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# National Institute of Informatics

Research institute · NII [Tokyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tokyo/), [Japan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/japan/)in the agglomeration of [Tokyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tokyo/)

- [Website](https://www.nii.ac.jp)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/04ksd4g47)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I184597095)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4346622)

[**12** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/#works) · [**25** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/#authors) · [**2,482** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/#works) · [**933** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/#works)

## People (25)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at National Institute of Informatics: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (8)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Akiko Aizawa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akiko-aizawa/) — current · 2000–2026 on 223 papers · employment (ORCID) · 2 papers here · 1,260 citations
- [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) — 2001–2019 on 84 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 2,079 citations
- [Yusuke Miyao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yusuke-miyao/) — 2010–2018 on 78 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 11 papers here · 1,418 citations
- [Helmut Prendinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helmut-prendinger/) — current · 2004–2026 on 190 papers · 2 papers here · 491 citations
- [Takuya Matsuzaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takuya-matsuzaki/) — 2012–2016 on 20 papers · 4 papers here · 596 citations
- [Qianying Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qianying-liu/) — current · 2024–2026 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 277 citations
- [Yuichiroh Matsubayashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuichiroh-matsubayashi/) — 2010–2014 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 68 citations
- [Tadayoshi Hara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadayoshi-hara/) — 2011–2013 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 20 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (17)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Pontus Stenetorp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pontus-stenetorp/) — current · 2020–2026 on 8 papers · 5 papers here · 3,568 citations
- [Sadao Kurohashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadao-kurohashi/) — current · 2023–2026 on 28 papers · 13 papers here · 1,765 citations
- [Gabriel Synnaeve](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-synnaeve/) — employment (Wikidata) · 5 papers here · 20,970 citations
- [Jan Hajič](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-hajic/) — 2014–2015 on 2 papers · 18 papers here · 6,615 citations
- [Yutaka Matsuo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutaka-matsuo/) — 2006–2009 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 4,228 citations
- [Yoshimasa Tsuruoka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshimasa-tsuruoka/) — 2022 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,373 citations
- [John P. McCrae](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-p-mccrae/) — 2008 on 1 paper · education (Wikidata) · 10 papers here · 978 citations
- [Daisuke Kawahara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daisuke-kawahara/) — current · 2024–2026 on 3 papers · 6 papers here · 905 citations
- [Naoaki Okazaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoaki-okazaki/) — 2024–2025 on 3 papers · 5 papers here · 619 citations
- [Hugo Hernault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-hernault/) — 2007–2008 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 405 citations
- [Mitsuru Ishizuka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitsuru-ishizuka/) — 2008–2019 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 405 citations
- [Fei Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-cheng/) — 2017–2018 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 344 citations
- [Danushka Bollegala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danushka-bollegala/) — 2015–2023 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 233 citations
- [Yohei Oseki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yohei-oseki/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 5 papers here · 49 citations
- [Kotaro Funakoshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kotaro-funakoshi/) — 2012–2013 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 14 citations
- [Hideyuki Tachibana](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hideyuki-tachibana/) — current · 2026 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 2 citations
- [Kouta Nakayama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kouta-nakayama/) — current · 2025–2026 on 8 papers · 3 papers here · 1 citation

## Works in our library (12)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Constructing A Multi-hop QA Dataset for Comprehensive Evaluation of Reasoning Steps](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ho-2020-constructing-multi-hop-qa-dataset/) — Xanh Ho, Anh-Khoa Duong Nguyen, Saku Sugawara, et al. · 2020 · 735 citations
- [Introduction to the Bio-entity Recognition Task at JNLPBA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collier-2004-introduction-bio-entity-recognition-task/) — Nigel Collier, Tomoko Ohta, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, et al. · 2004 · 731 citations
- [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/) — Ikuya Yamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, et al. · 2016 · 427 citations
- [HILDA: A Discourse Parser Using Support Vector Machine Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hernault-2010-hilda-discourse-parser-support-vector/) — Hugo Hernault, Helmut Prendinger, David A. du Verle, et al. · 2010 · 353 citations
- [A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/duverle-2009-novel-discourse-parser-based-support/) — David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger · 2009 · 135 citations
- [Universal Dependencies Version 2 for Japanese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2018-universal-dependencies-version-2-japanese/) — Masayuki Asahara, Hiroshi Kanayama, Takaaki Tanaka, et al. · 2018 · 50 citations
- [Universal Dependencies for Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/seyoum-2018-universal-dependencies-amharic/) — Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Yusuke Miyao, Baye Yimam Mekonnen · 2018 · 19 citations
- [SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-ssa-comet-do-llms-outperform/) — Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, et al. · 2025 · 13 citations
- [Maintaining Common Ground in Dynamic Environments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/udagawa-2021-maintaining-common-ground-dynamic-environments/) — Takuma Udagawa, Akiko Aizawa · 2021 · 13 citations
- [Exploring Difficulties in Parsing Imperatives and Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hara-2011-exploring-difficulties-parsing-imperatives-questions/) — Tadayoshi Hara, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao, et al. · 2011 · 6 citations
- [Rethinking the Relationship between the Power Law and Hierarchical Structures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakaishi-2026-rethinking-relationship-between-power-law/) — Kai Nakaishi, Ryo Yoshida, Kohei Kajikawa, et al. · 2026
- [Beyond BLEU: Linguistic Invisibility and Interactional Repair Sequence in End-to-End Sign Language Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-beyond-bleu-linguistic-invisibility-interactional/) — Zirui Wang, Mayumi Bono · 2026

## Topics

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

[Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Named entity recognition (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Universal Dependencies (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Linguistics & languages (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Life sciences & medicine (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/life-sciences/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[The University of Tokyo 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/) [Kyoto University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) [Nara Institute of Science and Technology 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/) [The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-graduate-university-for-advanced-studies-sokendai/) [Google 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [IBM 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) [University College London 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) [Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) [McGill University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) [Georgetown University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgetown-university/) [Universidade do Porto 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-do-porto/) [National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/)

## Parent and units

**Part of** Research Organization of Information and Systems

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at National Institute of Informatics; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.