Hiromi Nakaiwa            

Executive Manager, Ph.D.

Innovative Communication Laboratory

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

 

Visiting Professor

Department of Media Science

Graduate School of Information Science

Nagoya University

8-May-2012

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.

Simplified Personal History

• April 1987 - June 1991
  NTT Communication and Information Processing Laboratories
• July 1991 - March 1994
  NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories
• March 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 - March 2009
  Ibaraki University (part-time lecturer)
• July 2002 – June 2004
  ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
• July 2004 –
  NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• April 2007 – March 2008
  Nagoya University (part-time lecturer)
• Dec 2007 – March 2008
  Gifu National College of Technology (part-time lecturer)
• Jan 2008 – March 2008
  Toyohashi University of Technology (part-time lecturer)

• April 2009−

  Nagoya University (visiting professor)

Research-related Activities

• 1990 - 1993
  Japanese Electronic Industry Development Association, JEIDA, the Machine Translation Market and Technology Study Committee Member
• 1997 - 2001
  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI, Committee Member
• 1998 - 1999
  8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI-99, Program Committee Member
• 1999 - 2001
  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, IEICE, Technical Group of Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication, NLC, Secretary
• 1999 - 2002
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Secretary, Reviewer
• 2000 - 2001
  Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2001, PACLING-2001, Organization Member
• 2001 - 2003
  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, IEICE, Technical Group of Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication, NLC, Vice-chairperson.
• 2001 - 2002
  9th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI-2002, Publicity and Local Arrangements
• 2001 -
  Machine Translation (Springer), Editorial Board Member
• 2001 - 2002
  Forum on Information Technology, FIT-2002, Program Committee Member
• 2002 - 2004
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Secretary, Editorial Board Member
• 2003 - 2004
  International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation - Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation - IWSLT-2004, Program Committee Member
• 2004 - 2008
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Director
• 2004 - 2005
  Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2005, PACLING-2005, Organization Member
• 2006 - 2008
  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, IEICE, Technical Group of Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication, NLC, Chairperson.
• 2006 - 2007
  The 13rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Program Committee Chair
• 2008 - 2010
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Editor-in-Chief, Director
• 2008 -
  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, IEICE, Technical Group of Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication, NLC, Steering Committee Member
• 2008 - 2010
  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI, Director, Vice-chairperson of the Organizing Committee of JSAI2009, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee of JSAI2010
• 2008 - 2009
  Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2009, PACLING-2009, Program Committee Member
• 2009 - 2010
  Association for Computational Linguistics 2010, ACL-2010, Program Committee Member
• 2008 - 2010
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Vice-chairperson, Principal Editor-in-Chief
• 2010 - 2011
  Machine Translation Summit XIII, MT Summit XIII, Program Committee Chair
• 2010 -
  Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation, AAMT, Auditor
• 2011 -
  Advanced Language Information Forum, ALGIN, Auditor
• 2012 -
  The Association for Natural Language Processing, Chairperson

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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