March/1998 Doctor of Engineering in Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Senior Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University.

Natural language processing, Computational lexicon, Statistical NLP

Research theme: Construction of Lexical Semantic System and Its Application.

In order to realize robust natural language processing models on computer, how to describe linguistic knowledge, especially word meanings, should be revealed. In this research, we try to construct a lexical semantic system that based on theoretical lexical semantics considering the application of the lexical semantics into a practical analysis model on natural language processing. The feedback of the application to a practical model helps to refine the theoretical semantic system with clear perspective.

March/1991 Bachelor of Electronic Engineering in Electric Engineering Division, Himeji Institute of Technology

March/1995 Master of Engineering in Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

March/1998 Doctor of Engineering in Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

April/1998 – March/2000 Research Associate, National Center for Science and Information Systems

April/2000 – November/2003 Research Associate, National Institute of Informatics

October/2002 – May/2003 Visiting Researcher, INRIA Lorraine, France

December/2003 Lecturer, Okayama University

April/2000 – March/2002 Visiting Lecturer, Kanagawa University

2001 Lecturer of Special Lecture for Graduate School, Tokyo University of Science

December/2003 Lecturer, Okayama University

[(1991-)] Member of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

[(1997-)] Member of The Association for Natural Language Processing

[(1994-)] Member of Information Processing Society of Japan

[(2001)] Member of local organizer of 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 2001(NLPRS’01)

[(2002-2004)] Member of Editorial Staff of Magazine of Information Processing Society of Japan

[(2003)] Member of program committee International Workshop on Semantic Web Foundation and Application Technologies 2003

[(2004)] Member of program committee of annual meeting of Natural Language Processing Society in Japan

[(2004)] Member of program committee of computational terminology COMPUTERM2004

[(2003-)] Member of task force of natural language processing research community in Information Processing Society Japan

Member of subcommittee of risk management system in the goverment project at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Indastry: Risk management of industrial adaptation of genetic recombination.