Academic Societies, membership

• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence
• Association for Natural Language Processing
• The Acoustical Society of Japan
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Committees (present, domestic)

• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,
  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition), Reviewer, (2012.9-)

Committees (past, domestic)

• Information Processing Society of Japan, IPSJ Transactions on Databases, Editorial Board member (2019.4-2023.3)
• Information Processing Society of Japan, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, Editorial Board member (2007.6-2011.5)
• Information Processing Society of Japan, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, Reviewer (2011.6-2017.5)
• Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing,
  Database Developing Working Group for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition research,
  Committee member (1995.11-1997.10)

  Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing,

  Continuous Speech Recognition Consortium (CSRC), Committee member (2000.10-2003.10)

  Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing,

  Committee member (1998.4-2000.3 )

  Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing,

  Interactive Speech Technology Consortium (ISTC), Committee member (2003.11-2009.3)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, Executive Board Member (2010.4-2014.3)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, Councilor (2000.4-2004.3, 2006.4-2010.3)

  Association for Natural Language Processing,

  Editorial Board member (1995.4-1999.6, 2002.6-2004.9)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, Reviewer (1999.7-2002.5)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, Workshop of the 5th Annual Meeting, Program Committee member (1999)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, the 7th/10th Annual Meeting, Program Committee member (2001/2004)

  Association for Natural Language Processing, the 12th Annual Meeting, Program Committee vice-chair (2006)

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,

  Information and Systems Society, Executive Secretary (2008.5-2010.5)

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,

  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Associate Editor, (2014.6-2018.6)

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Technical Group on Thought and Language,

  Member (2001.5-2013.5)

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Technical Group on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication, Committee sub-member (2002.5-2003.3), Committee member (2003.4-2004.5), Committee vice-chair (2004.5-2006.4).

  NTCIR (NII: National Institute of Informatics, Test Collection for IR Systems) Project, 7th/8th,

  Focused Domain Cluster, Patent Translation Task, Organizer (2007.5-2010.6)

  The 2003 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Local Organizing Committee Member, (2003).

  Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation, Director (2010.6-2019.6)

Committees (international)

• Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1997,1999 (NLPRS'97,'99), Program Committee member (1997, 1999)
• The 18th/19th/21st/22nd/23rd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 1999, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010) ,
  Program Committee member (1999, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010)

  6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP2000) , Reviewer (2000)

  The 5th Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP2002), Technical Committee member (2002)

  The ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition, Program Committee Member, (2002).

  Special Issue of Machine Translation Journal: "Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications" , Review Board member (2002)

  The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Program Subcommittee Member, (2002)

  The 41th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2003), Reviewer, (2003)

  The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04), (2004)

  • Reviewer.
  • International Workshop on Machine Translation and Multilingual Information Retrieval, Organizing Committee Member.
  • Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing Applications, Program Committee Member.
  • Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers, Organizing Committee Member.

  The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-11), Reviewer, (2011).

  The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2004), Reviewer, (2004)

  The 2004/2006/2008/2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2004, 2006, 2008, 2010), Program Committee Member, (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010).

  The 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2005), Reviewer, (2005).

  The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2005), (2005).

  • Reviewer.
  • Program Committee Member for the Demo and Interactive Poster Session.

  The 10th Machine Translation Summit, Program Committee Member, (2005).

  Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, (HLT/EMNLP 2005), Program Committee Member, (2005).

  The 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and The 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (COLING/ACL 2006) , (2006).

  • Program Committee Member.
  • Workshop on Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability, Program Committee Member.

  The International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), A Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons, 2007, Program Committee Member, (2007).

  MT Summit XIII, 2011, Program Committee Member, (2011).

  MT Summit XI/XII/XIII/XIV 2nd/3rd/4th/5th Workshop on Patent Translation, XV 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2015), 2007/2009/2011/2013/2015, Program Committee Member, (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015).

  The 17th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW 2008), 2008, Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008), Program Committee Member, (2008).

  The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, �iLREC 2008), 2008, Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized Language Resources, Scientific Committee Member, (2008).

  The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, (COLING 2008), 2008, Program Committee Member, (2008).

  The 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication (ISUC 2008) / 3rd/4th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009, 2010), Technical Program Committee Member, (2008, 2009, 2010).

  The 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2009, Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World: Transitioning from Research to Real-World Applications, Program Committee Member, (2009).

  The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, (COLING 2010), 2010,

  • Sponsorship Co-Chair (Japan Area).
  • 2nd International Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era --- Large-scale and Sharable NLP Infrastructures and Beyond, Program Co-Chair.

  Special Issue of Terminology,

  • "The Dynamics of Terms in Specialized Communication. An interdisciplinary perspective", Reviewers Committee Member, 2010.
  • "Terminology across Languages and Domains", Program Committee Member, 2015.
  • "Computational Terminology and Filtering of Terminological Information", Program Committee Member, 2018.

  The 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010), 2010, Program Committee Member, (2010).

  The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), 2011, Program Committee Member / Demo Committee Member, (2011).

  The 1st International Conference on Terminology, Languages, and Content Resources (LaRC 2011), 2011, Program Committee Member, (2011).

  The International Workshop on Social Networks and Data Processing (SNDP-2012), 2012, Program Committee Member, (2012).

  The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Data Processing: Online Social Networks and E-health Data, (IDP-2014), 2014, Program Committee Member, (2014).

  2015 International Conference on Signal Processing (ICOSP 2015), Technical Committee member, (2015).

  The 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2015, Reviewer, (2015).

  The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018), 2018, Program Committee member, (2018).

  The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2020), 2020, Reviewer, (2020).

  The 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), 2022, Scientific Committee member, (2022).

  The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024, Program Committee member, (2024).

  The 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024), 2024, Area Chair/Action Editor, 2024.

  The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), 2024, Area Chair/Action Editor, 2024.