Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of TsukubaiSchool

Research Units and Research Groups

Graduation Ceremony will be held on March 25. [LINK]

＊For more information about the University of Tsukuba Graduate School Degree Graduation Ceremony, please click here.

Prof. Makoto Matsumoto will be retiring. The final lecture will be held on March 16 (Fri.) 16:00.　[Link]

Professor Makoto Matsumoto's Final Lecture (Online)

「つくばと共に」

Date & Time: 3/19 (Fri.) 16:00-17:30

Application deadline: March 8 (Mon.)*Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science need not apply. *

After registration, we will send the Zoom URL to your registered email address by Tuesday, March 16. (If the number of participants exceeds the maximum number of Zoom connections, we may limit the number of participants).

Application form: https://forms.gle/Rc6CG2yVXgSWP5Qv9

Final Presentation of Master Theses was held on January 21.[Program]

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. Shihono Karikome was held on January 19. [LINK]

Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima's article appeared in Nikkei Newspaper. The title is "Prepare for the future that comes after the gig." [LINK]

Aassociate Prof. Hiroko Terasawa received the Best Paper Award in International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020. The title is "Can we really use ERP for media arts? Assessing the feasibility of P300 detection for interactive performances." [LINK]

Associate Prof. Tetsuya Maeshiro's research on owarai using AI was introduced in the DIAMOND WEEKLY.

Associate Prof. Yohei Seki received Excellent Research Award in the 16th ARG WI2.

Sayuri Yoshizawa (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Atsushi Ikeuchi and Prof. Yuko Yoshida) received 2020 Mita Society for Library and Information Science Society Award. The title of award-wining paper is "Structural Features, Problems, and Areas for Future Development in the Training of Specialists in School Libraries: from the Viewpoint of the Relationships Among “Sectors” and “Actors”." [LINK]

Akihisa Shitara (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai) received the 4th Ibaraki Tech Grand Prix Corporate Award (Focus Systems Corporation Award). [LINK]

Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai's reseach group received DCAJ President Award and Innovative Technologies 2020 Special Prize -Crazy- in Innovative Technologies 2020 of DCEXPO 2020 ONLINE. [LINK]

Associate Prof. Yohei Seki received Best Paper Award Runner-up in The 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2020). The title is "A Framework for Classifying Temporal Relations with Question Encoder."

Renlou Weng (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Masao Takaku) received IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award. The title is "Author-Oriented Book Recommendation Using Linked Open Data for Improving Serendipity." [LINK]

Prof. Tomoo Inoue received the Best Paper Award in CollabTech 2020. The title is "Preliminary Utility Study of a Short Video as a Daily Report in Teleworking."

Visual Archive Studies by Prof. Tsuji (Daigaku Kyoiku Shuppan, 2020, 172p.).

Crowdsourcing Makes the Impossible Possible by Prof. Morishima (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2020, 200p.).

Eigenvalue Analysis and Singular Value Decomposition by Prof. Hasegawa (Maruzen Publishing, 2019, 214p).

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning by Associate Prof. Tezuka  (Asakura Publishing, 2019, 220p).

Public Libraries in Finland: The Reason for the Breakthrough by Prof. Yoshida, Assistant Prof. Koizumi and Ms. Sakata-Henttonen (Shinhyoron Publishing Inc., 2019, 260p).  

The Endeavors of Dutch Public Libraries: The Reason for Paid Membership by Prof. Yoshida (Shinhyoron Publishing Inc., 2018, 254p). 

Studies of Broadcast Media in Showa Era: Genealogy of "Flower" in Cultural Programs for Women by Prof. Tsuji (Izumi Shoin, 2018, 212p). 

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

PT-Ranking (YU lab)
An open-source toolkit of learning-to-rank methods based on PyTorch