Akira Maeda

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Department of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
: (Concurrent)Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
: (Concurrent)The Kinugasa Research Organization, Art Research Center
: (Concurrent)Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, The Research and Development on Regional Information Institute
: (Concurrent)The Kinugasa Research Organization, Shirakawa Shizuka Memorial Institute of Oriental Letters and Culture

Degree: Doctor of Engineering(Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201001042722443393
researchmap Member ID: 6000021270

External link: http://www.dl.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/~amaeda/

Research Interests

Library and Information Science, Information Retrieval

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Library/information science, humanistic/social informatics /

Research History

Sep, 2011 - Sep, 2012

Visiting Professor at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
Apr, 2011

Professor at the Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Associate professor at the Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Oct, 2006 - Mar, 2008

Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2007

Associate professor at the Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Oct, 2003 - Mar, 2004

Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University
Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2004

Associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2002

Postdoctoral researcher of the CREST program, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)
Oct, 2000 - Mar, 2001

Postdoctoral visiting scholar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Oct, 2000 - Mar, 2001

Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Education

Committee Memberships

107

Awards

Papers

168

Intuitively Searching for the Rare Colors from Digital Artwork Collections by Text Description: A Case Demonstration of Japanese Ukiyo-e Print Retrieval

Kangying Li, Jiayun Wang, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Future Internet, 14(7), Jul, 2022
Text Classification of Modern Mongolian Documents Using BERT Models.

Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

IALP, 219-224, 2022
Intuitively Searching for the Rare Colors from Digital Artwork Collections by Text Description: A Case Demonstration of Japanese Ukiyo-e Print Retrieval.

Kangying Li, Jiayun Wang, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Future Internet, 14(7) 212-212, 2022
Text Classification of Modern Mongolian Documents Using BERT Models

Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

2022 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2022, 219-224, 2022
A prototypical network-based approach for low-resource font typeface feature extraction and utilization

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Data, 6(12), Dec, 2021
A Prototypical Network-Based Approach for Low-Resource Font Typeface Feature Extraction and Utilization

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

DATA, 6(12), Dec, 2021
Character Segmentation in Asian Collector's Seal Imprints: An Attempt to Retrieval Based on Ancient Character Typeface.

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2021, 2021
A Prototypical Network-Based Approach for Low-Resource Font Typeface Feature Extraction and Utilization.

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Data, 6(12) 134-134, 2021
Learning Japanese-English Bilingual Word Embeddings by Using Language Specificity

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

International Journal of Asian Language Processing, 30(03) 2050014, Sep, 2020
A Preliminary Attempt to Evaluate Machine Translations of Ukiyo-e Metadata Records.

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Digital Libraries at Times of Massive Societal Transition - 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries(ICADL), 262-268, 2020
Artwork Information Embedding Framework for Multi-source Ukiyo-e Record Retrieval.

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda, Ryo Akama

Digital Libraries at Times of Massive Societal Transition - 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries(ICADL), 255-261, 2020
Making Ukiyo-e Easier to Discover: A Recommender System for Digital Archives.

Jiayun Wang, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda, Kyoji Kawagoe, Ryo Akama

15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations(DH), 2020
Finding Identical Ukiyo-e Prints across Databases in Japanese, English and Dutch.

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations(DH), 2020
Toward Exploring Artist Information from Seal Images in Ukiyo-e Collections.

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda, Ryo Akama

15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations(DH), 2020
Learning Japanese-English Bilingual Word Embeddings by Using Language Specificity.

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

International Journal of Asian Language Processing, 30(3) 2050014-14, 2020
Artwork Information Embedding Framework for Multi-source Ukiyo-e Record Retrieval

Kangying Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda, Ryo Akama

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12504 LNCS 255-261, 2020
A Preliminary Attempt to Evaluate Machine Translations of Ukiyo-e Metadata Records

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12504 LNCS 262-268, 2020
デジタルアーカイブのためのグラフベースの深層学習による推薦システム

王嘉韻, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, 前田亮, 川越恭二, 赤間亮

人文科学とコンピュータシンポジウム論文集, (to appear), Dec, 2019
落款印および関連情報の検索システムの構築：人物情報と人物関係ネットワークの自動抽出に向けて

李康穎, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, 前田亮

人文科学とコンピュータシンポジウム論文集, (to appear), Dec, 2019
Improving Japanese-English Bilingual Mapping of Word Embeddings based on Language Specificity

Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2019), (to appear), Nov, 2019

Misc.

Extraction of information on historical figures from a Japanese Biographical Dictionary: An attempt to extract named entities from classical Japanese by few-shot learning

2022 187-192, Dec 2, 2022
Creating A Digital Edition Of Ancient Mongolian Historical Documents

Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Akira Maeda

Conference Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2018, 534-536, Jun, 2018
Linking the Same Ukiyo-e Prints in Different Languages by Exploiting Word Semantic Relationships across Languages

Yuting Song, Taisuke Kimura, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Conference Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2017, 603-605, Aug, 2017
Identifying the Same Ukiyo-e Prints from Databases in Dutch and Japanese

Taisuke Kimura, Yuting Song, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda

Conference Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2016, 822-824, Jul, 2016
Linking the Same Ukiyo-e Prints in Different Languages by Exploiting Word Semantic Relationships across Languages

Yuting Song, Taisuke Kimura, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda

Conference Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2017, 603-605, Jul, 2016
An Approach to Named Entity Extraction from Historical Documents in Traditional Mongolian Script

Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda

2014 IEEE/ACM JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (JCDL), 489-490, 2014
A Linked Data Driven Approach on Cross Language Information Access to Diverse Japanese Databases

Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Takeo Kuyama, Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda

Book of Abstracts of the 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2013), 178-179, Jun, 2013
Proposal of Multilingual Access Method for Metadata of Ukiyo-e Image Database

2010(3) 1-9, Oct 28, 2010
Text Mining Using Place and Personal Names Extracted from Historical Documents

2010(2) 1-8, Oct 28, 2010
N_034 Retrieval Technique with the Modern Mongolian Query on Traditional Mongolian Text

Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Maeda Akira

5(4) 397-398, Aug 21, 2006
D-045 Translation Disambiguation Using Web Directory for CLIR

Kimra Fuminori, Maeda Akira, Miyazaki Jun, Yoshikawa Masatoshi, Uemura Shunsuke

3(2) 105-106, Aug 20, 2004
Applying Multiple Resources for Query Expansion in Cross - Language Information Retrieval

Fatiha SADAT, MAEDA Akira, YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi, UEMURA Shunsuke

IPSJ SIG Notes, 2002(28) 79-86, Mar 15, 2002
Integrating Dictionary - based and Statistical - based Approaches in Cross - Language Information Retrieval

SADAT Fatiha, MAEDA Akira, YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi, UEMURA Shunsuke

IPSJ SIG Notes, 2000(44) 61-68, May 25, 2000
Multilingual HTML Document Delivery System without Fonts on the Browser's Terminal

55 68-69, Sep 24, 1997
Multilingual Browser for WWW Documents and its Gateway Service

MAEDA Akira, FUJITA Takehisa, SAKAGUCHI Tetsuo, SUGIMOTO Shigeo, TABATA Koichi

IPSJ SIG Notes, 1996(116) 1-7, Nov 21, 1996
Japanese OPAC for Overseas Users

Fujita Takehisa, Maeda Akira, Sakaguchi Tetsuo, Sugimoto Shigeo, Tabata Koichi

Digital libraries, 6 32-39, Feb 21, 1996

Books and Other Publications

Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future

Adam Jatowt, Akira Maeda, Sue Yeon Syn

Springer International Publishing, Nov, 2019 (ISBN: 9783030340575)
Japanese-Chinese Cross-Language Entity Linking Adapting to User's Language Ability (In Sio-Iong Ao, Haeng Kon Kim, Oscar Castillo, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan, and Hideki Katagiri, editors, Transactions on Engineering Technologies, chapter 28)

Fuminori Kimura, Jialiang Zhou, Akira Maeda

Springer Singapore, Feb, 2018 (ISBN: 9789811074882)
情報アクセス技術入門 --- 情報検索・多言語情報処理・テキストマイニング・情報可視化

前田亮, 西原陽子

森北出版, Aug, 2017 (ISBN: 9784627880412)
Providing Bilingual Access to Multiple Japanese Humanities Databases: Text Retrieval Using English and Japanese Queries (In Jieh Hsiang, editor, Digital Humanities: Between Past, Present, and Future)

Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Akira Maeda, Ryo Akama

National Taiwan University Press, Dec, 2016 (ISBN: 9789863501985)
後藤真, 佐藤貴文, 木村文則, 前田亮. 複数の研究者による史料注釈を可能とするWebシステムの可能性 ――『東大寺要録』を題材に――（栄原永遠男, 佐藤信, 吉川真司（編）, 東大寺の美術と考古, 東大寺の新研究 1）

後藤真, 佐藤貴文, 木村文則, 前田亮

法藏館, Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 9784831860217)
Cross-Lingual, Cross-Chronological, and Cross-Cultural Information Access to Digital Libraries and Archives (In Kozaburo Hachimura and Tiromi T. Tanaka, editors, New Developments in Digital Archives, chapter 18)

Akira Maeda, Fuminori Kimura, Biligsaikhan Batjargal

Nakanishiya Publishing, Mar, 2012 (ISBN: 9784779505850)
Integrated Information Access Technology for Digital Libraries across Languages, Periods, and Cultures (In Kuo Hung Huang, editor, Digital Libraries - Methods and Applications, chapter 2)

Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda

InTech, Apr, 2011 (ISBN: 9789533072036)
Utilizing Web Directories for Translation Disambiguation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (In Sio-Iong Ao, Xu Huang, and Ping kong Alexander Wai, editors, Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science, chapter 8)

Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda, Kenji Hatano, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura

Springer-Verlag, Apr, 2009 (ISBN: 9781402094927)

Presentations

118

トピックモデルを用いたTwitter関連情報に基づくユーザ嗜好の推測手法の提案

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 6, 2019
経営哲学に関するテキストを用いたランキング型質問応答システム

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 6, 2019
古代文字検索のためのフォントからの字形特徴量の抽出および活用可能性の検討

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 6, 2019
レビューの感性情報およびあらすじ中の属性情報を用いたライトノベルの分類と検索

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 5, 2019
口コミサイトを利用した訪日外国人のためのレストラン推薦

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 5, 2019
浮世絵ディジタルアーカイブのための分散表現による作品の関連性に基づいた推薦システム

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 5, 2019
Metadata Similarity Calculation in Cross-Language Record Linkage based on Cross-lingual Embedding Models

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 5, 2019
投稿に対するコメントとユーザプロファイルを用いたSNSへの投稿の信憑性の推定手法の提案

第11回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2019）論文集, Mar 4, 2019
日本文化資源デジタルアーカイブへの多言語情報アクセス技術

「アジア芸術学」の創成国際ワークショップ／東アジア文化研究のフロンティア, Feb 20, 2019
浮世絵ディジタルアーカイブのための作品の関連性に基づいた推薦システム

第8回知識・芸術・文化情報学研究会, Jan 26, 2019
古代文字のディジタル化とその活用の可能性

第五十一回日本古文書学会大会研究発表要旨, Sep 9, 2018
Management of Digital Database of Cultural Heritage

Invited Talk at TOR Seminar and Workshop "Teknologi Digital Dalam Pengelolaan Warisan Budaya", Aug 13, 2018
専門用語の活用による学術論文の生成的要約手法

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 5, 2018
組み合わせを考慮した献立検索手法の提案

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 5, 2018
経営哲学に関する講演録を用いた質問応答システム

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 5, 2018
トピックモデルを用いたツイーターフォロー情報からのユーザ嗜好の推測手法の提案

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 5, 2018
マイクロブログを対象にしたエンティティリンキングにおける語義曖昧性解消

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 5, 2018
生成モデルによる篆書体の文字認識手法の提案

第10回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2018）論文集, Mar 4, 2018
篆書体による蔵書印の文字認識の試み

第7回知識・芸術・文化情報学研究会, Feb 10, 2018
複数言語からなるデジタルコレクションからの同一浮世絵作品の同定手法

第8回横幹連合コンファレンス論文集, Dec 3, 2017

Teaching Experience

Professional Memberships

Works

コンピュータによる文字処理の歴史と展望

Sep 9, 2017 - Sep 9, 2017 Other
電子図書館における情報技術の活用

Jan 16, 2016 - Jan 16, 2016 Other

Research Projects

Research on multilingual integrated access to digital archives of Japanese culture

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023
Research on Cross-Language Record Linkage for Multilingual Digital Archives

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2020

Maeda Akira
Research on Integrated Information Retrieval from Multilingual Digital Archives

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2016

Maeda Akira, KIMURA Fuminori
芸術・文化分野の資料デジタル化と活用を軸とした研究資源共有化研究

私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業, 2009 - 2013
Studies on Information Access across Languages, Periods, and Cultures

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 - 2011

MAEDA Akira
Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures

Global COE Program, 2007 - 2011
デジタル時代のメディアと映像に関する総合的研究

オープン・リサーチ・センター整備事業, 2001 - 2008
Cross-Language Information Processing for Semantic Web

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003 - 2006

UEMURA Shunsuke, MIYAZAKI Jun, NAKAJIMA Shinsuke, AMAGASA Toshiyuki, HATANO Kenji, MAEDA Akira
京都アート・エンタテインメント創成研究

21世紀COEプログラム, 2002 - 2006
ディジタル図書館における多言語情報アクセスに関する研究

科学研究費助成事業, 若手研究(B), 日本学術振興会, 2004 - 2005

前田亮
日常生活を拡張する着用指向情報パートナーの開発

科学技術振興機構戦略的創造研究推進事業, 2000 - 2004
A Study on Cross-Lingual Knowledge Discovery Systems

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999 - 2002

UEMURA Shunsuke, HATANO Kenji, AMAGASA Toshiyuki, YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi, WATANABE Masahiro, MAEDA Akira

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