Chihiro Taguchi

Updated October 15, 2024

田口 智大
R Email: ctaguchi@nd.edu
 GitHub: ctaguchi° LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ctaguchi
B Website: https://ctaguchi.github.io

Education
08/2022 – Present

University of Notre Dame
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.

09/2021 – 08/2022

University of Edinburgh
Master of Science by Research (MScR) in Linguistics with Distinction.

10/2020 – 09/2022

Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Master of Engineering.

09/2018 – 06/2019

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Exchange program.

04/2015 – 09/2019

Keio University
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.).

IN, United States

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nara, JapanLondon, United Kingdom

Tokyo, Japan

Training
06/2023 – 07/2023
05/2023 – 06/2023
02/2018

Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Institute
Summer Language Abroad Program (Quechua), University of Notre Dame
3rd Miyako Language Documentation Workshop

MA, United States
Quito, Ecuador
Okinawa, Japan

Experience
12/2023 – 05/2024
04/2021 – 09/2021

Program Committee, 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered andLesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) at LREC–COLING 2024
Research Assistant, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)

Projects
04/2024 – 03/2028

04/2024 – 03/2027

09/2022 – Present
01/2023
08/2021 – 06/2022

科研費基盤研究 (C) ジンポー語口承資料の資源化に関する研究 (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research:“Digitization of Jinghpaw oral literature”), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). PI: Dr. KeitaKurabe.
ユーラシア諸言語における談話の研究 (Studies on the grammar of discourse in Eurasian languages),
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
PI: Dr. Norikazu Kogura.
Language Documentation with an AI Helper. National Science Foundation. PI: Dr. Antonis Anastasopoulos.
Building a multilingual speech-to-IPA system. SLT-Code Hackathon, IEEE.
Universal Dependencies: Tatar NMCTT treebank. CICP, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

1Publications
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2021

Chihiro Taguchi, David Chiang. “Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accuracy: Orthographic Complexity
Hurts, Phonological Complexity Doesn’t.” In ACL (main). Outstanding Paper Award, Senior Area Chair’s Award.
Yuhi Matogawa, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe, Chihiro Taguchi. “Japanese Rule-based Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion System and Multilingual Named Entity Dataset with International Phonetic Alphabet.” In SIGMORPHON atNAACL.
Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig, Dayana Velásquez, David Chiang. “Killkan: The Automatic Speech Recognition
Dataset for Kichwa with Morphosyntactic Information.” In LREC-COLING.
Tatsuya Aoyama, Chihiro Taguchi, Nathan Schneider. “J-SNACS: Adposition and Case Supersenses for Japanese Joshi.”In LREC-COLING.
Jonathan Washington, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, AidaKasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, Chihiro Taguchi. “Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives inTurkic Universal Dependency Treebanks.” In MWE-UD at LREC-COLING.
Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig. “Non-discourse-configurationality in Imbabura Kichwa.” In the Proceedings of theLinguistic Society of America.
Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Parisa Haghani, David Chiang. “Universal Automatic Phonetic Transcription into theInternational Phonetic Alphabet.” In INTERSPEECH.
Chihiro Taguchi, David Chiang. “Introducing Morphology in Universal Dependencies Japanese.” At the 6th Workshop
on the Universal Dependencies.
Chihiro Taguchi. “Mermaid Construction in Lexical Functional Grammar.” In the Proceedings of LFG’22.
Chihiro Taguchi, Sei Iwata, Taro Watanabe. “Universal Dependencies Treebank for Tatar: Incorporating Intra-Word
Code-Switching Information.” In the EURALI workshop at LREC.
Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe. “Transliteration for Low-Resource Code-Switching Texts: Building
an Automatic Cyrillic-to-Latin Converter for Tatar.” In the CALCS workshop at NAACL.

Talks
09/2024
06/2024
04/2024
01/2024
01/2024
12/2023
11/2023
09/2023
08/2023
07/2023“Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accuracy: Orthographic Complexity Hurts, Phonological Complexity Doesn’t.” Talk at the NLP Colloquium.
“Killkan: The Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Kichwa with Morphosyntactic Information.” Poster presentation at the AmericasNLP workshop at NAACL.
“Kichwa Meets Language Technologies: Automatic Speech Recognition for Kichwa.” Oral presentation at theQuechua Alliance Annual meeting.
“El conjunto de datos de reconocimiento automático de voz para kichwa.” Oral presentation at the Taller: Tecnologı́as Digitales y Lenguas Indı́genas.
“Non-Discourse-Configurationality in Imbabura Kichwa.” Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America
Annual Meeting.
“Building an Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset and Model for an Extremely Low-Resource Language.“ Oralpresentation at Notre Dame NL+ Seminar.
“Reconocimiento automático del habla de kichwa para su inclusión y empoderamiento en el ciberespacio.” Oralpresentation at the VI Seminario Internacional Revitalizando Ando.
“UD-Tatar NMCTT Treebank: Issues in annotation across Turkic UD.” Oral presentation at the UD Turkic Workshop.
“Grammaticalization of modal nominal predicates in Tatar.” Oral presentation at the International Conference on
Turkish Linguistics.
“Bridging Natural Language Processing and Descriptive Linguistics with Universal Dependencies.” Oral presentation at the Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 23 “Grammatical Studies and Digital
Humanities (2)”.

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07/2022
03/2022
10/2021“Japanese gapless relativization: The syntax–prosody interface to semantics.” Poster presentation at LFG23: the28th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference.
“Incorporating AI-based speech transcription into language documentation: A case study of Imbabura Kichwa.”
Poster presentation at the LSA Institute.
“Cross-linguistic analysis of the Mermaid Constructions in LFG.” Oral presentation at the 33rd South of England
LFG Meetings.
“Consistent Grammatical Annotation of Turkic Languages for more universal Universal Dependencies.” Oral presentation at the Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian languages.
“Mermaid Construction as raising with a nominal predicate.” Oral presentation at the 74th Language Lunch AtEdinburgh.
“Text Processing of Open-Access Jinghpaw Data on Google Colaboratory.” Oral presentation at the Follow-up Meeting on Intensive Language Course 2019 (Jinghpaw) / The 3rd Meeting on Kachin Studies.

Honors and Awards
09/2024
08/2024
08/2024
06/2024
05/2024
04/2024
01/2024
06/2023
05/2023
03/2023
03/2023
03/2023
09/202106/202104/2019
09/2018
11/2014The 2024 Lucy Societal Impact Award, Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society
Outstanding Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Senior Area Chair’s Award, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Conference Travel Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) Award, University of Notre Dame.
Doctoral Student Research Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Conference Presentation Grant, Graduate Student Government, University of Notre Dame.
Conference Travel Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Professionalization Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
委員特別賞 (Committee’s Honorable Mention), Association for Natural Language Processing.
Conference Presentation Grant, Graduate Student Government, University of Notre Dame.
Summer Language Abroad Grant, Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame.
JASSO Scholarship for Graduate-level Study Abroad, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology, Japan.
CICP NAIST Multilingual Corpus, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
Grand Prix Winner at the 7th International Olympiad of the Tatar Language and Literature, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
Exchange Program Scholarship, Gyomu-Super Japan Dream Foundation
Honorable Mention at the Keio University Academic Writing Contest, Keio University.

SkillsProgramming; OS:
Software/libraries:
Languages:

Python, R, C, Shell script, LATEX, HTML/CSS; Mac, Linux, Windows
PyTorch, Tensorflow, Flask, Git, AWS, Docker, ELAN, Praat
Native:Japanese
Fluent (C2):EnglishAdvanced (C1):
Spanish, RussianIntermediate (B2): Kichwa, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, French, German

Other academic affilationsKellogg Institute Doctoral Student Affiliate
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
言語処理学会 [Association for Natural Language Processing]3