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Pawel Dybala

Welcome to my home page. Below you can find info regarding my background, education as well as current and past scientific activities.

My profile

Name:

    Pawel Dybala

Position:

    Post-doc / JSPS Research Fellow at Otaru University of Commerce

Present Address:

    Otaru University of Commerce
    Midori 3-5-21, 047-8501 Otaru, Japan

E-mail:

    paweldybala@res.otaru-uc.ac.jp

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My research

Current research topic:

    - Metaphor conceptual network: a cognitive system dealing with metaphors shared among languages -

Areas of expertise:

    - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
    - Computationa Linguistics
    - Metaphor processing
    - Humor processing
    - Affect analysis
    - Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
    - Evaluation of HCI systems
    - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    - Cognitive science
    - Cognitive linguistics

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My education

Ph.D. (August 2010):

    Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

    Dissertation:
      “Humor to Facilitate HCI: Implementing a Japanese Pun Generator into a Non-task Oriented Conversational System"

MA. (November 2006):

    Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Department of Japanology and Sinology

    MA Thesis:
      “Nihongo ni okeru douon’igi ni motozuku gengo yūgi” (in Japanese)
      “Dajare – Japanese puns based on homophony).
      Jagiellonian University, Kraków

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Academic Experience

since X.2011

    - JSPS Research Fellow - Otaru University of Commerce, Otaru, Japan

2008-2010

    - Research assistant for the Global Center of Excellence, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

2007-2010

    - Teaching assistant - Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (Natural Language Processing, Logic circuit)

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Grants and Scholarships

2011-present

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science.

2011-present

    Research Fellowship Funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), affiliated at Otaru University of Commerce.

2010

    Research Expenses Grant from The Young Researcher Support Program, within The Global Centers of Excellence Program founded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

2008-2010

    Travel Grants from The Global Centers of Excellence Program (Hokkaido University Branch) to attend International Conferences, founded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

2008-2010

    Travel Grants from Center for Engineering Education Development (Hokkaido University Branch) to attend International Conferences.

2008-2010

    Travel Grants from Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan.

2007-2009

    Research Expenses Founded Partially by a Cognitive Science Research Grant from the Nissan Science Foundation (Project name: "Communication Ability Development Toy with Common Sense Dialogue System").

2007-2010

    Ph.D. Scholarship of Government of Japan, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan.

2007

    Scholarship of Government of Japan, Postgraduate research student, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan.

2001-2006

    Scholarship awards for exceptional academic grades, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

2003-2004

    Scholarship of Government of Japan, Course for Japanese Language and Culture, Hokkaido University, Japan.

2002

    Short-term Japanese Intensive Training – Scholarship awarded for the best academic grades among 2nd year students of Department of Japanology and Sinology, Jagiellonian University.

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Publications

    [Books]

  1. Pawel DYBALA, “Humor to Facilitate HCI”, Lambert Academic Publishing (publ. July 2011), ISBN: 978-3844326352

    2. [Book chapters]

  2. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Jacek MACIEJEWSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Yoshio MOMOUCHI, “Annotating A Five-Billion-Word Corpus of Japanese Blogs with Syntactic and Affective Information”, Chapter in Mining of User Generated Content and Its Applications, Ed. Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua, publ. Tailor & Francis (CRC Press), Spring 2013 (to appear).

  3. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Jacek MACIEJEWSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Yoshio MOMOUCHI, “Science of Emoticons: Research Framework and State of the Art in Analysis of Kaomoji-type Emoticons”, Chapter in Speech, Image and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction: Multi-modal Advancements, IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA (publ. April 2012), ISBN: 978-1-4666-0954-9.

  4. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “A Step Towards Emotion Aware Joking AI: Multiagent Humor-Equipped Conversational System”, Chapter in Agent-Based Approaches to Ambient Intelligence, IOS Press, pp. 289-326, 2012.

  5. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Shinsuke HIGUHI, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Towards Socialized Machines: Emotions and Sense of Humour in Conversational Agents ”, Chapter in Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, edited by: Zeeshan Usmani, ISBN 978-953-7619-85-5, In-Tech, Vienna, Austria, 2010, pp. 173-206.

    6. [Journals]

  6. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Metaphor, Humor and Emotion Processing in Human-Computer Interaction”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, 2013 (to appear).

  7. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Michal MAZUR, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Yoshio MOMOUCHI, “Towards Computational Fronesis: Verifying Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions”, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Special Issue on Emotional Intelligence for Online Learning, 2013. (to appear)

  8. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Reducing Excessive Amounts of Data: Multiple Web Queries for Generation of Pun Candidates,” Advances in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2011, Article ID 107310, 12 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/107310

  9. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Jacek MACIEJEWSKI, Mizuki TAKAHASHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Multiagent system for joke generation: Humor and emotions combined in human-agent conversation”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (Thematic Issue on Computational Modeling of Human-Oriented Knowledge within Ambient Intelligence) 2 (2010), pp. 31-48, February 2010.

  10. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Jacek MACIEJEWSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI,“CAO: A Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System Based on Theory of Kinesics”, In IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 46-59, Jan.-June 2010 [2011 IEEE SAPPORO SECTION ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD]

  11. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Tatsuaki MATSUBA, Fumito MASUI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Yoshio MOMOUCHI, “In the Service of Online Order: Tackling Cyber-Bullying with Machine Learning and Affect Analysis”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 135-154, 2010.

  12. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Contextual Affect Analysis: A System for Verification of Emotion Appropriateness Supported with Contextual Valence Shifters”, International Journal of Biometrics, Special Issue on Biometric and Kansei Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2010, pp. 134-154, Inderscience Enterprises, February 2010.

  13. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “An Automatic Evaluation Method for Conversational Agents Based on Affect-as-Information Theory", Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Special Issue on Emotions, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2010.

  14. Rafal RZEPKA, Shinsuke HIGUCHI, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Kenji ARAKI, "When Your Users Are Not Serious - Using Web-based Associations, Affect and Humor for Generating Appropriate Utterances for Inappropriate Input", Transactions of the Japanese Society for AI, 25(1), pp.114-121, 2010.

  15. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Activating Humans with Humor - A Dialogue System that Users Want to Interact With”, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Journal, Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and its Applications, Vol.E92-D, No.12, pp. 2394-2401, December 2009.

  16. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “A System for Affect Analysis of Utterances in Japanese Supported with Web Mining”, Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Special Issue on Kansei Retrieval, Vol. 21, No. 2 (April), pp. 30-49 (194-213), 2009.

    17. [Conferences]

  17. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “NLP Oriented Japanese Pun Classification”, The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) 2012, pp. 33-36, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 2012.

  18. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Japanese Puns Are Not Necessarily Jokes”, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium, Artificial Intelligence of Humor, pp. 7-13, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 2012.

  19. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Data Filtering in Humor Generation”, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), pp. 2587-2590, Maui, Hawai, USA, October 2012.

  20. Pawel DYBALA, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Humor, Emotions and Communication: Human-like Issues of Human-Computer Interactions” (Publication based presentation), The 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), pp. 1238-1239, Sapporo, Japan, August 2012.

  21. Pawel DYBALA, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Computing Humorous Metaphors” (abstract), The 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), pp. 2669, Sapporo, Japan, August 2012.

  22. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Emotion Valence Shifts in Humorous Metaphor Misunderstandings Generation”, AISB/IACAP (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) 2012 Symposium: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA) 2012, pp. 40-50, Birmingham, UK (2012).

  23. Rafal RZEPKA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA (Editors): Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialogue Agents, AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, Birmingham, UK, July 2012, Published by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, http://www.aisb.org.uk, ISBN: 978-1-908187-16-1

  24. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Beyond Conventional Recognition: Concept of a Conversational System Utilizing Metaphor Misunderstanding as a Source of Humor”, The 26th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2012), International Organized Sessions, Yamaguchi, Japan, June 2012.

  25. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Kohichi SAYAMA, “Emotion Recognition in Humorous Human-Computer Communication: A Conversational System Using Humor According to User Emotions” (abstract), The 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2012), pp. 70-71, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2012.

  26. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, Yoshio MOMOUCHI, “Annotating Affective Information on 5.5 Billion Word Corpus of Japanese Blogs”, In Proceedings of The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP-2012), pp. 405-408, Hiroshima, Japan, March 2012.

  27. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Jacek MACIEJEWSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “CAO: Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System”, In: Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), pp. 1026-1032, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010.

  28. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, "Multi-humoroid: Joking System That Reacts With Humor To Humans’ Bad Moods", In: Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), pp. 1433-1434, Toronto, Canada, May 2010

  29. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Chain of Events: Multi-stage Approach to Humor and Emotions in HCI”, In: Proceedings of Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents 2010 (LaCATODA 2010), The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’10), pp.53-58, Leicester, UK, March 2010.

  30. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Computer System That Likes Chess”, In: Proceedings of Towards a Comprehensive Intelligence Test 2010 (TCIT 2010), The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’10), pp.42-44, Leicester, UK, March 2010.

  31. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “PUNDA Numbears: Proposal of Goroawase Generating System for Japanese”, In: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2010), pp. 345-348, Tokyo, Japan, March 2010.

  32. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Tatsuaki MATSUBA, Fumito MASUI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, "Some Conclusions Derived from Data of Online Slandering and Bullying", In: Proceedings of the Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents 2010 (LaCATODA 2010), The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’10), pp.7-16, Leicester, UK, March 2010.

  33. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, "Forgetful and Emotional: Recent Progress in Development of Dynamic Memory Management System for Conversational Agents", In: Proceedings of the Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents 2010 (LaCATODA 2010), The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’10), pp.32-38, Leicester, UK, March 2010.

  34. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA and Kenji ARAKI, "Towards Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System (^o^)", In: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2010), pp. 583-586, Tokyo, Japan, March 2010.

  35. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Radoslaw KOMUDA, Rafal RZEPKA and Kenji ARAKI, "Development of Emoticon Database for Affect Analysis in Japanese", In: Proceedings of The 2010 International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology Based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2010), pp. 203-204, Sapporo, Japan, January 2010.

  36. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Computers with personalized sense of humor", In: Proceedings of The 3rd International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology Based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2010), pp. 205-206, Sapporo, Japan, January 2010.

  37. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Do humans like it human like?”, Joint Global COE Symposium for Cultivating Young Researchers, pp. 169-170, Sapporo, Japan, October 2009.

  38. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Ideas for Using Large-Scale Corpora to Improve Verification of Emotion Appropriateness in Japanese”, Joint Global COE Symposium for Cultivating Young Researchers, pp. 171-172, Sapporo, Japan, October 2009.

  39. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, „Affecting Corpora:Experiments with Automatic Affect Annotation System - A Case Study of the 2channel Forum ”, In the Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2009), pp.223-228, Sapporo, Japan, September 2009.

  40. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Crossing Word Borders: Towards Phrasal Pun Generation Engine”, In the Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2009), pp.242-247, Sapporo, Japan, September 2009.

  41. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Getting closer to human level - human-likeness and its relation to humor in non-task oriented dialogue systems”, In the Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2009), pp. 7-14, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2009.

  42. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Conscience of Blogs: Verifying Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions Basing on Blog Contents”, The 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2009), pp. 1-6, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2009.

  43. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, „Subjective, but not worthless - Non-linguistic features of chatterbot evaluations”, 21st Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), The 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems (KRPD-09), pp. 87-92, Pasadena, California, USA, July 2009.

  44. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Shifting Valence Helps Verify Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions”, 21st Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), The IJCAI Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-09), pp. 19-21, Pasadena, California, USA, June 2009.

  45. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Towards Context Aware Emotional Intelligence in Machines: Computing Contextual Appropriateness of Affective States”, In Proceedings of T21st Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), pp. 1469-1474, Pasadena, California, USA, July 2009.

  46. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Humoroids – Talking Agents That Induce Positive Emotions with Humor”, The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’09), pp. 1171-1172, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.

  47. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Humorized Computational Intelligence - towards User-Adapted Systems with a Sense of Humor”, In the Proceedings of the EvoStar 2009 Conference, EvoWorkshops. M. Giacobini et al. (Eds.), Tubbingen, Germany, April 2009. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 5484, pp. 452–461, Springer Berlin & Heidelberg.

  48. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Joking Computers – Why, When and How?”, Joint Global COE Symposium for Cultivating Young Researchers, Jozankei, Japan, April 2009.

  49. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Processing the Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions”, Joint Global COE Symposium for Cultivating Young Researchers, Jozankei, Japan, April 2009.

  50. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “When Should Computers Joke? Concept of Emotiveness Analysis Based Timing Algorithm for Humor-Equipped Conversational Systems”, 15th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2009), pp. 542-545. Tottori, Japan, March 2009.

  51. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA Kenji ARAKI, “Contextual Valence Shifters Supporting Affect Analysis of Utterances in Japanese”, 15th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2009), pp.825-828, Tottori, Japan, March 2009.

  52. Rafal RZEPKA, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Shinsuke HIGUCHI, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Kenji ARAKI, “Serious Processing for Frivolous Purpose - A Chatbot Using Web-mining Supported Affect Analysis and Pun Generation”, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'09), pp 487-488, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, February 2009.

  53. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Conversational Agents Can Joke”, In the Proceedings of The 2nd International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology Based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2009), pp. 206-207, Sapporo, Japan, January 2009.

  54. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Development of Corpus for Affect Analysis in Japanese”, In the Proceedings of The 2nd International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology Based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2009), pp. 216-217, Sapporo, Japan, January 2009.

  55. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Shunsuke HIGUCHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Humor Prevails! - Implementing a Joke Generator into a Conversational System”, In the Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Joint Conference on AI (AI-08), Wobcke, W. and Zhang, M. (eds), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2008. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Vol. 5360, pp. 214-225, Springer Berlin & Heidelberg.

  56. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “How to find love in the Internet? Applying Web mining to affect recognition from textual input”, Proceedings of the 2008 Empirical Methods for Asian Languages Processing Workshop (EMALP'08), at The Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'08), pp. 67-79, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2008.

  57. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Shinsuke HIGUCHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Affect-as-Information Approach to a Sentiment Analysis Based Evaluation of Conversational Agents”, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies & Internet Commerce (IAWTIC'08), pp. 896-901, Vienna, Austria, December 2008.

  58. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Shinsuke HIGUCHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Affect as Information about Users' Attitudes to Conversational Agents”, 2nd International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI'08) in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08), pp. 459-500, Sydney, Australia, December 2008.

  59. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wenhan SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Disentangling emotions from the Web. Internet in the service of affect analysis”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Affective Systems (KEAS'08), pp 51-56, Nagaoka, Japan, November 2008. [BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD]

  60. Pawel DYBALA, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Extracting Dajare Candidates from the Web - Japanese Puns Generating System as a Part of Humor Processing Research”, The First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM'08), The 22nd Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI’08), pp. 46-51, Asahikawa, Japan, June 2008.

  61. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Double Standpoint Evaluation Method for Affect Analysis System”, The 22nd Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI’08), Asahikawa, Japan, June 2008.

  62. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Dajare Generating Support Tool - Towards Applicable Linguistic Humor Processing”, 14th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2008), pp. 701-704, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008.

  63. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA and Kenji ARAKI, “Effective Analysis of Emotiveness in Utterances based on Features of Lexical and Non-Lexical Layer of Speech”, 14th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Natural Language Processing (NLP2008), pp.171-174, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008.

  64. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Dajare Types and Individualised Sense of Humour - A Prelude to PUNDA Project”, The Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers 2007, pp.293-294,Sapporo, Japan, October 2007.

  65. Pawel DYBALA, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “PUNDA Project – a Design For A Japanese Puns Generating system”, in: Language Acquisition and Understanding (LAU) Technical Report, Hokkaido University, pp. 6-11, Sapporo, Japan, June 2007.

  66. Michal PTASZYNSKI, Pawel DYBALA, Wen Han SHI, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI, “Lexical Analysis of Emotiveness in Utterances for Automatic Joke Generation”, ITE Technical Report, Vol. 31, No.47, pp.39-42, 2007, Sapporo, Japan.

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