SWIER Robert

General Education DivisionLecturer

Last Updated :2024/09/14

■Researcher basic information

Degree

  • Ph.D.（2023/03 Kyoto University）

J-Global ID

Profile

  • 私の初期の研究は計算言語学でした。現在はコンピューターを使った言語学習とタスクを基にした言語学習をあわせて研究しています。

Research Keyword

  • Game-based Learning   Task-based Learning   Computational linguistics   Linguistics   Foreign language education   

Research Field

  • Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education / Computer Assisted Language Learning

■Career

Educational Background

  •        - 2023/03  Kyoto University  Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies  Ph.D.
  •        - 2008  University of Toronto  Computer Science  M.Sc.
  •        - 2002  University of Rochester  Computer Science  M.S.
  •        - 2001  University of Rochester  Computer Science  M.S.

Member History

  • 2019 - Today   Japan Association for Language Teaching   CALL Special Interest Group (JALTCALL)

■Research activity information

Paper

  • 3D digital games, virtual worlds, and language learning in higher education: Continuing challenges in Japan
    Robert Swier; Mark Peterson
    JALTCALL Journal 14 (3) 225 - 238 2018/12 [Refereed]
  • Robert Swier
    CALICO Journal Equinox Publishing Ltd 33 (2) 282 - 290 2056-9017 2016
  • Tasks for easily modifiable virtual environments
    Robert Swier
    JALTCALL Journal 10 (3) 203 - 219 2014 [Refereed]
  • Exploiting a verb lexicon in automatic semantic role labelling
    Robert S. Swier; Suzanne Stevenson
    Joint Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005) 2005 [Refereed]
  • Unsupervised semantic role labelling
    Robert S. Swier; Suzanne Stevenson
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004) 2004 [Refereed]

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • How computers learn language: A brief introduction to A. I., machine learning, and computational linguistics  [Invited]
    Robert Stanley Swier
    Sendai JALT  2019/07
  • How computers learn language: A brief introduction to A. I., machine learning, and computational linguistics  [Not invited]
    Robert Stanley Swier
    JALTCALL Conference  2019/06
  • A brief introduction to artificial intelligence and computational linguistics  [Invited]
    Robert Stanley Swier
    JALT PanSIG Conference  2018/05
  • Focusing on tasks in virtual worlds: Mixing virtual and physical space  [Not invited]
    Robert Swier
    JALTCALL 2017  2017/06

Affiliated academic society

  • THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING