Japanese NLP - Introductions

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#1

This is the introduction thread for Japanese NLP practitioners.

Welcome! Please introduce yourself and let us know:

  • Your name, Github, Hugging Face, and/or Twitter handle
  • Your interest in Japanese NLP
  • Some projects you are working on or interested in starting
  • Any other languages that you speak, any personal interests, anything else really :wink:
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#2

Iā€™m Yusuke Mori.
My Github account: forest1988

My interest in Japanese NLP:
Although I mainly work with English texts as my research subject, my first language that I use daily is Japanese.
I was involved in the Japanese translation project of spacy-course. I would be pleased if I could make some contribution in the ā€œLanguages at Hugging Faceā€.

Projects I am working on or interested in starting:
Iā€™m now working on the documentation of BERT Japanese.

Any other languages:
I am not very good, but I can communicate in English to some extent.

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#3

Hello, my name is Paul Oā€™Leary McCann. Iā€™m the creator of fugashi, the MeCab wrapper which is used for Japanese tokenization in some BERT models. I also maintain mecab-python3, which was used in Transformers before fugashi. I also have done a lot of work on the Japanese models in spaCy and worked on improving speed in SudachiPy last year.

My interest in Japanese NLP:

I live in Japan and have worked in Japanese industry for years, and as an independent consultant the past year and a half. I think that while there are good tools for working with the unique challenges Japanese presents thereā€™s often issues with ease of use or maintenance, so a lot of my open source work has focused on that.

Projects I am working on or interested in starting:

I just released Kanji Club, a kanji search site, though it isnā€™t a machine learning project. Other than that, Iā€™m not working on anything in Transformers actively at the moment but I enjoy keeping up with community developments and look forward to seeing what people come up with! Please do feel free to @ me if you have any trouble with or questions about the MeCab wrappers.

Actually, if the Livedoor News Corpus isnā€™t in datasets yet it should probably be added, so thatā€™s a project ideaā€¦

Some of my projects:

  • Kanji Club: Just released instant kanji search-by-parts site
  • fugashi: Pythonic Cython-based MeCab wrapper
  • cutlet: A library to Romanize Japanese

Elsewhere online:

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