Akari Haga (芳賀あかり)

1st year doctoral student at NARA Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) under the supervision of Prof. Taro Watanabe.

GitHub / Google Scholar

Research Interests

  • Computational (psycho)linguistics, Natural language processing
  • First language acquisition
  • Image captioning (2022-2023)
  • Dialogue system (2020-2022)
  • Text Analysis Using Natural Language Processing (2019-2020)


Publications

International Conference (Refereed)

Journal (Refereed)

International Conference (Non-refereed)

Domestic Conference


Awards / Honors

  • 2024/10-2027/03: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) ACT-X
    • 4500,000 yen / 2.5 years
  • 2024/04-2027/03: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
    • 200,000 yen / month + 700,000 yen / year
  • 2020/06: 情報処理学会 コンピュータと教育研究会 155回研究発表会 学生奨励賞
    • 社内研修の評価及び人材育成の効率化を目的とした社内SNSの分析


Education

  • 2022/05-: Master of Engineering: Natural Language Processing
    • NARA Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
    • Supervisor: Taro Watanabe, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroki Ouchi
  • 2020/03-2022/04: Bachelor of Arts: Dialogue and Discourse Processing
    • The University of Electro-Communications (電通大)
    • Thesis: Generating descriptions of the actions of comic characters from dialogue
    • Supervisor: Michimasa Inaba
  • 2015/04-2020/03: Associate of Art: Computer Science
    • National Institute of Technology, Tokyo College (東京高専)
    • Thesis: Analysis of internal SNS for improving human resources and in-house training
    • Supervisor: Akihiro Yamashita


Experience

  • 2022/12-: Research Assistant
    • National Institute of Informatics
    • Supervisor: Saku Sugawara
    • Survey papers on Linguistics related to First language acquisition.
  • 2022/08-2022/09: Research Intern
    • NTT Communication Science Laboratories
    • Researched a Image captioning model.
  • 2020/08-2022/03: Software Engineer
    • Palette inc.
    • Founding member.
    • Developed a web application.
  • 2019/07-2020/07: Software Engineer
    • Datasection Inc.
    • Built Twitter-related datasets using web crawling.
  • 2018/05-2019/06: Software Engineer
    • Buildit Inc.
    • Developed web applications.