Noriko Kando is a professor in the Information-society Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, and has been co-appointed as a professor in the Department of Informatics at the Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan. She initiated NTCIR, an evaluation of information-access technologies, such as information retrieval, summarization, question answering, and text mining, using East Asian languages and English documents, and has been a main designer of various tasks including cross-lingual IR, patent retrieval, opinion analysis, complex question answering, community QA, geo-time search which have attracted international participation. She has been leading various projects including ones for exploratory-search systems. She received her Ph.D. from Keio University in Library and Information Science in 1995 and has been teaching and conducting research at NII since 1994. She has had more than 100 of her refereed scientific articles published in journals and by international conferences, and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences and workshops.
She was an Asian representative for the ACM-SIGIR Executive Committee from 2003 to 2007, and a Program Co-Chair of ACM-SIGIR 2007. She is an Associate Editor of ACM Transaction for Asian Language Information Processing from 2000 to 2007 and for Information Processing and Management (Elsevier) from 2007 to present. She is on Scientific Board for Information Retrieval Facility since 2008 and on the Board of Trustee for Association of Natural Language Processing in Japan from 1998 to 2002 and from 2011 to present.
Diversified Query Expansio Methods using Context-Switching for Exploratory Search, Best Interactive Award, The 4th Data Engineering and Information Management Forum
May 2011
"Influence of Task Type and User Group on Web-based Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of Eye Movement Data and Client-side Browsing Logs" (co-authored), Best Paper Award for 2011, Japan Society for Information and Knowledge
Oct 2006
"Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for “Growing Metadata” of Cultural Heritage Objects and Its Educational Use in the CEAX Project" (co-authored), Best Paper Award, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006)
Oct 1995
Research Award, Japan Association for Library and Information Science
Sep 1994
Yamashita Award for Research, Information Processing Society of Japan
Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Soceity for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, Oct. 9-13, 2011. 1-6 Oct 2011 [Refereed]
User Evaluation of an Interactive Music Information Retrieval System
Xiao Hu, Noriko Kando
The 5th Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Workshop (HCIR 2011) 1-4 Oct 2011 [Refereed]
Deversified-query Generating System Using Community QA Resources to Verbalize Latent Information Needs
Atushi Otsuka, Youhei Seki, Noriko Kando, and Tetsuji Satoh
IPSJ Transaction on Database 51(10) 1234-1244 Oct 2011 [Refereed]
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) General Conference 2011 Mar 2011
Information Retrieval as an Infrastructure for Knowledge Communities: Consideration on a Case of Education-Purpose Application of Cultural Heritage Digital Archives[Invited]
Noriko Kando
Symposium of Research Center for Knowledge Communities 2011 Mar 2011
Proceedings of the 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, Dec. 6-9, 2011, Tokyo Japan
Edited by Noriko Kando, Daisuke Ishikawa, Miho Sugimoto, Tsuneaki Kado, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideo Joho, Tetsuya saka (Part:Editor)
NII Dec 2011 ISBN:978-4-86049-056-0
"Information Retrieval"
Noriko Kando
In: "50 Years History of Information Processing Society of Japan" (Edited by IPSJ), IPSJ, Tokyo Nov 2010
Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, June 15-18, 2010, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Edited by Noriko Kando, Kazuaki Kishida, Miho Sugimoto
National Insitute of Informatics Jun 2010 ISBN:978-4-86049-053-9
Proceedings of ACM-SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World: Transitioning from Research to Real-World Applications, July 23, 2009, Boston
Edited by Frederic C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Jussi Karlgren
Jul 2009
Proceedings of the 7th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, December 16-19, 2008, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Edited by Noriko Kando, Kazuaki Kishida, Miho Sugimoto
National Insitute of Informatics Dec 2008 ISBN:978-4-86049-044-7
