Kentaro Inui (乾 健太郎)†
Professor
Communication Science Lab (Inui-Okazaki Lab)
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
6-3-09 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
Research†
Activities†
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
Awards†
- 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
- 1998: Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- 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
Private†
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