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

Research Units and Research Groups

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. Kohei Suzuki will be held on December 20th. [LINK]

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. Azadi Naghsh Fatemeh was held on August 29. [LINK]

Graduation Ceremony was held on March 25. [LINK]

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

Prof. Yuzuru Hiraga and Prof. Shinichi Nakayama will retire at the end of March 2022.
The final lectures were held as follows.
Final Lecture by Prof. Yuzuru Hiraga
Date and Time: March 8, 2022 (Tuesday), 16:00 - 17:30
Method: Online (Microsoft Teams)
Title: Still Unaccomplished
Final Lecture by Prof. Shinichi Nakayama
Date and Time: March 14, 2022 (Monday), 16:00-17:30
Method: Online (Microsoft Teams)
Title: The research history of me and my students: Changes in my interests

The paper entitled "Task Result Quality Management through Interactions in Human+AI Crowd",  by Masaki Kobayashi,  Kei Wakabayashi,  Atsuyuki Morishima, received the DBSJ Journal 2021 Best Paper Award. [link]

The paper entitled "HAEM: Obtaining Higher-Quality Classification Task Results with AI workers"  by Yu Yamashita,  Hiroyoshi Ito, Kei Wakabayashi, Masaki Kobayashi, Atsuyuki Morishima presented at ACM Web Science Conference 2022 was selected as a Best Paper Candidate.

Kazuki Otao (Supervisor: Prof. Tetsuji Satoh) received a student presentation award in the DEIM 2022. [Link]

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

Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima has been elected as the next Asia Pacific Regional Chair of iSchools, an international consortium of informatics graduate schools at research universities around the world. iSchools was established in 2005 to promote informatics research. The iSchools was established in 2005 to promote informatics research. iSchools currently has 122 member universities around the world, including the University of North Carolina, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Pittsburgh, and 35 universities from the Asia Pacific region. The University of Tsukuba has been a member since 2012.[Link]

Dr. Tomoko Tanabe(Supervisor: Prof. Chieko Mizoue) a former PhD student, published a book "The Effectiveness of Library Evaluation : Empirical Analysis Based on the Theory of Evaluation Influence" based on her PhD work.This book received the Japan Society for Library and Information Science Award.[Link]

Akihisa Shitara's (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai) research project "See-Through Captions" won the highest award in Japan in the James Dyson Award 2021.[Link]

The Asahi Shimbun EduA (August 8, 2021) and the web version (https://www.asahi.com/edua/article/14404307) introduced Maeshiro Lab. and Prof. Maeshiro's research and research policy.

Master student Chihiro Sato (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Masao Takaku) received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 29th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. The title is "A Visualization Method of Browsing History to Support Reflection on Information Gathering Behavior"[Link]

Junior Assistant Prof. Jiro Kikkawa, Associate Prof. Masao Takaku, and Prof. Fuyuki Yoshikane received the Commemorating Best Paper Award 2021 of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. The title is "Analyses of Wikipedia Editors Adding Bibliographic References based on DOI Links."[Link]

Research on the Selection Tools used by Public Libraries in their Book Selection Practices by Tomomi Kinosita(Supervisor: Prof. Yuko Yoshida) (Jusonbo, 2022, 244p.).

Studies of Broadcast Media in Heisei Era by Prof. Tsuji (Izumi Shoin, 2022, 188p.).

Cybercrime Strategy by  Assistant Prof. Takara et al.(Seibundoh,2021,356p)

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).

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

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