Takashi Ogata

Takashi Ogata, after receiving his bachelor of social science in Waseda University in 1983, he received his M.S. in Tsukuba University in 1992 and his Ph.D. in the University of Tokyo in 1995. He has industrial experience since 1983 at software development companies. Having experienced Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering at Yamanashi University since 1997, he is Professor of the Faculty of Software and Information Science at Iwate Prefectural University since 2005. His major research interests include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, natural language processing, narratology and literary theories, an interdisciplinary approach to the development of narrative generation systems based on AI and narratology, and the application to narrative creation and business. He is a member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (committee), and the Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing. He is also a main manager of Literature, Cognition and Computer research group at the JCSS. He received JSAI best paper award (1996), best paper award of Japan Academy of Advertising (1996), and other academic awards.

Publications

Bridging the Gap Between AI, Cognitive Science, and Narratology With Narrative Generation
Bridging the Gap Between AI, Cognitive Science, and Narratology With Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata, Jumpei Ono. © 2021. 409 pages.
The use of cognitive science in creating stories, languages, visuals, and characters is known as narrative generation, and it has become a trending area of study. Applying...
Bridging the Gap Between Narrative Generation Systems and Narrative Contents With Kabuki-Oriented Narratology and Watakushi Monogatari
Bridging the Gap Between Narrative Generation Systems and Narrative Contents With Kabuki-Oriented Narratology and Watakushi Monogatari
Takashi Ogata. © 2021. 123 pages.
The author's narrative generation study is based on two types of systems: the integrated narrative generation system (INGS) as a single narrative generation and reception...
Haiku Generation From Narratological Perspective: A Circulation Between Haikus and Stories
Haiku Generation From Narratological Perspective: A Circulation Between Haikus and Stories
Jumpei Ono, Takashi Ogata. © 2021. 17 pages.
Haiku—a form of unrhymed poetry—is popular among the Japanese. A typical haiku is composed of 17 moras and three phrases. A haiku has the possibility of scratching the surface...
Toward an Integrated Approach to Narrative Generation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Toward an Integrated Approach to Narrative Generation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Takashi Ogata. © 2020. 432 pages.
The concept of narrative has exerted a strong influence on a wide range of fields, from the humanities such as literature (and art and entertainment) to social studies...
Internal and External Narrative Generation Based on Post-Narratology: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Internal and External Narrative Generation Based on Post-Narratology: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Takashi Ogata. © 2020. 444 pages.
Narrative generation can be applied to systematic frameworks that cover theoretical and philosophical thoughts of narratives and narrative generation, analytical research of...
Designing a Socially Open Narrative Generation System
Designing a Socially Open Narrative Generation System
Taisuke Akimoto, Takashi Ogata. © 2020. 27 pages.
The authors propose the design of a Socially Open Narrative Generation System (SONGS) that co-creates a collection of diverse narratives from a narrative generation program and...
Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches
Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches
Takashi Ogata, Taisuke Akimoto. © 2019. 521 pages.
Studying narratives is an ideal method to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated. The concept and methods of a...
A Computational, Cognitive, and Narratological Approach to Narrative Generation
A Computational, Cognitive, and Narratological Approach to Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata. © 2019. 84 pages.
This chapter surveys and discusses interdisciplinary approaches to primarily artificial intelligence (AI)-based computational narrative or story generation systems by way of...
Toward a Post-Narratology or the Narratology of Narrative Generation
Toward a Post-Narratology or the Narratology of Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata. © 2019. 58 pages.
This new enhanced book, which includes this chapter, explores new possibilities and directions of narrative-related technologies and theories, as well as their implications for...
Consideration of Fundamental Methods and Principles for Human-Computer Co-Creation of Narratives
Consideration of Fundamental Methods and Principles for Human-Computer Co-Creation of Narratives
Taisuke Akimoto, Takashi Ogata. © 2019. 28 pages.
The authors propose the conceptual design of a co-creative narrative generation system that co-creates a collection of diverse narratives from a narrative generation program and...
Kabuki as Multiple Narrative Structures and Narrative Generation
Kabuki as Multiple Narrative Structures and Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata. © 2019. 84 pages.
This chapter undertakes a comprehensive survey and analysis of kabuki, aiming to explore a narrative generation-reception and a narrative production-consumption model of kabuki...
Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Takashi Ogata, Shin Asakawa. © 2018. 463 pages.
From literature and film to advertisements, storytelling is an important aspect of daily life. To create an impactful story, it is important to analyze the creation and...
Aspects of Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Aspects of Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Takashi Ogata, Shin Asakawa. © 2018. 47 pages.
In this chapter, the authors focus on narrative contents by considering and analyzing narrative communication and simulation. In particular, the authors present the multiple...
An Integrated Approach to Narrative Generation: From Mishima and Kabuki to Narrative Generation Systems
An Integrated Approach to Narrative Generation: From Mishima and Kabuki to Narrative Generation Systems
Takashi Ogata. © 2018. 99 pages.
This chapter seeks to undertake a comprehensive structure of the author's narrative generation research. In particular, the chapter compactly shows the whole of the narrative...
Surprise-Based Narrative Generation in an Automatic Narrative Generation Game
Surprise-Based Narrative Generation in an Automatic Narrative Generation Game
Jumpei Ono, Takashi Ogata. © 2018. 24 pages.
The authors have been developing an automatic narrative generation game using the method of table-talk role playing game (TRPG) that is an analog game based on the interactive...
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology From the Perspective of Narrative Generation
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology From the Perspective of Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata. © 2018. 74 pages.
This chapter surveys and discusses interdisciplinary approaches to primarily Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based computational narrative or story generation systems by way of...
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology
Takashi Ogata, Taisuke Akimoto. © 2016. 467 pages.
Studying narratives is often the best way to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated—the narrator employs specific...
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology from the Perspective of Narrative Generation
Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology from the Perspective of Narrative Generation
Takashi Ogata. © 2016. 74 pages.
This chapter surveys and discusses interdisciplinary approaches to primarily Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based computational narrative or story generation systems by way of...
Designing a Socially Open Narrative Generation System
Designing a Socially Open Narrative Generation System
Taisuke Akimoto, Takashi Ogata. © 2016. 27 pages.
The authors propose the design of a Socially Open Narrative Generation System (SONGS) that co-creates a collection of diverse narratives from a narrative generation program and...
Kabuki as Multiple Narrative Structures
Kabuki as Multiple Narrative Structures
Takashi Ogata. © 2016. 32 pages.
This chapter seeks to undertake a comprehensive survey and analysis of “kabuki” to aim to explore a narrative generation-reception and narrative production-consumption model of...