#author("2022-09-04T15:38:51+09:00","default:inui","inui") #author("2022-09-04T15:42:53+09:00","default:inui","inui") #norelated RIGHT:[[Tohoku NLP Group:https://www.nlp.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/]] [[日本語のページ:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/?Japanese]]~ ~ #ref(http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/inui_photo.jpeg,around,right,nowrap,320x180) //#ref(http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~aki-s/itest/itest/image/photo.jpeg,around,right,nowrap,159x190) * Kentaro Inui （[[乾 健太郎:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/?Japanese]]） [#if83c0b9] Professor, [[Natural Language Processing Lab (Inui-Suzuki Lab):https://www.nlp.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/]]~ [[Graduate School of Information Sciences:http://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/en/]], [[Tohoku University:http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/]]~ Leader of the [[Natural Language Understanding Team:http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/goalorient_tech/nat_lang_understand/]]~ [[RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP):http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/]]~ Vice Director and Head of the AI Research Division,~ [[Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center:http://tcpai.tohoku.ac.jp/en/]], Tohoku University~ ~ email: kentaro.inui.e2 (at) tohoku.ac.jp~ voice： +81 22 795 7091~ fax： +81 22 795 4285~ twitter: [[@inuikentaro:https://twitter.com/inuikentaro]]~ 6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan ([[Access:https://www.nlp.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/about-us/access/]])~ #clear ---- //** News [#p33893a9] //-Slides for my talk at Tokyo University are [[here:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/publications/2017/170712TokyoU.pdf]] (password protected). ** Research [#ifd84b1a] -[[Research fields:https://www.nlp.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/research/research-topics/]]~ natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence & inference, semantic and discourse analysis, paraphrase & textual entailment, Web computing, dialogue understanding, and management natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence & inference, semantic and discourse analysis, NLP for educational assessment, Web computing, dialogue understanding, and management -[[Recent publications:https://www.nlp.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/research/publications/]] ([[publications before 2009:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/publication_list.html]]) //-Natural Language Understanding and Assessment, Invited Talk at the 1st International Symposium on AI Electronics, September 2020 ([[Video>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVCncjROQE&feature=emb_logo]]):~ //[[&ref(http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/aie_sympo_inui.jpeg,around,left,nowrap,320x180);>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVCncjROQE&feature=emb_logo]]~ ** Academic & Career History [#w5297b3c] -10/2016-present: Leader of [[the Natural Language Understanding Team:http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/goalorient_tech/nat_lang_privacy_understand/]], [[RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP):http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/]] -3/2010-present: Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University -10/2011-present: Visiting Professor, [[National Institute of Informatics:http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/]], Japan -10/2006-3/2018: Visiting Researcher, [[National Institute of Information and Communication Technology:http://www.nict.go.jp/en/index.html]], 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: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 ** Academic activities [#h34c1bf3] -Chairperson of [[Association for Natural Language Processing:https://www.anlp.jp/]] (2022/3-present) -Area Co-chair of [[Association for Natural Language Processing:https://www.anlp.jp/en/index.html]] (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:https://www.anlp.jp/en/index.html]] (3/2020-3/2022) -Workshop Co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2021 -Area Co-chair for [[COLING 2020:https://coling2020.org/]] -Area Co-chair for [[ACL 2020:https://acl2020.org/]] -General Chair of [[EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019:https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/]] -Editor in Chief of [[Journal of Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/guide/index.html]] (4/2018-2019) -Member of [[Science Council of Japan:http://www.scj.go.jp/en/index.html]] (1/2018-present) -Director of [[NPO FactCheck Initiative Japan:http://fij.info/]] (6/2017-present) -Area Chair for EMNLP 2017 -Vice Editor in Chief of [[Journal of Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/guide/index.html]] (4/2016-2018) -Director of [[Association for Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/index.html]] (4/2016-3/2020) -Chief Examiner of [[IPSJ SIG of NLP:http://www.nl-ipsj.or.jp/index-e.html]] (4/2014-2018) -Area Chair for COLING 2016 -Area Chair for EMNLP 2015 -Editor in Chief of [[Journal of Information Processing:http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/jip/index.html]] (6/2014-5/2015) -Area Chair for COLING 2014 -Vice Editor in Chief of [[Journal of Information Processing:http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/jip/index.html]] (6/2013-5/2014) -Director of [[Information Processing Society of Japan:http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/index.html]] (6/2013-5/2015) -Director of [[Association for Natural Language Processing:http://www.anlp.jp/en/]] (4/2012-4/2015) -Faculty Advisor for ACL 2012 Student Research Workshop -Tutorial Co-chair of IJCNLP 2011 -Editorial Board Member of [[Computational Linguistics:http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli]] (1/2009-12/2011) -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/~inui/?AcademicActivities]] ** Awards [#iaae8a00] - [[Awards for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology:https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_00989.html]] (2022) - [[NLP-2022 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html]] - [[JNLP 2021 Best Paper Award:https://www.anlp.jp/en/award/ronbun.html]] - [[NLP-2021 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html]] - [[NLP-2020 Language Resource Award:https://www.gsk.or.jp/event/nlp2020-lra/]] - [[NLP-2020 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html]] - [[Google Focused Research Award:https://ai.google/research/outreach/focused-research-awards/]] (2019) - [[NLP-2019 Language Resource Award:https://www.gsk.or.jp/event/nlp2019-lra/]] - [[NLP-2019 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html]] - [[JSAI 2017 Best Paper Award::http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/about/award/jsai_award-paper/]] - [[NLP-2018 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/guide/news/v25n2/index.html#third]] - [[EACL2017 Outstanding Paper Award:http://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/news/award_p/detail---id-330.html]] - [[NLP-2017 Best Paper Award:http://www.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/ecei_web/information/2017/news20170322.html]] - [[MIRU2016 Outstanding Paper Award:https://sites.google.com/site/miru2016hamamatsu/home/awards]] - IBM Faculty Award (2016) - [[NLP-2016 Best Paper Award (First Place):http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html#2016]] - [[NLP-2016 Best Paper Award:http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html#2016]] - SIG-NL-225 Excellent Research Award (2016) - [[PACLIC-29 Best Paper Award (Computation):http://bcmi.sjtu.edu.cn/~paclic29/accepted.php]] - [[14th Docomo Mobile Science Award:http://www.mcfund.or.jp/docomo_science/winners.html]] (2015) - [[SIG-NL-221 Excellent Research Award:http://www.nl-ipsj.or.jp/#award_research]] (2015) - [[NLP-2015 Best Paper Award (First Place):http://www.anlp.jp/award/nenji.html#2015]] - [[JNLP 2014 Best Paper Award (First Place)>https://www.anlp.jp/en/award/ronbun.html]] - [[AMT2014:http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/amt/homepage]] Best Paper Award -2014: [[ANLP 20th Anniversary Best Paper Award>https://www.anlp.jp/en/award/ronbun.html]] - NLP-2014 Best Paper Award (First Place) - NLP-2014 Best Paper Award - [[JNLP 2013 Best Paper Award>https://www.anlp.jp/en/award/ronbun.html]] - 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 ** Private [#k864ec2d] My favorite [[izakayas:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izakaya]] 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