Noriko Tomuro, PhD.

Contact Information

905 Gregory Ln
Schaumburg, IL 60193 USA
Tel: +1 847 534 4380
Email: ine905@gmail.com 
Web: http://condor.depaul.edu/~ntomuro/
Full/longer Curriculum Vita: http://condor.depaul.edu/ntomuro/cv/cv.html

Areas of Interests

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), Text Mining and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, DePaul University, April, 1999.
  • Dissertation: ``Left-corner Parsing Algorithm for Unification Grammars''
• M.S. in Computer Science, DePaul University, August, 1993.
• B.A. in English Language, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), March 1985.

Professional Employment History

• Associate Professor, DePaul University, Fall 2005 to present.  Tenured.
• Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Fall 2000 to Spring 2005.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Fall 1999 to Spring 2000.
• Lecturer, DePaul University, Fall 1996 to Spring 1999.
• Research Internship, NEC Research, NJ. Summer 1994.
• Programmer, Furkon Inc., Chicago, IL. May 1993 to January 1994.
  • Developed client-server applications using Motif/X-Windows and embedded SQL in a Unix network environment.

Research Experience

Selected Publications

Published over 50 journal/conference/workshop papers, including those below.  A full list is available at http://condor.depaul.edu/ntomuro/research/.

• Tomuro, N., Lytinen, S. and Hornsburg, K. (2016).
  "Automatic Summarization of Privacy Policies using Ensemble Learning".  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), New Orleans, LA. Best Poster Award.
• Apostolova, E. and Tomuro, N. (2014).
  "Combining Visual and Textual Features for Information Extraction from Online Flyers".  In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar.
• José P. Zagal and Noriko Tomuro (2013).
  "Cultural differences in game appreciation: A study of player game reviews". In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-13).  Best Paper Award.
• Kleper, V., Tomuro, N., Apostolova, E., Lytinen, S., Wang, L. and Mongkolwat, P. (2013).
  "Linking Radiology Reports to the Corresponding Pathology Reports Based on Biopsy Recommendations in Radiology Reports, Using Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifiers".  In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM 2013), Grapevine-Dallas, TX.  Best Poster Award.
• Zagal, J., Tomuro, N. and Shepitsen, A. (2011).
  "Natural Language Processing for Games Studies Research".  Journal of Simulation & Gaming (S&G), Special Issue on Games Research Methods. http://gamesmethods.wordpress.com
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N., Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2011).
  "Building an Ensemble System for Diagnosing Masses in Mammograms". In Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2011), Berlin, Germany.
• Apostolova, E. and Tomuro, N. (2010).
  "Exploring Surface-Level Heuristics for Negation and Speculation Discovery in Clinical Texts".  In Proceedings of the 9th workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2010), Uppsala, Sweden.

Conference Organization

Started an international workshop on "Games and NLP" (GAMNLP) and organized three times so far (2012, 2013, 2014).

Academic Experience

Teaching

Taught primarily Programming/Data Structures, AI/ML (including Text Analytics) and Discrete Mathematics courses, both at undergraduate and graduate levels.  Primary programming languages include C++ and Java.  Advised several doctoral students till graduation.

Study Abroad Programs

Created a study abroad trip to Japan focusing on Computer Gaming and Animation "CDM Japan: Computer Gaming and Animation in Japan", a short-term (2-week) trip which visits gaming and animation companies in Japan.  Lead the trip four times so far (2005, 2008, 2011, 2013).

References

Will be available upon request.