Yuji Matsumoto

Current Position

• Professor of Computational Linguistics
• Graduate School of Information Science,
• Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
• 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
• Phone: +81-743-72-5240
• Fax: +81-743-72-5249
• Email: matsu--at--is.naist.jp

History

• B.E. (Information Science) from Kyoto University in 1977.
• M.E. (Information Science) from Kyoto University in 1979.
• Ph.D. (Information Science) from Kyoto University in 1990.
• 1979 to 1988 Researcher at Electrotechnical Laboratory, Machine Inference Section.
• 1984 to 1985: Academic Visitor at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.
• 1985 to 1987: Deputy Chief of the First Section at the Institute of New Generation Computer Technology.
• 1988 to 1989: Associate Professor at Data Processing Center, Kyoto University.
• 1989 to 1993: Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 1993 to date: Professor at Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Awards

• Takahashi Incentive Award, 1988
• Motooka Commemorative Award, 1989
• ASTEM Software Award of Cultural Contribution, 1994
• Best Paper Award from Information Processing Society of Japan, 1997
• Best Author Award from Information Processing Society of Japan, 2000
• Best presentation award from the Association for Natural Language Processing (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008)
• Best Paper Award from the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 2005
• Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan, March 2006
• Best paper award from DEWS-2006.
• COLING/ACL-2006 Best Asian NLP Paper Award, 2006.
• Japan OSS (Open Source Software) Contributor's Award, Information-Processing Promoting Agency, Japan, 2007.
• JSAI Achievement Award, The Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 2008.

Research interests

List of Publication

Social Activities