Mamoru Komachi - Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University

Mamoru Komachi

Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University

Tokyo, Japan

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Mamoru Komachi is a computational linguist and professor with nearly two decades of research and engineering experience in natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining. He has led NLP labs and PI projects across Tokyo Metropolitan University and Hitotsubashi University, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, blending academic leadership with international collaboration. His career bridges industry and research—stints at Apple, Microsoft Research, and Yahoo! JAPAN informed applied work on Japanese input methods, semantic category mining, and speech corpus engineering. Trained with a PhD from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and a BA from the University of Tokyo, he has a sustained track record in semi- and weakly-supervised methods for tasks like word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition. Colleagues note his knack for turning linguistic theory into practical tools and corpora, reflecting an uncommon mix of low-level engineering (corpus/XML integration, input methods) and theoretical modeling. Based in Tokyo, he continues to drive cross-disciplinary NLP research with tangible industry impact.

19 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

PhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at Nara Institute of Science and Technology

University of Tokyo

The University of Sydney

English, Japanese

Github Skills (9)

katakana10

corpus9

latent-dirichlet-allocation8

sentence-similarity8

similarity8

nlp7

natural-language-processing6

interpretation3

twitter2

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (5)

mamorlis/chaime

Apr 2008 - Sep 2015

Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months

mamorlis/syncha

Nov 2006 - Nov 2014

Contributions:58 commits in 8 years

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