Kentaro Torisawa

Fellow, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Visiting Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Joined
July 2019

Names

Kentaro Torisawa (Preferred)
, 
TORISAWA Kentaro

Emails

****@nict.go.jp (Confirmed)
, 
****@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
, 
****@jaist.ac.jp (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Fellow
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (nict.go.jp)
2020 – Present
Visiting Professor
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (naist.jp)
2019 – Present
Director General
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (nict.go.jp)
2016 – 2021
Group Leader
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (nict.go.jp)
2008 – 2016
Associate Professor
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (jaist.ac.jp)
2001 – 2008
Assistant Professor
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
1995 – 2001
PhD student
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
1994 – 1995
MS student
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
1992 – 1994
Undergrad student
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
1988 – 1992

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Jun'ichi Tsujii
1994 – 2000
PhD Advisor
Akinori Yonezawa
1991 – 1995

Expertise

Dialog systems
2016 – Present
question answering
2010 – Present
NLP-based disaster management technologies using SNS
2011 – 2020
Web mining
2000 – 2010
HPSG parsing
1992 – 2000

Publications

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Co-Authors

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