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

• Professor: YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi
• Associate Professor: MA Qiang
• Program-Specific Associate Professor: SUGIYAMA Kazunari
• Assistant Professor: SHIMIZU Toshiyuki
• Program-Specific Assistant Professor: CAO Yang

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• Aug. 2021 Sugiyama's collaborative work with University of Tsukuba, “A Framework for Classifying Temporal Relation with Question Encoder” has been accepted at International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL).
• May 2021 Dai (Ph.D. graduate)'s paper "Prerequisite-Aware Course Ordering towards Getting Relevant Job Opportunities" has been accepted at Expert Systems With Applications.
• May 2021 Yu(D1)'s paper “Multi-TimeLine Summarization (MTLS): Improving Timeline Summarization by Generating Multiple Summaries” has been accepted at The 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021).
• Jan. 2021 Sugiyama has been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at The 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021).
• 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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