 |
I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. As a Ph.D. candidate, I work on methods for computationally processing natural language, specifically including the areas of event coreference resolution, event extraction, question answering, information retrieval, question generation, and computer-assisted language learning. In particular, I often explore computational methods that deal with meanings of language by constructing and utilizing semantic resources with machine-learnable models. |
Research Interests
My research interests are in computational semantics, statistical natural language processing, and knowledge representation and reasoning. My general research questions are as follows:
- How can we make computers construct general-purpose and domain-specific semantic resources automatically from natural language sources with the aim of semantically effective natural language processing?
- How can we make computers utilize these resources in concrete natural language processing tasks such as information extraction, dialog management, information retrieval, and question answering?
Education
- Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 2012 to present
- M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University,
Sept. 2009 to June 2011
Specialization: Artificial Intelligence - M.Eng. in Electronic Engineering,
The University of Tokyo, Apr. 2001 to
Mar. 2003
Thesis: Text Classification with a Polysemy Considered Feature Set - B.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Apr. 1997 to Mar. 2001
Professional Experience
- Graduate Research Assistant, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 2012 to present
- Research Summer Intern, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, May 2015 to Aug. 2015
- Research Programmer/Analyst, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 2011 to July 2012
- Graduate Research Assistant, Computational Semantics Laboratory, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Oct. 2009 to June 2011
- Software Engineer, TriAx Corp., Tokyo, Mar. 2006 to July 2009
- Software Engineer, IBM Japan Ltd., Tokyo, Apr. 2003 to Feb. 2006
- Software Developer Intern, Agilent Technologies Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Aug. 2001 to Sept. 2001
Selected Honors and Awards
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, Aug. 2015 to present
- Graduate Student Assembly/Provost Conference Funding, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
- SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2014
- ACL Student Volunteer Award, 2014
- Graduate Research Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, Sept. 2012 to present
- Funai Overseas Scholarship, The Funai Foundation for Information Technology, Aug. 2012 to present
Professional Service
- Student volunteer for ACL 2014
- Organizing committee for the 2014 LTI Student Research Symposium
Professional Memberships
- Student member, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Student member,
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Groups: SIGSEM and SIGDial - Student member, The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Student member, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)