Profile

History

• B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from Kyoto University in 1988
• M.E. (Electrical Engineering) from Kyoto University in 1990
• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from Kyoto Universtiy in 1996

• 1991 to 1993: Visiting Researcher at ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories
• 1993 to 1996: Researcher at ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories
• 1996 to 2000: Associate Professor at Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• 1999 to 2000: Visiting Scholor at Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
• 2000 to 2008: Associate Professor at Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
• 2008 to date: Professor at Faculty of Letters, Chiba University

Awards

• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence SIG Research Award in 1992
• ASTEM Software Award of Cultural Contribution in 1994
• Best Papers Award of The Third Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium in 1995
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence SIG Research Award in 2003
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence SIG Research Award in 2006

Social Activities

• Japanese Cognitive Science Society
• Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence
• Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
• Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology