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I received my B.Eng., M.Eng., and Dr.Eng. in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively, from Toyohashi University of Technology. During 1996-2000, I have been an invited researcher at ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories(ATR-ITL). After then, I have been an invited researcher at ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories(ATR-SLT). In 1998, I have also been a visiting researcher at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition of Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, P.R.China. I have also been a part-time lecturer in Toyohashi University of Technology since April 2002.
My major research interests are in the area of multilingual machine translation (MT) and/or speech translation between Japanese and Chinese / English / Korean, text summarization, automatic paraphrasing, and others in natural language processing (NLP). In the former ATR-ITL project, I was responsible for projects on Japanese-Korean-Japanese MT and Japanese-Chinese MT, which utilize example-based TDMT (Transfer-Driven Machine Translation) methodology. I have also joined a project on developing Japanese-English, Japanese-German, Japanese-Chinese MT in its ellipsis resolution module.
In the current ATR-SLT project, I am in charge of Japanese-Chinese-Japanese MT construction. I have proposed the Sandglass model, which is designed mainly for non-English MT, where translation is done through "clever" twin paraphrasers and a light-and-simple transfer. I have also engaged to basic research on document summarization and paraphrasing together with Masuyama Laboratory of Toyohashi University of Technology since 1990.
- English abstract of my doctoral dissertation:
Title: Studies on Automatic Non-Parsing Processing for Japanese Machine-Readable Texts (written in Japanese) - list of refereed journal articles
- list of refereed papers
of international conferences and workshops
(with their abstracts, all downloadable)
I am a member of ACL, The Association for Natural Language Processing(Japan), and Information Processing Society of Japan. I am a subscription member of Journal of Chinese Information Processing (ISSN 1003-0077). I was a committee member of NLPRS2001 Workshop on Automatic Paraphrasing: Theories and Applications, and "Toward Automatic Paraphrasing", a domestic workshop of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing. I have reviewed some papers for some international conferences and (domestic) journals, most of which are concerned with (Japanese) text summarization and various areas of Korean language processing.
Any questions and comments are always welcome.