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School of Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292
Japan
Tel: +81 (0) 761 51 1221
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Research Topics
- Natural language processing
- Text mining from biomedical literature
- Artificial intelligence in games
Software
Recent Publications (click here for a more comprehensive list of papers)
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2009. Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for L1-regularized Log-linear Models with Cumulative Penalty, In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, pp. 477-485. (slides)
- Xu Sun, Yaozhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2009. A Discriminative Latent Variable Chinese Segmenter with Hybrid Word/Character Information, In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, pp. 56-64.
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2009. Fast Full Parsing by Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields, In Proceedings of EACL, pp. 790-798. (slides)
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2008. Accelerating the annotation of sparse named entities by dynamic sentence selection, BMC Bioinformatics, 9(Suppl 11):S8.
- Yutaka Sasaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2008. How to make the most of NE dictionaries in statistical NER, BMC Bioinformatics, 9(Suppl 11):S5.
- Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2008. A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations, In Proceedings of EMNLP, pp. 447-456.
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2008. FACTA: a text search engine for finding associated biomedical concepts, Bioinformatics, Vol. 24, No. 21, pp. 2559-2560.
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2008. Normalizing biomedical terms by minimizing ambiguity and variability, BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 3):S2.
- Yoshinobu Kano, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Saetre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuichiro Matsubayashi, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2008. Filling the Gaps Between Tools and Users: A Tool Comparator, Using Protein-Protein Interactions as an Example. In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 13:616-627.
- Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, Jun'ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2007. Learning string similarity measures for gene/protein name dictionary look-up using logistic regression, Bioinformatics, Vol. 23, No. 20, pp. 2768-2774.
- Nobuo Araki, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2007. Move Prediction in Go with the Maximum Entropy Method, In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2007), pp. 189-195.
- Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yusuke Miyao, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2007. Ambiguous Part-of-Speech Tagging for Improving Accuracy and Domain Portability of Syntactic Parsers, In Proceedings of IJCAI-07, pp. 1783-1788.
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