Yuichiro Sawai / 澤井 裕一郎

PhD student at NAIST, Computational Linguistics Lab.

I'm an enthusiast of {natural,programming} languages.

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Deep Learning

Education

• 2016-, PhD student, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
• 2014-2016, M.E., Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
• 2009-2013, B.E., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo

Work Experience

• Jul 2017-Sep 2017, Google Inc.
  Intern
• Oct 2016-May 2017, Preferred Networks Inc.
  Part-time engineer
• Aug 2016-Sep 2016, IBM Research - Tokyo
  Intern
• Aug 2015-Sep 2015, Preferred Infrastructure Inc.
  Intern
• Aug 2014, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
  Intern

Publications (Refereed)

• Semantic Structure Analysis of Noun Phrases using Abstract Meaning Representation
  Yuichiro Sawai, Hiroyuki Shindo, and Yuji Matsumoto
  In Proceedings of ACL, 2015 (acceptance rate: 22.3%) [pdf]

Awards

• Excellent Research Award, May 2017
  The 231st meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL)
• NAIST Excellent Student Scholarship, June 2016
• NAIST Best Student Award, March 2016
• Student Encouragement Award, May 2015
  The 221st meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL)

Skills

Natural Languages (in order of fluency)

• Japanese (native)
• English (fluent, TOEIC 990, TOEFL iBT 103)
• German (elementary)
• Chinese (elementary, HSK level 5)

Programming Languages

• C/C++
• Python
• Java
• Scala
• JavaScript

Contact

sawai.yuichiro.sn0 [at] is.naist.jp