Yusuke Shinyama /

At Washington Square Park, New York City, NY.

About Me

I was a student at NYU from September 2002 to August 2007. I was working on Natural Language Processing at Proteus Project.

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Past courseworks

Tiny tools

Publications

• Being Lazy and Preemptive at Learning toward Information Extraction (PDF) (Abstract)
  Yusuke Shinyama
  Doctoral Dissertation.
  
• Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery (PDF)
  Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine
  Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics anual meeting (HLT-NAACL2006) 2006; New York City, NY, USA.
  
• Using Repeated Patterns across Comparable Articles for Paraphrase Acquisition (PDF)
  Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine
  Proteus Technical Report 2005.
  
• Named Entity Discovery Using Comparable News Articles (PDF)
  Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine
  Published in the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistices (COLING-04); 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
  
• Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction (PDF)
  Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine
  The Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing: Paraphrase Acquisition and Applications (IWP2003) at ACL 2003; Sapporo, Japan.
  
• Automatic Paraphrase Acquisition from News Articles (PDF)
  Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine, Kiyoshi Sudo and Ralph Grishman
  Published in the Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002); San Diego, USA
  

Talk Slides

• 2007-08-02: Being Lazy and Preemptive at Learning toward Information Extraction (PDF)
  Dissertation Defense. Committee members: Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman, Dan Melamed, Ernest Davis, Robert Grimm.
• 2006-10-27: Crash Course on Character Encodings (PDF)
  NYCNLP talk.
• 2006-06-06: Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery (PDF)
  HLT-NAACL 2006 in NYC.
• 2005-05-04: Automatic Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction (PDF)
  Thesis proposal defense.
• 2004-08-26: Named Entity Discovery Using Comparable News Articles (PDF)
  COLING 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 2003-06-28: Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction (PDF)
  IWP 2003 in Sapporo, Japan.
• 2003-04-15: Collecting Paraphrases Automatically (PDF)
  Talk at Monmouth University, NJ.
• 2002-03-21: Automatic Paraphrase Acquisition from News Articles (PDF)
  Poster Session at HLT 2002 in San Diego.

Personal Projects

• Webstemmer - Web crawler and HTML analyzer.
• unagi.py - P2P-like system monitor.
• Queequeg - Simple English grammar checker.
• XCruiser - Filesystem visualization utility.
• Vnc2swf - Desktop recording tool.
• OpenSSH document translation (Japanese).

Other Stuff

• Recursion and Generators. (an article about Python programming language)
• Python Toys
• Toy Viterbi decoder. (for those who are learning Viterbi decoding...)
• NYU Torch image [PNG, 2kbytes]. (our nice violet icon - now in PNG format!)