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

Research Units and Research Groups

The final lecture of Prof. Chieko Mizoue was held as follows.

Title: Tsukuba, Research and Me
Date and Time: March 17th, 2023 (Friday), 15:15~16:30
Venue: Kasuga Auditorium, University of Tsukuba (broadcast on Zoom)

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. ERYU Tamao was held on February 24th.

The paper entitled "Technostress on Academic Librarians Working in Digital Scholarship during the Pandemic in Indonesia" by Dr. Rahmi (2019 Alumni) and Hideo Joho presented at the 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022) won the Best Paper Award. [Link]

The paper entitled "The Variable Earth's Rotation in the 4th–7th Centuries" by Assist. Prof. Koji Murata et al. was introduced in KoKaNet (Kodomo no Kagaku) and other websites including Forbes.

Assistant Professor Hiroyoshi Ito got University of Tsukuba Young Faculty Award.

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]

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