CV

Short CV (newest first)

• 2020-04: I joined Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, where I am now an extraordinary professor.
  • 2024-02–2025-12: Adjunct professor at Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, Education University of Hong Kong.
• 2009-06: I joined the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University as associate professor.
• 2006-12--2009-06: NICT Computational Linguistics Group (now the Language Infrastructure Group) Kyoto, Japan.
• 1991-04--2006-12: NTT, researching machine translation. I spent most of my time at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
  • 2005-04--2005-07: Invited researcher at LOGON Machine Translation project in Oslo, Norway.
  • 2001: PhD University of Queensland
  • 1999-2000: IAP Researcher at CSLI, with the Linguistic Grammars Online Laboratory (LinGO) and the Computational Semantics Laboratory (Semlab).
• 1990: BEng (Electrical Systems Engineering) University of Queensland
• 1988: BA (Mathematics, Japanese) University of Queensland
• 1987: Mombusho Scholarship to study Japanese Language and Culture (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
• 1985: Enrolled in Engineering at the University of Queensland
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• 1967: Born in Sydney, Australia

Research Related Activities

• Program Chair: Pacling-2007 TMI-99
• Program Co-Chair: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006 (LINC-2006) 6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2005)
  ACL-2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing;
  ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment
• Program committee member:
  Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2007), Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2006), The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC2007) ACL 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, PACLING 2005, LINC-04, MT-2000, NAACL-2000, NLPRS-99, Pacling-99, ...
• Steering committee member: TMI; Papillon
• Lecturer: American and European Languages --- Information Theory II (1 unit: 12 lectures; Second semester 2005, 2006, 2007) Nara Women's University
• Course Presenter:
  • Ontology Construction and Use Third Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (2008);
  • Computational Lexicons and Ontologies Second Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (2008);
  • NLP/IR ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing (2006);
  • Machine Translation ALI-2002 (8th - 19th July 2002; Sydney); ALI-2000
• Workshop organizer: Machine Translation ALI-98 (Brisbane, Australia)
• Local Chair: HPSG-2015 (NTU, Singapore) HPSG-2008 (Kyoto, Japan) (with Takao Gunji); TMI-2002 (2002-03; Kyoto, Japan) (with Hiromi Nakaiwa)
• Local committee member: Pacling-2005, NLP-2002
• Referee:
  • Conferences/Workshops: Unified Linguistic Annotations Nodalida 2007, ACL-2007, MT Summit 2005, OSMaTran WS, LINC-04, ACL-2004 Student workshop, MT Summit IX, PACLING-2003, Papillon-2003, ESSLLI 2003 Workshop on Multilingual Grammar Engineering, ACL-03, EACL-03, ACL-2002 student sessions, COLING-2002, PACLING-2001, ACL-2000, COLING-2000, MT Summit VII, ALS-98, COLING-96, COLING-94,
  • Books/Journals: CHUM/LRE, CSLI publications, ETRI Journal, Computational Linguistics, Computer Speech and Language, JRLC, ACM-TALIP, 言語処理学会誌, IEICE

Membership of Learned Societies

• Association for Computational Linguistics: SIGSEM (Anthology)
• Association for Natural Language Processing (Japan) (2009-- Council member: 評議員)
• Australian Linguistic Society
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Senior Member)
• The Linguist List
  
  
• Amnesty International (Nara Group)
• Member of the Internationalization Program of the Internet Architecture Board (2104–)

Projects

Ongoing

• DELPH-IN: Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG (Standing Committee Member)
• Global WordNet Association (Board Member)
• Debian GNU/Linux contributor

Completed

• CREST セマンティックタイポロジーによる言語の等価変換と生成技術
  [Transfer and Generation with Semantic Typologies] with Satoru Ikehara and many more ...
• Multiword Expression (MWE) Project (PI)
• A Contrastive Study of Korean and Japanese Syntax and Semantics: Feasibility of Porting and Cross-Development of Grammars between Two Different Multilingual Processing Systems (Member)
• LOGON MT Project (Guest Researcher)
• HPSG Standing Committee (2006-10-16--present)
• Kyoto Project (Knowledge Yielding Ontologies for Transition-based Organization)
• Idiom Research
• MASTAR Project (Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch)
• LinGO Lab: Linguistic Grammars On-Line (Member)
• Papillon Multi-lingual Lexical Database (Steering Committee Member).

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