Katsuhito Sudoh, Ph.D.
Professor, Nara Women’s University
Visiting Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
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About me
General information
Professor at Nara Women’s University Laboratory for Speech, Language, and Communication (Lab4SLC)
Visiting Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) (Natural Language Processing Laboratory)
Contact
Faculty Division of Human Life and Environmental Sciences, Nara Women’s University Kitauoya Nishimachi, Nara, Nara 630-8506, Japan
mailto: ${surname} {0x40} ics.nara-wu.ac.jp
Research topics
- Natural Language Processing (Machine Translation, Natural Language Generation, and their evaluation)
- Spoken Language Processing (Simultaneous Translation, Speech Translation)
Educations
Ph. D. in Informatics, Kyoto University (2015) Doctoral Dissertation: A Japanese-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for Technical Documents Supervisor: Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara
Master of Informatics, Kyoto University (2002) Master Thesis: Virtualizing Reaction of One-Dimensional Deformable Objects from Real Observation (実計測に基づく１次元柔軟物体のふるまいの仮想化) Supervisor: Prof. Michihiko Minoh
Bachelor of Engineering, Kyoto University (2000) Bachelor Thesis: Shape Modeling of String-like Flexible Object from Real Observation for its Manipulation in Virtual World (仮想世界でのひも操作のための実観測に基づく形状のモデル化) Supervisor: Prof. Michihiko Minoh
Work experiences
- Apr. 2024–present: Professor at Nara Women’s University
- Apr. 2024–present: Affiliate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
- Apr. 2024–Mar. 2026: Invited Advisor, National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT)
- Apr. 2022–Mar. 2026: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN AIP (Knowledge Acquisition Team)
- Apr. 2017–Mar. 2024: Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
- Oct. 2018–Mar. 2022: Researcher, JST PRESTO
- May 2018–Mar. 2022: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN AIP (Tourism Information Analytics Team)
- Apr. 2002–Mar. 2017: Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
Grants
Principal Investigator
- Apr. 2021–Mar. 2025: Study on Machine Translation Focusing on Compositionality of Natural Language, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid (KAKENHI) for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Oct. 2018–Mar. 2022: Evaluation Framework for Next-Generation Natural Language Generation, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Co-investigator
- Jul. 2021–Mar. 2026: Research on Multi-modal Automatic Interpretation Systems and Evaluation Methods and Their Applications, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid (KAKENHI) for Scientific Research (S), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [PI: Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)]
- Apr. 2022–Mar. 2026: Knowledge Inference System for Robots Integrating Common Sense described in Languages and Observation in the Real World, Grant-in-Aid (KAKENHI) for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [PI: Koichiro Yoshino (RIKEN)]
- Apr. 2022–Mar. 2025: Evaluation Data Development and Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation by Deep Learning, Grant-in-Aid (KAKENHI) for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [PI: Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi Univ.)]
- May 2017–Jun. 2021: Next generation speech translation research, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid (KAKENHI) for Scientific Research (S), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [PI: Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)]
- Apr. 2007–Mar. 2009: Statistical Machine Translation based on Large-scale Distributed Parallel Processing, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas [PI: Hajime Tsukada (NTT)]
Academic activities
Academic society officers and committees
- Jun. 2021–present: Director (Board member), Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
- Apr. 2016–present: Vice Chairperson, AAMT/Japio Special Interest Group on Patent Translation (Apr. 2012-: Committee member)
- Apr. 2022–Mar. 2026: Chair, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (SIG-NL), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
- Mar. 2022–Mar. 2026: Director (Board member), Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Japan
- Apr. 2021–Mar. 2022: Secretary, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (SIG-NL), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
- Jun. 2018–May 2022: Associate Editor, IPSJ Journal & Journal of Information Processing (JIP), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
- Sep. 2014–Sep. 2018: Associate Editor, Journal of Natural Language Processing (JNLP)
International conference committees
- 2027: Local Arrangement Co-Chair, ACL 2027 (Incoming)
- 2025: Workshop Co-Chair, LREC-COLING 2025
Other international conference activities
- 2015–present: Workshop Co-Organizer, Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT)
- 2021–2026: Task Organizer for Simultaneous Speech Translation, International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- 2024–present: Large Language Models (大規模言語モデル特論), Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women’s University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2024–present: Advanced Artificial Intelligence (人工知能特論), Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women’s University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2020–2023: Fundamentals in Information Science, NAIST (1 session out of 8; Artificial Intelligence Basics)
- 2017–2018, 2020, 2022–2023: Sequential Data Modeling, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (4 sessions out of 8)
- 2021: Sequential Data Modeling, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (3 sessions out of 8)
- 2019: Sequential Data Modeling, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (6 sessions out of 8)
- 2019: Data Science II, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (1 session out of 8)
- 2018–2019: Introduction to Machine Learning (機械学習概論), Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (2 sessions out of 8)
Undergraduate Courses
- 2024–present: Pattern Recognition (パターン認識), Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women’s University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2024–present: Human Life and Artificial Intelligence (生活と人工知能), Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women’s University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2024–present: Life, Culture, and Artificial Intelligence (生活文化と人工知能), Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women’s University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2016: Translation Analysis (翻訳解析), Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University (15 sessions, in Japanese)
- 2015-2016: Speech Information Processing (音声情報処理), Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University (3 sessions out of 15, in Japanese)
Awards
- Jul. 2023: IWSLT 2023 Best Student Paper Award: “Tagged End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation Training using Simultaneous Interpretation Data” [co-authored]
- Mar. 2020: Outstanding Paper Award in Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, “鏡映変換に基づく埋め込み空間上の単語属性変換” [co-authored]
- Aug. 2019: Best Paper Award in ConvAI 2019, “Conversational Response Re-ranking Based on Event Causality and Role Factored Tensor Event Embedding” [co-authored]
- Oct. 2018: IWSLT 2018 Best Student Paper Award, “Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation with Data Augmentation” [co-authored]
- Mar. 2015: Outstanding Paper Award of Journal of Natural Language Processing, “Incremental Word Re-Ordering and Article Generation: Its Application to Japanese-to-English Machine Translation” (In Japanese: 単語並べ替えと冠詞生成の同時逐次処理：日英機械翻訳への適用) [co-authored]
- Mar. 2012: Outstanding Presentation Award in Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, “RIBES: 順位相関に基づく翻訳の自動評価法” [co-authored]
- Nov. 2011: Best Paper Finalist in IJCNLP 2011, “Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate Argument Structures” [co-authored]
- Jul. 2006: AFNLP Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award in COLING/ACL 2006, “Incorporating Speech Recognition Confidence into Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data”
Publications
- Researchmap (maintained manually): https://researchmap.jp/sudoh/published_papers
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=bCF44lUAAAAJ&hl=en
- Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Katsuhito-Sudoh/1790811
- dblp: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Sudoh:Katsuhito