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Tetsuya Sakai received a Master's degree in Engineering from Waseda University
in 1993
and joined the Toshiba Corporate R&D Center in
the same year.
He received a Ph.D from Waseda University in 2000 for his work
on information retrieval and filtering systems.
From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory,
under the supervision of Professor Karen Sparck Jones and Professor Steve
Robertson.
From 2007 to 2009,
he was the Director of the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at NewsWatch, Inc.
He is now a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing.
Tetsuya Sakai's
Microsoft Page
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Publications
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ACM Author Page
Awards:
- FIT 2005 Paper Award
- IPSJ 2006 Yamashita SIG Research Award
- IPSJ 2006 Best Paper Award
- IEICE ESS 2007 Merit Award (pdf)
- IPSJ 2007 Best Paper Award
- FIT 2008 Funai Best Paper Award
Current Activities:
- The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA) 2010 workshop co-chair [with William Webber and Mark Sanderson]
- IPSJ SIG-IFAT (SIGFI) chair (2009-)
- NTCIR ACLIA IR4QA task organiser (2007-)
- AIRS steering committee (2005-)
- ACM SIGIR Regional Representative to the Executive Committee (Asia/Pacific) (2007-)
- Information Retrieval editorial board (2007-)
- Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) International Advisory Committee (2008-)
Past Activities:
- AIRS 2009 conference co-chair [with Masaharu Yoshioka]
- SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation co-organiser
- International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA) 2007 and
2008 workshop co-chair [with Mark Sanderson]
- NTCIR-6 and NTCIR-7 information logistics chair
- IPSJ SIGFI committee member (2004); secretary (2005-2008)
- IPSJ Journal editorial board (2006-2008)
- IPSJ Transactions on Databases editorial board (2005-2008)
- IEICE ESS director, newsletter (2005-2006)
- IPSJ Magazine Editorial Committee FWG (2002-2005)
- The Journal of the IEICE Editorial Committee WG-A (2006-2008)
- ACM TALIP Volume 4, Issue 4 guest editor (2005)
[with Professor Yuji Matsumoto]
- ACM TALIP Volume 7, Issue 2 guest editor (2008) [with Professor Noriko Kando and Professor Teruko Mitamura]
Program Committees/Reviewers:
- ACL 2008
- ACL-IJCNLP 2009
- AIRS 2004 2005 2006
2008
- CIKM
2007
2008 (IR Track Co-Chair)
2009
- CLEF
2010
- DBIR-ENQOIR 2009
- ECIR 2008
- ECIR 2008 Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
- EMNLP 2008
- ICCPOL 2006
- IJCNLP 2004
- NTCIR-5 Open Submission Session (2005)
- RIAO 2004 2007 2010
- SIGIR
2004 (posters)
2006 (posters)
2007
2008
2009 (Senior PC)
2010 (Senior PC)
- SIGIR 2006 Workshop on New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
- SPIRE 2009
- WWW 2008
- The 68th National Convention of IPSJ (Special Session Moderator) (2006)
I have also reviewed papers for the following journals:
- ACM TALIP
- ACM TOIS
- Information Processing and Management
- International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
- IEICE Transactions
- Transactions of the JSAI
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