--- title: "Taku Komura — author profile and papers · Discourse analysis" description: "Taku Komura, University of Hong Kong: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016), h-index 45 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-komura/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-komura/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Taku Komura # Taku Komura Taku Komura has 2 papers in our library, in 2016, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Frances Yung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frances-yung/), [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/), [Yuji Matsumoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/). 2 papers in our library · 2016 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014324841) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2729-5860) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130879217) · [**h-index 45**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014324841) · [315 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014324841) · [9,073 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014324841&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-komura/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 2 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6025) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Taku+Komura) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Taku+Komura) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Taku+Komura) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Taku+Komura) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · Hong Kong 2020–2026 · 82 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2006–2023 · 130 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**City University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · Hong Kong 2003–2008 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**The University of Tokyo** Tokyo · Japan 1997–2004 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/) · [🔬**RIKEN** Wako · Japan 2001–2003 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/riken/) · [🎓**Tohoku University** Sendai · Japan 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tohoku-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Philosophy · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 2 papers Taku Komura's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-komura/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Modelling the Usage of Discourse Connectives as Rational Speech Acts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2016-modelling-usage-discourse-connectives-as/)** *(2016 · 5 citations)* The paper predicts whether a writer marks a discourse relation with an explicit connective (but, therefore) or leaves it implicit, given the relation sense, on the Penn Discourse Treebank. 2. **[Modelling the Interpretation of Discourse Connectives by Bayesian Pragmatics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2016-modelling-interpretation-discourse-connectives-bayesian/)** *(2016 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether Bayesian pragmatics can explain how readers settle the sense of discourse connectives (DCs) such as 'since' or 'in fact', and of implicit relations where no connective is present. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Frances Yung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frances-yung/) ×2 - [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) ×2 - [Yuji Matsumoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2016/) - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2016/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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