Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D.
English Japanese
| Given Name | Yoshinobu |
| Family Name | Kano |
| Position/Affiliation | PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) |
| Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII) | |
| Degree | Ph.D, University of Tokyo |
| Research Area | Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics |
| Contact | National Institute of Informatics E-mail: kano at nii dot ac dot jp |
Research Interests
U-Compare: integrated natural language processing system and interoperable language resources
I lead, manage and develop the U-Compare open source project, which provides a UIMA compliant integrated natural language processing platform and the world largest interoperable language resources.
UIMA compliant integrated natural language processing platform
The U-Compare platform is designed to support users NLP tasks in a throughly automated way and many generic features. This is achieved by considering the interoperability from many aspects while everything as compliant as possible with the UIMA framework.
By extending the UIMA's component and workflow oriented concepts, the U-Compare platform allows users to create UIMA workflows from any UIMA components, run workflows, generate possible combinations of components, compare and evaluate components, show workflow results both statistically and visually. These features are fully automated so no coding task required, while developers can plug their components easily.
We currently work to add new features such as integration of machine learning methods and automatic remote deployment distributing over machines.
World laregest compatible UIMA components by collaboration with worldwide research parties
UIMA components are formally compatible in general but not necessarily sematically compatible. We collaborate with worldside research parties to create and provide sematically compatible UIMA components multilingually. Our components are available by simply dragging-and-dropping when used in the U-Compare platform.
English resources were mainly collected by the University of Tokyo (Tsujii Laboratory), University of Manchester (NaCTeM), University of Colorado (CCP/UCHSC) and currently several servers in the world host web service components. We also provide Japanese resources collaborating with AIST and NINJAL.
U-Compare is currently developed at DBCLS. Please refer to the U-Compare website for details: http://u-compare.org/
Psychologically plausible syntactic parsing
My research interest is human langauge processing in a computational approach and its applications.
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Short CV
Education
| 2001 | B.A. in Physics, University of Tokyo |
| 2003 | M.S. in Computer Science, University of Tokyo |
| 2011 | Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Tokyo (Thesis Superviser: Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii) |
Academic Appointments
| 2003-2007 | Research Assistant, University of Tokyo (NLP Research Group lead by Prof. Tsujii) |
| 2007-2011 | Research Associate, University of Tokyo (NLP Research Group lead by Prof. Tsujii) |
| 2011 | Project Assistant Professor, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan |
| 2011 | PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII) |
Grants
Principal Investigater, PRESTO Research, JST, Japan (2011-2014)
Principal Investigater, Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research (C), Kakenhi, MEXT, Japan (2009-2012)
Awards
IBM UIMA Innovation Award (2008) Page of IBM Awards
Professional Activities
Program Committee Member, CoNLL 2010 Shared Task. (2010)
Program Committee Member, Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT (WSPP), Workshop on LREC 2010. (2010)
Program Committee Member, New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Workshop on LREC 2010. (2010)
Co-organizer, BIoHackaton 2011 workshop. (2011)
Co-organizer, NAACL BioNLP '09 Shared Task on Event Extraction. (2009)
Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. (2011)
Reviewer, Transactions of the Japanese Sciety for Artifial Intelligence (JSAI). (2011)
Invited Reviewer, Bioinformatics, Oxford journals. (2010)
Social Activities
Expert Member, Information Voyage Project, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan (2009)
Technical Advisor, Milog Inc. (2009-2010)
OASIS UIMA technical commitee member (2007-2010)
Membership
A member of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan
A member of ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
A member of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
Original Papers
Y. Kano, M. Miwa, K. Cohen, L. Hunter, S. Ananiadou, and J. Tsujii, U-Compare: a modular NLP workflow construction and evaluation system. IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 11:1-11:10, 2011.
[IEEE Explore]
Kano, Yoshinobu, Paul Dobson, Mio Nakanishi, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou. Text Mining Meets Workflow: Linking U-Compare with Taverna. Bioinformatics. 26(19). pp. 2486-2487, Oxford Journals, October 2010.
[Journal Website]
Sætre, Rune, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Makoto Miwa, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshinobu Kano and Junichi Tsujii. Extracting Protein-Interactions from Text with the Unified AkaneRE Event Extraction System. Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 7(3), pp. 442-453, 2010.
Kim, Jin-Dong, Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Yoshinobu Kano and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Extracting bio-molecular events from literature - the BioNLP’09 shared task. Computational Intelligence. 2010. (in print)
Kano, Yoshinobu, William A. Baumgartner Jr, Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou, K. Bretonnel Cohen, Lawrence Hunter and Jun'ichi Tsujii. U-Compare: share and compare text mining tools with UIMA. Bioinformatics. 25(15). pp. 1997-1998, Oxford Journals, May 2009.
Review Papers
T. Katayama, K. Arakawa, M. Nakao, K. Ono, K. Aoki-Kinoshita, Y. Yamamoto, A. Yamaguchi, S. Kawashima, H.-W. Chun, J. Aerts, B. Aranda, L. Barboza, R. Bonnal, R. Bruskiewich, J. Bryne, J. Fernandez, A. Funahashi, P. Gordon, N. Goto, A. Groscurth, A. Gutteridge, R. Holland, Y. Kano, E. Kawas, A. Kerhornou, E. Kibukawa, A. Kinjo, M. Kuhn, H. Lapp, H. Lehvaslaiho, H. Nakamura, Y. Nakamura, T. Nishizawa, C. Nobata, T. Noguchi, T. Oinn, S. Okamoto, S. Owen, E. Pafilis, M. Pocock, P. Prins, R. Ranzinger, F. Reisinger, L. Salwinski, M. Schreiber, M. Senger, Y. Shigemoto, D. Standley, H. Sugawara, T. Tashiro, O. Trelles, R. Vos, M. Wilkinson, W. York, C. Zmasek, K. Asai, and T. Takagi
The DBCLS BioHackathon: standardization and interoperability for bioinformatics web services and workflows. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 1(1), 8. 2010.
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Kano, Yoshinobu, Ruben Dorado, Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii. U-Compare: An integrated language resource evaluation platform including a comprehensive UIMA resource library. In the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Valletta, Malta, pp. 428--434, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), May 2010.
Sætre, Rune, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Makoto Miwa, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshinobu Kano and Jun'ichi Tsujii. AkaneRE Relation Extraction: Protein Interaction and Normalization in the BioCreAtIvE II.5 Challenge. In the BioCreative II.5 Workshop 2009 special session | Digital Annotations. Madrid, Spain, pp. 33, CNIO, October 2009.
Kim, Jin-Dong, Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Yoshinobu Kano and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Overview of BioNLP'09 Shared Task on Event Extraction. In the Proceedings of the BioNLP 2009 Workshop Companion Volume for Shared Task. pp. 1--9, 2009.
Kano, Yoshinobu, Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Integrated NLP Evaluation System for Pluggable Evaluation Metrics with Extensive Interoperable Toolkit. In the Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing workshop (SETQA-NLP), NAACL-HLT. Boulder, Colorado, USA, pp. 22-30, June 2009.
Kano, Yoshinobu, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Sætre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuichiro Matsubayashi, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Filling the Gaps Between Tools and Users: A Tool Comparator, Using Protein-Protein Interactions as an Example. In the Proceedings of The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB). (13). Hawaii, USA, pp. 616-627, January 2008.
Kano, Yoshinobu, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Sætre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Fukamachi, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophiha Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Towards Data And Goal Oriented Analysis: Tool Inter-Operability And Combinatorial Comparison. In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India, pp. 859-864, January 2008.
Kano, Yoshinobu, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Sætre, Keiichiro Fukamachi, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii. Sharable type system design for tool inter-operability and combinatorial comparison. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL). Hong Kong, pp. 122-129, January 2008.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
Yoshinobu Kano. UIMA based solution and U-Compare.
Invited tutorial, Text Mining Hands-on course and Training seminar. EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. October 2010.
狩野 芳伸. 自然言語処理プラットフォームの現状と利用.
英語コーパス学会第36回大会シンポジウム招待講演, 東京大学駒場キャンパス, 2010年10月.
狩野 芳伸. U-Compare: ユーザのための統合自然言語処理システム. 医療情報学若手の会. 東京大学附属病院, 2010年8月.
狩野 芳伸. ユーザのための統合自然言語処理システムU-Compare.
名古屋地区自然言語処理セミナー招待講演, 名古屋大学, 2010年8月.
Yoshinobu Kano, Sophia Ananiadou. U-Compare: an interoperable platform for sharing and evaluating text mining components.
LREC 2010 workshop on Language Technology issues for International Cooperation. Malta, June 2010.
Yoshinobu Kano. U-Compare: an integrated natural language processing platform based on UIMA (Multi-language integration).
Seminar in Department of Computer Science. Ho-Chi-Minh city University of Natural Sciences, Viet Nam. August 2009.
Yoshinobu Kano. U-Compare: an integrated natural language processing platform based on UIMA (BioNLP).
Seminar in Department of Computer Science. KAIST, Korea. July 2009.
Yoshinobu Kano. U-Compare: an integrated natural language processing platform based on UIMA (link with Taverna).
Nactem Seminar Series. National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, UK. July 2009.
Yoshinobu Kano. U-Compare: an integrated natural language processing platform based on UIMA (Oscar Integration).
Oscar and Ospin Workshop. University of Cambridge, UK. July 2009.
狩野 芳伸. U-Compare: an integrated natural language processing platform based on UIMA (U-Compare: UIMA を基盤とする統合自然言語処理環境).
IBM東京基礎研究所, NLP Professional Interest Communities Seminar. IBM大和事業所, 2009年5月.
狩野 芳伸. 国際共同プロジェクト U-Compare: UIMA を基盤とする統合自然言語処理システム.
東京大学大学院新領域創成科学研究科 高木研究室セミナー. 東京大学柏の葉キャンパス, 2009年2月.
狩野 芳伸. U-Compare: share and compare tools with UIMA.
ライフサイエンス統合データベースセンター テキストマイニングチーム勉強会. 2008年10月.
狩野 芳伸. UIMA を基盤とするツール間相互運用性の向上.
言語グリッドプロジェクト全体会議. NICTけいはんな研究所, 2007年9月.
Techinal Reports
Ngan, Nguyen, Yoshinobu Kano, Jun'ichi Tsujii. Tsujii Lab Tools for UIMA. Technical Report (TR-NLP-UT-2006-7). Tsujii Laboratory, University of Tokyo, 2006.