Hajime Murai
Professor
Future University Hakodate
E-mail: h_murai(at)fun.titech.ac.jp
Numerical analysis of religious texts (mainly the Bible), Literary analysis of the Bible, Development of text interpretational tools, Citation analysis of the Bible and Christian teachings
Education
2007 March: Ph. D. in Engineering [Tokyo Institute of Technology]
2005 March: MA (Engineering) [Tokyo Institute of Technology]
1999 March: BA (Engineering) [University of Tokyo]
Job
2005 April - 2007 March: COE Research Assistant
2007 April - 2007 December: Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology
2008 January - 2017 March: Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology
2017 April - 2021 March: Associate Professor at Future University Hakodate
2021 April - : Professor at Future University Hakodate
2024
Hajime Murai, Ryogo Okuyama, Tomoya Kanazashi, Masaki Tomita, Tomowa Hodosawa, "Cross-genre comparison of features of story character utterances", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 73-76, 2024.[pdf]
Hiroshi Itsuki, Hajime Murai, Hitoshi Matsubara, "Structure and Transition of Characters’ Motives in Japanese Fighting Comic", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 34-36, 2024. [pdf]
Nishimura Hideyuki, Hajime Murai, "Comparative Analysis of Organizational Relationships Using Dialogues of Story Characters", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 70-72, 2024.[pdf]
Sui Sakagami, Hajime Murai, "Analysis of "Fave activity" for "Fave characters" on Social Networking Services", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 63-65, 2024.[pdf]
Jurin Sakamoto, Hajime Murai, "Extraction of Presentation Position for Characters’ Background Histories and Narrative Patterns", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 60-62, 2024.[pdf]
2023
Hajime Murai, Shoki Ohta, Arisa Ohba, Takaki Fukumoto, Mitsuki Aoyama, Ryogo Okuyama, Tomoya Kanazashi, Yuni Saito, Eiichi Sato, Masaki Tomita, Tomowa Hodosawa, "Constructing fundamental behavior dataset for analysis and generation of story plots", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 57-60, 2023.[pdf]
Takaki Fukumoto, Hajime Murai, "Analysis of the Appearance Pattern Tendency of ‘Crying Scene’ and Verification for Reproducibility of Categorization", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 52-54, 2023.[pdf]
Ryogo Okuyama, Hajime Murai, "Extracting the Relationship Between the Emotions Evoked in the Story and Acoustic Features of the Music", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 60-62, 2023.[pdf]
Tomoya Kanazashi, Hajime Murai, "Extracting ‘Darkness’ in Contemporary Japanese Dark Fantasy", JADH annual conference proceedings, pp. 52-54, 2023.[pdf]
2022
Hajime Murai, Toshio Kawashima, "The Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of the Administrative Document Catalog of the Government-General of Taiwan", Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 3-10, 2022. [Web]
Hajime Murai , Shuuhei Toyosawa , Takayuki Shiratori , Takumi Yoshida , Shougo Nakamura , Yuuri Saito , Kazuki Ishikawa , Sakura Nemoto , Junya Iwasaki , Shoki Ohta , Arisa Ohba , Takaki Fukumoto, Extraction and Automatic Generation of Characters' Attributes in Contemporary Japanese Entertainment Works, Conference Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2022, EP-01-111, pp. 661-663, 2022. [Web]
Hajime Murai, Shuuhei Toyosawa, Takayuki Shiratori, Takumi Yoshida, Shougo Nakamura, Yuuri Saito, Kazuki Ishikawa, Sakura Nemoto, Junya Iwasaki, Shoki Ohta, Arisa Ohba, Takaki Fukumoto, Extraction of Typical Story Plot Patterns from Genres within Japanese Popular Entertainment Works, ICCC2022, Bolzano, Italy, 2022. [pdf]
2021
Hajime Murai, Shuuhei Toyosawa, Takayuki Shiratori, Takumi Yoshida, Shougo Nakamura, Yuuri Saito, Kazuki Ishikawa, Sakura Nemoto, Junya Iwasaki, Akiko Uda, Shoki Ohta, Arisa Ohba, Takaki Fukumoto, "Dataset Construction for Cross-genre Plot Structure Extraction", JADH Annual Conference 2021, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2021, JADH, pp. 93-96, 2021.
Yuuri Saito, Takumi Yoshida, Shougo Nakamura, Kazuki Ishikawa,Shoki Ohta, Arisa Ohba, Takaki Fukumoto, Hajime Murai, "Basic Plot Structure in the Adventure and Battle Genres", JADH Annual Conference 2021, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2021, JADH, pp. 97-100, 2021.
Junya Iwasaki, Shuuhei Toyosawa, Kazuki Ishikawa, Shoki Ohta, Hajime Murai, "Cross-genre Plot Analysis of Detective and Horror Genres", JADH Annual Conference 2021, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2021, JADH, pp. 106-110, 2021.
2020
Hajime Murai, "Factors of the Detective Story and the Extraction of Plot Patterns Based on Japanese Detective Comics", Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 4-21, 2020.[pdf download page]
2019
Hajime Murai, "Japanese Daily Utterance Styles: A Factor Analysis based on Balanced Corpus", Proceedings of PACLIC 33, The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pp. 539-546, 2019.
Hajime Murai, "Emotional Effect on Utterance Styles in Fiction Writing", JADH Annual Conference 2019, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2019, JADH, pp. 86-89, 2019.
2018
Hajime Murai, "Factor Analysis of Utterances in Japanese Fiction-writing Based on BCCWJ Speaker Information Corpus", Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 2018, Article ID 5056268, 9 pages, 2018.[pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Quantitative Evaluation Method for a Literary Structure Hypothesis within the Bible", Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 49-72, 2018.[pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Transitions of Plot Elements in a Japanese Detective Comic", JADH Annual Conference 2018, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2018, JADH, pp. 142-145, 2018.
Hajime Murai, "Factor Analysis of Japanese Daily Utterance Styles", LREC 2018 Joint Workshop LB-ILR2018 and MMC2018 Proceedings, pp. 26-29, 2018.
2017
Hajime Murai, "Automatic Extraction of Reversal-Type Punch Lines in Shin'ichi Hoshi's Flash Fictions", Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Vol. 2, pp.31-47, 2017.[pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Prototype Algorithm for Estimating Agents and Behaviors in Plot Structures", the International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2017.
Hajime Murai, "Situational Effects on Functional Word Frequencies within Conversational Sentences in Japanese Novels", JADH Annual Conference 2017, Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2017, JADH, pp. 40-42, 2017.
2016
Hajime Murai, "Attributes of Agent Dictionary for Speaker Identification in Story Texts", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2016, pp. 38-40, 2016.
Hajime Murai, "Extracting Agents and Behaviors from Stories for Automatic Plot Structure Identification", IJCAI 2016, International Workshop on Language Sense on Computer, pp. 1-8, 2016.
2015
Hajime Murai, "Database System for Archiving the Literary Structure of the Bible", Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Vol. 1(2015) No. 1, p.44-57, 2015.[pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Towards Automatic Extraction of Punch-lines: Plot Analysis of Shinichi Hoshi’s Flash Fictions", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2015, pp. 17-18, 2015.
Aya Kanzawa, Akihiro Kawase, Hajime Murai and Takehiro Inohara, "Quantitative Analysis of Dissonance in Solo Piano Works: Extracting Characteristics of Debussy and Bach", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2015, pp. 36-37, 2015.
Hajime Murai, "Identifying Synonymous Word Groups in the Synoptic Gospels: A Quantitative Analytical Approach", http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/MURAI_Hajime_Identifying_Synonymous_Word_Groups_i/MURAI_Hajime_Identifying_Synonymous_Word_Groups_in_the_.html, Digital Humanities 2015, 2015.
2014
Hajime Murai, "Plot Analysis for Describing Punch Line Functions in Shinichi Hoshi's Microfiction", 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, (Eds. Mark A. Finlayson, Jan Christoph Meister, and Emile G. Bruneau), OpenAccess Series in Informatics, Vol. 41, pp. 121-129, 2014. [pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Extracting Factors of Small Stories from the Synoptic Gospels", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2014, pp. 7, 2014.
Ryoichi Takahashi, Hajime Murai, Takehiro Inohara, "Quantitative Analysis of Books about How to Write Narrative Text: Extracting Characteristics of Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Fiction Writing", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2014, pp. 31-32, 2014.
Michiru Hirano, Hajime Murai, Takehiro Inohara, "Quantitative Analysis of the Musical Style of Mozart -Instrumentation for the Strings-", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2014, pp. 37-38, 2014.
Aya Kanzawa, Akihiro Kawase, Hajime Murai, Takehiro Inohara, "Quantitative Analysis of Dissonance in Solo Piano Works by Claude Debussy", Proceedings of JADH Annual Conference 2014, pp. 39, 2014.
2013
Hajime Murai, "Exegetical Science for the Interpretation of the Bible: Algorithms and Software for Quantitative Analysis of Christian Documents", Springer International Publishing, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 492, pp 67-86, 2013. [pdf]
Hajime Murai, "Validation of Hierarchical Rhetorical Structure by Combination of Quantitative Evaluation and Traditional Rhetorical Analysis", Proceedings of JADH 2013 Conference, pp. 50-51, 2013.
2012
Hajime Murai, "Introducing Scientific Methods for the Interpretation of the Bible: Quantitative Analysis of Christian Documents", 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, pp.391-398, 2012.
Hajime Murai, "Evaluating Validity of Classic Rhetorical Structure by Comparing with Random Division and Random Combination", Proceedings of JADH 2012 Conference, p. 5, 2012.
2011
Hajime Murai, "Implementing Rhetorical Structure Database System for Digital Archive", Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011, p. 38, 2011.
2010
Hajime Murai, "The Parallel Concentric Structures within Exodus", Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 2010.
Akira Kudo, Hajime Murai, Akifumi Tokosumi, "Historical Shifts in Writing Style within the Works of Haruki Murakami Identified Using Semantic Analysis", Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 380-381, 2010.
Akihiro Kawase, Hajime Murai, Akifumi Tokosumi, "Extracting Conceptual Features and Observing Relations for Composers from Music Critics", Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 281-282, 2010.
2009
Akifumi Tokosumi and Hajime Murai, "Extracting High-Order Aesthetic and Affective Components From Composer's Writings", Proceedings of HCI International 2009, 2009.
Naoko Matsumoto, Hirotada Ueda, Tatsuya Yamazaki and Hajime Murai, "Life with a Robot Companion: Video Analysis of 16-days of Interaction with a Home Robot in a "Ubiquitous Home" Environment", Proceedings of HCI International 2009, 2009.
2008
Hajime Murai, Naoko Matsumoto and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Extracting and Representing Political Kansei Based on WWW", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Kansei, pp. 31-34, 2008.
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Extracting Concepts from Religious Knowledge Resources and Constructing Classic Analysis Systems", Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2008), LNAI 4938, pp. 51-58, 2008.
Naoko Matsumoto, Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Systematization of Knowledge about Performative Verbs: Capturing Speaker's Intention", Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2008), LNAI 4938, pp. 163-170, 2008.
2007
Naoko Matsumoto, Hajime Murai, and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Implicit Speech Act Verbs in Conversations: An Analysis of Conversation Log within Medical Settings". The International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2007 (KEER2007), CD-ROM, 2007.
Hajime Murai, Naoko Matsumoto, Tatsuhiro Yamamoto and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Characteristics of Kansei-words on the Web Sites of Japanese Politicians", The International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2007 (KEER2007), CD-ROM, 2007.
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "The Network Analysis Method to Extract the Central Editorial Messages of Canonical Texts", Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp.149-163, 2007. [html] (Only the abstract is written in English.)
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Network Analysis of the Four Gospels and the Catechism of the Catholic Church", The Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp.772-779, 2007. [pdf download page]
Hajime Murai, "Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Structures using Variant Text", Proceedings of Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2007), pp. 217-222, 2007.
Tokosumi, A., Matsumoto, N., Murai, H., and Voss, K., A Social Justification of Ontological Researches. Proceedings of Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2007), pp.33-40, 2007.
2006
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Co-citation Network Analysis of Religious Texts", Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.21, No.6, pp. 473-481, 2006. [pdf] (Only the abstract is written in English.)
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Synoptic Network Analysis of the four Gospels: Why are there Four Gospels in the Bible?", Proceedings of SCIS & ISIS 2006, pp. 1590-1595, 2006.
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Extracting the Hierarchical Structure of Plots from Variant Texts", Proceedings of Literature in Cognition and Computer: workshop of XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 20-23, 2006.
Akifumi Tokosumi and Hajime Murai, "Defining Cognitive Literary Studies in terms of a Literature Ontology", Proceedings of Literature in Cognition and Computer: workshop of XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 24, 2006.
Hajime Murai, "Citation Analysis Function for the Classical Texts Archive System", Proceedings of International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2006), pp. 141-142, 2006.
Akifumi Tokosumi, Terry Joyce, Naoko Matsumoto, Kohei Noda, and Hajime Murai, "Cognitive principles for a sensibility-aesthetics ontology", Proceedings of International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2006), pp. 21-22, 2006.
2005
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "A Network Analysis of Hermeneutic Documents Based on Bible Citations", XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp 1565-1570, 2005. [pdf]
Akifumi Tokosumi, Naoko Matsumoto, Kohei Noda, Daisuke Moriyasu, Ana Constantinescu and Hajime Murai, Knowledge Resources for Sensibility", Proceedings of International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2005), pp. 93-96, 2005.
2004
Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "A Network Representation of Hermeneutics Based on Co-citation Analysis", WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 6, Vol. 1, pp. 1513-1517, 2004.
Ana Constantinescu, Naoko Matsumoto, Daisuke Moriyasu, Hajime Murai and Akifumi Tokosumi, "Transition of aesthetic emotions in interactive environments", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2004), pp. 339-340, 2004.
The lists of literary structures (chiasms, parallels and concentric structures) in the Bible are published here.
Digital Hermeneutics System
Digital Hermeneutics System（DHS） is open source digital archive system. DHS have been developped in order to suppot interpreting texts by utilizing natural language processing methods and citation analysis methods.