Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics
Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Project researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Agency's PRESTO Program
Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Mining, Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Acquisition.
Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Project researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Agency's PRESTO Program
Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Mining, Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Acquisition.
 Photo: Sokendai Journal, Copyright 2010 Profile: I am an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics [1] in Japan with affiliations to the Japan Science and Technology Agency and Sokendai [2]. My research and teaching is in the broad area of natural language processing [3] and knowledge acquisition where I have been active in the application of empirical techniques for text mining across a range of challenging domains including genetics and public health. In collaboration with research partners I have published 4 book chapters, 28 journal papers and 31 papers in major conferences with an estimated H-index [4] of 19 as well as co-chairing a number of international workshops. I have given talks at many institutions and my work on infectious disease alerting has been reported on the front page of a major national newspaper [5]. | Bio: I graduated in 1992 with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Leeds University [6] in the
UK. Following awards of SERC [7] and ESRC [8] scholarships I earnt an MSc in machine translation (1994) and a PhD in Computational Linguistics (1996) at UMIST [9] (now merged with Manchester University). After being awarded a Toshiba Fellowship I worked from 1996 to 1998 on machine translation and
knowledge acquisition at Toshiba's R&D labs in Japan. Moving back to academic research, from 1998 to 2000 I was a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo [10] where I helped establish the GENIA project. From 2000 I became Associate Professor at NII where I have been active in the development and critical analysis of biomedical text mining algorithms and resources. This is exemplified by the BioCaster project - an experimental health surveillance system that uses the Web to
discover early warnings about infectious diseases. I have published or co-published over 90 articles/papers on topics such as knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation. External funding sources include the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a prestigious PRESTO award from the Japan Science and Technology Agency. | Coordinates: Office: Room 1401, National Center of Sciences, 1-2-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan Phone: +81-(0)3-4212-2536 Email: collier <*at*> nii dot ac dot jp Quick Links:
I have a strong interest in supporting students towards higher degrees and postdoctoral research. So far I have supervised 6 PhD students, 6 postdoctoral researchers as well as 15 visiting internships. For more details please see my CV and my LinkedIn profile. |