Hiromi Nakaiwa            

Executive Manager, Ph.D.

Innovative Communication Laboratory

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

 

10-Jul-2008

Contact NTT Communication Science Laboratories Address: 2-4, Hikaridai, Seika-chou, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237 Japan Telephone: +81 774 93 5100 Facsimile: +81 774 93 5105 E-mail:

Research Topics since Joining NTT

In 1987, I began to work at Communication and Information Processing Laboratories, NTT for Japanese-to-English machine translation project, ALT-J/E. Since I attend to NTT, I am mainly researching contextual processing of Japanese texts, especially resolution of Japanese zero pronouns in Japanese-to-English machine translation system. I am also investigating the strategy of automatic acquisition of transfer rules in Japanese-to-English machine translation system using bilingual corpora, the semantic attribute system of Japanese verbs, speech-to-speech machine translation and linguistic resources for natural language understanding.

When I was a member of the machine translation market and technology study committee, JEIDA from 1990 to 1993, I also investigated the evaluation method of machine translation system.

Simplified Personal History

• Apr 1987 - Jun 1991
  NTT Communication and Information Processing Laboratories
• Jul 1991 - Mar 1994
  NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories
• Mar 1994 – June 2002
  NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• Sep 1995 - Sep 1996
  University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Centre for Computational Linguistics (visiting researcher)
• May 2001 -
  Ibaraki University (part-time lecturer)
• July 2002 – Jun 2004
  ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
• July 2004 –
  NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• Apr 2007 – Mar 2008
  Nagoya University (part-time lecturer)
• Dec 2007 – Mar 2008
  Gifu National College of Technology (part-time lecturer)
• Jan 2008 – Mar 2008
  Toyohashi University of Technology (part-time lecturer)

Some Publications

• Zero Pronoun Resolution.
• Verbal Semantic Attributes.
• Automatic Domain Adaptatiton of MT.
• Japanese-to-English MT.
• Spoken Language MT
• Linguistic Resources

Membership of Learned Societies

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Association for Natural Language Processing
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

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