| Jun'ichi Tsujii | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 February 1949 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Natural language processing |
| Institutions | University of Tokyo |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
Jun'ichi Tsujii (辻井 潤一 Tsujii Jun'ichi, born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology.
On 14 May 2010, Tsujii was awarded the Medals of Honor with Purple Ribbon, one of Japan's highest awards, presented to influential contributors in the fields of art, academics or sports.
He received his B.Eng., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University in 1971, 1973, and 1978 respectively. He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Kyoto University, before accepting a position as Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1988. He was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2006, and has been a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) since 1992.
He is a professor at the University of Tokyo, where he belongs to both the School of Inter-faculty Initiative on Informatics and the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. He is also the Chair of Text Mining and Scientific Director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.