Jun Araki This is a home page for Jun Araki. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Research Interests

• 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 retrieval, machine translation, dialog management, and question answering?

Education

• Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 2012 to present
Thesis Topic: TBD
• 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 [pdf]
• B.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Apr. 1997 to Mar. 2001

Publications

1. Mahmoud Azab, Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer, Hideki Shima, Jun Araki, and Teruko Mitamura. 2013a. An English Reading Tool as an NLP Showcase. In Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 5–8. [pdf, bib]
2. Mahmoud Azab, Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer, Hideki Shima, Jun Araki, and Teruko Mitamura. 2013b. An NLP-based Reading Tool for Aiding Non-native English Readers. In Proceedings of the 9th Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), pages 41–48. [pdf, bib]
3. Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura, Felisa Verdejo, Jun Araki, and Andrew Philpot. 2013. Events are Not Simple: Identity, Non-Identity, and Quasi-Identity. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation at the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), pages 21–28. [pdf, bib]
4. Jun Araki, Fumitaka Nakamura, and Masaya Nakayama. 2003. Text Classification with a Polysemy Considered Feature Set. In Proceedings of Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL), 2003-NL-154, pages 85-92. In Japanese.
5. Jun Araki, Fumitaka Nakamura, and Masaya Nakayama. 2002. Automated Categorization of Newspaper Articles using Sectorial Dictionary with Relevant Terms. In Proceedings of the Forum on Information Technology 2002 (FIT2002), E-11, pages 103–104. In Japanese.

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 2012 to present
• 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 (CSLI), 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

Honors and Awards

• Funai Overseas Scholarship, The Funai Foundation for Information Technology, Aug. 2012 to July 2014 (Expected)

Professional Memberships

• The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Groups: SIGSEM and SIGDial
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
• The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

Software

• Libtree: a general-purpose tree library implemented in Java.

Miscellaneous

• Books in Computer Science
• Writing in English

Personal

• Quotations
• Blog (in Japanese)
• Blog (in English)

Contact

• Email
• junaraki@cs.cmu.edu (preferred for academic matters)
• info@junaraki.net