--- title: "Akitoshi Okumura — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Akitoshi Okumura, Information-Technology Promotion Agency: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1991–1994), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akitoshi-okumura/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akitoshi-okumura/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Akitoshi Okumura # Akitoshi Okumura Akitoshi Okumura has 2 papers in our library, in 1991–1994, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Kazunori Muraki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kazunori-muraki/). 2 papers in our library · 1991–1994 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5061970167) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061970167) · [50 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061970167) · [311 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061970167&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akitoshi-okumura/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 14 times in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7748](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7748) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Akitoshi+Okumura) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Akitoshi+Okumura) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Akitoshi+Okumura) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Akitoshi+Okumura) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Information-Technology Promotion Agency** Tokyo · Japan 2020–2025 · 4 papers*current*](https://ror.org/034e1cb35) · [🏢**NEC** Tokyo · Japan 1994–2007 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nec-jp/) · [🏢**NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.** Tokyo · Japan 2018–2019 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04k1qqg60) · [🏢**NEC Informatec Systems, Ltd.** Kawasaki · Japan 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05hyvqa68) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1994** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akitoshi-okumura/year/1994/) · [**1991** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akitoshi-okumura/year/1991/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Symmetric Pattern Matching Analysis for English Coordinate Structures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okumura-1994-symmetric-pattern-matching-analysis-english/)** *(1994 · 33 citations)* The paper addresses a long-standing difficulty for rule-based machine translation: deciding which constituents an English coordinator ("and", "or", "but", commas and similar words) actually joins. 2. **[Multi-lingual Sentence Generation from the PIVOT interlingua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okumura-1991-multi-lingual-sentence-generation-pivot/)** *(1991 · 19 citations)* The PIVOT interlingua is a directed network of conceptual primitives, with arcs for deep cases such as agent and object, and with node information, pragmatic information (topic, focus, position) and scope (negation, comparison, quantifiers). ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Symmetric Pattern Matching Analysis for English Coordinate Structures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okumura-1994-symmetric-pattern-matching-analysis-english/) [Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/)**Akitoshi Okumura, Kazunori Muraki*1994 · 33 citations* 2. [**Multi-lingual Sentence Generation from the PIVOT interlingua**Akitoshi Okumura, Kazunori Muraki, Susumu Akamine*Machine translation · 19 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okumura-1991-multi-lingual-sentence-generation-pivot/) 3. **[Lexicon-to-Ontology Concept Association Using a Bilingual Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1994.amta-1.23/) Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yet**Akitoshi Okumura, Eduard Hovy*1994 · 12 citations* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kazunori Muraki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kazunori-muraki/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/): [ANLP 1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/1994/) - [Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mtsummit/): [Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit) 1991](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mtsummit/1991/) - Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 14 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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