”Innovative Communication Laboratory
Our Innovative Communication Laboratory conducts research@on basic technologies
for realizing computers beyond human intelligence,@and on theoretical
foundations of information and@communications infrastructure.
Specifically, we have been studying information science and engineering
including data mining based on statistical learning, sensor networks, natural
language processing, network security, and quantum computers, as well as
social science including linguistic psychology.
Computing Theory Research Group
Computing theory research aims at establishing a theoretical foundation
to handle information properly on computers and networks. Secure communication
protocols on the internet and efficient computing algorithms on quantum
computers etc. are being pursued with information and computer science
approaches. The goal is to support a safe, secure, convenient, and pleasant
next-generation network society.
Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group
The Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group is committed to the
research of analyzing complex phenomena emergent in the real and cyber
worlds by using statistical machine learning, data mining, data stream
analysis and sensor networks. We focus on the two research topics: (1)
we deal with the large-scale, indeterminate and ever-changing information
on the Web to explore the latent semantic structure that governs its data
generation process and enables new knowledge discoveries, and (2) we deal
with sensor data and sensor networks to establish an intelligent and user-friendly
environment that can "think" like a human by exploring real-world
"semantics" that bridges between real and cyber worlds by interpreting
and symbolizing sensor data.
Linguistic Intelligence Research Group
To make a computer that can handle languages as we human can do, we are
working on natural language processing where we explore the computational
methods for analyzing the meaning of written and spoken languages to develop
applications such as machine translation, summarization, text classification,
and question answering. We are also working on psycholinguistics where
we explore the mechanism of human language understanding and how that mechanism
is acquired by infants.
