Furukawa Kei

フルカワケイ | Furukawa Kei

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Assistant Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/view/kei-furukawa/home

Research field (4)： Linguistics , Intelligent informatics , Linguistics , Linguistics

Research keywords (3)： Speech Synthesis , Syntax-Prosody Interface , Machine Learning

Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：

2022 - Boundary-Driven Theory: A Linguistic Approach for Speech Synthesis: Validation and Application
2019 - 2021 平板型とダウンステップの実験的・理論的検証

Papers (11)：

Kei Furukawa, Satoshi Nakamura. Boundary-driven downstep induced by syntax-prosody mapping. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2024. 156. 2. 1440-1460
Kei Furukawa, Takeshi Kishiyama, Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti. Applying Syntax-Prosody Mapping Hypothesis and Boundary-Driven Theory to Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis. IEEE Access. 2024. 12. 160896-160917
Kei Furukawa, Satoshi Nakamura. Investigation of Validity of Paradigmatic Diagnosis for Downstep in Japanese*. 2023 26th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA). 2023. 1-6
Takeshi Kishiyama, Chuyu Huang, Kei Furukawa, Yuki Hirose. The role of allophones in phoneme perception models: Do devoiced vowels trigger vowel epenthesis?. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2023. 191-195
Kei Furukawa, Satoshi Nakamura. Boundary-driven account for downstep in Japanese. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2023. 1405-1409

ｍore...

Lectures and oral presentations (20)：

Boundary-driven account for downstep in Japanese
(the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023 2023)
The role of allophones in phoneme perception models: Do devoiced vowels trigger vowel epenthesis?
(the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023 2023)
Applying syntax-prosody mapping hypothesis and prosodic well-formedness constraints to neural sequence-to-sequence speech synthesis
(Interspeech 2022 2022)
Three modes of applying phonemic merge and the acquisition of syllable types,
(The 4th Group Meeting of MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication 2020)
Three modes of applying phonemic merge and the acquisition of syllable types
(The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 2019)

ｍore...

Works (1)：

NAIST Text-to-speech Synthesis Corpus of Applying Syntax-Prosody Mapping Hypothesis
Kei Furukawa, Takeshi Kishiyama, Satoshi Nakamura 2022 -

Education (9)：

2022 - 2025 Nara Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Science and Technology Doctoral Course, Division of Information Science
2024 - The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Language and Information Sciences, obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Linguistics
2021 - 2022 Nara Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Science and Technology Master's Course, Division of Information Science
2018 - 2021 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Program, Language and Information Sciences
2016 - 2018 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Master's Program, Language and Information Sciences

Show all

Professional career (4)：

Work history (5)：

2025/04 - 現在 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Business Administration Lecturer
2022/10 - 2025/03 Japan Science and Technology Agency SPRING : Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation NAIST Touchstone SPRING Scholarship Awardee
2020/04 - 2021/03 Edogawa University Adjunct Lecturer: Introduction to English Linguistics, English Phonetics
2019/04 - 2021/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (DC2)
2012/04 - 2016/03 Sugi’s English Pronunciation School English pronunciation and TOEIC instructor

Awards (3)：

2023/08 - International Phonetic Association IPA student award: Boundary-driven account for downstep in Japanese
2020/04 - MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication Excellence Award Three Modes of Applying Phonemic Merge and the Acquisition of Syllable Types.
2019/03 - MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication Excellence Award Typology of Syllable Structure and Action Grammar

※ Researcher’s information displayed in J-GLOBAL is based on the information registered in researchmap. For details, see here.

Return to Previous Page