#norelated // * FrontPage [#qb249ac2] #ref(http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~aki-s/itest/itest/image/photo.jpeg,around,right,nowrap,159x190) &size(24){Kentaro Inui ([[乾 健太郎:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/index-j.html]])};~ ~ [[Communication Science Lab.:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/en/]]~ [[Graduate School of Information Sciences:http://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/index-e.html]]~ [[Tohoku University:http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/]]~ 6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan~ voice: +81 22 795 7091~ fax : +81 22 795 4285~ email: inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp~ twitter: [[@inuikentaro:https://twitter.com/inuikentaro]]~ #clear ---- &size(24){&color(#1F6221){Research};};~ -[[Research area:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/en/index.php?Research]]~ ''Keywords'': natural language processing, computational linguistics, semantic and discourse analysis, textual inference, knowledge acquisition, paraphrasing, question answering, Web computing, dialogue understanding and management ~ -[[Recent publications:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/en/index.php?Publications]] ([[publications before 2009:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/publication_list.html]]) ~ ~ &size(24){&color(#1F6221){Education};};~ -Bachelor of Engineering in 1990, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology -Master of Engineering in 1992, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology -Doctor of Engineering in 1995, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology ~ ~ &size(24){&color(#1F6221){Professional Career};};~ -1992-1995: Research Fellowship, [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) :http://www.jsps.go.jp/e-home.htm]] -1995-1998: Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology -1998-2002: Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology -1998-2001: Research Fellowship, [[PRESTO:http://www.jst.go.jp/presto/]], [[Japan Science and Technology Corporation:http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/]] -2002-2010: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology -2010- : Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University ~ ~ &size(24){&color(#1F6221){Awards};};~ -The Best Paper Award of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2010 -The Best Paper Award of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2007 COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award, 2006 -The Best Paper Award of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2004 -The Best Paper Award of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 2003 -Outstanding Paper Award, SIG-SLUD, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2001 -Annual Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1998 -The Best Paper Award of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 1998 -The Best Paper Award of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 1996 ~ ~ &size(24){&color(#1F6221){[[Social Activities:http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~inui/PC.html]]};};~ ---- '''INUI Kentaro (inui(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp)'''