ISUC 2008 Program
December 15, 2008
Plenary Session 1
9:45-12:00     Room 1003
9:45-9:55
	Opening Address
	Yuichi Matsushima, ISUC 2008 General Chair/ National Institute of Information and
	Communications Technology (NICT)
9:55-10:00
	Guest Address
10:00-11:00
	Keynote Speech 1
	Overcoming the Language Barrier
	Makoto Nagao, National Diet Library
11:00-12:00
	Keynote Speech 2
	The UCSD/Calit2 GreenLight Project
	Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA
Plenary Session 2
13:30-15:30     Room 1003
13:30-14:30
	Keynote Speech 3
	Very Large Information Integration and Application Platform
	- CSTP Coordination Program of Science and Technology Projects -
	Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University
14:30-15:00
	Special Speech 1
	Research and Activities on Ultra-Realistic Communications
	Kazumasa Enami, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
15:00-15:30
	Special Speech 2
	Research and Activities on Universal Communication Platform Technologies
	Hiromitsu Wakana, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Technical Sessions
Session 1: Spoken Language Processing
16:00-18:05    Room 1004
Chair: Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Speech Processing in Support of Human-Human Communication	Alex Waibel	Carnegie Mellon University, USA and University of Karlsruhe, Germany
2	Multimodal Processing of Discourse Information; The Effect of Synchrony	Nick Campbell	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
3	Normalization on Temporal Modulation Transfer Function for Robust Speech Recognition	Xugang Lu, Shigeki Matsuda, Tohru Shimizu, and Satoshi Nakamura	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
4	A Statistical Approach to Expandable Spoken Dialog Systems using WFSTs	Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Hideki Kashioka, and Satoshi Nakamura	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Session 2: Ultra-Realistic Sound Technology
16:00-18:05    Room 1005
Chair: Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Wave Field Synthesis: History, State-of-the-Art and Future	Diemer de Vries	Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
2	Performance Evaluation of 3D Sound Field Reproduction System Using a Few Loudspeakers and Wave Field Synthesis	Munenori Naoe1, 2, Toshiyuki Kimura1, 2, Yoko Yamakata1, and Michiaki Katsumoto1	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
3	3D Auditory Scene Visualizer with Face Tracking: Design and Implementation for Auditory Awareness Compensation	Yuji Kubota, Shun Shiramatsu, Masatoshi Yoshida, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, and Hiroshi G. Okuno	Kyoto University
4	Content Presence vs. System Presence in Audio Reproduction Systems	Kenji Ozawa and Yoshihiro Chujo	University of Yamanashi
Session 3: Service and System for Home and Indoor Environments
16:00-18:05    Room 1006
Chair: Tatsuya Yamazaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: On Distributed Run-Time Software Evolution Driven by Stakeholders of Smart Home Development	Carl K. Chang, Katsunori Oyama, Hojun Jaygarl, and Hua Ming	Iowa State University, USA
2	Understanding Human Action in Daily Life Scene based on Action Decomposition using Dictionary Terms and Bayesian Network	Juanda Lokman, Jun-ichi Imai, and Masahide Kaneko	The University of Electro-Communications
3	Composition of Services for Notification in Smart Homes	José M. Reyes Álamo, Tanmoy Sarkar, and Johnny Wong	Iowa State University, USA
4	Indoor Emergency Evacuation Service on Autonomous Navigation System using Mobile Phone	Yutaka Inoue, Akio Sashima, Takeshi Ikeda, and Koichi Kurumatani	ITRI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
December 16, 2008
Technical Sessions
Session 4: Machine Translation & Multilingual Information Processing
9:30-11:35    Room 1004
Chair: Michael Paul, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: The Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Statistical Machine Translation	Qun Liu and Zhongjun He	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2	Bilingual Segmenter for Statistical Machine Translation	Chung-Chi Huang, Wei-Teh Chen, and Jason S. Chang	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwain
3	Cross-Lingual Blog Analysis by Cross-Lingual Comparison of Characteristic Terms and Blog Posts	Hiroyuki Nakasaki1, Mariko Kawaba1, Takehito Utsuro1, Tomohiro Fukuhara2, Hiroshi Nakagawa2, and Noriko Kando3	1University of Tsukuba, 2The University of Tokyo, 3National Institute of Informatics
4	Using Statistical Machine Translation to Grade Training Data	Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Session 5: Ultra-Realistic Image Technology I
9:30-11:10    Room 1005
Chair: Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Depth Estimation and Object Recognition using Integral Imaging	Seokwon Yeom	Daegu University, Korea
2	Computer Generated Electronic Holography of Natural Scene from 2D Multi-view Images and Depth Map	Takanori Senoh, Kenji Yamamoto, Ryutaro Oi, Tomoyuki Mishina, and Makoto Okui	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
3	Experimental Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Object based on Wavefront Modulation with Coherent Amplification	Osamu Matoba, Tatsunori Nakamura, and Kouichi Nitta	Kobe University
Session 6: Information Analysis for Web Contents
9:30-11:35    Room 1006
Chair: Daisuke Kawahara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: DISG: A DIStributed Graph Repository for Web Infrastructure	Aoying Zhou1, Weining Qian1, Dao Tao2, and Qiang Ma2	1East China Normal University, China, 2Fudan University, China
2	Information Credibility Analysis of Web Contents	Sadao Kurohashi1, 2, Susumu Akamine1, Daisuke Kawahara2, Yoshikiyo Kato1, Tetsuji Nakagawa1, Kentaro Inui1, and Yutaka Kidawara1	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Kyoto University
3	A Tourist Route Search System Based on Web Information and the Visibility of Scenic Sights	Jianwei Zhang1, Hiroshi Kawasaki1, and Yukiko Kawai2	1Saitama University, 2Kyoto Sangyo University
4	Extracting and Clustering Related Keywords based on History of Query Frequency	Toru Onoda, Takayuki Yumoto, and Kazutoshi Sumiya	University of Hyogo
Session 7: Language Resources & Natural Language Processing
13:00-15:05    Room 1004
Chair: Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Compilation of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese in the KOTONOHA Initiative	Kikuo Maekawa	The National Institute for Japanese Language
2	Extraction of Verb Synonyms using Co-clustering Approach	Koichi Takeuchi	Okayama University
3	TORISHIKI-KAI, An Autogenerated Web Search Directory	Kentaro Torisawa1, Stijn De Saeger1, Yasunori Kakizawa2, Jun’ichi Kazama1, Masaki Murata1, Daisuke Noguchi2, and Asuka Sumida2	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
4	Parser Adaptation to Patent Domain Exploiting Case Frames	Chikara Hashimoto1, Daisuke Kawahara2, Takayuki Yoshida1, Hiroki Goto1, and Shoichi Yokoyama1	1Yamagata University, 2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Session 8: Ultra-Realistic Image Technology II
13:00-15:05    Room 1005
Chair: Sumio Yano, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Perception of Depth, Motion, and Stability with Motion Parallax	Hiroshi Ono	York University, Canada
2	An Extended Non-Photorealistic Rendering Technique for Depicting Motions of Multiple 3D Objects	Tomoaki Moriya and Tokiichiro Takahashi	Tokyo Denki University
3	Enhanced Multiple Local Ray-spaces Method for Walk-through View Synthesis	Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Akio Ishikawa, Shigeyuki Sakazawa, and Atsushi Koike	KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.
4	The Activity of ISO/Study Group on “Image Safety” and Three Biological Effect	Hiroshi Watanabe and Hiroyasu Ujike	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Session 9: Context and Situation Understanding
13:00-15:05    Room 1006
Chair: Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Understanding Events Relationally and Temporally Related: Context Assessment Strategies for a Smart Home	Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonio Sgorbissa, and Renato Zaccaria	University of Genova, Italy
2	Analysis by Synthesis of Embodied Communication via VirtualActor with a Nodding Response Model	Yoshihiro Sejima1, Tomio Watanabe1,2, and Michiya Yamamoto1	1Okayama Prefectural University, 2CREST of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
3	Drowsy Driving Detection Based on the Driver's Head Movement using Infrared Sensors	Dongwook Lee, Seungwon Oh, Seongkook Heo, and Minsoo Hahn	Information and Communications University, Korea
4	Detecting Driver Fatigue based on the Driver’s Response Pattern and the Front View Environment of an Automobile	Youngjae Kim, Youmin Kim, and Minsoo Hahn	Information and Communications University, Korea
Session 10: Natural Language Processing & Web
16:00-18:05    Room 1004
Chair: Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Speech Act Annotation for Domain Specific Multilingual Expression Services	Julien Bourdon and Toru Ishida	Kyoto University
2	Extracting Subjective and Objective Evaluative Expressions from the Web	Tetsuji Nakagawa1, Takuya Kawada1, Kentaro Inui1, and Sadao Kurohashi2	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Kyoto University
3	Panel Discussion: Towards the Fusion of Speech, Language and Web Technologies	[Panelist] Hiroshi Nakagawa1, Akitoshi Okumura2, Qun Liu3, Satoshi Nakamura4 [Moderator] Kentaro Torisawa4	1The University of Tokyo, 2NEC Corporation, 3Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 4NICT
Session 11: Multisensory Interaction
16:00-18:05    Room 1005
Chair: Michitaka Hirose, The University of Tokyo
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	A Loudspeaker-Embedded Design for an Immersive Videoconferencing System with Large Screens	Gabriel Pablo Nava, Keiji Hirata, Masato Miyoshi, and Yasunori Harada	NTT Communitation Science Laboratories, NTT Co.
2	Toward Volume-Based Haptic Collaborative Virtual Environment with Realistic Sensation	Takahide Tanaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Lee Jooho, Nobutaka Shimada, and Hiromi T. Tanaka	Ritsumeikan University
3	Psychophysical Measurement of Multiple Tactile Sensations Using a Broadband Vibrotactile Display	Shuichi Ino1, Takeshi Homma2, and Takashi Izumi3	1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2Hitachi, Ltd., 3Tokai University
4	Inertial Force Display - Concept and Implementation	Koichi Hirota and Yuichiro Sekiguchi	The University of Tokyo
5	A Study of Multi-modal Display System with Visual Feedback	Tomohiro Tanikawa and Michitaka Hirose	The University of Tokyo
Session 12: Key Technologies for Smart Environments
16:00-17:40    Room 1006
Chair: Bing Zhang, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	Invited Talk: Wireless Sensor Network and Sensor Fusion Technology for Ubiquitous Smart Living Space Applications	Ming-Whei Feng1, Show-Ling Wen2, Kun-Cheng Tsai1, Yung-Chih Liu1, and Hung-Ren Lai1	1Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 2Chinese Cultural University, Taiwan
2	Real Time Posture Estimation of Human Hand for Robot Hand Interface	Takanobu Tanimoto and Kiyoshi Hoshino	University of Tsukuba
3	Large-scale Simulation Method of Mobile Robots	Takashi Okada, Junya Nakata, Razvan Beuran, Yasuo Tan, and Yoichi Shinoda	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Poster Session
December 15     15:30-16:00    Room 1008
December 16     12:30-13:00    Room 1008
December 16     15:05-16:00    Room 1008
No.	Title	Author	Affiliation
1	An Integrated Approach for Question Classification in Chinese Cuisine Question Answering System	Ling Xia1, Zhi Teng1, and Fuji Ren1, 2	1The University of Tokushima, 2Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
2	Modelling of Multiple Target Machine Translation of Controlled Languages Based on Language Norms and Divergences	Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Raksi Anantalapochai, Mohand Beddar, Dilber DeVitre, and Gan Jin	Université de Franche-Comté, France
3	A Utility for Showing Program Integrated Information Changes between Versions in a Translation Verification Test	Naotaka Kato1, Kazunori Matsushita1, and Makoto Arisawa2	1IBM Japan, Ltd, 2Keio University
4	AnHitz, Development and Integration of Language, Speech and Visual Technologies for Basque	Kutz Arrieta1, Igor Leturia2, Urtza Iturraspe3, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza4, Kepa Sarasola4, Inma Hernáez4, and Eva Navas4	1VICOMTech, Spain, 2Elhuyar Foundation, Spain, 3Robotiker, Spain, 4Basque Country University, Spain
5	Chinese NP Chunking: A Semi-Supervised Approach	Yen-Hsi Lin and Zhao-Ming Gao	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
6	Generating Punning Riddles from Examples	Bryan Anthony Hong1 and Ethel Ong2	1Datacraft NZ Limited, New Zealand, 2De La Salle University, the Philippines
7	A New Method to Reduce the Ambiguity of Japanese Phoneme Candidates Recognized by Recurrent Neural Networks	Shin-ichiro Hashimukai, Chikahiro Araki, Mikio Mori, Shuji Taniguchi, Shozo Kato, and Yasuhiro  Ogoshi	University of Fukui
8	Proposal of Precedents Processing System for Supporting Japanese Lay Judges	Keiichi Takamaru1, Hideyuki Shibuki2, Rafal Rzepka3, Masafumi Matsuhara4, Koji Murakami5, and Yasutomo Kimura6	1Utsunomiya Kyowa University, 2Yokohama National University, 3Hokkaido University, 4Iwate Prefectural University, 5Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 6Otaru University of Commerce
9	Using Appearance Information for Web Information Credibility Analysis	Susumu Akamine1, Yoshikiyo Kato1, Kentaro Inui1, and Sadao Kurohashi1, 2	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Kyoto University
10	A Database of Relations between Predicate Argument Structures for Recognizing Textual Entailment and Contradiction	Suguru Matsuyoshi, Koji Murakami, Yuji Matsumoto, and Kentaro Inui	Nara Institute of Science and Technology
11	Dynamic Cross-domain Link Creation for Interconnection of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases	Takafumi Nakanishi1, Koji Zettsu1, Yutaka Kidawara1, and Yasushi Kiyoki1, 2	1National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2Keio University
12	Laddering Search Service System: "LadaSearch"	Mihoko Kitamura, Sayori Shimohata, Tatsuya Sukehiro, Atsushi Ikeno, Masashi Sakamoto, Ikuo Orihara, and Toshiki Murata	Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
13	Inferring User Interests from Relevance Feedback with High Similarity Sequence Data-Driven Clustering	Roman Y. Shtykh and Qun Jin	Waseda University
14	Prosody Modeling from Tone to Intonation in Chinese using a Functional F0 Model	Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, and Satoshi Nakamura	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
15	Probabilistic Pronunciation Variation Model Based on Bayesian Network for Conversational Speech Recognition	Sakriani Sakti, Konstantin Markov, and Satoshi Nakamura	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
16	Fast Noise Suppression Algorithm with Kalman Filter Theory	Nari Tanabe1, Toshihiro Furukawa2, and Shigeo Tsujii3	1Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, 2Tokyo University of Science, 3Institute of Information Security
17	Dialogue Act Annotation for Statistically Managed Spoken Dialogue Systems	Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, and Satoshi Nakamura	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
18	Voice Activity Detection Algorithm with Low Signal-to-Noise Ratios Based on Spectrum Entropy	Kun-Ching Wang1 and Yi-Hsing Tasi2	1Shin Chien University, Taiwan, 2Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
19	SENZI and ASURA: New High-Precision Sound-Space Sensing Systems based on Symmetrically Arranged Numerous Microphones	Shuichi Sakamoto1, Satoshi Hongo2, Ryo Kadoi1, and Yôiti Suzuki1	1Tohoku University, 2Miyagi National College of Technology
20	Computer Simulation of HRTFs for Personalization of 3D Audio	Parham Mokhtari, Hironori Takemoto, Ryouichi Nishimura, and Hiroaki Kato	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
21	Quantitative Evaluation of Reconstructed Images of Parallel Phase-Shifting Digital Holographies	Tatsuki Tahara1, Yasuhiro Awatsuji1, 2, Kenzo Nishio1, Shogo Ura1, Toshihiro Kubota3, and Osamu Matoba4	1Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 3Kubota Holography Laboratory Co., 4Kobe University
22	Experiments on Personal Opinion Expression and Consensus Building using “Future Chronicle”	Satoko Itaya, Taku Konishi, Rie Tanaka, Shinichi Doi, and Keiji Yamada	NEC Corporation, C&C Innovation Research Laboratories
23	Analysis of Community Development using Chat Logs: A Virtual Support Group for Cancer Patients	Kanayo Ogura1, Takashi Kusumi2, and Asako Miura3	1Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 2Kyoto University, 3Kobe Gakuin University
24	Neural Correlates of Perceiving Visual Scenes as "Natural" or "Unnatural" - An fMRI Study with Contrast Modulated Pictures	Norberto Eiji Nawa and Hiroshi Ando	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
25	Wearable Memorization Aid for Human Memory Augmentation	Yasushi Ikei and Ken Ishigaki	Tokyo Metropolitan University
26	Improved Observation and Communication with a Distributed Compound Vision Surveillance System	Nikolay Semenov and Kimberly Newman	The University of Denver, USA
27	An Internet Environment for Braille Translation of Digital Music Scores	Toshiyuki Gotoh1, Reiko Minamikawa-Tachino2, and Naoyoshi Tamura1	1Yokohama National University, 2The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
28	Sign Language Recognition Based on Position and Movement Using Multi-Stream HMM	Masaru Maebatake, Iori Suzuki, Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, and Shingo Kuroiwa	Chiba University
29	Head-Orientation-Estimation-Integrated Speech Recognition for the Smart-Chair	Akira Sasou	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
30	The Development of a Positive Community using Virtual Space for Cancer Patients	Takashi Kusumi1, Kanayo Ogura2, and Asako Miura3	1Kyoto Univeristy, 2Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) , 3Kobe Gakuin University
31	An Experimental System to Analyze or Synthesize Baby's Emotional Voice using the Varidation of Pitch Frequencies	Chikahiro Araki, Shinnichirou Hashimukai, Satoshi Motomani, Mikio Mori, Shunji Taniguchi, Shozo Kato, and Yasuhiro Ogoshi	University of Fukui