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Daisuke Kawahara is a Professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He holds a PhD in Informatics from Kyoto University (2005) and has previously served as Associate Professor at Kyoto University and Senior Researcher at NICT. His research spans natural language processing, computational linguistics, and AI infrastructure.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Informatics, Kyoto University (2005)
- Graduate Studies in Intelligent Informatics, Kyoto University (1999–2002)
- M.Eng. in Electronic & Communication Engineering, Kyoto University (1997–1999)
- B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University (1993–1997)
Research Focus: Kawahara specializes in NLP, including syntactic parsing, semantic role labeling, language resource development (e.g., JGLUE benchmark), and multilingual corpus construction. His work integrates machine learning with linguistic theory to improve text understanding systems, error correction tools, and dialogue agents.
Publication Trends: His recent articles emphasize Japanese and Chinese NLP, neural network-based parsing, and practical applications like educational tools and pandemic information systems. Common themes include benchmarking, corpus annotation, and cross-lingual adaptation.
Awards:
- 情報処理学会 自然言語処理研究会 優秀研究賞 (2025)
- 言語処理学会最優秀論文賞 (2024, 2023)
- 科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰 (2017)
- Multiple Best Paper Awards from NLP conferences (2000–2025)
Projects & Advising: He leads JSPS-funded projects like Building General Language Understanding Infrastructure (2021–2025) and Acquisition of Knowledge Frames (2018–2021). No student advisees are listed.
Labs & Teams: Collaborates with RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project and maintains ties to Kyoto University's NLP lab. Focuses on large-scale language modeling and collaborative AI-human intelligence frameworks.
