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

Kentaro Inui （乾健太郎）†

Visiting Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI, UAE

Professor, Center for Language AI Research, Tohoku University (Cross appointment)
Also affiliated with Natural Language Processing Lab (Tohoku NLP Group), GSIS, Tohoku University

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

Vice Director and Head of the AI Research Division,
Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center, Tohoku University

email: kentaro.inui.e2 (at) tohoku.ac.jp
voice： +81 22 795 7091
fax： +81 22 795 4285
twitter: @inuikentaro
6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan (Access)

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Research†

Research fields
natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence & inference, semantic and discourse analysis, NLP for educational assessment, Web computing, dialogue understanding, and management
Recent publications (publications before 2009)

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Academic & Career History†

9/2023-present: Visiting Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI, UAE
10/2016-present: Leader of the Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
3/2010-present: Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
10/2011-present: Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
10/2006-3/2018: 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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Academic activities†

Chairperson of Association for Natural Language Processing (2022/3-present)
Area Co-chair of Association for Natural Language Processing (3/2022-present)
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Action Editor (2021/5-present)
Workshop Co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Vice-chairperson of Association for Natural Language Processing (3/2020-3/2022)
Workshop Co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Area Co-chair for COLING 2020
Area Co-chair for ACL 2020
General Chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
Editor in Chief of Journal of Natural Language Processing (4/2018-2019)
Member of Science Council of Japan (1/2018-present)
Director of NPO FactCheck Initiative Japan (6/2017-present)
Area Chair for EMNLP 2017
Vice Editor in Chief of Journal of Natural Language Processing (4/2016-2018)
Director of Association for Natural Language Processing (4/2016-3/2020)
Chief Examiner of IPSJ SIG of NLP (4/2014-2018)
Area Chair for COLING 2016
Area Chair for EMNLP 2015
Editor in Chief of Journal of Information Processing (6/2014-5/2015)
Area Chair for COLING 2014
Vice Editor in Chief of Journal of Information Processing (6/2013-5/2014)
Director of Information Processing Society of Japan (6/2013-5/2015)
Director of Association for Natural Language Processing (4/2012-4/2015)
Faculty Advisor for ACL 2012 Student Research Workshop
Tutorial Co-chair of IJCNLP 2011
Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics (1/2009-12/2011)

Membership:

Previous activities

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Awards†

Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT (2022)
Awards for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2022)
NLP-2022 Best Paper Award
JNLP 2021 Best Paper Award
NLP-2021 Best Paper Award
NLP-2020 Language Resource Award
NLP-2020 Best Paper Award
Google Focused Research Award (2019)
NLP-2019 Language Resource Award
NLP-2019 Best Paper Award
JSAI 2017 Best Paper Award:
NLP-2018 Best Paper Award
EACL2017 Outstanding Paper Award
NLP-2017 Best Paper Award
MIRU2016 Outstanding Paper Award
IBM Faculty Award (2016)
NLP-2016 Best Paper Award (First Place)
NLP-2016 Best Paper Award
SIG-NL-225 Excellent Research Award (2016)
PACLIC-29 Best Paper Award (Computation)
14th Docomo Mobile Science Award (2015)
SIG-NL-221 Excellent Research Award (2015)
NLP-2015 Best Paper Award (First Place)
JNLP 2014 Best Paper Award (First Place)
AMT2014 Best Paper Award
2014: ANLP 20th Anniversary Best Paper Award
NLP-2014 Best Paper Award (First Place)
NLP-2014 Best Paper Award
JNLP 2013 Best Paper Award
NLP-2013 Best Paper Award
NLP-2012 Best Paper Award
CICLing-2011 Best Paper Award (First Place)
NLP-2010 Best Presentation Award (First Place)
NLP-2007 Outstanding Presentation Award
COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award
Noguchi Award, DICOMO2006
NLP-2004 Outstanding Presentation Award
NLP-2003 Outstanding Presentation Award,
Outstanding Paper Award, SIG-SLUD, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (1998)
NLP-1999 Outstanding Presentation Award
NLP-1996 Outstanding Presentation Award

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Private†

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