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
- 1st Workshop on Misinformation Detection in the Era of LLMs - Presentation slides now available
- Prof. Ananiadou appointed Deputy Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute
- ELLIS Workshop on Misinformation Detection - Presentation slides now available
- Prof. Sophia Ananiadou accepted as an ELLIS fellow
- BioNLP 2025 and Shared Tasks accepted for co-location at ACL 2025
- Prof. Junichi Tsujii honoured as Person of Cultural Merit in Japan
Other News & Events
- AI for Research: How Can AI Disrupt the Research Process?
- CL4Health @ NAACL 2025 - Extended submission deadline - 04/02/2025
- Invited talk at the 15th Marbach Castle Drug-Drug Interaction Workshop
- Participation in panel at Cyber Greece 2024 Conference, Athens
- Shared Task on Financial Misinformation Detection at FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal