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MAEDA Akira

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Art Research Center
3.	Kinugasa Research Organization Shirakawa Shizuka Memorial Institute of Oriental Letters and Culture
4.	Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration The Research and Development Institute of Regional Information

Academic background
1.	2000/09 Degree Acquisition	│ Nara Institute of Science and Technology Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering
2.	1997/04/01～2000/09/30	Doctorial Course │ Graduate School of Information Science │ Nara Institute of Science and Technology │ Completed
3.	1995/04/01～1997/03/31	Master Course │ Graduate School of Library and Information Science │ University of Library and Information Science │ Completed
4.	1991/04/01～1995/03/31	Department of Library and Information Science │ Faculty of Library and Information Science │ University of Library and Information Science │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2011/09/26 ～ 2012/09/25	Visiting Professor, │ Department of Digital Humanities │ King's College London,
2.	2011/04/01 ～	Professor, │ Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering │ Ritsumeikan University,
3.	2007/04/01 ～ 2011/03/31	Associate Professor, │ Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering │ Ritsumeikan University,
4.	2006/10/01 ～ 2008/03/31	Part-time Lecturer, │ Faculty of Culture and Information Science │ Doshisha University,
5.	2004/04/01 ～ 2007/03/31	Associate Professor, │ Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering │ Ritsumeikan University,
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Committee and society
1.	2025 ～ 2025	The 27th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2025) Program Committee member
2.	2024 ～ 2024	The 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2024) Program Committee member
3.	2023 ～ 2023	The 25th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2023) Publicity Co-chair
4.	2022 ～ 2022	The 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2022) Publicity Co-chair
5.	2021 ～ 2021	The 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2021) Publicity Co-chair
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Research activities
1.		Information Processing Society of Japan
2.		Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Senior Member)
3.		The Database Society of Japan
4.		Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
5.		Japanese Society for Information and Media Studies
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Qualification and license
1.	1995	Librarian

Subject of research
1.	Studies on Information Access in Digital Libraries

Research summary
Information Access Technologies for Digital Libraries We are doing research mainly on information access technologies to facilitate the organization and use of a vast amount of text media information. In recent years, an increasing amount of information has become available online, but it is becoming difficult to find the desired information from it. In order to support users in accessing information that matches his/her needs, we research techniques for information retrieval, which is the basis of information access technologies, as well as data mining techniques to discover useful knowledge hidden in a vast amount of information, information recommendation techniques that recommends useful information according to the user’s interests, search and mining techniques for valuable historical materials that have been increasingly digitized, and multilingual information retrieval which enables access to information written in various languages in the world.

Present specialized field
Information Library Science/Humanistic Social Informatics, Media Informatics/Data Base (Keyword：Library and Information Science, Digital Humanities, Information Access Technologies)

Books
1.	2019/11	Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future
2.	2018/02	Japanese-Chinese Cross-Language Entity Linking Adapting to User's Language Ability (In Sio-Iong Ao, Haeng Kon Kim, Oscar Castillo, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan, and Hideki Katagiri, editors, Transactions on Engineering Technologies, chapter 28) │ ,pp.383-397
3.	2016/12	Providing Bilingual Access to Multiple Japanese Humanities Databases: Text Retrieval Using English and Japanese Queries (In Jieh Hsiang, editor, Digital Humanities: Between Past, Present, and Future) │ ,pp.351-367
4.	2012/03	Cross-Lingual, Cross-Chronological, and Cross-Cultural Information Access to Digital Libraries and Archives (In Kozaburo Hachimura and Tiromi T. Tanaka, editors, New Developments in Digital Archives, chapter 18) │ ,pp.150-167 (Japanaese), 324-343 (English)
5.	2011/04	Integrated Information Access Technology for Digital Libraries across Languages, Periods, and Cultures (In Kuo Hung Huang, editor, Digital Libraries - Methods and Applications, chapter 2) │ ,pp.23-44
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Papers
1.	2025/09/25	NERGL: Named Entity Recognition and Grounding with Large Language Models for Ukiyo-E Artworks │ Proceedings of The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) │ ,pp.3-13
2.	2024/12/05	A BERT-Based Method of Named Entity Recognition for Ukiyo-e Titles │ Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2024) │ ,pp.3-17
3.	2024/01/26	Recognizing Textual Inference in Mongolian Bar Exam Questions │ Applied Sciences │ 14 (3),pp.1073
4.	2024/01/10	MultArtRec: A Multimodal Neural Topic Modeling for Integrating Image and Text Features in Artwork Recommendation │ Electronics │ 13 (2),pp.302
5.	2023/12/21	Text Classification of Modern Mongolian Legal Documents Using BERT Models │ International Journal of Asian Language Processing │ 33 (3),pp.2350020
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/02/27	Detecting Sarcasm Comments in Chinese SNS Through Emoji and Language Model Integration
2.	2019/10	A Graph-based Recommender System for Ukiyo-e Prints
3.	2018/08/13	Management of Digital Database of Cultural Heritage
4.	2017/03/08	Cross-Language Record Linkage by Exploiting Semantic Matching of Textual Metadata
5.	2016/12/15	Towards Integrated Multilingual Access to Diverse Digital Libraries and Archives
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Winning science prize
1.	2021/07	International Association of Engineers Best Student Paper Award of ICCSDE'21（共著） (Dataset Augmentation for Grammatical Error Correction Using Markov Chain)
2.	2018/09	International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Best Student Paper Award of The 2018 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS'18) (co-author) (An Entity Disambiguation Approach Based on Wikipedia and Word Embeddings for Entity Linking in Microblogs)
3.	2013/12	Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Best Poster Award Bronze Prize, PNC/ECAI & Jinmoncom (IPSJ SIG-CH) Joint Meetings 2013 (co-author) (Developing a Web-based System for Annotating Historical Materials by Multiple Humanities Researchers — The Case of "Todaiji Yoroku" —)
4.	2013/11	International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Best Student Paper Award of The 2013 IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2013 (ICIMT'13) (co-author) (Music Retrieval Using Onomatopoeic Query)
5.	2013/11	International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Certificate of Merit (Student) for The 2013 IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2013 (ICIMT'13) (co-author) (Extraction of Comparative Sentences and their Components from BBS Messages)
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2016/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Research on Cross-Language Record Linkage for Multilingual Digital Archives │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2007 ～ 2011	Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Global COE Program

Message
1.	Information Access Technologies for Digital Libraries We are doing research mainly on information access technologies to facilitate the organization and use of a vast amount of text media information. In recent years, an increasing amount of information has become available online, but it is becoming difficult to find the desired information from it. In order to support users in accessing information that matches his/her needs, we research techniques for information retrieval, which is the basis of information access technologies, as well as data mining techniques to discover useful knowledge hidden in a vast amount of information, information recommendation techniques that recommends useful information according to the user’s interests, search and mining techniques for valuable historical materials that have been increasingly digitized, and multilingual information retrieval which enables access to information written in various languages in the world.

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Akira Maeda
Digital Library Laboratory

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ORCID ID
0000-0002-5494-132X