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Award

2025/12/15

Director General Sadao Kurohashi Selected as an ACL Fellow 2025

Sadao Kurohashi, Director General of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), has been selected as an ACL Fellow 2025 by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), one of the world's leading academic societies in the field of natural language processing.
The ACL Fellows program honors ACL members who have made outstanding contributions to the field through scientific and technological excellence, significant service to the association and research community, or broader impact via education and outreach activities.

Title Conferred

ACL Fellows 2025

Awardee

Sadao Kurohash (The National Institute of Informatics)

Awarding Organization / Academic Society

ACL HomeAssociation for Computational Linguistics

Citation

Dr. Kurohashi has made internationally recognized contributions to natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT), particularly for the Japanese language. In addition, he has played a pivotal role in fostering and advancing the NLP research community across Asia, contributing to researcher development and strengthening international collaboration. These long-standing achievements led to his selection as an ACL Fellow.

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December 11, 2025

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