Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii

Position: Scientific Director
Telephone: +44 161 306 5847
Email: j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk
Profile
I am Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing of the University of Tokyo and Professor of Text Mining of the University of Manchester, UK.
My first degree, from Kyoto University, was in Electronics and I have an MSc and a PhD from Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University. I was Associate Professor of Kyoto University from 1979 to 1988 with a break at CNRS Grenoble, France as invited senior researcher in 1981-1982. Before taking up the position at the University of Tokyo, 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. At July 2005 I was appointed Director of National Center for Text Mining (NacTeM) of the UK in Manchester, as well as Professor of the University of Manchester. I have also been Advisory Professor of Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication (BUPT), China since May, 2005.
Featured News
- Text mining enhances Educational Evidence Portal - new article and demo site
- Medal of honour awarded to Professor Tsujii
- Improved acronym disambiguation - release of updated software service and paper
- Species disambiguation of biomedical named entities- release of software, corpus and article
- Launch of new features on UKPMC website
- New Biomedical Event Corpus (GREC) released
- ELRA Distribution Agreement signed for BioLexicon





