Eiichiro Sumita, Dr. Eng.

Director, Multilingual Translation Laboratory,

Universal Communication Research Institute,

National Institute of Information and Communication Technology

3-5 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0289, JAPAN

Tel : +81-774-98-6350

Skype : eiichiro.sumita

E-mail : eiichiro.sumita@nict.go.jp

twitter : @eiichiro.sumita

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Machine Translation and e-Learning

EDUCATION

・ Ph.D. in Engineering, Kyoto University, March 1999

・ Master in Computer Science, The University of Electro-Communications, March 1982

・ Bachelor in Computer Science, The University of Electro-Communications, March 1980

WORK EXPERIENCE

・ National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Kyoto, April 2006 - Present

・ Advanced Telecomunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, April 1992 - March 2009

・ IBM Japan, Ltd. , IBM Research - Tokyo, Tokyo, April 1980 - March 1991

ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION

・ Vice-Chairperson/Principal Editor in Chief, The Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP), 2012 - Present

・ Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2012 - Present

HONORS AND AWARDS

・ Maejima Hisoka Award, 2013

・ The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prizes for Science and Technology, 2010

・ AAMT Nagao Award, 2007

DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS

TraCha, Eigo No Tane, TexTra and VoiceTra

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS

Machine Translation Technologies to ATR-TREK, FEAT, JAPIO, and NIPPATSU

SELECTED PUBLICATION

・ Akihiro Tamura, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita. Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Label Propagation. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012), pages 24–36, Jeju Island, Korea, July, 2012.

・ Andrew Finch, Paul Dixon, Eiichiro Sumita. Rescoring a Phrase-based Machine Transliteration System with Recurrent Neural Network Language Models. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), pages 47–51, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July, 2012.

・ Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara. Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction for Statistical Machine Translation. Journal of information processing, Vol.20, No.2, pages 512-523, April, 2012.

・ Andrew Finch, Wei Song, Eiichiro Sumita, Kumiko Tananka-Ishii. picoTrans: Using Pictures as Input for Machine Translation on Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), pages 2614-2619, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, July, 2011.

・ Takashi Onishi, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita. Paraphrase Lattice for Statistical Machine Translation. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, Vol.E94-D, No.6, pages1299-1305, June, 2011.

・ Ruiqiang Zhang, Keiji Yasuda, Eiichiro Sumita. Chinese word segmentation and statistical machine translation. ACM Trans. on Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 5, No. 2, Article 4, pp.4:1-4:19, May 2008.

・ Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya, Seiichi Yamamoto. Measuring non-native speakers' proficiency of English by using a test with automatically-generated fill-in-the-blank questions. In Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, pp.61-68, June 2005.

・ Eiichiro Sumita. Example-based machine translation using DP-matching between word sequences. In Proceedings of the workshop on Data-driven methods in machine translation (DDMT’01), Vol. 14, July 2001.

・ Eiichiro Sumita. Lexical transfer using a vector-space model. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-00), pages 425-431, June 2000.

・ Eiichiro Sumita, Hitoshi Iida. Example-Based Transfer of Japanese Adnominal Particles into English. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, Vol. E75-D, No. 4, pp. 585-594, July 1992.