[Research Interests]

1. Computational Linguistics
   
   My research lies in computational linguistics and natural language processing, focusing on
   (a) developing methods to automatically resolve various ambiguities in natural language, and
   (b) learning models of natural language from very large corpora.
   
   I am currently working on ways to disambiguating a large vocabulary of words using statistics and machine learning techniques.
   
   Prior to arriving at Yamanashi, I spent nearly six years at OKI and the Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, where I am working on English to Japanese machine translation system and discourse understanding system based on logic programming.
   
   
2. Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Applied to NLP techniques
   
   I am also working on ways to classify documents automatically, summarise multi-documents, and track events.
   
   

[Professional Experience]

• 1994-current : Yamanashi University, JAPAN
  
• 1988-1992 : Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT), JAPAN
  • Discourse Understanding based on Logic Programming
  • Japanese syntactic grammars
    
• 1987-1992 : OKI Electric Industry Co.,Ltd., JAPAN
  English to Japanese Machine Translation System
  

[Degrees]

• PhD (1998) Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo (Tokyo-JAPAN)
  Title: A Study on Corpus-based Techniques for Syntactic and Semantic Ambiguity Resolution and Their Application
  
  
• Msc (1993) Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Manchester-U.K.)
  
  Title: Automatic Recognition of Verbal Polysemy
  
  
• Bsc (1986) Department of Mathematics, Gakushuin University (Tokyo-JAPAN)
  
  

[Major Publications]

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Contact Information

• E-mail:fukumoto@yamanashi.ac.jp
• Work: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering Yamanashi Univ. 4-3-11, Kofu, Takeda, 400-8511, JAPAN
• Tel/Fax: + 81-55-220-8509
  

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