Katsuhito Sudoh @ NAIST

Natural Language Processing (Machine Translation, Natural Language Generation, and their evaluation)
Spoken Language Processing (Simultaneous Translation, Speech Translation)

Educations

Supervisor: Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara

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 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

Apr. 2017 -: Associate Professor at NAIST
Oct. 2018 -: Researcher of JST PRESTO
May 2018 -: Visiting Scientist at RIKEN AIP (Tourism Information Analytics Team)
Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2017: Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

Apr. 2016 -: Vice Chairperson, AAMT/Japio Special Interest Group on Patent Translation (Apr. 2012-: Committee member)
Aug. 2019: Workshop co-organizer, The 8th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2019)
Jun. 2018 - May 2020: 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)
Dec. 2017: Evaluation co-chair, The 14th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2017)
Sep. 2017: Workshop co-organizer, The 7th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2017)
Oct. 2015: Workshop co-organizer, The 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2015)
Senior PC: IJCAI (2020)
Reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on ASLP, IEEE Transactions on NNLS, ACM Transactions on ALLIP, Computer Speech and Language, IPSJ Journal, IEICE Transactions, Journal of Natural Language Processing, Transactions of JSAI, ACL (2015-2017, 2019-), EACL (2017), EMNLP (2015-2016, 2018-), COLING (2016, 2018), WMT (2015-), IJCNLP (2015-), AAAI (2020)

2020: Fundamentals in Information Science, NAIST (1 session out of 8; Artificial Intelligence Basics)
2017-2018, 2020: Sequential Data Modeling, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (4 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: Machine Learning, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST (2 sessions out of 8)
2016: Machine Translation (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)

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: Best Student Paper Award in IWSLT 2018, "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"

(Publication list here is still in maintenance...)