Speech recognition algorithms using weighted finite-state transducers, c2013, via WWW, Jan. 17, 2013: PDF t.p. (Takaaki Hori; NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation) p. 149 (B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical and information engineering from Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in system and information engineering from Yamagata University in 1999. Since 1999, he has been engaged in research on spoken language processing at the Cyber Space Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph, and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, Kyoto, Japan. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 2006 to 2007. He is currently a senior research scientist in the NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation)