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Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is an associate professor at the Department of
Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and
Technology, the University of Tokyo.
The goal of her research is to gain understanding of the mathematical structure of language and the nature of meaningful signs, which she has pursued in the domains of computational linguistics and semiotics. In computational linguistics, she is currently interested in finding the relationship between information bias in language and syntax/semantics. In computational semiotics, her major work is on the semiotics of computer programs, which has been published as journal papers and was archived in the form of a book. Applying such fundamental research, she creates a variety of language software applications to aid communication and human semiosis.
She received her Ph.D. (1997, natural language processing), M.E.(1993,
functional programming language), and B.E.(1991, mathematical
informatics) from the University of Tokyo. During 1995-1996, she was
an invited researcher at LIMSI-CNRS in France. She worked for the
Electrotechnical Laboratory for three years before becoming a faculty
member of the University of Tokyo in 2000. Recently, she was awarded
the Suntory Academic Prize and Ohkawa Book Prize for her book "Signs and
Reflexivity" (The University of Tokyo Press, which is the Japanese version of "Semiotics of Programming", Cambridge University Press).
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