Jan Wira Gotama Putra

PhD candidate / JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Current Research

I am currently working on argumentative writing support for English-as-foreign-language (EFL) learners, supervised by Prof. Takenobu Tokunaga. We are also working with Prof. Simone Teufel.

My research aims to help EFL students to write a coherent argument. In our swiftly changing global society, students have to cultivate their skills to make a coherent and logical argument in order to convince others that their opinions are important, on top of having superb command on English. Most English-speakers do not speak it as the first language, and we know that it is difficult to learn a foreign language. My research is vital for non-English speaking countries, e.g., Japan (where I study), to achieve a greater presence at the global stage.

Contact

Email: "gotama (dot) w (dot) aa (at) m (dot) titech (dot) ac (dot) jp"

Research Interests

  • Discourse processing
  • Argumentation/argument mining
  • Educational applications of NLP
  • Lexical semantics
  • Text summarisation

Personal

I enjoy photography, looking at fireworks (photo below), going to parks, read psychology books and talk about the meaning of life.