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# Yoshiyasu Takefuji

Yoshiyasu Takefuji has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2017, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Hideaki Takeda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hideaki-takeda/), [Hiroyuki Shindo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroyuki-shindo/), [Ikuya Yamada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ikuya-yamada/).

2 papers in our library · 2016–2017

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050160318) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1826-742X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11546470) · [**h-index 33**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050160318) · [622 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050160318) · [5,606 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050160318&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshiyasu-takefuji/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 170 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshiyasu-takefuji/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4019)

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=Yoshiyasu+Takefuji) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yoshiyasu+Takefuji) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yoshiyasu+Takefuji) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yoshiyasu+Takefuji)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Musashino University** Tokyo · Japan 2021–2026 · 269 papersEmployment 2021–2026 · Professor, Data Science*current*](https://ror.org/04bcbax71) · [🎓**Keio University** Tokyo · Japan 1974–2026 · 202 papersEducation 1974–1978 · BS, Electrical EngineeringEducation 1978–1980 · Master Science, Electrical EngineeringEducation 1980–1983 · Ph.D., Electrical EngineeringEmployment 1992–2021 · Professor, Environment and Information Studies*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/keio-university/) · [🏢**SciencePark Corporation** Zama Shi · Japan 2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03vrb0p48) · [🎓**Case Western Reserve University** Cleveland · United States 1988–2005 · 93 papersEmployment 1988–1996 · tenured Associate Professor in 1992, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/case-western-reserve-university/) · [🎓**Keio University Shonan Fujisawa** Fujisawa · Japan 1992–2021 · 48 papers](https://ror.org/047khpn70) · [🎓**University of South Carolina** Columbia · United States 1985–2003 · 13 papersEmployment 1985–1988 · Associate Professor, Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-south-carolina/) · [🔬**National Institute of Informatics** Tokyo · Japan 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/) · [🔬**National Institute of Information and Communications Technology** Tokyo · Japan 2007 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/) · [🎓**University of South Florida** Tampa · United States 1983–1985 · 1 paperEmployment 1983–1985 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-south-florida/)

🏛️**Q11652759** Nagasaki · [Japan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/japan/) Education

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)

🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/)

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

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshiyasu-takefuji/year/2017/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshiyasu-takefuji/year/2016/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Joint Learning of the Embedding of Words and Entities for Named Entity Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2016-joint-learning-embedding-words-entities/)** *(2016 · 428 citations)* Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) links ambiguous mentions in text, such as "Washington", to the correct entry in a knowledge base, here Wikipedia.
2. **[Learning Distributed Representations of Texts and Entities from Knowledge Base](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2017-learning-distributed-representations-texts-entities/)** *(2017 · 125 citations)* The paper presents Neural Text-Entity Encoder (NTEE), a model that places sentences or paragraphs and knowledge base entities in one shared vector space.

## All works

3 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. **[Joint Learning of the Embedding of Words and Entities for Named Entity Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2016-joint-learning-embedding-words-entities/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Ikuya Yamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, et al.*2016 · 428 citations*
2. **[Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing the Embeddings of Words and Entities from Wikipedia ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.4/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Ikuya Yamada et al.*2020 · 210 citations*
3. **[Learning Distributed Representations of Texts and Entities from Knowledge Base](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2017-learning-distributed-representations-texts-entities/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Ikuya Yamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, et al.*2017 · 125 citations*

## Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Hideaki Takeda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hideaki-takeda/) ×2
- [Hiroyuki Shindo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroyuki-shindo/) ×2
- [Ikuya Yamada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ikuya-yamada/) ×2

## Venues

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

- [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2016/)
- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2017/)
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 170 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshiyasu-takefuji/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026
