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:: Encouraged 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:: Encouraged 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 2023-2026: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Translation Resources for Local Governments (TR4LG)"
Co-investigator (PI: Rei Miyata)
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

Advisory Board Member: The Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies series, Routledge, 2023-.
Program Committee Board Member: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022-.
Standing Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, 2021-.
Standing Reviewer: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020-2024.
Area Chair: Multilinguality and Machine Translation track, The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025.
Program Committee Member: The 9th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2024.
Program Committee Member: The 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), 2024.
Program Committee Member: The 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Program Committee Member: The 1st Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024.
Program Committee Member: The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.
Program Committee Member: The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024.
Publication Chair: The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023.
Program Committee Member: The 8th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2023.
Program Committee Member: The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
Area Chair: Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, etc. track, The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL), 2023.
Area Chair: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, etc. track, The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.
Program Committee Member: The 7th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI), 2022.
Program Committee Member: The 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2022.
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 10th 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

Award Committee Member: The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2024.
Award Committee Member: The 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2023.
Award Committee Member: The 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2022.
Delegate of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2017-2021.
Award Committee Member: The 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 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

(Suspending during the COVID-19 pandemic) 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)