Language Technologies That Matter
Our mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding through education and language technologies.
Octanove Labs is an independent, for-profit AI research lab, working on language education and natural language processing (NLP). We also provide research, development, and consulting services for NLP and related ML technologies.
Octanove Labs is owned and run by Masato Hagiwara, an independent AI engineer and researcher. See the personal website for more info.
Our Expertise
Natural Language Processing
We research and develop natural language processing software for Asian languages and education.
Asian Languages
We specialize in linguistic analysis, translation, and educational systems for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian languages.
Machine Learning
We also provide research, development, and consulting services for machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Education
We focus on NLP and ML technologies for education, including: language learning, writing and proofreading, and automated essay scoring.
Current & Past Clients
Our projects
Open Language Profiles
Platform for sharing open linguistic resources for language educationAllenNLP Course
Content for the free AllenNLP CourseUltra Fine-Grained NER
Ultra fine-grained named entity recognition (NER) system ranted #2 at TAC KBP 2019TEASPN
Framework and protocol for integrated writing assistance environmentsReal-World NLP Book
"Real-World Natural Language Processing", an NLP introductory book from Manning PublicationsGithub Typo Corpus
Large-scale multilingual dataset of misspellings and grammatical errorsState of AI Guides (JA)
A weekly blog/newsletter covering state-of-the-art AI/ML topicsThe name "Octanove" comes from the Unicode code point U+8A9E for "語" — a Chinese character meaning "language." "Oct" is a prefix for 8 and "Nov" is a prefix for 9, which makes "Oct+a+nov+e." The logo is the combination of the character 語 and the eighth hexagram.
Get in Touch!
We are available for contract work. If you are interested in discussing how we can help with your NLP/ML projects, let us know!