Biography

Dr. Yuko Kinoshita is the convenor of the Japanese Program, Faculty of Communication and International Studies, and a research member of the National Centre for Biometric Studies, University of Canberra.

Teaching

Yuko currently teaches Japanese language from the first year to advanced level. Through her classes, she aims to cultivate students cultural awareness and ability to think from different angles, as well as developing their Japanese language skills. The students in her classes will be introduced to various aspects and issues in Japanese society, and they are encouraged to compare those to their own experiences in Australia and other countries in which they have lived.

Yuko is interested in integrating technology into a classroom to create a more dynamic learning environment. She started including Internet-based video chat into her third year and advanced Japanese courses in 2006, where the students discuss various contentious issues, such as the death penalty, gay rights, and whaling, with their partners at Aichi Shukutoku University in Japan through audio-visual video chat. This was the first application of video-chat technology to the language classroom in Australia. This curriculum has become a very popular part of the course, and is now running for its third year.

Research

Yuko completed her PhD thesis Testing realistic forensic speaker identification in Japanese: A likelihood ratio based approach using formants in 2001 at the Australian National University, conducting the first study that implemented the likelihood ratio based approach to the linguistic phonetic parameters. She continues her research on forensic speaker identification, practicing as a consultant in forensic speaker identification. Her research interests include linguistic phonetics and forensic phonetics. She has also conducted research on dialectal variance in the Chinese language for her M.A.

Yuko is a member of the Phonetic Society of Japan, the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, and the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics. She is also a member of the Forensic Speech Science subcommittee of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association.

Selected publications

ISHIHARA, S. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2008) How Many Do We Need? Exploration of the Population Size Effect on the Performance of Forensic Speaker Classification. Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, ISCA.

KINOSHITA, Y. (2001) Testing Realistic Forensic Speaker Identification In Japanese: A Likelihood Ratio Based Approach Using Formants. Linguistics. Canberra, The Australian National University.

KINOSHITA, Y. (2005) Does lindleys lr estimation formula work for speech data?: investigation using long-term f0. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 12, 235-254.

KINOSHITA, Y., ISHIHARA, S. & ROSE, P. (2008) Exploring the Discriminatory Potential of F0 Distribution Parameters in Traditional Forensic Speaker Recognition International Journal of Speech Language and the Law.

MORRISON, G. S. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2008) Automatic-Type Calibration of Traditionally Derived Likelihood Ratios: Forensic Analysis of Australian English /o/ Formant Trajectories. Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, ISCA.

ROSE, P. J., OSANAI, T. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2003) Strength of forensic speaker identification evidence: multispeaker formant- and cepstrum-based segmental discrimination with a Bayesian likelihood ratio as threshold. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 10.


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