Yo Ehara, Ph.D.
I am a researcher at Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. My research interests include natural language processing (NLP), especially in educational NLP using item response theory and machine learning.
Previously, I was an project assistant professor at Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, postdoc at National Institute of Informatics (JSPS PD, in Prof. Miyao group), in reverse chronological order. I obtained my Ph.D. (Information Science and Technology) in the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa, in September 2013.
Contact
y-[my surname starting from e] atmark aist.go.jp
AIST Tokyo Waterfront BIO-IT Research Building, 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo. 135-0064, Japan
Publication List
Awards
Underlined authors/presenters receive awards.
- DBSJ Journal Paper Award 2016, The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ).
- (Co-authored student received) March, 2016. Student Presentation Award. The 8th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM 2016), The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ).
- Keisuke Mitomi, Masaki, Endo, Yo Ehara, Masaharu Hirota, Shohei Yokoyama, Hiroshi Ishikawa
- (Co-authored student received) November, 2015. Student Incentive Award. The 162th SIG-Database Management System, Information Processing Society of Japan.
- Keisuke Saeki, Masaki Endo, Yo Ehara, Masaharu Hirota, Shohei Yokoyama, Hiroshi Ishikawa
- September, 2015. Incentive Award. The 10th NLP Symposium for Young Researchers.
- Yo Ehara, Yukino Baba, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita.
- September, 2015. Excellent Paper Award. Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2015). DICOMO 2015 Program Committee, Information Processing Society of Japan.
- Yo Ehara, Yukino Baba, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita.
- March, 2011. Student Incentive Award. SIG-Human Computer Interaction, Information Processing Society of Japan.
- Yo Ehara, Takashi Ninomiya, Hiroshi Nakagawa. A reading support system for English Wikipedia with prediction capability of the words unknown to the users (in Japanese).
- September, 2009. Incentive Award. (rate 8.3%). The 4th NLP Symposium for Young Researchers.
- Yo Ehara, Takashi Ninomiya, Hiroshi Nakagawa. Extracting language ability information from word-click logs in word-grossing system (in Japanese).
Grants
- JSPS KAKENHI, April 2015 ~ March 2017 (Expected).
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, April 2012 ~ March 2014
Activities
International:
- The 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-11, NAACL 2016 Workshop) Program Committee Member
- ACL 2015 Program Committee Member
- ACL 2014 Program Committee Member
- The 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-9, ACL2014 Workshop) Program Committee Member
Domestic:
- Reviewer: Journal of Natural Language Processing, IEICE Trans. on Information & Systems
- Program Committee Member of Web DB Forum 2014
- Program Committee Member of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies (YANS) (April 2014 ~)
- Student Member of Editorial Board, June 2010 to September 2013. Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
- Student association organizer, from April 2009 to March 2010. Speech, Language and Communications Research at the University of Tokyo (UT-SLC).
Teaching
- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Project Assistant Professor, September 2015 ~ March 2016
- Graduate School of System Design
- Senshu University, Teaching Assistant (TA) September 2013 ~ March 2014
- Department of Network and Information
Experiences
- Researcher April 2016 ~ Present
- Knowledge Information Research Team, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Project Assistant Professor September 2015 ~ March 2016
- Ishikawa Laboratory, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Researcher April 2014 ~ August 2015.
- Multilingual Translation Lab., Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- JSPS Research Fellow (PD) October 2013 ~ March 2014.
- Host Researcher: Prof. Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics.
- JSPS Reserach Fellow (DC2) April 2012 ~ September 2013.
- Host Researcher: Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa, The University of Tokyo.
- Rakuten Institute of Technology, Intern July 2010 ~ October 2010.
- Host Researcher: Prof. Satoshi Sekine, New York University / Rakuten.
Software
- Github: https://github.com/niam
- Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/niammain
- NEWikipedia (The system is temporarily unavailable. This system has no relation to the Wikimedia Foundation. If not working, please notify it to me.) Glosses the words you click, estimates your English ability from your click logs, and automatically glosses the words predicted to be unfamiliar to you when loading another page.
Education
- Ph.D. (Information Science and Technology) September 2013
- from the University of Tokyo. Supervisor: Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa
- M.E. (Information Science and Technology) September 2009
- from the University of Tokyo. Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Ninomiya
- B.E. (Engineering) March 20o7
- from the University of Tokyo. Supervisor: Prof. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
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