Toshinori Sato
Minato, Japan
Summary
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RockstarToshinori Sato is a senior software engineer and technology executive in Tokyo with about 11 years of focused experience in Japanese natural language processing and multilingual Asian-language ML. He has led production-grade Japanese NLU efforts—most notably the Japanese component of HyperCLOVA and Clova’s spoken-dialogue NLU—and built an automatic multilingual knowledge-base system for biological professionals. An active open-source maintainer, he created and operationalized mecab-ipadic-NEologd, a widely used Japanese neologism dictionary, and contributed robust DevOps automation to its build and installation. Sato pairs deep systems-level expertise in Perl, C/C++, Java and Python with a track record of academic publications and applied research, having completed a PhD program in NLP labs without taking the degree.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
sh10
linux10
bash10
script10
shell10
scripting10
build-automation10
makefile9
automated-tests9
versioncontrol8
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
neologd/mecab-ipadic-neologd
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Neologism dictionary based on the language resources on the Web for mecab-ipadic
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5734 commits, 3 PRs, 472 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Toshinori focused on creating and modifying shell scripts to facilitate the building, testing, and installation of the mecab-ipadic-neologd dictionary. Their contributions primarily involve automating the process of copying seed files, making system dictionaries, testing the dictionary, and installing it. They also incorporated features like the ability to merge column extensions using Git and introduced options to delete entries based on surface or base form lengths.
dictionaryjapanese-languagefuriganamecabneologism
kkosuge/mecab-ipadic-neologd
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:30 commits in 3 days
dictionarymecabneologismlanguage-resources
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