Akiva Miura, Ph.D

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Known as…

• Akiva Miura
• 三浦 明波 (みうら あきば)
• עֲקִיבָא מִיאוּרָה

Titles / Affiliations

• Doctor of Engineering
• Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan

Committee

• 10/2019 - 10/2021: Journal Editorial Committee of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan

Academic Membership

• The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
    • Statistical Machine Translation
    • Neural Machine Translation
    • Pivot Translation
  • Information Extraction
    • Named Entity Recognition
    • Relation Classification
    • Entity Linking
• Machine Learning
  • Sequence Data Modeling
  • Active Learning
  • Neural Networks
    • Pre-Training
    • Knowledge Distillation

Academic/Career Background

• 4/2018 - Onward: Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
• 4/2019 - 3/2020: Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan
• 4/2016 - 3/2018: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor of Engineering
• 4/2014 - 3/2016: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, M.Eng. Information Science
• 9/2005 - 8/2013: Studying abroad in Israel
  • 8/2013: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, B.Sc. Computer Science
  • 9/2006: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Pre-University Education

Projects

• 4/2012 - 8/2012: Analysis of Data Structures in Elaborated Database (Joint Project with Intel)
• 10/2011 - 2/2012: MPEG2 Stream Demultiplexer (Joint Project with Qualcomm)

Research Papers

• Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
  “Tree as a Pivot: Syntactic Matching Methods in Pivot Translation”
  Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), September 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Acceptance Rate: 40%)

• Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Michael Paul, Satoshi Nakamura.
  “Selecting Syntactic, Non-redundant Segments in Active Learning for Machine Translation”
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), June 2016, San Diego, USA. (Acceptance Rate: 25%)

• Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura.
  “Improving Pivot Translation by Remembering the Pivot”
  Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 2015, Beijing, China. (Acceptance Rate: 22.3%)

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Awards / Grants

• 6/2016: JASSO Scholarship – Exemption from repayment with particularly outstanding academic achievements (Half exemption)
• 8/2017: TAF (The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation) – Accepted for Overseas Travel Expense Subsidy
• 7/2016: NAIST Top Scholarship Program for Excellent Academic Standing (exemption of tuition fees)
• 6/2016: JASSO Scholarship – Exemption from repayment with particularly outstanding academic achievements (Full exemption)
• 6/2016: AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation) – Nagao Award Student Award

Licenses / Certifications

• 4/2004: “Software Design & Development Engineer” Examination, Certificated by Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (Pass Rate: 16.1%)
• 10/2003: “Systems Administrator” Examination, Certificated by Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (Pass Rate: 27.7%)
• 4/2003: “Fundamental Information Technology Engineer” Examination, Certificated by Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (Pass Rate: 13.3%)