Yoshimasa Tsuruoka's Publications

Refereed Papers

2006

• Hong-Woo Chun, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jin-Dong Kim, Rie Shiba, Naoki Nagata, Teruyoshi Hishiki, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Extraction of Gene-Disease Relations from Medline Using Domain Dictionaries and Machine Learning.
  Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2006. (to appear)
  

2005

• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Chunk Parsing Revisited.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2005), pp. 133-140. (pdf)
  


• Takashi Ninomiya, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yusuke Miyao, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Efficacy of Beam Thresholding, Unification Filtering and Hybrid Parsing in Probabilistic HPSG Parsing.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2005), pp. 103-114. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Bidirectional Inference with the Easiest-First Strategy for Tagging Sequence Data.
  Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 467-474. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuka Tateishi, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Developing a Robust Part-of-Speech Tagger for Biomedical Text.
  Advances in Informatics - 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, LNCS 3746, pp. 382-392. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  A Machine Learning Approach to Acronym Generation.
  Proceedings of the ACL-ISMB Workshop on Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Mining Biological Semantics, pp. 25-31. (pdf)
  

2004

• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Improving the Performance of Dictionary-based Approaches in Protein Name Recognition.
  Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol 37, Issue 6, pp. 461-470. (link)
  


• Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuka Tateisi, and Nigel Collier.
  Introduction to the Bio-Entity Recognition Task at JNLPBA.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications (JNLPBA-04). pp. 70-75. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yusuke Miyao, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Towards efficient probabilistic HPSG parsing: integrating semantic and syntactic preference to guide the parsing.
  Proceedings of IJCNLP-04 Workshop: Beyond shallow analyses - Formalisms and statistical modeling for deep analyses. (pdf)
  


• Kenji Miura, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Automatic Acquisition of Concept Relations from Web Documents with Sense Clustering.
  Proceedings of IJCNLP-04 (Companion Volume), pp. 37-40. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Iterative CKY parsing for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
  Proceedings of The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04), pp. 414-419. (pdf) (also in LNCS Vol. 3248/2005)
  

2003

• Teruyoshi Hishiki, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Kousaku Okubo.
  Indexing anatomical concepts to OMIM Clinical Synopsis using the UMLS Metathesaurus.
  In Silico Biology, Vol 4. (link)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Probabilistic Term Variant Generator for Biomedical Terms.
  Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 167-173. (pdf)
  


• Zhonghua Yu, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Automatic Resolution of Ambiguous Abbreviations in Biomedical Texts using Support Vector Machines and One Sense Per Discourse Hypothesis.
  SIGIR'03 Workshop on Text Analysis and Search for Bioinformatics, pp. 57-62. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Boosting Precision and Recall of Dictionary-Based Protein Name Recognition.
  Proceedings of the ACL-03 Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine, pp. 41-48. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Osamu Ogasawara, and Kousaku Okubo.
  Integration of Diverse Knowledge and Data into Biomedical Knowledge Matrices.
  ISMB 2003 Text Mining Sig. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii.
  Training a Naive Bayes Classifier via the EM Algorithm with a Class Distribution Constraint.
  Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) at HLT-NAACL 2003, pp. 127-134. (pdf)
  

1998-2002

• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Daisaku Yokoyama, and Takashi Chikayama. 2002.
  Game-tree Search Algorithm based on Realization Probability.
  ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 145-152. (pdf)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Takashi Chikayama. 2002.
  Estimating Reliability of Rules in Decision Lists using Bayesian Learning.
  Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 9, No. 3. (in Japanese) (preprint)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Takashi Chikayama. 2001.
  Estimating Reliability of Contextual Evidences in Decision-List Classifiers under Bayesian Learning.
  Proceedings of the Sixth Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, pp. 701-707. (pdf)
  


• Yoichi Hori, Yasushi Toyoda, and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 1998.
  Traction Control of Electric Vehicle: Basic Experimental Results Using the Test EV "UOT Electric March."
  IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 1131-1138. (link)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yasushi Toyoda, and Yoichi Hori. 1998.
  Basic Study on Traction Control of Electric Vehicle.
  IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications, 118-D(1), pp. 45-50. (in Japanese)
  

Book Chapters and Articles

• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2005.
  4-22 Ontology Learning.
  Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Kyoritsu Shuppan, pp. 262-263. (in Japanese)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2005.
  The State-of-the-Art and Future of Shogi Programs.
  IPSJ Magazine, Vol. 46, No 7, pp. 817-822. (in Japanese)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2003.
  Gekisashi - a Shogi Program.
  Hitoshi Matsubara (ed.), Advances in Computer Shogi 4, Kyoritsu Shuppan, pp. 1-16. (in Japanese)
  


• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2003.
  2.1 Shogi.
  IPSJ Magazine, Vol. 44, No 9, pp. 900-904. (in Japanese)
  

Awards

• IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, 2003

• The Association for Natural Language Processing, Journal Paper Award, 2003

• Computer Shogi Association, Research Award, 2003

Misc.

• 15th World Computer Shogi Championship, First Prize, 2005

• 14th World Computer Shogi Championship, Second Prize, 2004

• 12th World Computer Shogi Championship, First Prize, 2002

• KLIC Programming Contest - Speed Category, First Prize, 1998