Staff Midwife, Department of OB/GYN, Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospita (2009-4.2012.3)
As a Lecturer
Lecturer(full-time) at Wayo Women's University (2023.4-PRESENT)
Lecturer(part-time) at The Open University of Japan (2018.4-PRESENT)
Lecturer(part-time) at Koshigaya Nursery School (2017.4-2023.3)
Lecturer (part-time) at Faculty of Human Life, Jumonji University (2005.4-2021.3)
Teaching Associate at Faculty of Social Informatics, Jumonji University (2000.4-2003.3)
As a Engineer
System Engineer at Information and Service Center, Fuji XEROX Corporation (1999.4-2000.3)
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing in General
Rest-Activity Rhythms of
Prenatal, Maternity and Postpartum Women, Fetus and Newborns
Lotus Birth
Present Research Targets
Analysis on Development of Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythm
Pre- and Postpartum Sleep Disorders
Language and Behavioral Development of Infants
Publications and Conference Presentations
Sawa Kikuchi, Kyoko Nishihara, Shigeko Horiuchi, Hiromi Eto, "The influence of feeding method on a mother's circadian rhythm and on the development of her infant's circadian rest-ativity rhythm", Early Human Development, Vol.145, June 2020, 105046
Kyoko Nishihara, Shigeko Horiuchi, Hiromi Eto, Sawa Kikuchi, and Yoko Hoshi, "Relationship Between Infant and Mother Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythm Pre- and Postpartum, in Comparison to an Infant With Free-Running Rhythm", Chronobiology International, No.29, Vol.3, pp.363-370, 2012
Sawa Kikuchi, Kyoko Nishihara, Hiromi Eto, Shigeko Horiuchi, "授乳方法の違いによる乳児の概日リズム形成過程への影響と母親のリズム (in Japanese)" The Japanese Society of Sleep Research, 37th Annual Meeting in Yokohama, 2012
Sawa Kikuchi, Kyoko Nishihara, Hiromi Eto, Shigeko Horiuchi, and Yoko Hoshi, "The influence of feeding method on a mother's daily rhythm and on the development of her infant's circadian rest-activity rhythm" 21st Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Paris, 2012
Sawa Kikuchi, "Effects of reflexology for edema and improving circulation in late pregnancy and early postpartum (in Japanese)", Research Report at Course of Midwifery, College of Medical Technology in Chiba, 2009.
Sawa Takakura, “Methods for Improving the Performance of Japanese-to-English Machine Translation Systems”, University of Electro-Communications Doctor's degree thesis, Mar.2005.
Sawa Takakura, Dongli Han and Teiji Furugori, “Recognition and Utilization of Clausal Relation to Improving the Performance of Machine Translation Systems,” Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, No.12, Vol.2, pp.239-261, Aug.2005
Sawa Takakura, Dongli Han and Teiji Furugori, “An Experiment for Determining Semantic Relations between Main and Subordinate Clauses in Complex Sentences,” Proceedings of Winter International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies (WISICT 2004), pp.261-266, Cancun, Mexico, Jan.5-8, 2004.
Sawa Takakura, Takeshi Ito and Teiji Furugori, “TransAid: a Writer’ s Aid System for Translating Japanese into English,” Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC’02), WA2E3, Hammamet, Tunisia, Oct.6-9, 2002.
Sawa Takakura, Teiji Furugori, "TransAid -Japanese-to- English Translation Aid System- (in Japanese)," The Special Interest Group Technical Reports of IPSJ, No.150，pp.7-14, 2002年7月
Qujiang Peng, Sawa Takakura, Teiji Furugori, "Determination of the Meaning of Polysemous Words Using a Word Similarity Measurement," The Special Interest Group Technical Reports of IPSJ, No.142，pp.59-66, 2001年3月
Other Activities
Assistant Lecturer, International Women's Information Processing Training at National Women's Education Center (2005.12)
Assistant Lecturer, International Women's Information Processing Training(Techniques of Power Point) at National Women's Education Center (2000.10)
