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Received the Young Researcher Award at NLP 2019

March 19, 2019

Our collaborator, Kazuya Machida, received the Young Researcher Award at the 25th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2019) (external link) for the following paper about an achievement of the collaborative research with Prof. Manabu Okumura at Tokyo Tech.

Semi-Supervised Extractive Question Summarization Using Question-Answer Pairs Kazuya Machida (Tokyo Tech), Hayato Kobayashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation/RIKEN AIP), Hiroya Takamura (AIST/Tokyo Tech), Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Tech) http://www.anlp.jp/proceedings/annual_meeting/2019/pdf_dir/F6-1.pdf (external link)

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