The Kickoff Meeting of the JSPS International Leading Research Project
When:
2025年04月27日 @ 09:00 – 2025年04月29日 @ 17:00
Asia/Tokyo Timezone
2025-04-27T09:00:00+09:00
2025-04-29T17:00:00+09:00
Where:
Conference Room 3～5, National Museum of Ethnology
| Date | Sunday, April 27, 2025 – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 |
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| Location | Conference Room 3～5, National Museum of Ethnology |
| Audience | Academic Researchers (The general public is welcome to attend.) |
| Capacity | 【On-site participation】80 participants 【Online participation】unlimited |
| Fee | Free |
| Language | English, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language |
| Registration | |
| Contact | KIKUSAWA Ritsuko’s Project Office E-mail：k4109★minpaku.ac.jp （Please change ★ to @） |
| Organizer | 科研費国際共同研究加速基金（国際先導研究） 「時空言語学」の創成：地理と歴史を融合した言語の変化と発展への新たなアプローチ（課題番号 24K23937） JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Leading Research ) Project: Establishing Spatiotemporal Linguistics: A New Approach to the Interdisciplinary Study of Language History and Human Movement (#24K23937) |
Program
Day 1: April 27, 2025
- Seminar Room 5
| 9:00-13:00 | Meeting with Interpreters & Data Check |
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- Seminar Room 3
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch Break |
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Opening
- Seminar Room 4
| 13:00-13:10 | Welcome Address Hirai Kyonosuke (Deputy Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology) |
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| 13:10-13:15 | Business Announcements Kikusawa Ritsuko (Minpaku) |
| 13:15-13:45 | Aim of this project; Current Status of the Project and Goal Kikusawa Ritsuko (Minpaku) |
Session 1: Language Databases (Chair: KIKUSAWA Ritsuko)
- Seminar Room 4
| 13:45-14:00 | EvoSem: a database of polysemous cognate sets Alex Francois (The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)) Siva Kalyan (University of Queensland; Australian National University) (online) |
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| 14:00-14:15 | Introducing NonCanCase and Its Utilization for Analyzing Syntactic Change Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Gent) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Introducing Asian SignBank Philip Thierfelder (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Towards the Compilation of an Etymological Database of Japonic Languages through a Unified Cognacy Framework Igarashi Yosuke and Kenan Celik (NINJAL) |
| 14:45-15:10 | Questions and Comments |
| 15:10-15:30 | Break |
Session 2: Database Management (Chair: OKAMOTO Susumu)
- Seminar Room 4
| 15:30-16:00 | Australian Language Databases and Apps (About constructed open access databases, how to use them, copyright-related points to note, etc.) David Nathan |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Georeferencing for access and discovery of language data Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Curating, Integrating, and Publishing Data in Comparative Linguistics Johann-Mattis List (University of Passau, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) (online) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Questions and comments, discussion |
| 17:30-17:45 | Break |
- Seminar Room 5
| 17:45-19:30 | Reception (Invited Members Only) |
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Day 2: April 28, 2025
- Seminar Room 5
| 9:00-10:00 | Meeting with Interpreters & Data Check |
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Session 3: Language Data and Geographic Information (Chair: Mochihashi Daichi)
- Seminar Room 4
| 10:00-10:30 | Historical Geolingusitics: Current Project and Perspectives Shirai Satoko (University of Tokyo) and Suzuki Hiroyuki (Kyoto University) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Language Data and GIS: Current Status and Where We are John Lowry (Oregon State University) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Connecting Human Science Resources through GIS Case study : Utilization of GIS in Interdisciplinary project, “A New Archaeology Initiative to Elucidate the Formation Process of Chinese Civilization” Watanabe Nobuya (Chubu University) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Integrating of Language, archaeology, and genetics information using GIS Anh Phan (Chubu University) |
| 11:15-11:45 | Questions and Comments, Discussion |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch Break (& Exhibition Galerry Visit) |
Session 4: Language Data, Language-users’ Community and Scientific Endeavour (Chair: Yoshioka Noboru)
- Seminar Room 4
| 13:00-13:15 | Eliciting Fijian words: a study of two surveys Paul Geraghty (University of the South Pacific) |
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| 13:15-13:30 | Data Collection of Ethiopian Sign Language (ESL) and ESL Dictionary Eyasu Tamene (University of Addis Ababa) |
| 13:30-13:45 | Malagasy Languages and Language Maps Michel Razafiarivony (University of Antananarivo) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Collecting Fijian Language Data Apolonia Tamata (University of the South Pacific) and Mikaele Sela (iTaukei Trust Fund Board) |
| 14:00-14:15 | Laying the Groundwork for an Integrated Genetic and Linguistic Study in Fiji Koganebuchi Kae (University of Tokyo) (online) |
| 14:15-14:45 | Questions and Comments |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break |
Session 5: Lightening Talk: Project Members and Others
- Seminar Room 4
| 15:00-15:20 | Development of noun incorporation in Vatulele Fijian Okamoto Susumu (Minpaku; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) A Phonetic Corpus Analysis of the Close Central Vowel in Miyako Ryukyuan Patrick Elmer (Sokendai) (online) Description of Sakhalin Ainu based on corpora: promises and challenges Elia Dal Corso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) (online) Temporality and Gestures in Korean Kawabata Yuki (Minpaku) Change in negative particles of Romansh dialects – comparing AIS and AISr” Seimiya Takamasa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Anthropological Research on the Sign Languages in the Pacific Sano Fumiya (NIHU/Kyoto University) |
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| 15:20-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-15:50 | Describing languages on the Roof of the World Yoshioka Noboru (Minpaku) Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database Joo Ian (Otaru University of Commerce) Spatial statistics and Adaptive maps Mochihashi Daichi (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) A computational sociolinguistic analysis of lexical emergence Huang He (Fudan University) Spatial Data Analysis in Collaboration with AI Ouchi Hiroki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
Evening: Open
Day 3: April 29, 2025
- Seminar Room 5
| 9:00-10:00 | Meeting with Interpreters & Data Check |
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Session 6: Statistics, Phylogeny and AI Analysis (Chair: Watanabe Nobuya)
- Seminar Room 4
| 10:00-10:30 | Phylogenetic estimation using Bayesian statistics project “Understanding the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity” Simon Greenhill (University of Auckland; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Toward Open Science in Linguistics: Adapting Practices in Japan Murawaki Yugo (Kyoto University) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Spoken Language Technologies for Historical Speech and Audio Takamichi Shinnosuke (Keio University) (online) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Understanding Each Other: Fostering Communication in Linguistics and Data Science Victor Skobov |
| 11:15-11:45 | Questions and comments, discussion |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch Break (& Exhibition Galerry Visit) |
Session 7: Planning for the first 2 years (Chair: Kikusawa Ritsuko)
- Seminar Room 4
| 13:00-14:30 | Discussion: 1) System, 2) Research, 3) Fieldwork, 4) ECR’s training, 5) Seminars |
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| 14:30-14:45 | Comments and Closing Remarks Ohya Kazushi (Tsurumi University) |
Post Symposium Session: FIJI GIS Atlas Project
- Seminar Room 4
| 15:00-16:00 | FIJI GIS Project meeting Fiji GIS Project members (others will be welcome to join) |
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