Faculty Profile
Professor: Digital Media, Graduate School
Yukiko SASAKI ALAM
- Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Research area:
- Machine Translation
- Educational Software
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Personal Statement
Yukiko Sasaki Alam joined Hosei CIS in 2000 after 24 years of residence overseas. She taught Japanese, Japanese linguistics, and linguistics at Dakha University (1976-1978), University of Texas at Austin (1986-1989), Towson University (1989-1991), Texas A & M University (1991-1996), and San Francisco State University (1996-2000). She also carried out research on various linguistic problems of Machine Translation at Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin in 1984-1987.
She has written several papers on Japanese, English, Linguistics and Machine Translation.
Message
Many a little makes a mickle
Teaching Courses
Undergraduate School
Graduate School
- Introduction to Machine Translation: Theory and Practice?
- Educational System I?
- IT Factory Seminar IV?
- Research Semimar IV?
Research Area
Machine translation
My current focus is on the modeling of the lexicon.
Educational software
My ultimate goal is to develop user-friendly educational software. My research interest is in learning what makes software attractive, easy to use and enjoyable.
Personal History
Position
- Professor, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University
Academic background
- 1970: B.A. Aichi Prefecture University (English linguistics)
- 1973: M.A. Ochanomizu University (English linguistics)
- 1986: Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (Linguistics)
Career in Japan
Has been teaching English, Linguistics, Java programming language and Machine Translation at CIS, Hosei University, Tokyo since April in 2000.
Career in foreign countries
Taught Japanese, Japanese linguistics, and linguistics at Dakha University (1976-1978), University of Texas at Austin (1986-1989), Towson University (1989-1991), Texas A & M University (1991-1996), and San Francisco State University (1996-2000). She also carried out research on various linguistic problems of Machine Translation at Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin in 1984-1987.
Society memberships
- The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan.
Publications
2007
- Yukiko Sasaki Alam, “Algorithm for Identifying the Syntactic and Semantic Categories of Prepositions: Case of Over”, in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications Platinum Jubilee Conference 2007, Kolkata, India, March 2007. c 2007 IEEE, pp. 434-440.
- Yukiko Sasaki Alam, “A Software System for Second-Language Vocabulary Learning,” in the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Niigata, Japan, July 2007, c IEEE Computer Society, pp. 130-132.
To appear:
- Yukiko Sasaki Alam, “A Morpho-Syntactic Analyzer of Controlled Japanese”, in the Proceedings of GEAF 2007 Workshop (ed. by Tracy Holloway King and Emily M. Bender). CSLI Publications (CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics ONLINE: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/).
- Yukiko Sasaki Alam, “Algorithms for Identifying the Multiple Syntactic Categories and Meanings of the Word Over,” Journal of Computers, Issue 8, 2007.