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Satoshi Sekine is a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Proteus Project. His roles include Research Associate Professor since 2007, with prior positions as Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist at NYU since 1994. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from NYU (1998), an M.Sc. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1992), and a B.Sc. from Tokyo Institute of Technology (1987).
His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), including information extraction, syntactic analysis, and knowledge discovery from corpora. Key projects include On-Demand Information Extraction (ODIE), Extended Named Entity (ENE) systems, and Web People Search (WePS) tasks. He has organized major conferences like HLT-NAACL 2006 and contributed to initiatives such as the IREX evaluation project.
Publications span topics like neural entity classification, dependency parsing, and cross-lingual NLP. He has supervised PhD students Kiyoshi Sudo and Yusuke Shinyama, and led collaborations with companies like Fujitsu, NEC, and NHK. Grants include NSF funding for projects like On-Demand Information Extraction ($2M, 2003-2008).
He serves as a program chair for ACL and ANLP conferences, reviews for top journals, and advises PhD committees. His work integrates linguistic theories with practical NLP applications, emphasizing evaluation-driven research and cross-lingual systems.
