Shohei Higashiyama
shohei.higashiyama [at] nict.go.jp
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Work Experience
May 2017 - April 2019, July 2019 - Present
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, Kyoto, Japan
April 2014 - June 2019
NEC Corporation, Central Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan
Education
April 2019 - Present
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
Ph.D. Student
April 2012 - March 2014
Kobe University, Graduate School of System Informatics, Hyogo, Japan
M.S. in System Informatics
April 2008 - March 2012
Kobe University, Faculty of Engineering, Hyogo, Japan
B.S. in Engineering
Publications
Recent Work
Toshiaki Nakazawa, Hideki Nakayama, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Shohei Higashiyama, Hideya Mino, Isao Goto, Win Pa Pa, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Shantipriya Parida, Ondřej Bojar, and Sadao Kurohashi, Overview of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT), December, 2020. [paper]
Shohei Higashiyama, Masao Utiyama, Yuji Matsumoto, Taro Watanabe, and Eiichiro Sumita, Auxiliary Lexicon Word Prediction for Cross-Domain Word Segmentation, Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 573-598, September 2020. [paper]
Shohei Higashiyama, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Masao Ideuchi, Yoshiaki Oida, Yohei Sakamoto, Isaac Okada, and Yuji Matsumoto, Character-to-Word Attention for Word Segmentation, Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 499-530, September 2020. [paper]
Shohei Higashiyama, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Masao Ideuchi, Yoshiaki Oida, Yohei Sakamoto, and Isaac Okada, Incorporating Word Attention into Character-Based Word Segmentation, In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), pp. 2699-2709, June 2019. [paper]
Awards
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS 2014), June 2014.
Student Encouragement Award, The 74th National Convention of IPSJ, March 2012.
Academic Activities
Organizer, Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT ), 2017-2020
Committee member, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Annual Conference, 2018-2019