There is nothing better than the feeling of "like".
Those who have achieved something tend to pay attention to their talents, but often have the feeling of "like".So is Color Nwat Tallinn.
The background of the video conference is "Genji Monogatari".He is a friendly and bright personality, but is dissatisfied with the current situation in Japan where classical dizzy is not read.She was overflowing with the feeling that classical literature likes.
Tallinn is from Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.He was fascinated by Japanese classical literature and came to Japan alone with graduate school.The major at graduate school has begun to work on Kuzushi -shaped recognition by AI (artificial intelligence) to convey the charm of classical literature to as many people as possible, despite the old -fashioned interpretation of Genji Monogatari.
She wants to develop a must -have character recognition smartphone app "miwo" has become a big topic on SNS.It is an application that allows AI to convert the dumb into modern letters in a few seconds by simply shooting the dusk material with a smartphone or tablet camera and pressing the button, just by pressing the button.The accuracy is about 95 % in the Edo period books.
She retired from the ROIS-DS Humanities Open Data Cooperation Center (CODH) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) on August 31, 2021, and on September 6, the research of the BRAIN Development Division of the General AI Development Company.・ I joined the company as a scientist.
There is a word "unusual career", but there will be no person who is as suitable as Tallinn.What is driving her?
"When I was a kid, my friends often said" Japanese mania "."
Tallinn looks back on his childhood and says so.
I couldn't read the wheeled, and my grades became "F" and cried
"If anything, I was a child of geek type. I was very interested in what I was interested in, but I was not interested in what I was interested in ..."
At that time, it was the most fascinated Japanese culture.She was more interested in Japanese culture, such as food and kimono, rather than manga and anime.At the age of 10, my father told me to go to a programming classroom, buy a book about Japanese, and start studying Japanese on my own.
I was interested in Japanese classical literature because I came across "Asaki Yumemi" when I was in a Japanese language department at a Thai university.It is a work in which manga artist Kazuki Yamato faithfully converts 54 tatami mats of the Murasaki Shikibu "Genji Monogatari".
"Because I like Japanese culture at that time, it is the background setting that moved my heart. I was interested in various backgrounds such as kimonos and annual events from stories and characters."
The interest in Japanese culture has not changed since childhood, which was a "Japanese mania".She read "Asaki Yumemishi" over and over again, and she decided to study the Tale of Genji at a graduate school.
In April 2008, he came to Japan alone and began attending a graduate school at Waseda University with a scholarship for foreign students at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.She is a second -year student, two years of master, and a doctor's six years.For 10 years, he has lived completely as a "graduate school student".
"There were countless things that seemed to be overwhelmed. I was doing my best just trying to read the wheeled. I couldn't afford to do anything else."
There were Koreans and Chinese international students around, but most of them were Japanese students.He did not understand the ancient or Chinese text.It was hard just to follow other people's research.
The worst setback was that when he was a first -year master's student, he could not read the scraps in the waka material that was presented in the final exam of the literature research class, and his grades were "F".
"I was depressed by the shock and cried very much with my friends at school. I still remember it, but as long as I study in this field, I have to read the scraps."
She began learning kana calligraphy in a calligraphy classroom with her own losing weapons.She thought she would be able to read her whispered letters on her own.He gradually learned how to read the linse, and improved before he took four steps on the calligraphy.
I wrote a letter to the teacher of the University of Tokyo because I wanted to do the weren -shaped recognition
Graduate school life was not exhausted until the very end, such as employment and income.Finally, in his 10th year, graduation was approaching soon.
At that time, I started thinking seriously about what I really wanted to do.In her specialized research, her specialty research, it is common to copy classical materials, check each one, and then decide (convert from a wheel to contemporary character).
The Genji Monogatari has a total of 54 quires, with hundreds to thousands of copies papers with just one survey.It was a difficult task to find out the annotation while checking each piece.How easy would it be if you could mechanize this work?
Programming has been more than 10 years away, albeit experience.When I searched on Google, I found that I needed a PC with a certain performance to do machine learning.Coincidentally, there was a Thai friend who was studying image processing at the University of Tokyo in the same period of scholarships.Tallinn wrote a letter to her instructor.
"When I wrote the letter, I was very scared. I thought that a strange person came or thought that I could do it, and if I was refused, but I was refused.I just thought I wouldn't lose anything just by returning to me. "
Explaining the situation to the University of Tokyo's teacher, he was accepted as a special exchange student in the laboratory.Rather than returning to the starting point, he moved greatly towards her goal.In addition, Waseda University and the University of Tokyo had an exchange student program.
"It is an unnecessary program because many students are not necessary and there are differences between humanities and science.I was "
Her life was just before.But here again, she didn't shake her feelings.He continued to study machine learning for half a year and went to the laboratory every morning to night.
I was overwhelmed by the development of the Kizuzushi -style recognition app for more than half a year
When I started recognition of dumb, I didn't think much about work or the future.He worked on the trap -shaped recognition and thought it would be nice to be able to work where he could get a salary.Fortunately, that desire was fulfilled.
"Codh was just looking for a researcher who was recognized as scraps, and in the interview, I was honestly told that" I am studying the Kuzushi -shaped recognition, but I haven't done it yet. "I feel lucky and I feel that various luck overlaps. "
KURONET Kuzushi Certificate Service (KURONET TEXT EDITOR)
She first developed the AI Kuzushi -shaped OCR (optical character recognition) service "KOGUMANET" and "KURONET" using a Japanese classical kusushi dataset.
Experts can take about 10 minutes for ancient texts, but these AIs can decipher one in about 1 second.It depends on the book, but one hour can be reprinted.I want to leave the search part to the machine because it is difficult to study old -fashioned.Her ideal gradually became a reality.
"How to use" Mi "app that can be understood in 4 minutes"
The next thing I developed was the topic of the kusushi -shaped smartphone app "Mino".
"Mino" was decided to develop after being inspired by "Jintsu Kyo", which appears in "Kiteretsu Encyclopedia".At first glance, the booklet "Kiratsudai Hyaka", a booklet "Kiretsu Dai Hyaka", which summarizes the blueprints of the invention tools, appears by wearing glasses called "Shinto mirror".It is a mechanism that comes.
A "big wall" stands in front of the Japanese people in the Japanese people.Currently, only about 0 people who can read the Kuzushi characters properly are about 0 in Japan..01 %, only a few thousand people.The existing dusks are more than 3 million in classic, and old documents cost more than 100 million points, including personal diaries and letters.
"If you have tools that can exceed this wall a little, you may have more opportunities to touch the original text, especially dumb -shaped materials. If there are many people who can not read the wheeled, you can read it.I decided to develop it with that. "
Tallinn started studying about the development of a smartphone app on an online course on the Internet, and has been developing for more than half a year.The more I wanted to add various functions, the more complicated development.
In my mind, I was frustrated because I couldn't read dizzy in my graduate school.Various functions are also installed for advanced users, but in order to help beginners, we have cut out the areas of the original image corresponding to the AI recognition results and have added functions that can compare the consequences and characters.。
"Mino" is a name related to "Genji Monogatari", 14th, "Mitsu Tsukushi"."Tsukushi" refers to a stake standing to indicate "Mi (ship's waterway)".In order for "Tsukushi" to be a pine guide for people, "Mino" aimed to be a way to read the dusked materials.
I suffered from the harsh opinions of national literary researchers
While rushing towards new goals, it was the harsh opinion of national literary researchers.
"There were some national literary researchers who said that" AI's whistle -shaped recognition by AI is not desirable "and" this research is not good ". Even though I am working hard to spread classical literature, I oppose the people in my field.It's hard to be done. "
I felt sank many times during the development.Nevertheless, the desire to "like classical literature" and the desire to change the current situation of Japan, which is not so much conveyed, is better than the feeling of being overwhelmed.
"I often see the opinion that high school education is not necessary for high school education on SNS. But if you say that you don't need ancient or Chinese text in high school, when do you study in your life? Most Japanese people.If you enter university, you will not touch old and Chinese texts. Bookstores sell a lot of classical literature books, but there are few people who try to read classical literature, especially the original text? "
Her face, which was friendly and smiled, was a little cloudy.There are so many good classics in Japan.Don't forget the classics.Study old and Chinese sentences.He is always appealing to domestic and overseas lectures.The thoughts of classical literature have overflowed.
She believed in her and immerged him in the development of "Mino" to change the status quo.Soon the job was approaching Google.By then I wanted to release the app in time.
The release day is finally here.The number of downloads exceeded about 11,000 for both iOS and Android within 48 hours of release.It was a figure that exceeded her expectations.
"I couldn't read the hanging scroll at home, but I was worried because I couldn't take the time to study, so I immediately DL.I am very grateful that I can use it with confidence. "
This is a comment sent to Tallinn on SNS.Her research began to move the Japanese hearts little by little, but surely.
The feeling of "like classical literature" did not shake
Tallinn said that when he was a child, he was called "Japanese mania."Why did she come so far?
Certainly, as she said, she was lucky.She was told by her father when she was a child, and she received her scholarship and came to Japan.I entered the Laboratory of the University of Tokyo and decided to find a job.It can be said that she was blessed in many situations.But is that really all?
In college, I met "Asaki Yumemishi" and studied abroad alone in Japan from Thailand.She couldn't read the wheeled, and she started kana calligraphy.I learned AI to deliver the scraps to more people.Something seems to be driving her to overcome adversity.
"There are places I hate to lose, but that's not all. One thing I can say is that I like classics and manuscripts. I think the book itself is" I like it. "I'm interested in what is there, but I'm not very interested in those without letters. "
The answer was simple.When I was studying "Genji Monogatari" at a graduate school in Waseda, I was troubled again and again when I started studying curly bees in the University of Tokyo.Even now, even though they are in the same field as themselves, they may be criticized by some literary researchers.But the feeling that classical literature likes it has never shaken.Now her feelings are starting to move the Japanese hearts little by little.
"In short, it's probably because I like it."
She said so and said so again.