Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is a

computational linguist Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

and a professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

, Japan. She is the author of ''Semiotics of Programming'', an award-winning book semiotically analyzing computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs.

Personal

Tanaka-Ishii received her doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 1997. In 1995, before completing her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at

Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur The Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI) was a CNRS pluri-disciplinary science laboratory in Orsay, France. LIMSI academics and scholars come primarily from the Engineering and Information Sciences fields, bu ...

(LIMSI) at the

National Center for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

(CNRS) in Paris, where she worked on semantic proximity matrices for the Japanese language. In 2010 she was awarded both the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities and the Okawa Publications Prize for her book, ''Semiotics of Programming''. The book has been critically and favorably reviewed in ''Linguistic & Philosophical Investigations'', ''Cognitive Technology Journal'', and ''Semiotica''.

Publications

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Awards and recognition

Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities

Association for Natural Language Processing
"A Study on Constants of Natural Language Texts"

References

External links

Personal Website

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Group Website at the University of Tokyo
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