Introduction of researcher

As of  2003.5.26      
 
[Name]  Adachi Jun
[Doctoral degrees] 
Doctor of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1981
[Affiliation / Position] 
Professor, Data Engineering, Software Research Division
Director, Research Center for Information Resources
[Telephone]  +81-3-4212-2510
[Facsimile]  +81-3-3556-1916
[Personal home page]  http://research.nii.ac.jp/~adachi/index-e.html
[JST ReaD]  http://read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_24?code=1000144806
[Research fields] 
Information engineering


<> Outline of current research
<> Education
<> Career
<> Awards
<> Teaching positions
<> Courses
<> Academic societies
<> Public activities
<> Refereed publications, published books
<> Patents / softwares / other works
<> Other publications
<> Speeches and oral presentations
<> Teaching experience
<> Other activities in the past
<> Competitive research funds


[Outline of current research] 

Digital Library Systems, Distributed Information Systems, Data Engineering, Information Retrieval
Jun Adachi has been studying on digital contents mainly composed by text information, including information retrieval and data engineering, modeling, etc. He also studies on information systems for management of heterogeneous information, such as WWW information. He joins in the NII project on Electronic Library Service and Academic Portal Site.
[Education] 

1976 BE (Electrical Engineering), University of Tokyo, Japan
1978 ME (Electronics), Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
1981 Doctor of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
[Career] 

1981-1983 Research associate at the Computer Centre, University of Tokyo, Japan
1983-1985 Lecturer at the Center for Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo
1985-1986 Associate professor at the Center for Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo
1986-1994 Associate professor at NACSIS
1987-1994 Associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
1987-1990 Senior specialist for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
1994-2000 Professor at NACSIS
1994-2001 Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
2000- Professor at National Institute of Informatics
2001- Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
[Awards] 

none
[Teaching positions] 

1987- Adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
1987- 1995 Adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University
1994- 2000 Adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1999- 2001 Adjunct lecturer at Library and Information Science School of Keio University
[Courses] 

Information Systems Development Techniques (University of Tokyo)
[Academic societies] 

Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE)
Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Member of IEEE
Member of ACM
Advisory board member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DC2001 (International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2001) Organizing Chair
[Public activities] 

1987-1990 Senior Specialist for Scientific Research at the Ministry of Education, Japan
More than 10 other activities in governmental agencies, universities and research institutions are not described in this list for simplicity.
[Refereed publications, published books] 

  1. Doctorial thesis, Optimization and Parallel Processing of Query in Relational Database, the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, March 1981, (In Japanese).

  2. Jun Adachi, Tadao Saito and Hiroshi Inose, Relational Query Language with Embedded Functional Dependency, Journal of Information Processing, Vol.22, No.4, pp.329-336, July (1981), (In Japanese).

  3. Database Systems, Chapter 4 of “Foundation of System Programming” edited by Hiroshi Hagiwara and Masataka Ariyama, pp.121-148, Ohm Publishing, 183p., ISBN4-274-07185-5, 1984, (In Japanese).

  4. Hashizume, H., Adachi, J. and Inose, H: Network architecture for sharing Japanese bibliographic information, 9thInternational Online Meeting, London, Dec., 1985.

  5. H. Inose, T. Saito, J. Adachi, ORDERS: an experimental system for the online library, 43rd FID Conference and Congress, Montreal, Sep., 1986.

  6. Jun Adachi, Database formation and services for scholarly Information in Japan, The 4th US-Japan Conference on Libraries and Information Science in Higher Education, Racine, Wisconsin, USA, October, 1988.

  7. Jun Adachi, National Scholarly Information Systems in Japan, International Symposium on the Future of Scientific, Technological and Industrial Information Services, Leningrad, USSR, May, 1990.

  8. Jun Adachi, "Database Formation and services for Scholarly Information in Japan", in "Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Library partnership in the global information flow," edited by T.F.Welch, W.M. Tsuneishi and M.F. Grosch, pp.100-113,American Library Association, 362p., ISBN0-9389-3378-5,1990.

  9. Design of ILL system with emerging technologies, Chapter 11 of “The Future of Library Systems – Tightly-couples Bibliographic Network and Digital Libraries” edited by Masamitsu Negishi and Hiroshi Inose, pp.152-169, Kinokuniya-Shote, 229p., ISBN4-314-10064-8, 1991, (In Japanese).

  10. Negishi,M. and Adachi,J., Overseas acceptance of Japanese scientific papers as seen in a citation analysis, The 3rd International Conference on Japanese Information in Science, Technology and Commerce, Nancy, France, May, 1991.

  11. Adachi,J. NACSIS: Its activities and services, The NTIS Conference on How to acquire Japanese scientific and Technical Information, Washington ,D.C., pp.81-85, 1992.

  12. Norio Katayama, Atsuhiro Takasu, and Jun Adachi, “A Database with an Explicit Semantic Representation'', The Seventh International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (May. 1994), pp. 323-332.

  13. Norio Katayama, Atsuhiro Takasu, and Jun Adachi, “A Logic-Based Approach for Managing Structured Document Data'', Proc. of the International Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies and Their Integration (ADTI'94)(Oct. 1994), pp. 245-252.

  14. Noriko SAKAI, Atsuhiro TAKASU, Jun ADACHI: “Full-text Database of Scientific Documents with Various Structures,''FID 47th Conference and Congress (October 1994), A-82-05-11.

  15. Jun Adachi and Hiromichi Hashizume, “NACSIS Electronic Library System: Its Design and Implementation'', Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995, pp.36 -- 41 (August 1995).

  16. Jun Adachi and Hiromichi Hashizume, “NACSIS Electronic Library System: Its features and Implications for Academia, The 4th International Conference on Japanese Information in Science, Technology, Industry and Business, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,pp.344-349 (Sept. 1995).

  17. Itaru Nishizawa, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Query Processing Method for Multiple Databases Having Different Set of Attributes, Trans. IEICE, D-I, Vol.J79-DI, No.1, pp.18-27 (Jan., 1996). In Japanese

  18. Ohta, M., Takasu, A. and Adachi, J., "Probabilistic Retrieval Methods for Text with Miss-Recognized OCR Characters", Proc. of the Workshop on Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages, Taejon, Korea, pp. 35-41 (June1996).

  19. Jun Adachi, NACSIS Digital Library Project, Journal of IPSJ, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 826-830, (Sep., 1996). In Japanese

  20. Takasu, A., Katayama N., Yamaoka, M., Iwaki, O., Oyama, K.,and Adachi, J.: Approximate matching for OCR-processed bibliographic data, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'96), Vienna, Austria, pp.175-179, August 1996.

  21. Itaru Nishizawa, Atsuhiro Takasu, and Jun Adachi, "A Query Processing Method for Integrated Access to Multiple Databases", 7th Conference on DEXA 96, pp.385-399,(Sep. 1996).

  22. Norio Katayama, Masanori Sugimoto, and Jun Adachi, "A Universal Query Interface for Heterogeneous Distributed Digital Libraries",DEXA96 Workshop, pp.332-339, (Sep. 1996).

  23. Jun Adachi, “NACSIS Electronic Library Project for Networked Dissemination of Japanese Scientific Journals'', The Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries and Information Services for the 21st Century (KOLISS DL'96), pp.168-175,(Sep. 10-13, 1996).

  24. Noriko SAKAI, Atsuhiro TAKASU, Jun ADACHI: “Logical Structure Transformation between SGML Documents,'' The Proceedings of IPIC'96 (International Working Conference on Information and Process Integration in Enterprises),pp.201-215, November 14-15, 1996 Cambridge, MA, USA.

  25. Itaru Nishizawa, Atsuhiro TAKASU, Jun ADACHI: “Query Processing Method for Multiple Database with a Different Set of Attributes,'' Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol.27,No.11, pp.29-40, 1996.

  26. Ohta, M., Takasu, A. and Adachi, J., Retrieval Methods for English-Text with Miss-recognized OCR Characters, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'97), pp. 950 - 956 (Ulm, Germany),August 18--20, 1997.

  27. M. Negishi, J. Adachi, and H. Inoue, Update on NACSIS Activities in the Age of Digital Information: Inauguration of NACSIS-ELS, an electronic library service of scholarly journals, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Japanese Information in Science, Technology and Commerce, pp. 75 - 80 (Washington, D.C.), July 30 - August 1, 1997.

  28. Adachi, Jun, Dissemination of Japanese Academic Journals over the Internet, Proceedings of International Symposium on Research, Development and Practice in Digital Libraries 1997,pp.32-35 (Tsukuba, Japan), November 19-21, 1997.

  29. Noriko Sakai, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Transformation Method of Logical Structure between SGML Documents, Trans. IPSJ, Vol. 39, No.1, (1998). In Japanese

  30. Noriko SAKAI, Atsuhiro TAKASU, and Jun ADACHI, “Logical Structure Transformation between SGML Documents,'' Chapter11 (pp.183 - 197) of “Information and Process Integration in Enterprises - Rethinking Documents,'' edited by T. Wakayama, et al., Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBDN0-7923-8059-2 (1998).

  31. Jun ADACHI, “Distributed Object Management in Information Network Environment,'' pp.55 - 60 in “Advanced Database Systems for Integration of Media and User Environments '98, ''edited by Y. Kambayashi et al., World Scientific, ISBN981-02-3436-8, (1998).

  32. Adachi, J.: Digitization of Japanese Academic Journals and its Services, ALLC / ACH'98 Conference Abstracts,pp.~177--178, Debrecen, Hungary (July, 1998).

  33. Manabu Ohta, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Full-text Search Method for OCR-recognized Japanese Text with Misrecognized Characters, Trans. IPSJ, Vol. 39, No. 3,pp.625-635 (1998). In Japanese

  34. Ohta, M., Takasu, A. and Adachi, J.: Reduction of Expanded Search Terms for Fuzzy English-text Retrieval, Proc. Of Second European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL'98),Crete, Greece LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 1513,pp.619-633, Springer (September 1998).

  35. Atsushi Matsumura, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, "Information Retrieval Method using Structured Index for Japanese Text", The 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL'98), 15-16 October 1998, p.109-115.

  36. Jun Adachi, Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga, Kigen Hasebeand Hidehiro Ishiduka, “Academic digital Library and Contents in Japan,'' Literary and Linguistic Computing,Vol.14, No.1, pp.131-145, 1999.

  37. Kimimoto Hayakawa, Atsushi Takasu, Jun Adachi, “Bibliographic Component Extraction from Erroneous Text Based on Probabilistic Syntactic Analysis'', The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multimodal Interface, ICMI'99 Hong Kong, (January 5-7, 1999).

  38. Yanase, T., Takasu, A., Adachi, J.: “Phrase Based Feature Extraction for Musical Information Retrieval", Proc. of 1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM'99), pp. 396-399, August 22-24,Univ. of Victoria, Canada, 1999.

  39. Takasu, A., Yanase, T., Kanazawa, T., Adachi, J.: “Music Structure Analysis and Its Application to Theme Phrase Extraction", Serge Abiteboul and Anne-Marie Vercoustre(Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1696, "Proceedings of Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'99)", pp. 92-105,September 22-24, Paris, France, 1999.

  40. Teruhito Kanazawa, "R2D2 at NTCIR: Using the Relevance-based Superimposition Model," NTCIR Workshop 1, pp.83 -88, Aug.,1999.

  41. Atsushi Matsumura, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, "Structured Index System at NTCIR1 : Information Retrieval using Dependency Relationship between Words", Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text Retrieval and Term Recognition (NTCIR Workshop 1), August 30 -September 1, 1999, p.117-122.

  42. Atsushi Matsumura, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, "Structured Index System at IREX : Information Retrieval using Dependency Relationship between Words", Proceedings of the IREX Workshop, September 1-3, 1999, p.57-60.

  43. Atsushi Matsumura, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Evaluation of Information Retrieval Method Using Dependency Relationships Between words, Trans. IPSJ, Vo.41,No.SIG1(TOD 5), pp.22-30, 2000(February). In Japanese

  44. Ohta M., Takasu A., Adachi J.: Reduction of Expanded Search Terms for Fuzzy English-text Retrieval. International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol.3, No.2, pp.140-151,(2000).

  45. Atsuhiro Takasu, Norio Katayama, Keizo Oyama, Jun Adachi and Kyo Kageura, An Approximate Matching Method for Bibliographic Data in Academic Article Images, Trans. IPSJ, Vo.42, No. .SIG 1(TOD 8), pp.148-158, Jan., 2001. In Japanese

  46. Matsumura A., Takasu A., Adachi J.: The Effect of Information Retrieval Method Using Dependency Relationship Between Words, Conference Proceedings of RIAO2000, April 12-14, 2000, Paris, France, pp.1043-1058.

  47. Matsumura A., Takasu A., Adachi J.: Effect of Dependency Relationship and Ordered Co-occurrence of Words on Japanese Information Retrieval, The Proceedings of Fifth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL2000), Hong Kong, September 30 to October 2, 2000, pp.199-200.

  48. Manabu Ohta, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, "Probabilistic Automaton Model for Fuzzy English-Text Retrieval", Proc. ofECDL2000, LNCS 1923, pp.35-44, Lisbon, Portugal, Springer-Verlag, Sep., 2000.

  49. Jun Adachi, Digitization of Scientific Journals and NACSIS-ELS (Invited), 2000 Kyoto International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, pp.49-53, Nov.13-16, Kyoto, 2000. In Japanese

  50. Noriko Kando and Jun Adachi, NTCIR Workshops: Data Collection-Based Evaluation of Information Retrieval and its Challenges (Invited), Proceedings of the 2000 Kyoto International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, pp.67-74, November 13-16, 2000

  51. Adachi J.: NACSIS-ELS: Digital Library of Japanese Academic Journals (Invited), The Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Library(ICADL2000), December 6-8, 2000. Seoul, Korea, pp.15-22.

  52. Teruhito KANAZAWA, Atsuhiro TAKASU and Jun ADACHI, "A Relevance-Based Superimposition Model for Effective Information Retrieval," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E83-D, No.12, pp.2152 - 2160, Dec. 2000.

  53. T. Kanazawa, A. Takasu, and J. Adachi,"R2D2 at NTCIR 2 Ad-hoc Task: Relevance-based Superimposition Model for IR," NTCIR Workshop 2 Proc., pp. 204--210, Tokyo, March 2001.

  54. Digital Libraries – their denotation and connotation observed in system implementations, (Chapter 3 of “Digital Libraries – Dissemination of Digital Information and the Future Libraries –“ edited by the Research Committee of Japanese Society of Library Information Science, pp.71-86, Bensei-Shuppan, ISBN 4-585-00226X, 2001. In Japanese

  55. Jun Adachi, Digital Library System of Document Images Focusing on Metadata, Trans. IEICE D-I, Vol.J84-D-I, No.6, pp.768-776, June, 2001.

  56. Teruhito Kanazawa, Akiki Aizawa, Atushiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, “The Effects of the Relevance-Based Superimposition Model in Cross-Language Information Retrieval'', Proceedings, of 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2001, LNCS 2163, pp.312 - 324.

  57. Teruhito Kanazawa, Akiko Aizawa, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Effectiveness of Relevance-based Superimposition Model for Cross-language Information Retrieval, Trans. IPSJ, No. 13, Feb. 2002. In Japanese

  58. Shuichi Kojima, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, Structural analysis and grouping of Web pages, NII Journal, No.4, pp.23-35, March (2002). In Japanese

  59. Noriko Kando and Jun Adachi, Research on Text Processing Technologies through on Evaluation Workshop – The Case of NTCIR Workshop 3 -, Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 17, No.3, pp.312-319, May (2002).

  60. Atsuhiro Takasu, Teruhito Kanazawa, Jun Adachi,, “Statistical Phrase Extraction and Indexing for Music Retrieval'', International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002), pp.278-285, May 14-17, Makuhari, Japan, 2002.
[Patents / softwares / other works] 

  1. Network and client software of the cataloging system NACSIS-CAT (1983 to1984)

  2. Server, client, Web browser plug-ins and content format of NACSIS-ELS（1995)

  3. Text information retrieval system based on RS model, version 1 (2002).

[Other publications] 

  1. Jun Adachi, Development of network protocol for screen-oriented application software, Research Bulletin of the Center for Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo, ISSN 0911-3002, No.1, pp. 86 – 129, August (1985). In Japanese

  2. Jun Adachi, Enhancement of N-1 network virtual terminal protocol, Research Bulletin of the Center for Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo, ISSN 0911-3002, No.1, pp. 130 – 170, August (1985). In Japanese

  3. J. Adachi, Technology for a large-scale data storage, Bulletin of National Center for Information Systems, No.1, March, 1987.

  4. Jun Adachi, “Aiming at Implementing Ubiquitous Information Systems – A Project Summary”, The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Advanced Informatics (AdInfo2000), pp.29 – 35, Tokyo, Japan, March 9-10, 2000.

  5. More than one hundred technical papers and presentations delivered in Japanese are excluded from this list for simplicity.
[Speeches and oral presentations] 

  1. Jun Adachi, "NACSIS-ELS: Digital Library Service of Japanese　Scientific Journals", International Workshop on Next　Generation Internet and its Applications (IWS2001), February23, 2001, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.

  2. Other 8 invited lectures delivered in Japanese are excluded from this list for simplicity.
[Teaching experience] 

  1. Jun Adachi has been an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Information Scienece and Technology, University of Tokyo since 1987. During this period, he has supervised 17 graduate students for master’s degree and 6 of them were awarded Doctor Degree in Engineering. He also supervises Post Doctorial fellows with his research grant at NII.
[Other activities in the past] 

  1. Design and implementation of the cataloging system NACSIS-CAT, in particular, network, database and client systems (1983 to 1984)

  2. Design, implementation and content building of NACSIS-ELS（since 1995)

  3. DC2001 (International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001) Organizing Chair (2001)

  4. NTCIR 1, 2 and 3 Organizing Chair (1999, 2001, 2002)

  5. Lecturer of Long-term training course for university librarians sponsored by MEXT ( over 10 years)

[Competitive research funds] 

  (1) Grant in aid for scientific research

  • 1999-2001 (C)
  • 2001- present Priority Area (C)
  (2) Public funding

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research for the Future, 1996-2001
  (3) Others

none