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

Research Units and Research Groups

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. ARI NUGRAHA was held on September 24th. [LINK]

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. Thalhath Rehumath NISHAD was held on August 5th. [LINK]

The paper titled "Analysis of the Processes on Multiple Guitar Instruction" by Assistant Professor Nami Iino et al., published in the Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 65, No. 9, has been selected as a Specially Selected Paper.

Assistant Prof. Chihomi Sannami has received the 2023 Distinguished Service Award from Japan Technical Communicators Association (JTCA). The award recognizes her longstanding achievements in the establishment and operation for the Technical Communication Comprehensive Program by the Association.

Yuya Yamamoto and Associate Prof. Hiroko Terasawa's paper, which is titled "Singing Technique Analysis with Correspondence to Musical Score on Imitative Singing of Popular Music" published in IPSJ Journal Vol.64 No.10, has been granted a JIP Specially Selected Paper certificate. [Link]

Yuki Tokuyasu and Associate Prof. Masanori Koizumi's paper, titled "Development of Public Library Services for Government Employees: a Case Analysis of Tahara City Library," won the 12th Best Paper Award from the Japan Society of Library and Information Science in 2023. [Link]

Assistant Prof. Koji Murata got University of Tsukuba Young Faculty Award.

Dr. Rumiko Tanaka (2021 Alumni) and Professor Emeritus Shin'ichi Nakayama received the 2022 Yoshida Award (Best Paper Award) from the Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan. This paper is part of Dr. Tanaka's dissertation, and was published in the Journal of Computer Chemistry, Japan. [Link]

On June 19, 2024, Prof. Cecilia Cheng, from Department of Psychology, the University of Hong Kong, had a courtesy visit to the Dean of Institute of Library, Information and Media Science and the Chair of Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Informatics Degree Programs in Comprehensive Human Sciences. [Link]

On July 10-11, a delegation from the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China, visited institute of Library, Information and Media Science. [Link]

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning: Active learning and annotation for human-centered AI Translated by Assistant Prof. Ito et al. (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2023, 428p).

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).

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

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