Hiroyuki Akama

Also published as: Hiroyuki Akam


2010

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Network Analysis of Korean Word Associations
Jaeyoung Jung | Na Li | Hiroyuki Akama
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics

2008

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How to Take Advantage of the Limitations with Markov Clustering?–The Foundations of Branching Markov Clustering (BMCL)
Hiroyuki Akama | Maki Miyake | Jaeyoung Jung
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-II

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Random Graph Model Simulations of Semantic Networks for Associative Concept Dictionaries
Hiroyuki Akama | Jaeyoung Jung | Terry Joyce | Maki Miyake
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 3rd Textgraphs workshop on Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing

2007

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Hierarchical Structure in Semantic Networks of Japanese Word Associations
Maki Miyake | Terry Joyce | Jaeyoung Jung | Hiroyuki Akama
Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2006

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Recurrent Markov Cluster (RMCL) Algorithm for the Refinement of the Semantic Network
Jaeyoung Jung | Maki Miyake | Hiroyuki Akam
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

The purpose of this work is to propose a new methodology to ameliorate the Markov Cluster (MCL) Algorithm that is well known as an efficient way of graph clustering (Van Dongen, 2000). The MCL when applied to a graph of word associations has the effect of producing concept areas in which words are grouped into the similar topics or similar meanings as paradigms. However, since a word is determined to belong to only one cluster that represents a concept, Markov clusters cannot show the polysemy or semantic indetermination among the properties of natural language. Our Recurrent MCL (RMCL) allows us to create a virtual adjacency relationship among the Markov hard clusters and produce a downsized and intrinsically informative semantic network of word association data. We applied one of the RMCL algorithms (Stepping-stone type) to a Japanese associative concept dictionary and obtained a satisfactory level of performance in refining the semantic network generated from MCL.