Nobo Komagata: Recent Writing (books, papers, essays, etc.)
Recent topics (human development, education, health, parenting, mindfulness, etc.)
- Komagata, Nobo and Komagata, Sachiko. Mindfulness and Flow Experience. Essay.html/Essay.pdf (first written: June 24, 2010;
last revised:
July 27, 2010)
- Komagata, Nobo. Attachment and Non-Attachment: Attachment Theory and Buddhism. Essay.html/Essay.pdf (first written: September 4, 2009;
last revised:
March 6, 2010)
- Komagata, Nobo. Airport (A Short Essay). Essay.html (July 12, 2009)
- Komagata, Nobo. Broken Hip: My Story. Essay.php (first written: January 6, 2009;
last revised: June 23, 2010)
- Komagata, Nobo and Komagata, Sachiko. Unconditional Parenting and Secure Attachment. Essay.html/Essay.pdf (August 8, 2008)
- Komagata, Nobo. 2008. Promoting Lifelong Learning of Complexities through Intrinsic Motivation. [August 2008]. Edge Life Magazine (now as The Edge). Article.html
- Komagata, Nobo. On (Preschool) Education. Essay.html (March 14, 2008)
- Komagata, Nobo and Komagata, Sachiko. 2008. Ava's Bedside: Making Sense Through Attachment. Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com. Available on our lulu.com storefront (print/download) and Amazon.com (print)
- Komagata, Nobo and Komagata, Sachiko. 2007. The Mind-Body Connection Behind Holistic Approaches to Health: Recent Advancements and Current Limitations. Ewing, NJ: Nobo & Sachiko Komagata. Available on our lulu.com storefront (print/free download)
Computational linguistics/general linguistics
- Komagata, Nobo. 2005. Pragmatic Phenomena as Living Fossils of Language Evolution. Presented at 9th International Pragmatics Conference, 193-194, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2005. Draft.html/Draft.pdf/Slides.pdf
(Jul. 19, 2005)
- Komagata, Nobo. 2003. Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information
Structure and Information Theory. In Modeling
and Using Context: 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference,
Context '03,
eds. Patrick Blackburn, Chiara Ghidini, Roy M. Turner, and Fausto Giunchiglia,
190-203, Berlin: Springer-Verlag (Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence/Computer Science 2680). Publisher site/Paper.pdf (© 2003
Springer-Verlag, posted under agreement)
- Komagata, Nobo. Theme-First Principle Revisited:
Word Order, Information Structure, and Information Theory. Draft.pdf (Aug.
8, 2001; a preliminary version of the Context '03 paper)
- Komagata, Nobo. 2003. Information Structure in Subordinate and
Subordinate-Like Clauses. In Journal
of Logic, Language and Information, 12(3):301-318. Publisher
site
- Komagata, Nobo. 1999. A Computational Analysis of Information Structure Using Parallel Expository Texts in English and Japanese. PhD thesis. University of Pennsylvania. Available on my thesis page.
- Komagata, Nobo. 2004. A Solution to the Spurious Ambiguity Problem for Practical Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parsers. In Computer Speech & Language, 18(1):91-103. Publisher site
- Komagata, Nobo. Computational Modeling of Linguistic Pragmatics from a Complex Systems Perspective. Essay.pdf (Jul. 20, 2004, rev. Jun. 6, 2005).
- Komagata, Nobo. Information Structure and Inference Process Involving Inferrable Referents. Draft.pdf (Feb. 5, 2004)
- Komagata, Nobo. Coordination of Unlike (?) Categories: How Not to Distinguish Categories. Draft.pdf (Jan. 19, 2002)
- Komagata, Nobo. Focus Projection and Information Structure. Draft.pdf (Aug.
10, 2001)
- Komagata, Nobo. 2000. Contrastive Function of Japanese Particle wa. Draft.pdf (Jul.
21, 2000); an earlier version presented at NECSS 98, Ithaca, NY,
May 1998. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.gz;
also as IRCS
Technical Report 98-20 (Apr.
30, 1998)
- Komagata, Nobo. 1998. Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving
Readability with Respect to Information Structure. In Proceedings
of the
International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial
Application (NLP+IA98),
200-204, Moncton, Canada, August 1998. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.gz;
also as IRCS
Technical Report 98-19.
- Komagata, Nobo. 1997. Efficient Parsing for CCGs with Generalized
Type-Raised Categories. In Proceedings of International
Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT97), 135-146, Boston, MA,
September 1997. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.gz;
also a longer version as IRCS
Technical Report 97-16. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.Z
- Komagata, Nobo. 1997. Generative Power of CCGs with Generalized
Type-Raised Categories. In Proceedings of the
35th Annual Meeting/Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL/EACL-1997) (Student
Session), 513-515, Madrid, Spain, July 1997. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.gz;
also a longer version as IRCS
Technical Report 97-15. Abstract.txt/Paper.ps.Z
- Komagata, Nobo. Pseudoclefts in Japanese. Draft.pdf (May 1, 1996)
Other technical topics (logic, computer science education, statistics)
- Komagata, Nobo. The Notion of "Theory" in Formal Logic. Note.pdf (January 14, 2005)
- Komagata, Nobo. Some Thoughts on Teaching Discrete Mathematics. Draft.html (Dec. 30, 2003)
- Komagata, Nobo. Chance Agreement and Significance of the Kappa Statistic. Draft.pdf [excel file] (Sep. 11, 2002)
Last modified: July 26, 2010