Jun'ichi Tsujii Explained

Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii
Birth Date:1949 2, df=yes
Nationality:Japanese
Fields:Natural language processing
Workplaces:University of Tokyo
University of Manchester
National Centre for Text Mining
Microsoft Research Asia
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Alma Mater:Kyoto University
Doctoral Advisor:Makoto Nagao
Awards:Purple Ribbon Medals of Honor (Japan)
FUNAI Achievement Award
ACL fellow

is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology and bioinformatics.[1]

Education

Tsujii received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University in 1971, 1973, and 1978 respectively. He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Kyoto University, before accepting a position as Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1988. He was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2006, and has been a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) since 1992, and the chair of the committee since 2014.[2]

Research

Since May 2015, Tsujii has been the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.[3] Tsujii was previously a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).[4] Before joining MSRA, he was a professor at the University of Tokyo, where he belonged to both the School of Inter-faculty Initiative on Informatics and the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.[5] Tsujii is also a Visiting Professor and Scientific Advisor at the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.[6]

Awards

On 14 May 2010, Tsujii was awarded the Medals of Honor with Purple Ribbon, one of Japan's highest awards, presented to influential contributors in the fields of art, academics or sports.[7]

In September 2014, Tsujii was awarded the FUNAI Achievement Award[8] at the Forum on Information Technology (FIT), which took place at the University of Tsukuba. The award is presented to distinguished individuals engaged in research or related business activities in the field of Information Technology who have produced excellent achievements in the field, are still active in leading positions and have strong impact on young students and researchers.

In December 2014, Tsujii was named as an ACL Fellow,[9] in recognition of his significant contributions to MT, parsing by unification-based grammar and text mining for biology.

In March 2016, Tsujii was awarded Okawa Prize for his contribution to the field of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Text Mining, together with Professor Jaime Carbonnel of CMU.[10]

In August 2021, Tsujii received ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, which is considered the most prestigious award in the filed of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.[11]

In May 2022, Tsujii received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, from the Japanese government.[12]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Book: Tsujii . J. . Jun'ichi Tsujii. 10.1007/978-3-642-19400-9_5 . Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 6608 . 52–67. 2011 . 978-3-642-19399-6 . Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing .
  2. Web site: ICCL Members. 16 May 2015. University of Sheffield. 17 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170517235543/http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/iccl/committee.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Artificial Intellience Research Center. 16 May 2015. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
  4. Web site: Microsoft e-Science workshop. 16 May 2015. Microsoft Research.
  5. Web site: Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon: Professor Junichi TSUJII. 16 May 2015. University of Tokyo.
  6. Web site: NaCTeM people. 16 May 2015. University of Manchester.
  7. Web site: Former ACL president Jun'ichi Tsujii received Medal of Honor from Government of Japan. 10 December 2014. Association For Computational Linguistics.
  8. Web site: FUNAI Achievement Award. 10 December 2014. Information Processing Society of Japan.
  9. Web site: ACL Fellows. 11 December 2014. Association For Computational Linguistics.
  10. Web site: The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications .
  11. Web site: ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients - Admin Wiki .
  12. Web site: National Centre for Text Mining — NaCTEM .

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