Jun'ichi Tsujii
| Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 7, 1949 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Awards | Purple Ribbon Medals of Honor (Japan) FUNAI Achievement Award ACL fellow |
| Website | unit |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Natural language processing |
| Institutions |
University of Tokyo University of Manchester National Centre for Text Mining Microsoft Research Asia National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Makoto Nagao |
Jun'ichi Tsujii (辻井 潤一 Tsujii Jun'ichi, born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology and bioinformatics.
Tsujii received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering and Ph.D 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.
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. Tsujii was previously a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). 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. 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.
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