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 retrieval, machine translation, dialog management, and question answering?
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
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 The 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). [to appear]
Jun Araki, Fumitaka Nakamura, and Masaya Nakayama. 2003. Text Classification with a Polysemy Considered Feature Set (in Japanese). In Proceedings of Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL). 2003 (23), pp.85-92.
Jun Araki, Fumitaka Nakamura, and Masaya Nakayama. 2002. Automated Categorization of Newspaper Articles using Sectorial Dictionary with Relevant Terms (in Japanese). In Proceedings of the Forum on Information Technology 2002 (FIT2002). E-11, pp.103-104.
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