Room M307, Shinkan
Tel: +81-42-342-5482
Email: mullen at tsuda.ac.jp
Teaching and research
interests
Teaching: CG modeling, animation
and scripting, computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine
learning, formal language (computation) theory
Research: NLP for information extraction, sentiment analysis of opinion texts, computer-assisted language learning.
Employment
March 2005-
Present Lecturer, department of computer science, Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan.
March 2003-
Feb 2005 Postdoctoral
research fellow, Foundations of Informatics Research Division, National
Institute of Informatics,
Jun. 2002-
April 2003: Software developer, Expeditors International, Seattle.
Jan. 1998-
Mar. 2002: Research
and teaching assistant, Alfa Informatica
(Department of Humanities Computing),
Jan.2000-
Sept.2000: Visiting researcher, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Jun. 1994-
Sept. 1996: .
Jun. 1994- Newspaper
cartoonist and freelance illustrator,
Sept. 1996: .
Education
March, 2002: Ph.D., University of Groningen, faculty of mathematics and natural science.
Thesis title: “An Investigation into Compositional Features and Feature Merging for Maximum Entropy-Based Parse Selection.”
Supervisory committee: John Nerbonne, Miles Osborne, Rob Malouf.
External readers: Eric Brill (Microsoft Research), Chris Brew (Ohio State University), and Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen).
1996-1997: M.Phil. Linguistics, Trinity College, Dublin.
Dissertation title: “A Compositional Approach to Aspectuality in Czech.”
1989-1994 B.A. English Literature, University of Washington.
Awards and fellowships
JSPS/MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, 2006
Other academic service
Book proposal reviewer, Focal Press (Elsevier)
Reviewer, The Language Teacher (JALT)
Reviewer, 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 08
Reviewer, “Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research”
Co-reviewer, BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 Shared Task
Co-reviewer, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Co-reviewer, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2004
Co-reviewer, INTELLCOM ‘04
Reviewer, “Computers & Education.”
Teaching experience
Tsuda College, 2005-present: Courses and seminars have included programming in Prolog, PHP, OpenLaszlo, Python, and other languages and platforms, as well as 3D content creation in Blender, natural language processing, and technical English for computer science.
From 1997 to 2002 taught or assisted in teaching college courses in Formal Language Theory and Logic Programming at the University of Groningen.
For two and a half years, from 1994 to 1996, taught English to adults in Prague for 3-D Language services. This involved both courses at the school itself and courses at businesses and offices including Credit Lyonnais Bank and the Czech Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Languages Spoken
English: Native.
Japanese: Passed level 2 of the Japanese competence test.
Czech: Conversational.
Dutch: Conversational.
Spanish: Basic.