Education
Apr 2022 - current
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Ph.D. Student
Augmented Human Communication Laboratory (2022.4-2024.3)Human-AI Interaction Laboratory (2024.4-current)
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Master of Engineering
Augmented Human
Communication Laboratory
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
Osaka Prefecture UniversityBachelor of Engineering
Apr 2013 - Mar 2016
Kyoto Prefectual Nanyo High School
International Conference (Peer-reviewed)
NAIST-SIC-Aligned: Automatically-Aligned English-Japanese Simultaneous
Interpretation Corpus.
Jinming Zhao, Yuka Ko, Kosuke Doi, Ryo Fukuda, Katsuhito Sudoh and
Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024. To appear.
Tagged End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation Training using
Simultaneous Interpretation Data.
Yuka Ko, Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa, Yasumasa Kano, Katsuhito Sudoh and
Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT),
2023. (Best Student Paper Award)
Simultaneous Speech-to-speech Translation System with
Transformer-based Incremental ASR, MT, and TTS.
Ryo Fukuda, Sashi Novitasari, Yui Oka, Yasumasa Kano, Yuki Yano, Yuka Ko,
Hirotaka Tokuyama, Kosuke Doi, Tomoya Yanagita, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi
Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (O-COCOSDA), 2021. (Best
Student Paper Award)
ASR Posterior-based Loss for Multi-task End-to-end Speech Translation.
Yuka Ko, Katsuhito Sudoh, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication
Association (INTERSPEECH), 2021. (acceptance rate: 963/1990=48.4%)
International Conference (Non peer-reviewed)
NAIST Simultaneous Speech-to-speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023.
Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa, Yasumasa Kano, Yuka Ko, Tomoya Yanagita, Kosuke
Doi, Mana Makinae, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT),
2023.
NAIST Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System for IWSLT 2022.
Ryo Fukuda, Yuka Ko, Yasumasa Kano, Kosuke Doi, Hirotaka Tokuyama, Sakriani
Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT),
2022.
NAIST English-to-Japanese Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT
2021 Simultaneous Text-to-text Task.
Ryo Fukuda, Yui Oka, Yasumasa Kano, Yuki Yano, Yuka Ko, Hirotaka Tokuyama,
Kosuke Doi, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT),
2021.
Domestic Conference (Non Peer-reviewed)
タグ付き混合データ学習と自己教師あり学習による
同時通訳データを用いた End-to-End 同時音声翻訳胡 尤佳, 福田 りょう, 西川 勇太, 加納 保昌, 須藤 克仁, 中村 哲言語処理学会第30回年次大会 (NLP 2024)
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Award and Activity
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Internship
Tagged End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation Training using
Simultaneous Interpretation Data.
Yuka Ko, Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa, Yasumasa Kano, Katsuhito Sudoh and
Satoshi Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT),
2023. (Best Student Paper Award)
日本学生支援機構 第一種奨学金 博士前期課程 返済全額免除
Fully exempt from repayment of JASSO student loan
令和4年度 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学 優秀学生奨学制度対象者
The NAIST Top Scholarship Program 2022.
博士後期課程1年次授業料免除
Simultaneous Speech-to-speech Translation System with
Transformer-based Incremental ASR, MT, and TTS.
Ryo Fukuda, Sashi Novitasari, Yui Oka, Yasumasa Kano, Yuki Yano, Yuka Ko,
Hirotaka Tokuyama, Kosuke Doi, Tomoya Yanagita, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi
Nakamura.
In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (O-COCOSDA), 2021. (Best
Student Paper Award)
Research Grant
Apr 2024 - Mar 2026
JSPS 日本学術振興会特別研究員 DC2
JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist DC2
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
JST 次世代研究者研究プログラム 先端科学技術融合分野におけるイノベーティブ博士人材支援プロジェクト (NAIST Touch
Stone)
2022 Support Project for Innovative Doctoral Students in the Field of Multi-disciplinary
Research in Advanced Science and Technology (NAIST Touch Stone), JST SPRING: Support for
Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation.
Certification
June 2020
PAST Algorithm TestAdvanced Beginner Class
Oct 2018
TOEIC Listening & Reading 835