 2 (
15.
Honorifics
Lesson 3 (
16.
Relative
Clause Lesson 1 (At the Department Store)
17.
Relative
Clause Lesson 2 (At the Department Store)
18.
Relative
Clause Lesson 3 (At the Department Store)
19.
Conditional
Lesson 1 (Enoshima Tour)
20.
Conditional
Lesson 2 (Enoshima Tour)
21.
Passive
Construction Lesson 1 (Hakone Tour)
22.
Passive
Construction Lesson 2 (Hakone Tour)
23.
Causative
Lesson 1 (Daily Chores)
24.
Causative Lesson 2 (Daily Chores)
Editions
Nagata,
N. (1993). Special Issue on Asian Languages and Technology, CALICO
Journal, 19
(3).
Articles
Nagata, N. (2009 forthcoming). An Online Japanese
Textbook
with Natural Language Processing. In Ian Lancashire (Ed.), Teaching
Literature and Language Online, MLA (Modern Language
Association of
Nagata, Noriko. (2009).
Robo-Sensei's NLP-based Error Detection and Feedback Generation.
CALICO Journal 26 (3).
Nagata, N. (2007). Input Enhancement by Natural
Language
Processing. In Carolyn Gascoigne (Ed.), Assessing
the Impact of Input Enhancement in Second Language Education:
Evaluation in
Theory, Research and Practice, New Forums Press,
Nagata, N. (1994). The
Cost of Politeness. YMCA English Quarterly, Autumn, 1.
Nagata,
Noriko. (1992). A Study of the Effectiveness of Intelligent
Technical Reports
Presentations
A New NLP-based Online Japanese Textbook. Computer
Assisted
Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Annual Symposium,
Robo-Sensei's NLP-based Error Detection and Feedback Generation. Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 2008.
自
然言語処理に基づいた新しい「ロボ先生」オンライン教科書 (A New Robo-Sensei Online Textbook
based on Natural Language Processing). International Conference on
Practical
Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ).
Integrating New Technology into Asian-Language Classrooms. Cheng & Tsui
Session. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Meeting,
Prospects for an Online Language Textbook with
Intelligent
Feedback. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
Annual
Symposium,
Integration of ROBO-SENSEI
into Japanese Curricula. American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Annual Meeting,
The BANZAI Project: Empirical Studies on the Effectiveness of
Intelligent
Feedback and Sentence Production Practice. American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Annual Meeting,
Teaching Japanese
particles: コン
ピューターによる助詞の効果的な教え方. Northern California Japanese
Teachers' Association (NCJTA) Meeting at
Foreign
Language Association of Northern California (FLANC)
Annual Conference,
BANZAI in the classroom.
BANZAI: Computer Assisted
Sentence Production Practice with Intelligent Feedback. International
Conference on Computer-Assisted System for Teaching and Learning
Japanese
(CASTEL/J),
BANZAI: A Web-based
Intelligent Language Tutor. CALICO Annual Symposium,
Phrase Structure Rules
Applied to Intelligent Japanese Tutoring Software. International
Conference on
Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ).
BANZAI: New Intelligent
Tutoring Software. Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Annual Conference,
Japanese Courseware for
Distance Learning. World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA),
Interactive Strategies in
Computer-Assisted Language Instruction.
An Overview of Some
Empirical Studies on the Effectiveness of Computer Software in Second
Language
Acquisition, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1999.
Japanese Reading Exercises
in Java. CALICO Annual Symposium,
Rules vs. Examples: An
Experimental Study Using the Banzai Parser. CALICO Annual Symposium,
Japanese Language
Instruction with the Banzai Program and HyperCard Japanese
The Relative Effectiveness
of Computer-Assisted Production and Comprehension Practice in the
Acquisition
of Japanese. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Annual Meeting,
The Use of Natural
Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language Instruction. American
Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Annual
Meeting,
Computer-Assisted Japanese
Instruction. Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Annual Conference,
The Instructional
Effectiveness of Natural Language Processing. American Society for
Information
Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting,
Metalinguistic Instruction about Non-Trivial
Grammatical Systems. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Meeting,
Resources for Teaching
Japanese Culture. Ethnic Literature Forum,
A Study of the
Effectiveness of Intelligent
Assessing the Effectiveness of Natural Language
Processing
in Intelligent