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Library and Information Science Lab
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A lab that explores how knowledge and information are collected and organized, through the lens of libraries and language.
AboutAbout the lab
Collecting, organizing, and making knowledge usable
The Library and Information Science Lab studies how knowledge and information can be collected, organized, and made usable, from a social perspective that centers on libraries and people.
Its themes range widely, from libraries and the nature of books to web technologies, the organization and representation of knowledge, the structure of specialized vocabularies, and translation studies.
The lab's basic philosophy is to think about technology from the standpoint of supporting people's intellectual learning.
Graduate students carry out research on their own topics under supervision, and report on their progress at a joint lab seminar attended by all graduate students and faculty members.
Key terms
- Specialized vocabulary
- The set of terms used by experts in a particular field, such as medicine or law
- Tacit knowledge
- Knowledge, such as that gained from experience or know-how, that a person can put into practice but has difficulty explaining in words
- Machine translation
- Technology in which a computer automatically translates text from one language into another
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Outstanding Presentation Encouragement Award from the Japan Society of Library and Information Science
Research on automatic term generation based on specialized-vocabulary graphs received an Excellence Award at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
A Project Associate Professor created the Iwanami Web Catalog
A master's student received the Hackathon Award at the Young Researchers' Symposium on Natural Language Processing (YANS2025)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how knowledge and information can be collected, organized, and made usable, from a social perspective that centers on libraries and people. Its work covers both library-oriented and information-oriented themes, from the history of libraries and books, to language analysis, to the technologies that support document creation and translation.
*Illustrative imageThe Configuration of Language and Media
Guided by the broad question of what it means to think in language, this theme analyzes the structure of how media and languages are distributed. It considers the ideals that modern libraries have sought to realize, what is presupposed by them, and how these may change in the future, covering everything from theory to literacy practice and engineering applications.
*Illustrative imageThe History of Libraries and Knowledge
This theme studies how academic and other forms of knowledge have been shaped since the modern era through media centered on books, from the perspective of the library as an institution. It examines how collections have been built, what roles they have played in scholarship and education, and the networks that connect libraries to one another.
*Illustrative imageModeling Knowledge of Documents and Translation
The lab models in detail the processes of producing, organizing, distributing, and providing books and documents. It aims to make the knowledge of document design, writing, and translation, which has remained tacit knowledge held by experts, available in a form that can be shared. It also studies the multilingual deployment of administrative and industrial documents using tools such as machine translation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Library and Information Science Lab consist of faculty members and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKyo KageuraPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorShuntaro Kawamura
- LecturerRei Miyata
- Project Associate ProfessorTakeshi Abekawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Bookshelves in Hove Library” Andy Li / CC0 (cropped)
- The Configuration of Language and Media: “Metal movable type” Willi Heidelbach / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- The History of Libraries and Knowledge: “Card catalog at the Indiana State Library - cabinet exterior” TBurmeister (WMF) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Modeling Knowledge of Documents and Translation: “Rosetta Stone - front face - corrected image” Awikimate / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (山名淳研究室): “Berlin, Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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