Faculty Database - Oya Masanori

■ Books and Papers

1.	2025/03	Article	Complexity of English Sentences in English Textbooks for High School Students in Japan Global Japanese Studies Review 17(1),pp.1-10 (Single)
2.	2023/03	Article	"Propositional Idea Density of a Japanese Text and its English Translation in a Parallel Corpus" Global Japanese Studies Review 15(1),pp.97-105 (Single)
3.	2023/01	Article	"Differences of Mean Dependency Distances of English Essays Written by Learners of Different Proficiency Levels" Glottometrics 53,pp.24-41 (Single)
4.	2022/09	Article	"The Relevance of Dependency Distances in the Study of L2 Production" Proceedings of the 41st Thailand TESOL International (Virtual) Conference (Single)
5.	2022/03	Article	"Developing a Japanese-English Parallel Corpus of 'Japan, the Beautiful and Myself' by Yasunari Kawabata" Global Japanese Studies Review 14(1),pp.13-26 (Single)
6.	2021/11	Article	"Three Types of Average Dependency Distances of Sentences in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus" Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) (Single)
7.	2021/05	Article	"Syntactic Similarity of the Sentences in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus Based on the Euclidean Distance of Their Dependency Trees" Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 34 (PACLIC) 34,pp.225-233 (Single)
8.	2021/03	Article	"Analysis and Quantification of the Network of Lexical Connectedness Within a Text Based on Metrics Used in Network Analysis" Global Japanese Studies Review, Meiji University 13(1),pp.15-38 (Single)
9.	2020/03	Article	"Structural Divergence Between Root Elements in English-Japanese Translation Pairs" Global Japanese Studies Review 12(1),pp.107-126 (Single)
10.	2019/11	Article	"A Corpus-Based Investigation of Collexemes for Active-Passive Alternation in the English Part of an English-Japanese Parallel Corpus" Proceedings of the 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) pp.516-521 (Single)
11.	2019/08	Article	"Utilization of Dependency Type per Sentence to Identify Differences Among Genres of English Texts" Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (Single)
12.	2017/03	Article	"Syntactic Divergence Patterns Among English Translations of Japanese One-Word Sentences in a Parallel Corpus" English Corpus Studies 24,pp.19-40 (Single)
13.	2015/03	Article	"Japanese One-Word Sentences and Their English Translations in a Parallel Corpus" Mejiro Journal of Humanity 11,pp.237-248 (Single)
14.	2014/08	Article	"An English-Japanese Bilingual Corpus-Based Comparison of Their Syntactic Dependency Structures" Proceedings of the 19th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics pp.69-70 (Single)
15.	2014/04	Article	"Typed-Dependency Tree Pairs of English and Japanese" Mejiro Journal of Humanities 10,pp.205-215 (Single)
16.	2013/08	Article	"Lexical-Functional Grammar and Dependency Grammar" Information Communication Technology Practice & Research 2012 pp.19-32 (Single)
17.	2013/08	Article	"Treatment of Zero Pronouns in the Framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar" Proceedings of the 18th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics (Single)
18.	2013/03	Article	"Degree Centralities, Closeness Centralities, and Dependency Distances of Different Genres of Texts" Selected Papers from the 17th Conference of Pan-Pacific Applied Linguistics pp.42-53 (Single)
19.	2013/03	Article	"Syntactic Dependency Structures of English and Japanese" Mejiro Journal of Humanities 9,pp.151-164 (Single)
20.	2004/03	Article	"On the Properties of Japanese Case Marker '-ga': An LFG Account" Proceedings of the 8th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics pp.349-360 (Single)
21.	2003/03	Article	"An LFG Account of Contrastive Particle -wa in Japanese" Proceedings of the 7th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics pp.167-180 (Single)
22.	2000/08	Article	"Lexical-Functional Grammar and Its Pedagogical Implication of Japanese EFL Students: Theoretical Issues on the Acquisition of the Progressive" Proceedings of the 5th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics pp.183-189 (Single)
23.	1998/09	Article	"Part-of-speech Alternations of English Predicates; An Optimality Hypothesis Account" Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics (Single)
24.	1998/08	Article	"Beyond Lexical Aspect" Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics pp.127-147 (Single)
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■ Conference Presentations

1.	2024/12/08	Cross-Linguistic Variances of Dependency Distances in Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus (The 38th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 38))
2.	2023/12/03	Low-Frequency Long-Distance Dependencies as “Long Tails” (The 37th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37))
3.	2022/10/20	Curve-fitting of frequency distributions of dependency distances in a multi-lingual parallel corpus (The 36th annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36))
4.	2022/08/20	Idea Density of English Textbooks for Japanese Junior-High School Students (PAAL 2022 Conference)
5.	2022/01/22	The Relevance of Dependency Distances in the Study of L2 Production (The 41st Thailand TESOL International (Virtual) Conference)
6.	2021/11/07	Three Types of Average Dependency Distances of Sentences in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 35))
7.	2020/10/24	Structural divergence between root elements in English-Japanese translation pairs (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 34))
8.	2019/09/15	A corpus-based investigation of collexemes for active-passive alternation in the English part of an English-Japanese parallel corpus (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 33))
9.	2018/12/02	Utilization of Dependency Type per Sentence to Identify Differences among Genres of English Texts (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32))
10.	2018/06/28	Analysis of Learner-corpus Data Based on the Dependency-grammar Formalism (Asia TEFL)
11.	2016/08/22	Dependency Types in Learner English and Authentic English (The 21st Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics)
12.	2015/06/25	The Possibility of Building a Dependency-based Japanese-English Construction Dictionary (Asialex 2015)
13.	2015/05/20	Centrality Measures of Sentences in an English-Japanese Parallel Corpus (PACLING 2015)
14.	2015/02/09	Lexical Information for Japanese Zero Pronouns (MAPLEX 2015)
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■ Academic Qualifications

1.	1997/04～2002/03	〔Doctorial Course〕 Doctoral Program, Course Education Major, Graduate School, Division of Education, Waseda University, Accomplished credits for doctoral program
2.	2014/06/24 Degree Acquisition	Waseda University, Ph.D.
3.	2005/10～2010/03	〔Master Course〕, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Completed, Master of Science
4.	1995/04～1997/03	〔Master Course〕 Master's Program, English Education Major, Graduate School of Education, Waseda University, Completed, M.A.

■ Career History

1.	2022～	Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies Professor
2.	2019/04～2022/03	Associate Professor
3.	2014/10～2019/03	Mejiro University Department of English Language Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies Associate Professor
4.	2011/04～2014/09	Mejiro University Department of English language studies, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies
5.	2002/04～2006/03	Waseda University School of Education Lecturer
6.	1999/04～2002/03	Waseda University School of Education Research Assistant
7.	1999/04～2006/03	Lecturer
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■ Major Subjects

English Linguistics, Advanced Reading & Writing

■ Academic Associations Membership

1.

2021/09～

∟ Vice Co-chair

■ Committees and Associations

1.	2023/06/18～2024/08	JACET
2.	2021/09～	Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Vice-Chairperson
3.	2021/06～2024/08	JACET

■ Email Addresses

■ Current Specialized Field

Linguistics (Key Word：Corpus linguistics, Dependency Grammar, syntax (Lexical-Functional Grammar))

■ KAKENHI Researcher Number

60318748