Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii's Lab
We describe the universal nature of language through mathematical models and create language-related software that is both fun and useful.

Tanaka-Ishii Lab moved from University of Tokyo to Kyushu University in April, 2012. For a while, activities of the lab members of both universities are announced at this site.
Research Domains
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Language Interfaces
Information Retrieval
Computational Semiotics
News
Hiroshi Yamaguchi will be presenting in ACL 2012 the full paper entitled "Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length". (Jul, 2012)
Daisuke Kimura and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii received the Best Journal Paper Award 2011 of Journal of Natural Langauge Processing. (Mar, 2012)
popIn Inc. celebrated its 3rd anniversary. (C.E.O. Cheng Tao) (Jul, 2011)
"picoTrans: An Icon-driven User Interface for Machine Translation on Mobile Devices" received the Best Paper Award of IUI2011. (Feb, 2011)
The book "Signs and Reflexivity" won the Suntory Academic Award and Ohkawa Book Prize. (Mar, 2011)
Third reprint of "Saussure's Third lecture of General Linguistics (notes taken by Emile Constantin)" was published. (2009.6.12)
Published Books (2010.4)