Innovation Japan 2007 in Yurakucho, Tokyo

We will have a booth and give a presentation in the event.

http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/innovation/

I'll talk about Wikipedia Mining and release one of the latest products in the event. Have fun.

By the way, our research is selected as an innovation award academic category and one of the candidates for best research award.

http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/innovation/special_award/index.html

It will be exciting experience because other candidates, such as Tanaka lab. in Kyoto-Univ. and Igarashi lab. in Tokyo-Univ., are quite famous as top research labs in computer science area.

Best poster award in SPA2007

I demonstrated my latest version of Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualizer in SPA2007, a domestic conference for Systems for Programming and Applications, and my research poster is selected as the best poster from totally 22 entries.

It was a good opportunity for getting advices and suggestions for my research because the chairs are quite high quality.

After all, I need to support Japanese in the thesaurus. Maybe it is good timing to do that because recently Japanese Wikipedia has become one of the largest scale encyclopedia comparing with other languages.

Wikipedia: A New Frontier for AI Research

My article about Wikipedia Mining is published in the JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) magazine.

I summarized the characteristics of Wikipedia as a corpus for knowledge extraction, related work, research direction and future vision.

I hope it will be interesting information for other researchers.