Junko Wakabayashi
5-58-1 Nakano Nakano-ku Tokyo Japan
phone: +81-3-0594-2374
mobile: +81-90-408-2374
email: goalkeeper@nakano-aoba.jp
http://goalkeeper.nakano-aoba.jp/
Interest
Natural language processing, Distributed computing, Audio analysis
Work Experience
Staff Researcher, Mobile Communication Company, Tsushima Electric Corp, April 2002 - current
Japanese Input method - Designed and implemented a prototype for predictive Japanese input method client for mobile phones. It archieves small memory footprint and relatively simple computation.
GIS project - Built a demonstration system for location-based information delivery service. Designed widely distributed backend system and privacy proctection mechanism on it. This system had been tested and evaluated it in Yokohama area in 2002-2003.
Staff, Mobile Communication Group, Tsushima Electric Inc. April 2000 - March 2002
Implemented a bar code reader subsystem for TEI-501i, leading group of 5 engineers. Designed a library of image processing functions for detecting bar codes from the captured pictures.
Education
MS Computer Science, Touto University, Tokyo Japan 1997
Concentration: Natural language processing
Ryuichi Yamanaka Lab.
Projects:
Built a large scale speaking Japanese corpus (lead a team of three).Designed the automatic new word detection system for Corpus Builder and wrote the main module of it. Distributed processing platform for Corpus Builder(myself): it allowed 64 Linux workstations to build the corpus.
BS Electrical Engineering, Naniwa Institute Of Technology, Osaka Japan 1995
Concentration: Wireless engineering
Taro Azuma Lab.
Publications(Selected)
An Error Detecting and Correcting Method for Japanese Texts
Based on Extended Hidden Markov Model
IPSJ SIGNotes Spoken Language Processing No.31 1999
Honors
Presentation Encouragemennt Award
Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology
2000
Other achievements
MIDI player gnomidi - http://goalkeeper.nakano-aoba.jp/gnomidi/
Developed open source MIDI player for Linux/Gnome
Active contributer to The Gnome Documentation Translation project
Translated and maintained over 30 documents
Foreign language Skills
English: TOEFL score 630 (1997)
Korean: Korean placement test, Proficiency level 2 (2003)
Computer Skills
Languages: C++, C, Java, Ruby, prolog
Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, PalmOS
Toolkit: GTK, GTK+
References
Prof. Ryuichi Yamanaka
Dept of Computer Science, Touto University Tokyo Japan