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

Kentaro Inui （乾健太郎）†

Professor
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

Leader of the Natural Language Understanding Team
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)

Natural Language Processing Lab (Inui-Suzuki Lab)
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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News†

Slides for my talk at Tokyo University are here (password protected).

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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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Academic activities†

2017: Area Chair for EMNLP-2017
4/2016-onward: Vice Editor in Chief of Journal of Natural Language Processing
4/2016-onward: Director of Association for Natural Language Processing
4/2014-onward: Chief Examiner of IPSJ SIG of NLP
2016: Area Chair for COLING-2016
2015: Area Chair for EMNLP-2015
6/2014-5/2015: Vice Editor in Chief of Journal of Information Processing
2014: Area Chair for COLING-2014
6/2013-5/2015: Director of Information Processing Society of Japan
4/2012-4/2015: 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
10/2016-onward: Leader of the Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
10/2011-onward: Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
10/2006-onward: Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
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†

2017: EACL2017 Outstanding Paper Award
2017: NLP-2017 Best Paper Award
2016: MIRU2016 Outstanding Paper Award
2016: 2016 IBM Faculty Award
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: 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: 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†

My favorite izakayas in Japan:

すけぞう　昭和の香り残る壱弐参（いろは）横町の一角、すばらしい常連さん達に出会えます。仙台市青葉区一番町壱弐参横丁（022-227-5177）
文ちゃんうどん　私の中では仙台の「ぶあいそ」。何もかも美味しいです。家族ともどもお世話になってます。仙台市青葉区一番町壱弐参横丁（022-266-3285）
味処花祭り　東北の酒と魚の文化を堪能できる小さな居酒屋さん。学生時代に通ったさつきを思い出します。仙台駅西口徒歩3分名掛丁（022-222-3948）
白雪　魚料理も野菜料理もいつ行ってもたまりません。もちろん地酒も。仙台市青葉区大町晩翠通沿い（022-224-2776）
風のごとく　酒・魚だけでなく野菜料理も楽しめるのがうれしい居酒屋さん。仙台市青葉区国分町1丁目（022-215-4419）
一ノ瀬　大将お一人ですべてを切り盛りされてるお店。行くたびに変わる酒と料理、絶品です。神戸市六甲道駅徒歩3分（078-811-3445）
日知庵　酒の文化の奥深さと酒の縁の無限の広がりを教えてくれた飲み屋さん。阪急京都線河原町駅徒歩4分（075-231-0374）
旬眞庵　愛情たっぷりの料理と酒、そして人に出会える風情豊かな懐石料理屋さん。京都市左京区北白川山ノ元町（075-712-0717）
楽庵　日知庵仲間が教えてくれた魚料理屋さん。ここの魚、すごいです。鰤しゃぶ、驚きます。地下鉄四条徒歩3分（075-352-5252）
山ぶき　自宅そばのすてきな蕎麦屋さん。蕎麦もさることながら、日本酒のセンスが抜群。近鉄京都線新田辺駅徒歩1分（0774-64-0137）
ぶあいそ　新田辺で飲むときはほとんどココでした。大将のコテコテ居酒屋料理がたまりません。近鉄京都線新田辺駅徒歩3分（0774-63-7318）
ひな　１年に１度、鹿児島大の集中講義のときに必ず訪ねます。ご主人もお客さんもみんな温かいです。鹿児島市東千石町（099-224-9678）
権蔵　飯塚歓楽街の片隅にあった今はなき幻の飲み屋さん。大将夫妻との数々の思い出は宝物です。本当に本当にお世話になりました。

Kentaro Inui （乾 健太郎）†

News†

Research†

Academic activities†

Academic & Career History†

Awards†

Private†

Kentaro Inui （乾健太郎）†