Curriculum Vitae

Education and employment:

Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan(hired September, 2002; current rank as of April, 2005).

Doctor degree of Information Sciences, Graduate Schools of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan(February 2002). Dissertation: Study on mechanism of regulating communication in spoken dialogue interface.

Research associate, National Institute of Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan(April 2000-March 2003).

Researcher, Intelligent Systems, Central research laboratory, Hitach ltd., Tokyo, Japan(April 1993-March 1997).

Master's degree, Research of Information Systems, Graduate Schools of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan(March 1993). Thesis: Construction of Utterance Timing-Free Spoken Dialogue System.

Bachelor's degree, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan(March 1991). Thesis: Construction of Knowledge model for infants' language acquisition.

Extramural research and teaching:

Visiting Associate Professor, Collaborative Research Unit, National Institute of Informatics, Japan(April 2008-).

Visiting Researcher, Laboratory for Language Development, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan(September 2008-).

Extramural research, Nissan, Mobility Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan(September 2007-).

Other professional activities:

Member of: Acoustical Society of Japan (served on speech technical committee, 2009-); Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (served on boardman, 2008-); Information Processing Society of Japan; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Human Interface Society; International Speech Communication Association.

Editor, transaction of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence(2003-2009).

Publications

Articles in journals and other peer-reviewed archival series:

Tohru ARIGA, Toshiyuki KISHI, Hideaki KIKUCHI, and Eiichiro NOJIMA, "Extraction of paralinguistic information by means of speech analysis of teacher's utterance in class", transaction of Japan Society for Educational Technology, vol.32, no.1, pp.13-22, 2008. (in Japanese)

Shinya FUJIE, Yasushi EJIRI, Hideaki KIKUCHI, and Tetsunori KOBAYASHI, "Recognition of positive/negative attitute and its application to a spoken dialogue system", IEICE transactions of information and systems, PT.2, vol.J88-D-II, no.3, pp.489-498, 2005. (in Japanese)

KIKUCHI Hideaki, MAEKAWA Kikuo, IGARASHI Yosuke, YONEYAMA Kiyoko, and FUJIMOTO Masako, "Phonetic labeling of the 'Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese'", journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, vol.7, no.3, pp.16-26, 2003. (in Japanese)

KIKUCHI Hideaki and SHIRAI Katsuhiko, "Mechanism of generating meta-utterance with predicting changes of mental states in spoken dialogue", transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol.43, no.7, pp.2130-2137, 2002. (in Japanese)

KIKUCHI Hideaki and SHIRAI Katsuhiko, "Modeling of spoken dialogue control for improvement of dialogue efficiency", transaction of Human Interface Society, vol.2, no.2, pp.39-46, 2000. (in Japanese)

YOKOYAMA Masao, AOYAMA Kazumi, KIKUCHI Hideaki, HOASHI Keiichirou, and SHIRAI Katsuhiko, "Controlling non-verbal information in speaker-changing for spoken dialogue interface of humanoid robot", transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol.40, no.2, pp.487-496, 1999. (in Japanese)

ASHIZAWA Minoru, KIKUCHI Hideaki, MISHINA Yusuke, FUJISAWA Hiromichi, HIDAKA Minoru, YAMAZAKI Naoko, and SAKURAI Akito, "Using digigal libraries as a community hall for worldwide information spiral development", IEICE transactions of information and systems, PT.2, vol.J81-D-II, no.5, pp.1014-1024, 1998. (in Japanese)

KIKUCHI Hideaki, KUDOU Ikuo, KOBAYASHI Tetsunori, and SHIRAI Katsuhiko, "Handling of user interruption realizing timing-free utterances for spoken dialogue interface", IEICE transactions of information and systems, PT.2, vol.J77-D-II, no.8, pp.1502-1511, 1994. (in Japanese)

Akito Nagai, Shigeki Sagayama, Kenji Kita, Hideaki Kikuchi, "Three Different LR Parsing Algorithm for Phoneme-Context-Dependent HMM-Based Continuous Speech Recognition," IEICE transactions of information and systems, vol. E76-D, no.1, pp.29-37, 1993. (in English)

Book chapters:

MAEKAWA Kikuo, KIKUCHI Hideaki, "Voicing in Japanese," Van de Weijer, Nanjo, Nishihara (Eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, pp. 205-228, 2006.

HATAOKA Nobuo, ANDO Haru, and KIKUCHI Hideaki, "Spoken Language Systems," S. Nakagawa et al. (Eds.), Ohmsha/IOS Press, pp.191-205, 2005. <ISBN4-274-90637-x>

And other five books written in Japanese.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings:

Raymond SHEN, KIKUCHI Hideaki, "Developing feasibility of the Chinese Learners' Speech Corpus referring to the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese(CSJ)", proc. of O-COCOSDA2008, pp.93-96, 2008.

MIYAZAWA Kouki, SHIROSE Ayako, KIKUCHI Hideaki, "Computational model of the process of learning vowel categories in language acquisition", proc. of O-COCOSDA2008, pp.230-233, 2008.

KIKUCHI Hideaki, MAEKAWA Kikuo, "Construction of XML documents for the study of prosody using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese," proc. of O-COCOSDA 2007, pp.38-42, 2007.

Kikuo Maekawa, Hideaki Kikuchi, and Wataru Tsukahara, "Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese: Design, Annotation and XML Representation," International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2004), pp.19-24, 2004.

FUJIE Shinya, YAGI Daizo, MATSUSAKA Yosuke, KIKUCHI Hideaki, KOBAYASHI Tetsunori, "Spoken Dialogue System Using Prosody As Para-Linguistic Information," International Conference Speech Prosody SP2004, pp.387-390, 2004.

FUJIE Shinya, EJIRI Yasushi, MATSUSAKA Yosuke, KIKUCHI Hideaki, KOBAYASHI Tetsunori, "Recognition of Para-Linguistic Information and Its Application to Spoken Dialogue System," proc. of IEEE ASRU2003(Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop), pp.231-236, 2003.

MAEKAWA Kikuo, KOISO Hanae, KIKUCHI Hideaki, YONEYAMA Kiyoko, "Use of a large-scale spontaneous speech corpus in the study of linguistic variation," proc. of 15th Int'l Congress of Phonetic Sciences(ICPhS2003), pp.643-644, 2003.

KIKUCHI Hideaki, MAEKAWA Kikuo, "Evaluation of the effectiveness of "X-JToBI": A new prosodic labeling scheme for spontaneous Japanese speech," proc. of 15th Int'l Congress of Phonetic Sciences(ICPhS2003), pp.579-582, 2003.

Kikuchi, H. and K. Maekawa. "Performance of segmental and prosodic labeling of spontaneous speech." Proceedings of the ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition (SSPR2003), Tokyo, pp.191-194, 2003.

Maekawa, K., H. Kikuchi, Y. Igarashi, and J. Venditti. "X-JToBI: An extended J_ToBI for spontaneous speech." Proc. 7th International Congress on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2002), Denver, 3: pp. 1545-1548, 2002.

Kazumi Aoyama, Izumi Hirano, Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Designing a Domain Independent Platform of Spoken Dialogue System," Proc. of Int'l. Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp.1314-1317, 2000.

Hiroya Fujisaki, et.al., "Overview of an Intelligent System for Information Retrieval Based on Human-Machine Dialogue through Spoken Language," Proc. of Int'l. Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp.70-73, 2000.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Improvement of Dialogue Efficiency by Dialogue Control Model According to Performance of Processes," Proc. of Int'l. Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp.989-992, 2000.

Kazumi Aoyama, Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Controlling Non-verbal Information in Speaker-change for Spoken Dialogue," Proc. of IEEE Int'l. Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp.1354-1359, 2000.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Modeling of Spoken Dialogue Control for Improvement of Dialogue Efficiency," Proc. of IEEE Int'l. Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp.781-785, 2000.

Yasuo Shirosaki, Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Improving Recognition Correct Rate of Important Words in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition," Proc. of Eurospeech, 1999.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Controlling Dialogue Strategy According to Performance of Processes," Proc. of ESCA Workshop Interactive Dialogue in Multi-modal Systems, pp.85-88, 1999.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Masao Yokoyama, Keiichiro Hoashi, Yasuaki Hidaki, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "Controlling Gaze of Humanoid in Communication with Human," Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.255-260, 1998.

Akira Ichikawa, et.al., "Evaluation of Annotation Schemes for Japanese Discourse," Proc. of Workshop, 1999.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Masao Yokoyama, Keiichirou Hoashi, Katsuhiko Shirai, "The Role of Non-Verbal Information in Spoken Dialogue between a Man and a Robot," Proc. of ICSP '97, Vol.2, pp.539-544, 1997.

Hideaki Kikuchi, Yusuke Mishina, Minoru Ashizawa, Naoko Yamazaki, Hiromichi Fujisawa, "User Interface for a Digital Library to Support Construction of a "Virtual Personal Library"," Proceedings of ICMCS, pp.429-432, 1996.

Yusuke Mishina, Minoru Ashizawa, Naoko Yamazaki, Hideaki Kikuchi, Hiromichi Fujisawa, "Extensions of World-wide Aiming at the construction of a "Virtual Personal Library"," Proc. of Seventh ACM Conf. on Hypertext, poster session, 1996.

Nobuo Hataoka, Haru Ando, and Hideaki Kikuchi "Multimodal Interface Using Speech and Pointing Gestures, and Its Applications for Interior Design and PC Window Manipulation" Proc. of IWHIT95 (International Workshop on Human Interface Technology 95), pp.11-16, 1995.

Haru Ando, Hideaki Kikuchi, Nobuo Hataoka, "Agent-typed Multimodal Interface Using Speech, Pointing Gestures, and CG," Proc. of HCI International '95, pp.29-34, 1995.

Other Reports:

Parts of "Construction of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese", Report of National Institute for Japanese Language, vol.124, 2006.