I am a PhD Student at the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and currently supervised by Prof. Horacio Saggion. I am keen on the evaluation of natural language generation tasks, especially text simplification. With a Master’s degree in Education, I am also interested in the application of NLP for education.
Previously, I got Master in Engineering at the Natural Language Processing Lab at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), supervised by Prof. Taro Watanabe.
My resume can be downloaded here.
Publications
- Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion. 2024. Can LLMs Solve Reading Comprehension Tests as Second Language Learners? The 4th Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning (KiL 2024). (to appear)
- Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Huelsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Sanja Štajner, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion. 2024. The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024). [Link]
- Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Huelsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion. 2024. An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI). [Link]
- Akio Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Hiroki Ouchi, Taro Watanabe. 2022. JADES: New Text Simplification Dataset in Japanese Targeted at Non-Native Speakers. Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022). [Link]
- 早川明男, 大内啓樹, 梶原智之, 渡辺太郎. 2022. 『テキスト平易化における自動評価指標のメタ評価の検討』(In Japanese. Authors: Akio Hayakawa, Hiroki Ouchi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Taro Watanabe, Translated Title: A Study of Meta‑Evaluation of Automatic Evaluation Metrics in Text Simplification.) 言語処理学会第28回年次大会 (NLP 2022). [Link]
Education
- Oct 2023 - : PhD Student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Apr 2023 - Sep 2023 (Withdrawl) : PhD Student at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- Apr 2021 - Mar 2023 : Master of Engineering at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- Apr 2015 - Mar 2017 : Master of Education at University of Tokyo
- Apr 2011 - Mar 2015 : Bachelor of Education at University of Tokyo
Work Experience
- Dec 2023 - : Pre-Doctoral Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Apr 2023 - Sep 2023 : Research Assistant at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- Feb 2021 - Aug 2023 : Freelance Machine Learning Engineer
- Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 : Machine Learning Engineer at BrainPad. Inc
- Apr 2017 - Dec 2019 : Software Engineer at Subsidiary of NTT Data
Achievements
- Jun 2020 : AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Jun 2019 : Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer (Expired)
- Dec 2018 : Kaggle Competition Master
- Mar 2018 : LPIC - Certified Level 1