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# Makoto Nagao

Makoto Nagao has 2 papers in our library, in 1994–1997; often with [Sadao Kurohashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadao-kurohashi/).

2 papers in our library · 1994–1997

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5007444192) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5007444192) · [217 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007444192) · [3,770 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007444192&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/makoto-nagao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 223 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/makoto-nagao/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4075](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4075)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Makoto+Nagao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Makoto+Nagao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Makoto+Nagao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Makoto+Nagao)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Kyoto University** Kyoto · Japan 1965–2020 · 128 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) · [🔬**National Diet Library** Tokyo · Japan 2008–2011 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/05gj5ka88) · [🔬**National Institute of Information and Communications Technology** Tokyo · Japan 2006–2007 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Lexicography · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lexicography/)

## Works by year

### 1990s

[**1997** 1 paper Makoto Nagao's papers of 1997](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stetina-1997-corpus-based-pp-attachment-ambiguity/) · [**1994** 1 paper Makoto Nagao's papers of 1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurohashi-1994-syntactic-analysis-method-long-japanese/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[A Syntactic Analysis Method of Long Japanese Sentences Based on the Detection of Conjunctive Structures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurohashi-1994-syntactic-analysis-method-long-japanese/)** *(1994 · 211 citations)* Kurohashi and Nagao address a classic weakness of Japanese parsers: long sentences, especially those over 50 characters, often break down because coordination (conjunctive noun phrases, coordinated predicate clauses including the renyoh chuushi-ho form, and "incomplete" coordinations) produces heavy scope ambiguity…
2. **[Corpus Based PP Attachment Ambiguity Resolution with a Semantic Dictionary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stetina-1997-corpus-based-pp-attachment-ambiguity/)** *(1997 · 115 citations)* The paper addresses prepositional phrase (PP) attachment: deciding whether a PP modifies the verb or the object noun in verb–noun–preposition–noun quadruples.

## All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Toward Memory-based Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C90-3044/) COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Satoshi Sato, Makoto Nagao*1990 · 264 citations*
2. **[A Syntactic Analysis Method of Long Japanese Sentences Based on the Detection of Conjunctive Structures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurohashi-1994-syntactic-analysis-method-long-japanese/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Sadao Kurohashi, Makoto Nagao*1994 · 211 citations*
3. **[Corpus Based PP Attachment Ambiguity Resolution with a Semantic Dictionary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stetina-1997-corpus-based-pp-attachment-ambiguity/) [Workshop on Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/)**Jiri Stetina, Makoto Nagao*1997 · 115 citations*
4. **[The Japanese Government Project for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J85-2001/) Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Makoto Nagao, Jun-ichi Tsujii, Jun-ichi Nakamura*1985 · 91 citations*
5. **[Extraction of Semantic Information from an Ordinary English Dictionary and its Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2098/) Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Jun-ichi Nakamura, Makoto Nagao*1988 · 74 citations*
6. **[Determination of Referential Property and Number of Nouns in Japanese Sentences for Machine Translation into English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1993.tmi-1.18/) Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages · no summary yet**Masaki Murata, Makoto Nagao*1993 · 65 citations*
7. **[Grammar Writing System (GRADE) of Mu-Machine Translation Project and its Characteristics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P84-1069/) 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Jun-ichi Nakamura, Jun-ichi Tsujii, Makoto Nagao*1984 · 29 citations*
8. **[The Transfer Phase of the Mu Machine Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C86-1021/) Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Hakoto Nagao, Jun-ichi Tsujii*1986 · 27 citations*
9. **[An English Japanese Machine Translation System of the Titles of Scientific and Engineering Papers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C82-1039/) Coling 1982: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Makoto Nagao et al.*1982 · 22 citations*
10. **[Dealing With Incompleteness of Linguistic Knowledge in Language Translation – Transfer and Generation Stage of Mu Machine Translation Project ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P84-1086/) 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Makoto Nagao, Toyoaki Nishida, Jun-ichi Tsujii*1984 · 12 citations*
11. **[Machine Translation: What have we to do? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1993.mtsummit-1.1/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IV · no summary yet**Nagao, Makoto*1993 · 2 citations*
12. **[Two years after the MT Summit ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1989.mtsummit-1.1/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit II · no summary yet**Nagao, Makoto*1989 · 1 citation*
13. **[Japanese view of the future of machine translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1989.mtsummit-1.18/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit II · no summary yet**Nagao, Makoto*1989*
14. **[Present and future of machine translation systems –- an introduction to the MT Summit –- ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1987.mtsummit-1.1/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit I · no summary yet**Nagao, Makoto*1987*

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Sadao Kurohashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadao-kurohashi/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2
- [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1994/)
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit II ×2
- [Workshop on Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/): [Workshop on Very Large Corpora 1997](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/1997/)
- COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Coling 1982: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit I
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IV
- Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 223 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/makoto-nagao/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026