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

Research Units and Research Groups

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. Thalhath Rehumath NISHAD will be held on August 5th. [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 June 19th (Wednesday) from 11:00 to 12:00 am, Prof. Cecilia CHENG, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong, will give a guest talk at the Media Hall. Prof. Cheng is an authority on research of media use and mental health, and has been selected as one of the World's Top 2% Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University 2023. At the TGSW2016 held in September 2016, Prof. Cheng gave a keynote speech at a session sponsored by this organization.
This time, Prof. Cheng will be giving a talk about gaming addiction and mental health (in English). The talk will be open to the public, and everyone can participate without registration in advance. Please join us at the Kasuga Campus Media Hall (7F Building, 2F). [Poster]

The iConference 2024 was a resounding success, drawing a total of 500 participants. We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed to its success. [Link]

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]

The paper entitled “The Study on Structured Data for Chinese Poetry — Focus on Tang Poems” by Ms. Yan Cong and Associate Prof. Masao Takaku won the 20th Best Paper Award of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. [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