Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University) / 乾健太郎（東北大学）

Kentaro Inui （乾健太郎）†

Professor
Communication Science Lab (Inui-Okazaki Lab)
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan (Access)

voice： +81 22 795 7091
fax： +81 22 795 4285
email: inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
twitter: @inuikentaro

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Research†

Research fields
natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence & inference, semantic and discourse analysis, paraphrase & textual entailment, Web computing, dialogue understanding and management
Recent publications (publications before 2009)

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Activities†

6/2013-onward: Director of Information Processing Society of Japan
2014: Area Chair for COLING 2014
4/2014-onward: Chair of IPSJ SIG of NLP
4/2012-4/2014: Director of Association for Natural Language Processing
1/2009-12/2011: Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics

Membership:

Previous activities

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Academic & Career History†

3/2010-onward: Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
2/2004-12/2004: Visiting Researcher, University of Sussex, UK
10/2001-2/2010: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
10/1998-9/2001: Research Fellowship, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
4/1998-3/2002: Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
4/1995-3/1998: Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
3/1995: Ph.D. from Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
4/1992-3/1995: Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
3/1990: B.E. from Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Awards†

2016: NLP-2016 Best Paper Award (First Place)
2016: NLP-2016 Best Paper Award
2016: SIG-NL-225 Excellent Research Award
2015: PACLIC-29 Best Paper Award (Computation)
2015: The 14th Docomo Mobile Science Award
2015: SIG-NL-221 Excellent Research Award
2015: NLP-2015 Best Paper Award (First Place)
2015: 2014 Best Paper Award, Journal of Natural Language Processing
2014: AMT2014 Best Paper Award
2014: The 20th Anniversary Paper Award, The Association for Natural Language Processing
2014: NLP-2014 Best Paper Award (First Place)
2014: NLP-2014 Best Paper Award
2014: 2013 Best Paper Award, Journal of Natural Language Processing
2013: NLP-2013 Best Paper Award
2012: NLP-2012 Best Paper Award
2011: CICLing-2011 Best Paper Award (First Place)
2010: NLP-2010 Best Presentation Award (First Place)
2007: NLP-2007 Outstanding Presentation Award
2006: COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award
2006: Noguchi Award, DICOMO2006
2004: NLP-2004 Outstanding Presentation Award
2003: NLP-2003 Outstanding Presentation Award,
2001: Outstanding Paper Award, SIG-SLUD, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
1998: Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
1998: NLP-1999 Outstanding Presentation Award
1996: NLP-1996 Outstanding Presentation Award

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Private†

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