Tekinaembedded Media as Shikake to Foster Communication A Study of Fieldwork in Sakuragaoka, Japan Tekina () is a Japanese concept which refers metaphorical expressions. xe2x80x9cTekixe2x80x9d functions as a metaphor when an individual desires to express a feeling or explain but is unable to find exact words to portray their point. Furthermore, we can use tekina to refer to an individualxe2x80x99s way of thought and worldview. In this paper, we explore the potential of contents in which tekina is embedded in communication processes. The content that is produced acts as a connecting medium between the producer of the content and the audience who encounters the content. Thereon, our interactions with tekinaembedded contents can help us shape and reshape the relationship with our surroundings. To illustrate our point, we refer to examples of a class project conducted in 2018. In this project, students use their perspective, in other words their teki, as a measure to explore Sakuragaoka city in Shibuya. The students designed outputs which concludes the findings of the fieldwork. The results were shown to the public through the exhibition in March 2019. The exhibition setting further enabled us to examine how different individuals interact and form relationships with tekinaembedded outputs.

Construction of a CorpusBased Metaphor Generation Support System Built on Japanese Literature Metaphor generation is influenced by emotional or sensuous knowledge structure. Hence, there is a possibility that it might be difficult to select an adequate vehicle in metaphor generation. The purpose of this research is to construct a metaphor database based on a literature corpus and use the database to build a metaphor generation support system. At first, sentences including metaphors were extracted from a literature corpus. The extracted sentences were analyzed using dependency parsing in order to construct a metaphor database for the metaphor generation system. The system outputs candidate vehicles from a given topic and its expressed features by searching the sentences including the topic or the features in the database. Furthermore, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system. In the experiment, participants were asked to generate a sentence including a metaphor from a shown image with or without the system. Thirdparty evaluation was conducted to evaluate the metaphors generated in the experiment. The results seem to suggest the efficiency of the system.