Makoto Kanazawa

[Japanese | English]

National Institute of Informatics
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430
Tel: 03-4212-2651
Fax: 03-3556-1916

Brief Bio

2004-present

Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics

2000-2004

Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo

1994-2000

Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University

1994

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University

Publications

Recent Talks

Semantics Research Group

Lambda Calculus and Formal Grammar

This is an informal workshop series centered around formal language theory and type theory, with a special emphasis on the grammar formalism known as Abstract Categorial Grammar or Lambda Grammar. The seventh workshop was held on March 11, 2009, at LaBRI in Bordeaux.

• Seventh Workshop (Bordeaux, March 2009)
• Sixth Workshop (Haifa, October 2008)
• Fifth Workshop (Tokyo, March 2008)
• Fourth Workshop (Nancy, September 2007)
• Third Workshop (Tokyo, January 2007)
• Second Workshop (Tokyo, 2006)
• First Workshop (Tokyo, 2005)

Recent Professional Activities

• Program committee: ICGI 2010: 10th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, 2010.
• Program committee: WoLLIC 2010: 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, 2010.
• Program committee: NAACL HLT 2010: Human Language Technologies: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. (Area chair in Mathematical Linguistics.)
• Lecturer: ESSLLI 2009: The 21st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, 2009.
• Program committee: FG-2009: The 14th Conference on Formal Grammar, 2009.
• Organizing committee: WoLLIC 2009: The 16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, 2009.
• Program committee: FG-2008: The 13th Conference on Formal Grammar, 2008.
• Program committee: ICGI-2008: 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, 2008.
• Editorial board: Semantics and Pragmatics, 2007-.
• Program committee: FG-2007: The 12th Conference on Formal Grammar, 2007.
• Program committee: Workshop on New Directions in Type-Theoretic Grammars, 2007.
• Editorial board: Research on Language and Computation, January 2007-.
• Program committee: ESSLLI 2007: The 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, 2007.
• Program committee: FG-2006: The 11th conference on Formal Grammar, 2006.
• Organizing committee: SALT 16, 2006.
• Editorial board: Linguistics and Philosophy, September 1997-present.

Areas of Research

• Mathematical Logic
• Mathematical Linguistics
• Natural Language Semantics

Teaching

I teach in the Ph.D. Program in Informatics, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI).

• Spring 2009: Mathematical Logic (part of the course Introduction to the Foundations of Informatics I)

• The latest version of the lecture notes for the course Mathematical Linguistics, last taught spring 2008:
  • Lectures 1-3
  • Lectures 4 and 5

Graduate Students and Postdocs

• Shoh Yamashita (SOKENDAI, current)
• Ryo Yoshinaka (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Ph.D. awarded September 2006)
• Sylvain Salvati (JSPS postdoctoral fellow (until January 2007))
• Past students (Japanese only)

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