Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii
Position:
Professor
Scientific Advisor
Telephone: +44 161 306 5847
Email: j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk
Profile
I am Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) in Tokyo, Japan and Professor of Text Mining at the University of Manchester, UK.
My first degree, from Kyoto University, was in Electronics and I have an MSc and a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University. I was Associate Professor at Kyoto University from 1979 to 1988 with a break at CNRS Grenoble, France as invited senior researcher in 1981-1982. I was Professor of Computational Linguistics of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the UK from 1988 to 1995, where I kept the position of Research Professor until 2001. I was appoined as a professor in the Tokyo University Graduate School in 1995, and, prior to taking on my current position, I was a principal researcher for Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) from 2011 onwards.
Featured News
- Invited talk at the 15th Marbach Castle Drug-Drug Interaction Workshop
- Call for papers: CL4Health @ NAACL 2025
- BioNLP 2025 and Shared Tasks accepted for co-location at ACL 2025
- Prof. Junichi Tsujii honoured as Person of Cultural Merit in Japan
- Participation in panel at Cyber Greece 2024 Conference, Athens
- Shared Task on Financial Misinformation Detection at FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal
- New Named Entity Corpus for Occupational Substance Exposure Assessment
- FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal @ COLING-2025 - Call for papers
Other News & Events
- Keynote talk at Manchester Law and Technology Conference
- Keynote talk at ACM Summer School on Data Science, Athens
- Invited talk at the 8th Annual Women in Data Science Event at the American University of Beirut
- Invited talk at the 2nd Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG), University of Liverpool
- Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the Danish Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine