Yuji Matsumoto
Matsumoto worked in the Electrotechnical Laboratory’s Machine Inference Section from 1979 to 1988 and earned a Kyoto doctorate in information science in 1990. He became a professor at NAIST in 1993. His research includes natural language understanding, knowledge representation, linguistic knowledge acquisition and machine learning. Matsumoto directed RIKEN’s Knowledge Acquisition Team from April 2020 through March 2026; the team has closed. The team studied text and figure analysis, knowledge extraction and content-aware retrieval from scholarly documents.
- Works
- 591
- Citations
- 12,113
- h-index
- 46
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1979–1990
Machine inference and doctorate
Matsumoto worked in the Electrotechnical Laboratory’s Machine Inference Section from 1979 to 1988 and earned a Kyoto doctorate in information science in 1990.
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1993
Computational linguistics at NAIST
He became a professor at NAIST in 1993. His research includes natural language understanding, knowledge representation, linguistic knowledge acquisition and machine learning.
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2020–March 2026
Knowledge Acquisition Team
Matsumoto directed RIKEN’s Knowledge Acquisition Team from April 2020 through March 2026; the team has closed. The team studied text and figure analysis, knowledge extraction and content-aware retrieval from scholarly documents.
Sources and credits
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