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RIGHT:[[Communication Science Lab:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/]] [[日本語のページ:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/index.php?Japanese]]~
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&size(28){Kentaro Inui （[[乾 健太郎:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/index.php?Japanese]]）};~
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[[Communication Science Lab (Inui-Okazaki Lab):http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/]]~
[[Graduate School of Information Sciences:http://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/index-e.html]]~
[[Tohoku University:http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/]]~
6-3-09 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan ([[Access:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/index.php?Access]])~
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voice： +81 22 795 7091~
fax： +81 22 795 4285~
email: inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp~
twitter: [[@inuikentaro:https://twitter.com/inuikentaro]]~
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* Research [#ifd84b1a]
-[[Research fields:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/index.php?Research%20Topics]]~
natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence & inference, semantic and discourse analysis, paraphrase & textual entailment, Web computing, dialogue understanding and management
-[[Recent publications:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/index.php?Publications]] ([[publications before 2009:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/publication_list.html]])
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* Activities [#h34c1bf3]
-6/2013-onward: Director of [[Information Processing Society of Japan:http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/index.html]]
-2014: Area Chair for COLING 2014
-4/2014-onward: Chair of [[IPSJ SIG of NLP:http://www.nl-ipsj.or.jp/index-e.html]]
-4/2012-4/2014: Director of [[Association for Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/]]
-1/2009-12/2011: Editorial Board Member of [[Computational Linguistics:http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli]]
-Membership:
--[[Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL):http://www.aclweb.org/]]
--[[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI):http://www.aaai.org/home.html]]
--[[Association for Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/]]
--[[Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence:http://http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en/]]
--[[Information Processing Society of Japan:http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/index.html]]
-[[Previous activities:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/%7Einui/PC.html]]
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* Academic & Career History [#w5297b3c]
-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:http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/presto/en/index.html]], [[Japan Science and Technology Corporation:http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/]]
-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):http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/index.html]]
-3/1990: B.E. from Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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* Awards [#iaae8a00]
-2014: Best Paper Award (First Place), The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2014: Best Paper Award, The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2014: Best Paper Award, Journal of Natural Language Processing
-2013: Best Paper Award, The 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2012: Best Paper Award, The 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2011: CICLing-2011 Best Paper Award (First Place)
-2010: Best Presentation Award, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2007: Outstanding Presentation Award, The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2006: COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award
-2006: Noguchi Award, DICOMO2006
-2004: Outstanding Presentation Award, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2003: Outstanding Presentation Award, The 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
-2001: Outstanding Paper Award, SIG-SLUD, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
-Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1998
-1998: Outstanding Presentation Award, The 4th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processin
-1996: Outstanding Presentation Award, The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
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* Private [#k864ec2d]
My favorite [[izakayas:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izakaya]]:
-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内（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居酒屋さん。昔通ったさつきを思い出します。仙台駅西口徒歩3分（022-222-3948）
-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）
-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。大将夫妻との出会いがなければ、飯塚での暮らしは．．． 本当に本当にお世話になりました。
