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Past conferences & activities


In Bled, Slovenia
(Nov, 2011)


My dog, Noah

With Batia Laufer, EuroSLA
(Sep, 2010)


with Paul Rayson
(Sep, 2010)
 November 18, 2011 I was invited to the 1st Corpus Linguistics in China Conference, held at Beijing Foreign Studies University. I gave a keynote speech at the beginning of the conference. There were more than 150 participants all over China. I thank Prof.Wei Naixing, Prof. Liang and Xu Jiajin for their hospitality.
November 11, 2011 I attended the 2nd eLexcography Conference, held in Bled, Slovenia. I presented a paper titled "Bilingual eLexicography in Japan". It was a very good conference. Thanks go to Iztok Kosem for his organization.
October 31, 2011 I was invited to the defense ceremony of Mei Xue as an external examiner at University of Aarhus, Denmark. She successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations!
October 1, 2011 I presented a paper with Taku Kaneta and Kosuke Doi on the development of CEFR Level Marker at the JAECS Conference.
September 16, 2011 I attended the Learner Corpus Research 2011 Conference, held in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. The CECL team at Louvain organized it. More than 160 participants all over the world who work on learner corpora attended it. I gave a paper on the selection of criterial features for CEFR levels using Random Forest.
August 22-24, 2011 The ASIALEX 2011 Conference was held in Kyoto. I was a vice president and a host for the conference. Thanks to the local organizing team, lead by Shin Ishikawa, we had a very successful conference. We published a 400-page conference proceedings book, which you can purchase from us.
Forthcoming events
 11-14 February, 2012 LEXICOM in New Zealand
16-18 February, 2012 Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (University of Auckland)
9-10 March, 2012 The International Symposium on CEFR-J (Our Kaken Research Final Report)
Special guest speaker: Tony Green (Univ. of Bedfordshire) & Neil Jones (Cambridge ESOL), Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.