Awards, Talks, Scholarships

Awards

  • 2026 | Committee Special Award (委員特別賞)
    • In the 32rd Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (言語処理学会第32回年次大会)
    • Youmi Ma, 岡崎 直観. 検索ヘッドに基づく大規模言語モデルの長文脈処理の改善. 言語処理学会第32回年次大会 (NLP2026), A9, B6-10, pp. 2561–2566, 2026年3月.
  • 2025 | Sponsorship Award: CyberAgent (スポンサー賞：サイバーエージェント)
    • In the 20th Symposium of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies (第20回言語処理若手シンポジウム)
    • 一瀬 達矢, 馬 尤咪, 大井 聖也, 小池 隆斗, 岡崎 直観. 対照的デコーディングを用いた指示学習データの合成. 第20回YANSシンポジウム (YANS2025), S1-P34, 2025年9月.
  • 2025 | Excellence Paper Award of 2024 (2024年度論文賞)
    • Journal of Natural Language Processing
    • Youmi Ma, An Wang, and 岡崎 直観. 文書レベル関係抽出における根拠認識の統合. 自然言語処理, 31(1):105–133, March 2024.
  • 2023 | Encouragement Award (奨励賞)
    • In the 18th Symposium of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies (NLP若手の会 (YANS) 第18回シンポジウム)
    • Awarded to the first author of outstanding presentations.
    • Youmi Ma, An Wang, 岡崎 直観. 日本語文書レベル関係抽出コーパスの構築. 第18回NLP若手の会シンポジウム, S5-P19, 2023年8月.
  • 2023 | Best paper Award (first place) (最優秀賞)
    • In the 29th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (言語処理学会第29回年次大会)
    • Awarded to researches recognized as the most outstanding among all submissions.
    • Youmi Ma, An Wang, 岡崎 直観. 文書レベル関係抽出における根拠認識の統合. 言語処理学会第29回年次大会 (NLP2023), B3-3, pp. 605–610, 2023年3月.
  • 2023 | Sponsorship Award: Hitachi (スポンサー賞：日立製作所)
    • In the 29th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (言語処理学会第29回年次大会)
    • 服部 翔, Youmi Ma, 岡崎 直観. クエリ指向要約におけるクエリと要約の統合的な生成. 言語処理学会第29回年次大会 (NLP2023), H5-2, pp. 1244–1249, 2023年3月.
  • 2021 | Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award (若手奨励賞)
    • In the 27th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (言語処理学会第27回年次大会)
    • Awarded to young researchers who have presented their work in the annual meeting and recognized as prospective.
    • Youmi Ma, 平岡 達也, 岡崎 直観. BERTを用いたTable-Fillingによる固有表現抽出と関係抽出. 言語処理学会第27回年次大会 (NLP2021), pp. 1274–1279, 2021年3月.

Invited Talks

  • Mar. 10, 2025 | The 31th Annual Meeting of Natural Language Processing (NLP2025)
    • Topic: Incorporating Evidence Retrieval into Document-Level Relation Extraction by Guiding Attention
  • Feb. 28, 2023 | Plenary Meeting of AIRC-KIRT team
    • Topic: Guiding Attention with Evidence for Improving Document-level Relation Extraction

Scholarships

  • 2019 – 2024 | Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship
    • Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho)
    • Awarded to prospective foreign students who study in higher education institutions in Japan.
  • 2019 | Further Education Funding
    • ShanghaiTech University
    • Awarded to prospective graduates who decide to proceed to higher education.
  • 2016 - 2018 | Dean’s Scholarship
    • ShanghaiTech University
    • Awarded to top students each year regarding their outstanding performance in the academic field.