Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics
Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Mining, Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Acquisition.
Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
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 affiliation to 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. |