So Miyagawa
Associate Professor
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolSo Miyagawa is an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics and Egyptology based in Tokyo with over a decade of academic experience spanning Egyptology, historical linguistics, corpus creation, and NLP. His research centers on the millennia-long Egyptian language family—from proto-hieroglyphic inscriptions to Coptic texts—and the linguistic effects of contact with Koine Greek, Arabic, Old Nubian, and Meroitic. He combines traditional philology with machine learning and corpus-building, applying computational methods to low-resource and endangered languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Ainu, Seediq, and Ryukyuan varieties. Miyagawa has held research and teaching posts across Japan and Germany and now leads projects at the University of Tsukuba that bridge digital humanities and computational approaches. An atypical strength is his dual fluency in deep historical scholarship and practical NLP tooling, enabling both novel hypotheses about phonetic and grammatical change and reproducible digital corpora. His work is notable for bringing rigorous computational methods to understudied ancient and minority languages.
11 years of coding experience
Doctoral course, Linguisitcs, Doctoral course, Linguisitcs at Kyoto UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at Hokkaido UniversityDr. phil., Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Dr. phil., Egyptology and Coptic Studies at The University of Göttingen
Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Japanese, German, English, Latin, geez, tocharian, maori, French, ainu, Greek, old nubian, egyptian (ancient), Chinese, biblical hebrew, irish, old (to 900), breton, coptic
Github Skills (21)
jupyter10
lexicon7
encode6
dictionary6
css6
traits5
sgml5
sublime5
ecology4
digital-humanities4
scientific-publications4
converter4
unicode3
open-access3
encoder3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
somiyagawa/somiyagawa.github.io
Jan 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
KELLIA/kellia.github.io
Jan 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 122 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
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