Personal Profile for the School Year of 2023-2024
Yasunari HARADA
Japanese version

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Primary Contact Information

• email address: harada at waseda dot jp
• http://www.f.waseda.jp/harada/index-j.html
• postal address: Faculty of Law, Waseda University, Nishi-Waseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, JAPAN.
  Please do not send any material to this address during the fiscal 2023-2024.
• Rm 403, Guest house 1, 101 Kuangfu Road, Sec. 2, Hsinchu, 300044, TAIWAN
• c/o
  Dr. Jason S. Chang, Natural Language Processing Lab., Rm 712, Delta Building,
  Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University,
  101 Kuangfu Road, Sec. 2, Hsinchu, 300044, TAIWAN

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Phone and Fax Numbers

• telephone operators available at: 81-3-3203-4141
  08:30-21:00 (JST) weekdays throughout the year
  08:30-18:00 (JST) Saturdays except during summer and winter breaks
  excepting Sundays, National Holidays, University Holidays and COVID-19 lockdowns
  Tell the operators to connect to the six-digit extension numbers below.
• Dial 81-3-3203-4151 for touch-tone signal dial-in accessible 24-7.
  After the recorded female voice instruction in Japanese, dial the last four digits of the extension numbers below:
• office: dial direct 81-3-5286-1398 or ext. 71-3702.
• Faculty of Law, common fax, dial direct 81-3-5286-1853 or ext. 71-4147.

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Personal History

• Professional History
  • April 20th, 2023-March 31st, 2024: Visiting Scholar at Natural Language Processing Lab., Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • November 8th, 2018-September 20th, 2022: Director at Admissions Center, Waseda University
  • March 31st, 2018: unsubscribed from Information Processing Society of Japan
  • March 20th, 2018-present: Research Member at Data Science Center, Waseda University
  • April 28th, 2017-March, 2020: President of Association for Business Communication in Japan
  • April, 2016-March, 2018: Council Member of Waseda University
  • May, 2015-March, 2025: Research Member of Meiji University Insitute for Service Innovation
  • January, 2015-December, 2012: Steering Committee Member of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
  • September 21st, 2014-September 20th, 2018: Associate Dean in Charge of Admission at School of Law, Waseda University
  • April, 2012: LLSJ: Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan changed its name into JASLI: Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information.
  • December, 2012-December, 2014: Steering Committee Member of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
  • May, 2012-May, 2020: Consultant (Previous Chair) of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
  • April, 2011-present: Research Member at Waseda Institute for the Study of Language and Information
  • May, 2010-May, 2012: Chair of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
  • April, 2010-March, 2016: President of the English Language Education Society of Japan, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/jeles/index-j.html (this page in Japanese)
  • May, 2008-May, 2010: Technical Committee Member of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
  • September, 2006-August, 2012: President of the Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/LLSJ/index-j.html (this page in Japanese)
  • July, 2005-August, 2008: Board of Directors Member of ILA: Non-Profit Organization Internet Learning Academy, http://www.ila.or.jp/english/index.html (this page in Japanese)
  • April, 2005- March, 2008: Technical Committee Member of the Ad-hoc Technical Committee on Intercultural Collaboration, the Institute of Communication Electronics, Information and Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
  • December, 2004-December, 2008: Steering Committee Member and Board of Directors Memeber of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
  • September, 2004-present: Professor at Faculty of Law, Waseda University (this change due to organizational re-structuring of the university)
  • October, 2003-present: Steering Committee member of PACLIC: Pacific-Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/PACLIC-STEERING/index.html
  • January, 2002-May, 2005: Steering Committee Member of ILA: Non-Profit Organization Internet Learning Academy, http://www.ila.or.jp/english/index.html (this page in Japanese)
  • March, 2001-March 2002: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA
  • December, 2000-present: Director at the Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
  • April, 1999-March, 2000: Visiting Instructor at Postal College, Ministry of Post and Telecommunication
  • April, 1997-March, 2004: Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
  • April, 1997-present: Adjunct Researcher at Media Network Center, Waseda University
  • June, 1996-March, 2001: Associate Dean at Media Network Center, Waseda University
  • April, 1995-present: Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Education, Waseda University
  • November, 1994-May, 1996: Associate Director at Centre for Informatics, Waseda University
  • April, 1994-September, 2004: Professor at School of Law, Waseda University
  • April, 1994-March, 1996: Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
  • April, 1994-March, 1995: Adjunct Research Member, International Research Institute of Japanese Culture, Kyoto
  • March, 1991-March 1993: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA
  • April, 1989-March, 2004: Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
  • April, 1989-March, 1994: Assistant Professor at School of Law, Waseda University
  • April, 1986-March, 1989: Instructor at School of Law, Waseda University
  • April, 1985-March, 1989: Part-time Lecturer at School of Law, Waseda University
  • April, 1985-March, 1992: Research Member of JPSG-WG, Institute for the New Generation Computer Technology, Tokyo
• Education
  • April, 1981-March, 1985, Department of English Language and English Literature, Doctoral Course at Graduate School of Humanity Studies, Tokyo University.
  • April, 1978-March, 1981, Department of English Language and English Literature, Master's Course at Graduate School of Humanity Studies, Tokyo University.
  • April, 1976-March, 1978, Department of School Education, Faculty of Pedagogy, Tokyo University.
  • April, 1973-March, 1976, Science Course I, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tokyo University.
• Fields of Study:
  • Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics
  • Grammatical Theory: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Computer and Network Ethics Education
  • Language Learning in Collaborative Environments
  • Technology Enabled and/or Enhanced Learning and Testing
• Current Research Projects:
  • A Field Theory of Communicating Agents: Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Utterance Data Collection from College Learners of English in Japan
• Additional Research Interests
  • Literacy, Orality and Communication Ethics Education
  • Learner Profiling and Learner Adaptive Support
  • Sonicalization of Algorithms and Large-Scale Data for Research and Pedagogical Applications
• Selected List of Publications in English

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Notices

• Copyright © 1996-2023 Yasunari HARADA. All rights reserved.
• First drafted May 21st, 1996. Last revised July 29th, 2023.