I am an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, working at the intersection of library and information science, natural language processing, and medical informatics, leading the Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab).
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Shuntaro Yada is an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba, where he leads the Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab) within the Institute of Library, Information and Media Science. He also serves as a Vice Director at the Office of International Online Education in the university. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education in 2020.
His research interests lie at the intersection of library and information science, natural language processing, and medical informatics. To date, he has built BookReach, a system that helps school librarians curate teaching materials, and Serendy, a system that encourages serendipitous encounters with books. In the medical field, he has developed HeaRT, a system that visualises patient information over time from clinical texts such as electronic health records; a tool that extracts structured information from patients' narratives on social media; and Illness Experience Search, a search system for patient-authored illness narratives. In this way, his research places a strong emphasis on real-world implementation.
His latest funded project, selected for the 2024 JST FOREST Program, is titled "Integration of Knowledge Across All Academic Fields through Automatic Construction of Specialised Terminology Dictionaries." This project aims to leverage language processing technology to build comprehensive terminology resources that span diverse knowledge domains, from medicine and science to law, economics, and the arts. This direction represents a natural expansion of his long-standing expertise in domain-specific language processing towards a broader, cross-disciplinary vision.
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Part-time Researcher | April 2025–Present
Associate Professor | October 2024–Present
Vice Director | October 2024–Present
Affiliate Associate Professor | October 2024–Present
Assistant Professor | November 2020–September 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow | May–October 2020
Researcher | September 2019–April 2020
Visiting Scientist | May–August 2019
Visiting Scientist | March–May 2018
Researcher | April–August 2019
Student Intern | October 2016–June 2017
Division of Lifelong Learning Infrastructure Management, Library and Information Science Laboratory | April 2016–December 2019
Division of Lifelong Learning Infrastructure Management, Library and Information Science Laboratory | April 2014–March 2016
Division of Educational Practices and Policies | April 2012–March 2014
