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2012/04: I sold my last startup "cloudshop.jp" to "aucfan.com" which is Japan's largest product-price data analysis company.
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Profile
- Name
- Bora Savas
- Current Positions
- - Investment Partner at Netprice.com
- - Entrepreneur in Residence in Open Network Lab.
- - Researcher at Price Strategy Institute
- Previously
- - Co-Founder @ Pecoq
- - Co-Founder & CEO @ Cloudoq Inc.
- - Specially appointed research fellow @ Osaka University.
- - Lecturer (Computer skills) @ Doshisha Women's Collage
- - Toyota Motors Inc.
- Hobbies
- Guitar, snowboarding, cycling, photograph, making things...
- Languages
- Japanese, English, Turkish, body language :)
Research Topics
- Natural Language Processing
- Semi-structured Data Mining
- Intelligent Information Access
- User Interface, User Experience
- Language Resources and Infrastructures
Software Releases
- Research Related
- CLAWS-C7-Tagset Corpus Data Indexer, Concordance Viewer (2011/12)
- CLAWS-C7-Tagset Corpus Data Convertion Tool (2011-11)
- Web Based KWIC Viewer for tagged (CLAWS-C7-Tagset) corpus data
- LMF based Web Service for Accessing WordNet type Semantic Lexicons
- FlickrCLIS - Cross-language Information Retrieval Service By Using Images
- KanjiReadingGen - CALL System for Generating Kanji Misreadings
- Japanalyzer - Japanese/Turkish reading assistance system (TTS, word translation)
- Auto RegEx - RegEx based annotation tool (open source, freeware)
- AutoFuri - A tool for adding Japanese readings to kanji in Japanese text.
- KanaJapaneseSegmenter - A Japanese word segmenting tool without implementing a morphological analysis.
- Business Related
- CloudShop - Integrated Management System for e-commerce related companies (SaaS)
- Auction Data Search - Search engine for Japanese car auctions with translation (JP->EN)
- Remokon - Social CMS as a web service (SaaS)
- Mysic.fm (Startup Weekend Tokyo Project)
- Realtime Internet Customer Support - AI chatbot web service (Japanese, English) (to publish)
Programming Skills
I wrote my first program with Basic at the age of 13 on
Commodore 64. (A couple of years later, I managed to
convince my parents to buy me an Amiga 500 :) )
Since then, I've played with different programming languages and I've felt in love in Python. Now It's my favorite snake.
- General: Python, JavaScript, Java
- Interested: Objective-C
- Past: Basic, GW-BASIC, Visual Basic, R, C, Adobe AIR
- Love: Django (Both of the Web Framework & Musician), Titanium, jQuery
Publications
Books
International Conferences
- LMF-aware Web services for accessing semantic lexicons, Language Resources and Evaluation
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Bora Savas, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria and Nicoletta Calzolari (2012, 05) [Info]
- Exploring the Visual Annotatability of Query Concepts for Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Proc. of AIRS 2010.
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Masaaki Nagata, Bora Savas (2010, 12) [Info]
- An LMF-based Web Service for Accessing WordNet-type Semantic Lexicons, Proc. of LREC2010.
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari (2010.05) [PDF]
- Utilizing Images for Assisting Cross-language Information Retrieval on the Web, Proc. of WIRSS2009.
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Savas Bora, Masaaki Nagata, (2009,09) [Info]
Domestic Conferences
- Evaluation of Utilizing Images in Interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval for Disambiguation of translations (collectively-written)
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Masaaki Nagata, Bora Savas, The Journal of Association for Natural Language Processing, Vol.5, No.2, pp.1-10，(2012, 06)
- Rule-based HTML Rendering of Dictionary Access Web Service Results, The Institute of Electronics, IEICE 2012
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi (to appear, 2012, 03)
- RESTful Web Services for Accessing Language Resources, The Institute of Electronics, IEICE 2011
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi [Info]
- Effectiveness of Utilizing Images in Interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval, The Association for Natural Language Processing 17th Conference.
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Bora Savas (Osaka Uni.), Masaaki Nagata (NTT) (2011, 03) [Info]
- RESTful Web Services for Accessing Language Resources, The Institute of Electronics, IEICE.
Bora SAVAS, Yoshihiko Hayashi (2011, 02) [Info]
- An LMF-based Web Service for Accessing WordNet-type Semantic Lexicons, The Association for Natural Language Processing 16th Conference.
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi (2010, 03) [Info]
- Language Services based on Language Resource Standards and Ontologies, The Institute of Electronics, IEICE, Artificial Intelligence & Information Processing Conference.
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Chiharu Narawa, Bora Savas (2010, 02) [Info]
- Utilizing Images for Disambiguation of Query Terms in Cross Language Information Retrieval, The Association for Natural Language Processing 15th Conference.
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Bora Savas, Masaaki Nagata (2009, 03) [Info]
- Filtering and Evaluating Misreadings Generated for Autonomous Learning of Kanji Characters, The Association for Natural Language Processing 14th Conference.
Bora SAVAS, Yoshihiko Hayashi (2008, 03) [Info]
- Effectiveness of Misreading Candidates Generated for Autonomous Learning of Kanji Characters , The Association for Natural Language Processing 13th Conference.
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi (2007, 03) [Info]
- Automatic Generation of Misreadings for Autonomous Learning of Kanji Characters, The Institute of Electronics, IEICE
Bora Savas, Yoshihiko Hayashi (2006, 11) [Info]
Academic Societies
- The Association for Natural Language Processing
Awards
- 2002 Scholarship Award - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science And Technology of Japan (Gifu University)
- 2006 Scholarship Award - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science And Technology of Japan (Osaka University)
