I am an associate professor working on library and information science and medical language processing at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, leading theKnowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab).
yadaslis.tsukuba.ac.jp
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He specialises in social computing on social media and the application of natural language processing, and is currently engaged in medical language processing, drawing on his experience. In particular, he is researching and developing a system that extracts medical information from clinical documents (e.g. electronic health records; EHRs) as graphs to facilitate information sharing among healthcare professionals or between patients and them. Examples of such systems include a system that searches for radiology reports with similar diagnostic content and the HeaRT system (Japanese patent pending) which creates a timeline of a patient's treatment history from written text in EHRs. Annotated training data (corpora) are essential for the language processing models behind these systems, the annotations of which he has designed and built over several projects.
In his library and information science major, he is interested in creating a digital environment where people can encounter valuable information even passively. Serendy, a word-of-mouth book recommendation system that inspires those who are unsure of what to read, promotes chance encounters by delivering information on books mentioned by acquaintances and friends on social media such as Twitter. BookReach, a system that helps school librarians support classes, allows them to search through related materials according to class units, providing opportunities to encounter unexpectedly useful books. From 2023, we are also developing and operating a book search engine in Japan, which enables searching for books that provide emotional support for people with cancer and other intractable diseases.
Since 2025, as a principal investigator, he has established a new lab called the Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab) at the University of Tsukuba. Building on his expertise in the domains of medicine and education, he aims to expand his research into other knowledge areas such as science, industry, law, economics, culture, and art, leveraging language processing technology as a core methodology.
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PhD (Education) | April 2020
Master of Arts (Education) | March 2016
Bachelor of Arts (Education) | March 2014
Part-time Researcher | April 2025–Present
Associate Professor | Oct 2024–Present
Vice Director | Oct 2024–Present
Affiliate Associate Professor | Oct 2024–Present
Assistant Professor | Nov 2020–Sep 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow | May–Oct 2020
Researcher | September 2019–April 2020
Visiting Scientist | May–August 2019
Researcher | April–August 2019
Visiting Scientist | March–May 2018
Student Intern | October 2016–June 2017
