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Young Incentive Award at NLP2016

March 10, 2016

The paper 「分散表現を用いたニュース記事の重複排除」 by Yahoo! JAPAN engineer Shunpei Okura (coauthors: Yukihiro Tagami, Akira Tajima) received the Young Incentive Award at the 22nd annual meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2016), held on March 7-10, 2016. This award is given to researchers under age 30, and was one of only five selected from among more than 100 entries.

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List of excellence awards and young incentive awards at the annual meeting(external link)