Kentaro Inui (乾 健太郎)
Tohoku University
Communication Science Lab.
Graduate School of Information Sciences
6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
voice: +81 22 795 7091
fax : +81 22 795 4285
email: inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
twitter: @inuikentaro
Research†
- Research area
Keywords: natural language processing, computational linguistics, semantic and discourse analysis, textual inference, knowledge acquisition, paraphrasing, question answering, Web computing, dialogue understanding and management
- Recent publications (publications before 2009)
Education†
- Bachelor of Engineering in 1990, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Master of Engineering in 1992, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Doctor of Engineering in 1995, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professional Career†
- 1992-1995: Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 1995-1998: Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1998-2002: Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
- 1998-2001: Research Fellowship, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
- 2002-2010: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- 2010- : Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
Awards†
- The Best Paper Award of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2010
- The Best Paper Award of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2007
COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award, 2006
- The Best Paper Award of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2004
- The Best Paper Award of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2003
- Outstanding Paper Award, SIG-SLUD, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2001
- Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1998
- The Best Paper Award of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 1998
- The Best Paper Award of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 1996
INUI Kentaro (inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp)