Ikuya Yamada, Ph.D.

Co-founder / CTO, Studio Ousia Inc.
Senior Visiting Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC.

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Publications

Ikuya Yamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshiyasu Takefuji: Joint Learning of the Embedding of Words and Entities for Named Entity Disambiguation, The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (Berlin, Germany), 2016 [Paper] [Slides]
Ikuya Yamada, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshiyasu Takefuji: Enhancing Named Entity Recognition in Twitter Messages Using Entity Linking, ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (Beijing, China), 2015 [Paper] [Slides] (Shared task winner)
Ikuya Yamada, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshiyasu Takefuji: An End-to-End Entity Linking Approach for Tweets, WWW 2015 Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (Florence, Italy), 2015, pp.55-56 [Paper] [Slides] (Competition winner)
Ikuya Yamada, Tomotaka Ito, Shinsuke Takagi, Shinnosuke Usami, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshiyasu Takefuji: Evaluating the Helpfulness of Linked Entities to Readers, 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Santiago Downtown, Chile), 2014, pp.169-178 [Paper] [Slides] [Dataset]

Shared task winner: Shared Task #1 in ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015), Beijing, China, 2015 [Paper] [Slides] [Summary Paper]
Competition winner: NEEL Challenge in WWW 2015 Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts 2015), Florence, Italy, 2015 [Paper] [Slides] [Summary Slides] [Summary Paper]
Shared task winner: Shared Task in NAACL 2016 Workshop on Human-Computer QA, San Diego, USA, 2016 [Slides] [Video]
Kaggle Master, 2016
Keio SFC Student Award: Dean's Award, Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, 2016

NAACL QA Match 2016
(San Diego)

2007- Co-founder, CTO Studio Ousia Inc.
2003-2005: Vice President, CTO Fractalist Inc. (previously listed on the NSE Centrex (2007-2010) and acquired by motionBEAT Inc. in 2010)
2000-2005: Founder, CEO Newrong Inc. (acquired by Fractalist Inc. in 2005)