Biography

Professional Experiences

Main

Apr., 2021 - :: Senior Researcher @ Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory, Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Sep., 2014 - Mar., 2021:: Senior Researcher @ Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory, Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Apr., 2014 - Mar., 2016:: Senior Researcher @ Multilingual Translation Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Apr., 2010 - Mar., 2014:: Associate Professor @ Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate (FUN)
Apr., 2009 - Mar., 2010:: Associate Professor @ Department of Media Architecture, Faculty of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate (FUN)
Feb., 2006 - Mar., 2009:: Assistant Professor @ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Apr., 2005 - Jan., 2006:: Postdoctoral Researcher @ Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Adjunct, etc.

Apr., 2011 - Mar., 2014:: Visiting Researcher @ Information and Communication Technologies, National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Apr., 2011 - Mar., 2013:: Postdoctoral Fellow @ Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Apr., 2010 - Mar., 2011:: Invited Adviser @ Language Infrastructure Group, Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Aug., 2009 - Mar., 2010:: Invited Researcher @ Language Infrastructure Group, Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Jul., 2003 - Mar., 2005:: Encouragement Researcher @ Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Apr., 2003 - Jun., 2003:: Student Researcher @ Content Analysis Group, Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE)
Nov., 2002 - Mar., 2003:: Encouragement Researcher @ Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Education

Mar., 2005: Doctor of Engineering from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Mar., 2002: Master's degree of Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT)
Mar., 2000: Bachelor's degree of Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT)
Mar., 1998: Associate of Engineering from Yatsushiro National College of Technology (YNCT)

Research Activities

Awards

Grants

Fiscal years 2019-2023: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Developing a Translation Process Model and Constructing an Integrated Translation Environment through Detailed Descriptions of Translation Norms and Competences"
Co-investigator (PI: Kyo Kageura)
Fiscal years 2013-2017: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Archiving and Using Translation Knowledge to Construct Collaborative Translation Training Aid System"
Co-investigator (PI: Kyo Kageura)
Fiscal years 2013-2015: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Development and Evaluation of Flip Educational Environment for Competence of Rivise Logical Text"
Co-investigator (PI: Mio Tsubakimoto)
Fiscal years 2013-2015: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Building Paraphrase Typology through Comparative Linguistic Analysis"
Principal investigator.
Fiscal year 2013: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Advanced Sentiment Analysis based on Classification and Aggregation"
Co-investigator (PI: Manabu Okumura, FYs 2011-2013)
Fiscal years 2011-2012: Awardee. Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Fiscal years 2009-2010: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Technology for Automatic Dictionary Compilation"
Co-investigator (PI: Satoshi Sato, FYs 2009-2011)
Fiscal years 2006-2007: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Compiling Lexical Resources for Computing Inter-categorial Paraphrasing"
Principal investigator.
Fiscal years 2006-2007: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Building Resources and a Model for Computing Paraphrase Based on Lexical Semantics"
Co-investigator (PI: Kentaro Inui, FYs 2005-2007)
Fiscal years 2006-2007: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Plain Japanese and Paraphrasing for Readability Enhancement"
Co-investigator (PI: Satoshi Sato, FYs 2004-2007)

Memberships

Apr., 2009 - : The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), Membership
Apr., 2004 - : Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Membership
Apr., 2004 - : The Association for Natural Language Processing (in Japan) (ANLP), Membership
Jul., 2003 - : The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Regular Membership

Professional Activities

International

Standing Reviewer: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020-2023.
Program Committee Member: The 6th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 18th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
Program Committee Member: The 5th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), 2020.
Area Chair: Machine Translation and Multilinguality track, The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2020.
Program Committee Member: The 4th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2019.
Program Committee Member: The 17th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), 2019.
Program Committee Member: The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.
Program Committee Member: The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019.
Program Committee Member: The 3rd Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2018.
Program Committee Member: The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2018.
Program Committee Member: The 2018 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2018.
Program Committee Member: The 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2018.
Program Committee Member: The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), System Demonstrations, 2017.
Workshop Organizer: Workshop on Language Technologies and Human Translators (LTHT), 2017.
Student Award Committee Member: Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), 2017.
Program Committee Member: The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2016.
Student Award Committee Member: Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), 2016.
Program Committee Member: The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2014.
Program Committee Member: Workshop on Language Processing and Crisis Information (LPCI), 2013.
Program Committee Member: The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), System Demonstrations, 2013.
Program Committee Member: The International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse (PAN), 2012.
Program Committee Member: The 2012 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2012.
Program Committee Member: The International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse (PAN), 2011.
Program Committee Member: Workshop on Iberian Cross-Language NLP Tasks of the 27th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), 2011.
Program Committee Member: Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Paraphrasing and Nominalization, 2010.
Program Committee Member: The 4th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS), 2010.
Program Committee Member: The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2008.
Program Committee Member: The 3rd International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2007-2008.
Reviewer: The 10th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), 2005.
Reviewer: The 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), 2005.

Domestic

Delegate of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2017-2021.
Award Committee Member: The 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2020.
Award Committee Member: The 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2019.
Award Committee Member: The 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2018.
Award Committee Member: The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2017.
Award Committee Member: The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2016.
Award Committee Member: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2015.
Award Committee Member: The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2014.
Committee Member: Young Researcher Committee, Information Processing Society of Japan, 2013-2015.
Editorial Board Member: Journal of Natural Language Processing, The Association for Natural Language Processing, 2013-2015.
Program Co-chair: The 6th NLP Symposium for Young Researchers, 2010-2011.
Award Committee Member: The 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2011.
Program Co-chair: The 5th NLP Symposium for Young Researchers, 2009-2010.
Program Committee Member / Award Committee Member: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2009-2010.
Program Co-chair: The 4th NLP Symposium for Young Researchers, 2008-2009.
Program Committee Member / Award Committee Member: The 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2008-2009.
Award Committee Member: The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2007.
Program Committee Member: The 2nd NLP Symposium for Young Researchers, 2006-2007.
Program Committee Member / Founder: The 1st NLP Symposium for Young Researchers, 2006.

Etc.

Certificates

Jul., 1999: Pass the Class I Information Technology Engineer Examination (nationally administered examination)
Dec., 1997: Pass the Class II Information Technology Engineer Examination (nationally administered examination)
May, 1996: Driving Licence

Precept

"Adversity is the best school."
(What does not kill you makes you stronger.)

Hobbies

Sports (especially volleyball, snowboarding, swimming)
Reading books (novels, essays, reportages, etc.)
Listening to music, playing instruments (especially piano and guiter)
Traveling
Watch Formula 1 races (usually on TV, sometimes at circuit)