Presentations / Publications

1. Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accuracy: Orthographic Complexity Hurts, Phonological Complexity Doesn’t.
   Chihiro Taguchi, David Chiang.
   Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Main, 2024.
   Outstanding Paper Award (~1% of the total submissions), Senior Area Chair’s Award (<1% of the total submissions)
   [Paper]

2. Japanese Rule-based Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion System and Multilingual Named Entity Dataset with International Phonetic Alphabet.
   Yuhi Matogawa, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe, Chihiro Taguchi.
   Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIGMORPHON) at NAACL, 2024.
   [Paper]

3. Killkan: The Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Kichwa with Morphosyntactic Information.
   Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig, Dayana Velásquez, David Chiang.
   Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024.
   [Paper]

4. J-SNACS: Adposition and Case Supersenses for Japanese Joshi.
   Tatsuya Aoyama, Chihiro Taguchi, Nathan Schneider.
   Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024.
   [Paper]

5. Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks.
   Jonathan Washington, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, Chihiro Taguchi.
   The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) at LREC-COLING, 2024.
   [Paper]

6. Non-discourse-configurationality in Imbabura Kichwa.
   Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig.
   The Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 9 (1), 2024.
   [Paper]

7. Automatic Phonetic Transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet.
   Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Parisa Haghani, David Chiang.
   INTERSPEECH, 2023.
   [Paper]

8. Grammaticalization of modal nominal predicates in Tatar.
   Chihiro Taguchi.
   21st International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, 2023.
   [Slides]

9. Japanese gapless relativization: The syntax–prosody interface to semantics.
   Chihiro Taguchi.
   LFG23: The 28th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, 2023.
   [Poster]

10. 沖縄語のUniversal Dependenciesツリーバンクコーパスの構築.
    So Miyagawa, Hiroshi Kanayama, Chihiro Taguchi, Nana Tohyama.
    29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2023.
    [Paper]

11. 形態論情報付き日本語Universal Dependencies.
    Chihiro Taguchi, So Miyagawa.
    29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing.
    委員特別賞 (Committee’s Honorable Mention).
    [Paper]

12. Introducing Morphology in Universal Dependencies Japanese.
    Chihiro Taguchi, David Chiang.
    Sixth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), 2023.
    [Paper]

13. Mermaid Constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    Proceedings of the LFG’22 Conference, 2022. [Paper]

14. Consistent Grammatical Annotation of Turkic Languages for more universal Universal Dependencies.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian languages, 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2022.
    [Paper]

15. Universal Dependencies Treebank for Tatar: Incorporating Intra-Word Code-Switching Information.
    Chihiro Taguchi, Sei Iwata, and Taro Watanabe.
    Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) at LREC, 2022.
    [Paper], [Slides]

16. 名詞述語を伴う繰り上げ構文としての人魚構文.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    164th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2022.
    [Paper] [Slides]

17. Mermaid Construction in Tatar.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    162nd Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2021.
    [Paper] [Slides]

18. Transliteration for Low-Resource Code-Switching Texts: Building an Automatic Cyrillic-to-Latin Converter for Tatar.
    Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe.
    Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS) at NAACL, 2021.
    [Paper] [Slides]

19. So-Called “Prepositions” in Somali are Not Prepositions: A Linguistic Approach for Somali POS Tagging
    Chihiro Taguchi, Taro Watanabe.
    27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, 2021.
    [Paper] [Slides]

20. Raising to Quirky Subject in Tatar.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    161st Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2020.
    [Paper] [Slides]

21. Vowel Harmonies in Kazan Tatar: Element Theoretical Approach.
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    159th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan.
    [Paper] [Slides]

22. 近現代における言語衰退過程の観察と考察 —琉球語宮古池間方言を事例に—
    Chihiro Taguchi.
    政治学研究 [Studies in Political Science]. Keio University Press, 2018.
    [Paper]

Talks

• Chihiro Taguchi. (2023). Incorporating AI-based Speech Transcription into Language Documentation: A case study of Imbabura Kichwa. [Poster]
  LSA Institute 2023.

• Chihiro Taguchi. (2023). 自然言語処理と記述言語研究のインターフェイス：Universal Dependencies のすすめ (Bridging Natural Language Processing and Descriptive Linguistics with Universal Dependencies). [Slides].
  Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 23 “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities (2)”. ILCAA, TUFS. Online.

• Chihiro Taguchi. (2022). Mermaid Construction as raising with a nominal predicate [Slides].
  The 74th Language Lunch At Edinburgh. Online.

• Chihiro Taguchi. (2021). Text Processing of Open-Access Jinghpaw Data on Google Colaboratory [Slides].
  2nd Follow-up meeting on Intensive Language Course 2019 (Jinghpaw) / The 3rd meeting on Kachin studies. ILCAA, TUFS. Online.

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