Distributed Information Systems, Social Information Model
Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University

• Master’s Program, Application Code: SI-1a (Professor: YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi, Program-Specific Associate Professor: SUGIYAMA Kazunari, Assistant Professor: SHIMIZU Toshiyuki, Program-Specific Assistant Professor: CAO Yang)
• Master’s Program, Application Code: SI-1b (Associate Professor: MA Qiang)

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• Jan. 2021 Wang(D2)'s paper "Improving Question Answering for Event-focused Questions in Temporal Collections of News Articles" was published in Information Retrieval Journal.
• Nov. 2020 Sugiyama has been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020).
• Aug. 2020 Sugiyama's collaborative work with University of Tsukuba, “A Framework for Classifying Temporal Relation with Question Encoder” has been accepted at The 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2020) (Best Paper Award Runner-up).
• Jul. 2020 Sugiyama's collaborative work with National University of Singapore and Qatar Computing Research Institute, “FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation” has been accepted at The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020) (Best Paper Award).
• Apr. 2020 Sugiyama's collaborative work with National University of Singapore, “Neural Side Effect Discovery from User Credibility and Experience-Assessed Online Health Discussions” has been accepted at Journal of Biomedical Semantics.
• Jul. 2019 Chen Tianwei(M2)'s paper “Discriminative Object Discovery Toward Personalized Sightseeing Spot Recommendation” has been accepted for publication in The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data(BigMM 2019).
• Jul. 2019 Sun's paper “User Transition Pattern Analysis for Travel Route Recommendation” has been accepted for publication in IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems.
• May 2019 Ohashi(D3)'s paper “Give and Take: Adaptive Balanced Allocation for Peer Assessments” has been accepted in The 25th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON2019).
• May 2019 Cao's demo paper “PriSTE: Protecting Spatiotemporal Event Privacy in Continuous Location-Based Services” has been accepted in VLDB2019.
• Apr. 2019 Takagi(M1)'s paper “Geo-Graph-Indistinguishability: Protecting Location Privacy for LBS over Road Networks” has been accepted in DBSec 2019.
• Apr. 2019 Asada(ex-master student)'s paper “When and where do you want to hide? – Recommendation of location privacy preferences with local differential privacy” has been accepted in DBSec 2019.
• Apr. 2019 Wiradee(D2)'s paper “Identifying Entity Properties from Text with Zero-shot Learning” has been accepted in ACM SIGIR 2019.
• Aug. 2015, Ma Group published smart mobile app News Salad in Google Play.

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