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In Japanese order, CHIBA Shoju - CHIBA is my family name.

in kanji:: 千葉庄寿 (in Unicode: CHIBA = U+5343 U+8449; Shoju = U+5E84 U+5BFF)
in hiragana:: ちばしょうじゅ (in Unicode: CHIBA = U+3061 U+3070; Shoju = U+3057 U+3087 U+3046 U+3058 U+3085)

Syllabi are available (although in Japanese).

Reitaku University College of Foreign Studies:

Finnish Linguistics
General Linguistics
Corpus-based Linguistic Research
- Corpus-based language description
- Developing tools for building electronic linguistic database (especially lesser-used languages), multimedia- multimodal linguistic corpora, and tools for handling structured linguistic corpora [tools]
Developing prototypes of Creater-frendly CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) system

CHIBA, Shoju (2003) Building and Exploiting Electronic Corpora of Endangered Languages. ELPR Publication Series B011. (Monograph written in Japanese. English Summary is here.)
CHIBA, Shoju (2002) "Developing tools for creating/maintaining/analyzing field data," Proceedings from the Fourth International Conference on Endangered Languages, 23 – 25. November, 2002, Kyoto, Japan pp. 267-279.
CHIBA, Shoju (2002) "Building an integrated environment for field data creation - maintenance - analysis: an XML & Unicode-based workbench for field linguists," paper read at the International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, 26 – 27. May, 2002, Las Palmas, Spain.
CHIBA, Shoju (2001) "Analytic causatives in Finnish: an analysis of the embedded predicate of panna 'put' and saada 'get'," Proceedings from Congressus Nonus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. Pars IV: Linguistics. pp. 175-180.

Current projects

2004-2006: Language Technology Project Building Multilingual Linguistic Databases (Linguistic Research Center (LinC), Reitaku University. Project leader: Shoju CHIBA)

Old projects:

2003-2005: Syntax and pragmatics of Finnish deverbal nouns: a preliminary research with large corpora. (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [KAKENHI] No. 15720095. Project leader: Shoju CHIBA)
2003-2005: 「音声記号等で表記された言語資料のマークアップとコンピュータ処理」 "Markup and computer-processing of linguistic materials with phonetic (and other special) symbols" (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(2), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [KAKENHI] No. 15202008. Project leader: Kazuto MATSUMURA (University of Tokyo))
2000-2002: B03 Digitization of linguistic data and information retrieval for the study of endangered languages, Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [KAKENHI] No. 12039213. Project leader: Kazuto MATSUMURA (University of Tokyo))