About me
Having studied Information Engineering in undergraduate in Japanese university and Computational Linguistics in master course in Germany, he is now working in Vienna, Austria, where the headquarter of his company is located.
As one of his personal activities, he's become a TED translator and has been contributing to the TED Open Translation Project. His activities can be found here.
Personal Information
| Contact | kira [[at]] kirameister.net |
| Birth Date | 27.11.1982 |
| Hobby | Scuba Diving Blogging TUT-Code Typing Listening to PodCast |
Publication
| Akira K., "Japanese to Ryukyuan Translation System with Automatic Conjugation", 日独研究論集 第１号, Jahresblätter für japanische und deutsche Forschung in Japan, Nr.1., pp. 45-50, 2006 |
| Master's Thesis: Shallow Approach for Answer Extraction using Pointwise Mutual Information |
Educational Background
| Date | Education |
|---|---|
| 9.2000-8.2001 | El Paso High School, Texas, USA (as an exchange student) |
| 9.2001-3.2002 | Urasoe Technical High School graduated in 1.3.2002 |
| 4.2002-3.2006 | Information Engineering Department Engineering faculty University of the Ryukyus Okinawa, JAPAN |
| 8.2004 | Internationale Sommerkurs (Mittelstufe) Göttingen University, GERMANY |
| 8.2006-9.2006 | Goethe-Institut, Class B23 Mannheim, GERMANY |
| 10.2006-9.2008 | Master of Science for the Course of Studies in "Language Science and Technology" University of Saarland |
Work Experience
| 4.2006-7.2006 | Network administrator University of the Ryukyus |
| 12.2006-3.2008 | Research assistant DFKI, GERMANY |
| 10.2008-11.2009 | Research engineer Cyber Laboratory Inc., JAPAN |
Language Ability
| TOEFL (PBT) | 607 (May, 2004) |
| TOEIC | 965 (March, 2009) |
| DSH-2 (*3) | Bestanden im September 2006 |
*3: DSH (Deutsche Spracheprüfung für den Hochschulzugang ausländischer Studienbewerber) is an exam which non-German native speaker must take in order to study in German-taught courses in a German University. Currently, DSH has 3 different levels, and different levels are required depending on what your major is. Normally, it is said that DSH-2 is sufficient for Computer Science (Informatik).
In my case, I was not required to take one, since all the courses in my program is taught in English.
