YOSHINAGA Naoki

Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Tokyo
E-mail: yoshinag at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Affiliation

Tsujii Group,
Department of Computer Science,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Awards:
2005 - pres.: JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD)
2002 - 2005: Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Tokyo; thesis title: Collaborative and Corpus-Driven Approaches towards Lexicalized Grammar-based Natural Language Processing
2002 - 2005: JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1)
2003 - 2004: Visiting researcher of the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex
2000 - 2002: MSc in Information Science, University of Tokyo; thesis title: TAG-to-HPSG conversion and its applications.
1996 - 2000: BSc in Information Science, University of Tokyo.

Full CV

Research Interests

Language Learnability
Parsing of Natural Language with Lexicalized Grammars
Grammar Acquisition from Corpora Exploiting Exisiting Linguistic Resources

Selected Refereed Publications

Improving the Accuracy of Subcategorizations Acquired from Corpora. Yoshinaga, N. In the Proceedings of the 42nd ACL companion volume. pp. 43--48. Barcelona, Spain. July, 2004.
Parsing Comparison across Grammar Formalisms Using Strongly Equivalent Grammars. Yoshinaga, N., Y. Miyao, K. Torisawa, J. Tsujii. In the Journal of Traitement Automatique des Langues, a special issue on Evolutions in Parsing. vol. 44, num. 3. pp. 15--39. 2003 (in press).
Grammar Conversion from LTAG to HPSG. Yoshinaga, N. and Y. Miyao. In the European Student Journal on Language and Speech, a special issue on the language sections of the 6th ESSLLI student session. 2002. (the original paper presented in the student session)

Selected Presentations

Parsing comparison between LTAG and HPSG using strongly equivalent grammars. Yoshinaga, N. Talk given in the Sussex Informatics NLCL Seminar at University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., October, 2003
Automatic conversion from FB-LTAG to HPSG. Yoshinaga, N. Talk given in the XTAG meeting at University of Pennsylvania (IRCS), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., September, 2000.