last updated on 2017/03/30
I'll move to NAIST AHC-Lab from April 2017. This webpage is no longer maintained and the contact information below is not available.
Katsuhito SUDOH Katsuhito SUDOH
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D
Linguistic Intelligence Research Group
Innovative Communication Laboratory
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Research Area: Statistical Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing
Office: 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, "Keihanna Science City" Kyoto 619-0237 JAPAN
Contact: ${family_name}.${given_name}<at>lab.ntt.co.jp
He received a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2000, and a master's and Ph.D degree in informatics in 2002 and 2015 respectively, from Kyoto University. In 2002 he joined NTT Corporation, and he works at NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
He currently works on statistical machine translation. He is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Association of Natural Language Processing (ANLP), the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ).
Software
RIBES : an automatic evaluation metric for machine translation
* RIBES was originally developed by Dr. Hideki Isozaki (currently he is a professor in Okayama Prefectual University).
Publication List
Journal Papers
  • Xun Wang, Yasuhisa Yoshida, Tsutomu Hirao, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Summarization Based on Task-oriented Discourse Parsing," IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Volume 23, Number 8, pp. 1358-1367, Aug. 2015
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Shinsuke Mori (Kyoto Univ.), Masaaki Nagata, "Noise-aware Character Alignment for Extracting Transliteration Fragments," Journal of Natural Language Processing, Volume 21, Number 6, pp. 1107-1131, Dec. 2014
  • Katsuhiko Hayashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Jun Suzuki, Masaaki Nagata, "Incremental Word Re-Ordering and Article Generation: Its Application to Japanese-toEnglish Machine Translation," Journal of Natural Language Processing, Volume 21, Number 5, pp. 1037-1057, Sep. 2014 (in Japanese)
  • Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Evaluating Translation Quality with Word Order Correlations," Journal of Natural Language Processing, Volume 21, Number 3, pp. 421-444, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese)
  • Dan Han, Pascual Martinez-Gómez, Yusuke Miyao, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Unlabeled Dependency Parsing Based Pre-reordering for Chinese-to-Japanese SMT," Journal of Natural Language Processing, Volume 21, Number 3, pp.485-514, Jun. 2014
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Syntax-based Post-ordering for Efficient Japanese-to-English Translation," ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing, Volume 12, Issue 3, Article No. 12, Aug. 2013
  • Hideki Isozaki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Kevin Duh, "HPSG-based Preprocessing for English-to-Japanese Translation," ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol.11, no.3, 2012
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "Named Entity Recognition from Speech using Discriminative Models and Speech Recognition Confidence," Journal of Information Processing, Vol.17, pp.72--81, 2009
  • Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano, "Incorporating discourse features into confidence scoring of intention recognition results in spoken dialogue systems," Speech Communication, Vol.48, pp.417--436, 2006
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano, "Post-Dialogue Confidence Scoring for Unsupervised Statistical Language Model Training," Speech Communication, Vol.45, pp.387--400, 2005
Magazine Articles
  • Masaaki Nagata, Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Yasuhiro Akiba, Tsutomu Hirao, Hajime Tsukada, "Recent Innovations in NTT's Statistical Machine Translation," NTT Technical Review, Vol.11, No.12, Dec. 2013
  • 堀 貴明, 須藤 克仁, 塚田 元, 中村 篤, "世界メディアブラウザ," NTT技術ジャーナル, Vol.21, No.5, 2009
  • Takaaki Hori, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Atsush Nakamura, "World-Wide Media Browser -- Multilingual Audio-Visual Content Retrieval and Browsing System," NTT Technical Review, Vol.7, No.2, 2009
  • 堀 貴明, 須藤 克仁, 塚田 元, 中村 篤, "世界中の音・映像コンテンツを日本語で視聴する技術," ITUジャーナル, Vol.38, No.8, pp.10--12, 2008
Reviewed Intl. Conference Papers
  • Xun Wang, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Learning Text Embeddings from a Hierarchical Neural Language Model," 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), 2015.
  • Sho Hoshino (SOKENDAI), Yusuke Miyao (NII), Katsuhito Sudoh, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Masaaki Nagata, "Discriminative Preordering Meets Kendall's τ Maximization," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2015.
  • Xun Wang, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Empty Category Detection With Joint Context-Label Embeddings," 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015), 2015.
  • Xun Wang, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Rating Entities and Aspects Using a Hierarchical Model," 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2015), 2015.
  • Graham Neubig (NAIST), Katsuhito Sudoh, Yusuke Oda (NAIST), Kevin Duh (NAIST), Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "The NAIST-NTT TED Talk Treebank," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014), 2014.
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, Shinsuke Mori (Kyoto Univ.), Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoyo Univ.), "Japanese-to-English Patent Translation System based on Domain-adapted Word Segmentation and Post-ordering," 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Vol. 1: MT Researchers Track), pp. 234-248, Oct. 2014.
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Shinsuke Mori (Kyoto Univ.), Masaaki Nagata, "Noise-aware Character Alignment for Bootstrapping Statistical Machine Transliteration from Bilingual Corpora," Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Short Papers), pp. 204-209, Oct. 2013.
  • Katsuhiko Hayashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Shift-Reduce Word Reordering for Machine Translation," Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Short Papers), pp. 1382-1386, Oct. 2013.
  • Dan Han (SOKENDAI), Pascual Martinez-Gomez (Univ. of Tokyo/NII), Yusuke Miyao (NII), Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Effects of Parsing Errors on Pre-reordering Performance for Chinese-to-Japanese SMT," 27th Pacific-Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, to appear.
  • Sho Hoshino (SOKENDAI), Yusuke Miyao (NII), Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Two-State Pre-ordering for Japanese-to-English Statistical Machine Translation," 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Poster Papers), to appear.
  • Dan Han (SOKENDAI), Pascual Martinez-Gomez (Univ. of Tokyo/NII), Yusuke Miyao (NII), Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Using Unlabeled Dependency Parsing for Pre-reordering for Chinese-to-Japanese Statistical Machine Translation," 2nd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, pp. 25-33, 2013.
  • Kevin Duh (NAIST), Graham Neubig (NAIST), Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, "Adaptation Data Selection using Neural Language Models: Experiments in Machine Translation," 51st Annual Meeting of the Association on Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), pp. 678-683, 2013
  • Hirotoshi Taira, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Zero Pronoun Resolution can Improve the Quality of J-E Translation," 6th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6), 2012
  • Dan Han, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Head Finalization Reordering for Chinese-to-Japanese Machine Translation," 6th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6), 2012
  • Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "A Comparative Study of Target Dependency Structures for Statistical Machine Translation," 50th Annual Meeting of Association on Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Short Paper, 2012
  • Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao, Wu, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Learning to Translate with Multiple Objectives," 50th Annual Meeting of Association on Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), 2012
  • Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Generalized Minimum Bayes Risk System Combination," International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), 2011
  • Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures," International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), 2011
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Post-ordering in Statistical Machine Translation," 13th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XIII), 2011
  • Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Tomoharu Iwata, Hajime Tsukada, "Bayesian Adaptation of Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation," 13th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XIII), 2011
  • Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Chunk-based Dependency Trees for Japanese-to-English Translation," 13th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XIII), 2011
  • Katsuhiko Hayashi (Doshisha Univ.), Hajime Tsukada, Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.), "Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation with Word-based Reordering Model," International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), 2010
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nagata, "Divide and Translate: Improving Long Distance Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation," 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT-MetricsMATR 2010), 2010
  • Hideki Isozaki, Hajime Tsukada, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, "Head Finalization: A Simple Reordering Rule for SOV Languages," 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT-MetricsMATR 2010), 2010
  • Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hideki Isozaki, Masaaki Nagata, "N-best Reranking by Multitask Learning," 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT-MetricsMATR 2010), 2010
  • Hideki Isozaki, Tsutomu Hirao, Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Akinori Fujino, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "A Patient Support System based on Crosslingual IR and Semi-supervised Learning," SIGIR 2009 Workshop: Information Access in a Multilingual World, 2009
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data Using Speech Recognition Confidence," (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), pp.337-340, 2006
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "Incorporating speech recognition confidence into discriminative named entity recognition of speech data," (Coling / ACL 2006), pp.617--624, 2006
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, "Tightly Integrated Spoken Language Understanding using Word-to-Concept Translation," (Interspeech / Eurospeech 2005), pp.429--432, 2005
  • Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano, "Incorporating discourse features into confidence scoring of intention recognition results in spoken dialogue systems," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), 2005
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano, "Post-dialogue Recognition Confidence Scoring for Improving Statistical Language Models using Untranscribed Dialogue Data," IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2003), pp.447--452, 2003
Other Intl. Conference/Workshop Papers
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata, "Chinese-to-Japanese Patent Machine Translation based on Syntactic Pre-ordering for WAT 2015," Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2015), 2015.
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Graham Neubig (NAIST), Kevin Duh (NAIST), Katsuhiko Hayashi, "NTT-NAIST Syntax-based SMT Systems for IWSLT 2014," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014), 2014.
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Graham Neubig (NAIST), Kevin Duh (NAIST), Hajime Tsukada, "NTT-NAIST SMT Systems for IWSLT 2013," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), 2013.
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, Sho Hoshino (SOKENDAI), Yusuke Miyao (NII), "NTT-NII Statistical Machine Translation in NTCIR-10 PatentMT," 9th NTCIR Conference, 2013
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, Xianchao Wu (Univ. of Tokyo), Takuya Matsuzaki (Univ. of Tokyo), Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo), "NTT-UT Statistical Machine Translation in NTCIR-9 PatentMT," 9th NTCIR Workshop, 2011
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "NTT Statistical Machine Translation for IWSLT 2010," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), 2010
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "NTT Statistical Machine Translation for IWSLT 2008," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2008), 2008
  • Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "Larger Feature Set Approach for Machine Translation in IWSLT 2007," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007), 2007
  • Hideki Isozaki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, "NTT's Japanese-English Cross-Language Question Answering System," 5th NTCIR Workshop, 2005
Domestic Conferences
  • 須藤 克仁, "論文に書けなかった特許翻訳データの前処理", 言語処理学会第22回年次大会ワークショップ 論文に書かない(書けない)自然言語処理, 2016
  • 須藤 克仁, 鈴木 潤, 秋葉 泰弘, 塚田 元, 永田 昌明, "英中韓から日本語への特許文向け統計翻訳システム", 言語処理学会第20回年次大会 発表論文集, pp. 606-609, 2014
  • 星野 翔 (総研大), 宮尾 祐介 (NII), 須藤 克仁, 永田 昌明, "構文解析誤りに眼瞼な日英統計的機械翻訳の事前並べ替え手法", 言語処理学会第20回年次大会 発表論文集, pp. 602-605, 2014
  • Dan Han (総研大), Pascual Martinez-Gómez (東大/NII), 宮尾 祐介 (NII), 須藤 克仁, 永田 昌明, "Analyzing the Influence of Parsing Errors on Pre-reordering Performance for SMT", 言語処理学会第20回年次大会 発表論文集, pp. 824-827, 2014
  • 星野 翔 (総研大), 宮尾 祐介 (NII) 須藤 克仁, 永田 昌明, "日英統計的機械翻訳のための述語項構造に基づく事前並べ替え," 言語処理学会第19回年次大会 発表論文集, 2013
  • 韓 丹 (総研大), 須藤 克仁, 呉 先超, Kevin Duh, 塚田 元, 永田 昌明, "Syntactic Based Reordering Rules for Chinese-to-Japanese Machine Translation," 言語処理学会第18回年次大会 発表論文集, 2012
  • 呉 先超, 須藤 克仁, Kevin Duh, 塚田 元, 永田 昌明, "An Improvement to the Predicate-Argument Strucure Based Pre-ordering Approach for Statistical Machine Translation," 言語処理学会第18回年次大会 発表論文集, 2012
  • 平 博順, 須藤 克仁, 永田 昌明, "統計翻訳における日本語省略補完の効果の分析," 言語処理学会第18回年次大会 発表論文集, 2012
  • 須藤 克仁, 永田 昌明, 森 信介 (京都大), "日英特許翻訳における日本語単語分割の分野適応の検討," 言語処理学会第18回年次大会 発表論文集, 2012
  • 平尾 努, 磯崎 秀樹, Kevin Duh, 須藤 克仁, 塚田 元, 永田 昌明, "RIBES: 順位相関に基づく翻訳の自動評価法," 言語処理学会第17回年次大会 発表論文集, 2011
  • 塚田 元, 磯崎 秀樹, 渡辺 太郎, 藤野 昭典, 鈴木 潤, 須藤 克仁, "大規模分散並列処理に基づく統計的機械翻訳," 平成20年度科学研究費補助金「情報爆発IT基盤」成果報告会, 2009
  • 塚田 元, 磯崎 秀樹, 渡辺 太郎, 藤野 昭典, 鈴木 潤, 須藤 克仁, "大規模分散並列処理に基づく統計的機械翻訳," 平成20年度科学研究費補助金「情報爆発IT基盤」A01注研究集会, 2008
  • 堀 貴明, 須藤 克仁, 大庭 隆伸, 渡部 晋治, 渡辺 太郎, 塚田 元, 中村 篤, "「世界メディアブラウザ」- 音声認識と統計翻訳に基づく多言語動画コンテンツ検索/閲覧システム," 第2回音声ドキュメント処理ワークショップ講演論文集, pp.59-66, 2008
  • 須藤 克仁, 塚田 元, 磯崎 秀樹, "音声認識の確信度と識別モデルを利用した音声からの固有表現抽出," 第1回音声ドキュメント処理ワークショップ講演論文集, pp.153-158, 2007
  • 西村 竜一 (和歌山大), 秋田 祐哉 (京都大), 須藤 克仁, 大庭 隆伸, "ICSLPにおける研究動向 - 言語モデル・対話システムを中心に," 第8回音声言語シンポジウム - 情報処理学会研究報告 音声言語処理研究会 SLP-64, pp.239-244, 2006
  • 須藤 克仁, 塚田 元, "音声対話システムのための音声認識と密に統合した音声言語理解," 日本音響学会春季研究発表会講演論文集, 2006
  • 須藤 克仁, 中野 幹生, "音声対話システムのための統計的言語理解モデルの構成とその学習," 言語処理学会第10回年次大会発表論文集, pp.71--74, 2004
  • 中野 幹生, 東中 竜一郎, Matthias Denecke, 須藤 克仁, 宮崎 昇, 堂坂 浩二, "対話ログによる訓練が可能なインタラクティブ音声理解システムの枠組," 言語処理学会第10回年次大会発表論文集, pp.67--70, 2004
  • 須藤 克仁, 東中 竜一郎, 中野 幹生, 相川 清明, ""反省型"信頼性尺度に基づく書き起こしなしデータを用いた言語モデル学習," 情報処理学会研究報告 音声言語情報処理研究会 SLP-45, pp.83--88, 2003
Awards
  • Katsuhiko Hayashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Incremental Word Re-Ordering and Article Generation: Its Application to Japanese-to-English Machine Translation," Best Paper Award of Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2015
  • Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "RIBES: 順位相関に基づく翻訳の自動評価法," Best Presentation Award of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Languge Processing, 2012
  • Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata, "Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures," IJCNLP 2011 Best Paper Finalist, 2011
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki, "Incorporating speech recognition confidence into discriminative named entity recognition of speech data," COLING/ACL 2006 AFNLP Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award, 2006
Activities
  • Vice-chair: AAMT/Japio Special Interest Group on Patent Translation Apr. 2016 - (Member: Apr. 2012 -)
  • Editor: Journal of Natural Language Processing, Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2018