Twist expression promotes migration and invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma (2009)
Matsuo, Noriyuki, Shiraha, Hidenori, Fujikawa, Tatsuya, Takaoka, Nobuyuki, Ueda, Naoki, Tanaka, Shigetomi, ...
Abstract Background Twist, a transcription factor of the basic helix-loop-helix class, is reported to regulate cancer metastasis. It is known to induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In...
Kiyoshi Ayada, Kenji Yokota, Yoshiro Kawahara, Yumiko Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Hirai, Tomoki Inaba, ...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a definite causative factor for gastric ulcers (GUs). In the present study we detected a specific antigen of gastric epithelial cells (HGC-27) using cell...
Hyaluronan receptors involved in cytokine induction in monocytes (2009)
Yamawaki, Hitoshi, Hirohata, Satoshi, Miyoshi, Toru, Takahashi, Katsuyuki, Ogawa, Hiroko, Shinohata, Ryoko, ...
During inflammation, lower molecular weight fragments of hyaluronan accumulate, and this is known to be inflammatory and immune-stimulatory. In diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease,...
Kiyoshi Ayada, Kenji Yokota, Yoshiro Kawahara, Yumiko Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Hirai, Tomoki Inaba, ...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a definite causative factor for gastric ulcers (GUs). In the present study we detected a specific antigen of gastric epithelial cells (HGC-27) using cell...
Current Status of Autoimmune Hepatitis in Japan (2008)
Miyake, Yasuhiro, Yamamoto, Kazuhide
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic and progressive disease characterized by histological interface hepatitis, hypergammaglobulinemia, and circulating autoantibodies. Multiple factors, including...
Source Language Effect on Translating Korean Honorifics (2008)
Kyonghee Paik, Kiyonori Ohtake, Francis Bond, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper investigates the effect of source language on translations using two variants of a Korean translation corpus. The sentences are translations of a bilingual travel corpus. The original...
Approach to Spoken Chinese Paraphrasing Based on Feature Extraction (2008)
Chengqing Zong, Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper presents an approach to spoken Chinese language paraphrasing based on feature extraction and techniques of language generation. In this approach, an input utterance is first analyzed in...
2004, ‘Interaction between paraphraser and transfer for spoken language translation (2008)
One of the problems in spoken language translation is the enormous variety of expressions not found in text translation. This volume can lead to a sparse translation coverage. In order to tackle this...
Paraphrasing of Chinese Utterances (2008)
Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto
One of the key issues in spoken language translation is how to deal with unrestricted expressions in spontaneous utterances. This research is centered on the development of a Chinese paraphraser that...
Automated Acquisition of Case Frames with Case Order (2008)
Kiyonori Ohtake, Masahiko Nedu, Shigeru Masuyama, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper proposes a case transition network model to provide a framework for representing case order information in addition to a Japanese case frame. The model is regarded as an extension of...
Splitting Long or Ill-formed Input for Robust Spoken-language Translation (2007)
Osamu Furuse T, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper proposes an input-splitting method for translating spoken-language which includes many long or ill-formed expressions. The pro-posed method splits input into well-balanced translation...
2002. Corpusassisted expansion of manual MT knowledge (2007)
Setsuo Yamada, Kenji Imamura, Kazuhide Yamamoto
Since the expansion of MT knowledge is currently being performed by humans, it is taking too long and is too expensive. This paper proposes a new procedure that expands MT knowledge efficiently by...
Approach to Spoken Chinese Paraphrasing Based on Feature Extraction (2007)
Chengqing Zong, Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper presents an approach to spoken Chinese language paraphrasing based on feature extraction and techniques of language generation. In this approach, an input utterance is first analyzed in...
Automated Acquisition of Case Frames with Case Order (2007)
Kiyonori Ohtake, Masahiko Nedu, Shigeru Masuyama, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper proposes a case transition network model to provide a framework for representing case order information in addition to a Japanese case frame. The model is regarded as an extension of...
Construction of a Dictionary for Translating Japanese Phrases into One English Word (2007)
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto
In translation between languages that have different linguistic characteristics like Japanese and English, there are many cases in which contents are not correctly transmitted in the substitution...
Multiple Decision-Tree Strategy for Input-Error Robustness: A Simulation of Tree Combinations (2007)
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita
This paper illustrates the characteristics of the multiple decision-tree (MDT) model, which we proposed in a previous work. MDT is an extension of the decision-tree model and is proposed for its...
Construction of a Dictionary for Translating Japanese Phrases into One English Word (2007)
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazutaka Takao
In translation between languages that have different linguistic characteristics like Japanese and English, there are many cases in which contents are not correctly transmitted in the substitution...
Applicability Analysis of Corpus-derived Paraphrases toward Example-based Paraphrasing (2007)
Kiyonori Ohtake, Kazuhide Yamamoto
Two kinds of paraphrases extracted from a bilingual parallel corpus were analyzed.
Source Language Effect on Translating Korean Honorifics (2007)
Kyonghee Paik, Kiyonori Ohtake, Francis Bond, Kazuhide Yamamoto
Abstract. This paper investigates honorific phenomena on two variants of Korean translation corpus, based on translations from Japanese and English. One surprising result is how different the corpora...
PoGOLite - A High Sensitivity Balloon-Borne Soft Gamma-ray Polarimeter (2007)
Kamae, Tuneyoshi, Andersson, Viktor, Arimoto, Makoto, Axelsson, Magnus, Bettolo, Cecilia Marini, Björnsson, Claes-Ingvar, ...
We describe a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGOLite) capable of detecting 10% polarisation from 200mCrab point-like sources between 25 and 80keV in one 6 hour flight. Polarisation measurements in...
Okada, Hiroyuki, Mizuno, Motowo, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Tsuji, Takao
To characterize primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in Japanese patients and its association with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), 155 reported cases of PSC, including 6 cases of our own, were...
Phalloidin-induced alterations of bile canaliculi. (2007)
Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Makino, Yasuhiro, Itoshima, Tatsuya, Kobayashi, Toshinari, Tsuji, Takao
Phalloidin, a toxin from the plant Amanita phalloides, irreversibly polymerizes actin filaments and causes cholestasis. Three-dimensional structural changes induced by phalloidin in the bile...
Makino, Yasuhiro, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Tsuji, Takao
The three-dimensional arrangement of ductular structures formed by oval cells in rats fed 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of biliary tract casts and...
Opinion Extraction based on Syntactic Pieces (2007)
Aoki, Suguru, Yamamoto, Kazuhide
PACLIC 21 / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / November 1-3, 2007
Kondo, Junichi, Shimomura, Hiroyuki, Fujioka, Shin-ichi, Iwasaki, Yoshiaki, Takagi, Shinjiro, Ohnishi, Yasuhiro, ...
The preS2 region of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been reported to have human polymerized albumin receptor (PAR) activity, which correlates with viral replication. Here, we studied the genomic...
Ariyoshi, Masanori, MIzuno, Motowo, Morisue, Yoshiko, Shimada, Morizou, Fujita, Shirou, Nasu, Junichirou, ...
We developed a monoclonal antibody (MoAb) (clone 5E8) against an antigen on the bile canalicular membrane of rat hepatocyte. By immunoblotting, MoAb 5E8 detected a band of 110 kD. In this study, we...
Ohya, Shogen, Mizuno, Motowo, Kawada, Mikihiro, Nasu, Junichirou, Okada, Hiroyuki, Shimomura, Hiroyuki, ...
We have previously developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to measure stool decay-accelerating factor (DAF) and found that stool DAF concentrations were significantly elevated in...
Hirai, Michio, Mizuno, Motowo, Morisue, Yoshiko, Yoshioka, Masao, Shimada, Morizou, Nasu, Junichirou, ...
Anti-idiotype antibodies (Ab2) play an important role in the homeostasis of immune responses and are related to the development and the disease activity of certain autoimmune diseases. The...
Yoshioka, Masao, Mizuno, Motowo, Morisue, Yoshiko, Shimada, Morizou, Hirai, Michio, Nasu, Junichirou, ...
In autoimmune chronic active hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), various autoantibodies including anti-asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) antibodies have been found in patients'...
A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation (2006)
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering models that emphasize...
A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation (2006)
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering models that emphasize...
A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation (2006)
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering models that emphasize...
A Comparison of Two Variant Corpora: The Same Content with Different Sources (2004)
Kyonghee Paik, Kiyonori Ohtake, Kazuhide Yamamoto
In order to investigate the effect of source language on translations, we investigate two variants of a Korean translation corpus. The first variant consists of Korean translations of 162,308...
Newscast speech summarization via sentence shortening based on prosodic features (2003)
Kiyonori Ohtake, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Yuji Toma, Shiro Sado, Shigeru Masuyama, Seiichi Nakagawa
This paper presents a speech summarizer that summarizes input speech via several prosodic features, unlike models that use a speech recognizer and conventional summarizing techniques proposed in...
Newscast speech summarization via sentence shortening based on prosodic features (2003)
Kiyonori Ohtake, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Yuji Toma, Shiro Sado, Shigeru Masuyama, Seiichi Nakagawa
This paper presents a speech summarizer that summarizes input speech via several prosodic features, unlike models that use a speech recognizer and conventional summarizing techniques proposed in...
Machine Translation by Interaction between Paraphraser and Transfer (2002)
A machine translation model has been proposed where an input is translated through both source-language and target-language paraphrasing processes. We have implemented our prototype model for the...
Machine Translation by Interaction between Paraphraser and Transfer (2002)
A machine translation model has been proposed where an input is translated through both source-language and target-language paraphrasing processes. We have implemented our prototype model for the...
Overlapping constraints of two step selection to generate a transfer dictionary (2001)
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kyonghee Paik
Any machine translation system requires a transfer dictionary between the source and target languages. Typically, since the construction of such a dictionary is done by hand, a lot of time is taken...
Overlapping constraints of two step selection to generate a transfer dictionary (2001)
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kyonghee Paik
Any machine translation system requires a transfer dictionary between the source and target languages. Typically, since the construction of such a dictionary is done by hand, a lot of time is taken...
Sandglass: Twin paraphrasing spoken language translation (2001)
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Satoshi Shirai, Masashi Sakamoto, Yujie Zhang
This paper proposes a new machine translation design that is the core architecture in an on-going project named Sandglass.TheSandglass system places special emphasis on monolingual processing and is...
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto
In developing a machine translation system, one of the difficult tasks is how to build a transfer dictionary.It has been built by human labor from scratch in most cases. This approach, however, is...
Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto
In developing a machine translation system, one of the difficult tasks is how to build a transfer dictionary. It has been built by human labor from scratch in most cases. This approach, however, is...
Solutions to problems inherent in spoken-language translation: The atr-matrix approach (1999)
Eiichiro Sumita, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideki Kashioka, Kai Ishikawa, ...
ATR has built a multi-language speech trans-lation system called ATR-MATRIX. It con-sists of a spoken-language translation sub-system, which is the focus of this paper, to-gether with a highly...
Corpus-based anaphora resolution towards antecedent preference (1999)
Michael Paul, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita
In this paper we propose a corpus-based approach to anaphora resolution combin-ing a machine learning method and sta-tistical information. First, a decision tree trained on an annotated corpus...
Multiple decision-tree strategy for error-tolerant ellipsis resolution (1999)
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita
A new approach to robust ellipsis resolution for spoken-language translation is proposed. The strategy consists of a multiple decision-tree (MDT) model and a preference strategy. The proposed MDT...
Solutions to problems inherent in spoken-language translation: The atr-matrix approach (1999)
Eiichiro Sumita, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideki Kashioka, Kai Ishikawa, ...
ATR has built a multi-language speech translation system called ATR-MATRIX. It consists of a spoken-language translation subsystem, which is the focus of this paper, together with a highly accurate...
Identifying translations of compound nouns using non-aligned corpora (1999)
Iram Shahzad, Kiyonori Ohtake, Shigeru Masuyama, Kazuhide Yamamoto
A compound noun and its translation do not always have a correspondence with each other in part-by-part basis. Therefore, there are cases where utilizing the translations of the constituent words for...
Corpus-based anaphora resolution towards antecedent preference (1999)
Michael Paul, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita
In this paper we propose a corpus-based approach to anaphora resolution combining a machine learning method and statistical information. First, a decision tree trained on an annotated corpus...
Splitting Long or Ill-formed Input for Robust Spokenlanguage Translation. COLING-ACL (1998)
Osamu Furuse, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto
This paper proposes an input-splitting method for translating spoken-language which includes many long or ill-formed expressions. The proposed method splits input into well-balanced translation units...
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Shigeru Masuyama
In this paper, we attempt to summarize multiple Japanese articles into one document with non-parsing approach. We mention deletions of the overlapped part among the input texts. Japanese grammar is...
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Shigeru Masuyama
This paper proposes an automatic text classification method using classweighting, or group-of-term-weighting approach as an extension of termweighting approach to consider change in wording. As a...
Virulent Strain of Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3, Japan
Takahashi, Kazuaki, Okamoto, Hiroaki, Abe, Natsumi, Kawakami, Manri, Matsuda, Hiroyuki, Mochida, Satoshi, ...
Virulence may be associated with mutation of the helicase domain (V239A), and source of the human infection may be swine.
Ayada, Kiyoshi, Yokota, Kenji, Kawahara, Yoshiro, Yamamoto, Yumiko, Hirai, Kazuyuki, Inaba, Tomoki, ...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a definite causative factor for gastric ulcers (GUs). In the present study we detected a specific antigen of gastric epithelial cells (HGC-27) using cell...
Twist expression promotes migration and invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma
Matsuo, Noriyuki, Shiraha, Hidenori, Fujikawa, Tatsuya, Takaoka, Nobuyuki, Ueda, Naoki, Tanaka, Shigetomi, ...
Kobashi, Haruhiko, Fujioka, Shin-ichi, Kawaguchi, Mitsuhiko, Kumada, Hiromitsu, Yokosuka, Osamu, Hayashi, Norio, ...
Uraoka, Toshio, Kato, Jun, Kuriyama, Motoaki, Hori, Keisuke, Ishikawa, Shin, Harada, Keita, ...
AIM: To clarify the effectiveness of CO2 insufflation in potentially difficult colonoscopy cases, particularly in relation to the experience level of colonoscopists.
Uraoka, Toshio, Saito, Yutaka, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Fujii, Takahiro
Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) have provided new alternatives for minimally invasive treatment of gastrointestinal adenomas and early-stage cancers that...