Shohei Higashiyama

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing, including Linguistic Analysis and Information Extraction

• Geography and Language (a.k.a Geospatial NLP)

• Corpus Annotation

Work Experience

• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

  • April 2022 to present: Researcher

  • July 2019 to March 2022: Technical Researcher

  • May 2017 to April 2019: Researcher (Transferred employee)

• Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

  • October 2022 to present: Affiliate Assistant Professor

• National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)

  • July 2023 to present: Collaborative Researcher

• NEC Corporation

  • April 2014 to June 2019: Researcher

Education

• Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

  • April 2019 to March 2022

  • Doctor of Engineering

• Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University

  • April 2012 to March 2014

  • M.S. in System Informatics

• Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University

  • April 2008 to March 2012

  • B.S. in Engineering

• Hyogo Prefectural Yumenodai High School

  • April 2005 to March 2008

Awards

1. Committee Special Award (委員特別賞) at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, "日本語旅行記ジオパージングデータセットATD-MCL", March 2024.

2. Best Paper Award at the 7th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), "A Text Editing Approach to Joint Japanese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Lexical Normalization", November 2021.

3. Best Paper Award (論文賞) of the Association for Natural Language Processing, "Character-to-Word Attention for Word Segmentation", March 2021.

4. Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS 2014), "A Cost-Sensitive Approach to Named Entity Recognition with Category Hierarchy", June 2014.

5. Student Encouragement Award (学生奨励賞) of the 74th IPSJ National Convention, "カテゴリ階層を考慮した固有表現抽出", March 2012.

Scholarships

1. 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学 博士後期課程社会人学生奨学支援（奨学一時金＋授業料全額免除），2019年4月～2022年3月．

2. 日本学生支援機構 大学院第一種奨学金における特に優れた業績による返還免除の認定（半額免除），2014年5月．

3. 公益財団法人木下記念事業団 奨学生（給付奨学金），2008年4月～2012年3月．

Academic  Activities

• Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, Journal of Natural Language Processing

• Associate editor, the Journal of Natural Language Processing, March 2022 to present.

• Awards committee member, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2022 to 2024.

• Organizer, the Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT ), 2017 to present.

• Committee member, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Annual Conference, 2018 to 2019.

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