Noriki Nishida
Ph.D. of Information Science and Technology
Research Scientist
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
Nihonbashi 1-chome Mitsui Building 15F
1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
Email: noriki.nishida [at] riken.jp

Noriki Nishida is a Research Scientist at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan. Previously, he received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from The University of Tokyo in 2020. He is working on research and development in natural language processing, with a particular focus on knowledge acquisition, information extraction, discourse analysis, multimodal modeling, large language models, and their applications in domains such as medicine and healthcare. He is interested in automatically extracting and organizing useful knowledge from large document collections to facilitate knowledge discovery.

News

• May 2025: Our paper titled "Do Multimodal Large Language Models Truly See What We Point At? Investigating Indexical, Iconic, and Symbolic Gesture Comprehension" (Noriki Nishida, Koji Inoue, Hideki Nakayama, Mayumi Bono, and Katsuya Takanashi) has been accepted by ACL 2025 Main Conference.
• March 2025: I gave a talk titled "Choosing to Conduct Research at a National Research Institute in This Era" at the SOKENDAI Career Path Support Seminar.
  
• December 2024: Our paper titled "Zero-Shot Entailment Learning for Ontology-Based Biomedical Annotation Without Explicit Mentions" (Munne et al.) has been accepted by COLING 2025.
• July 2024: Our paper titled "Mention-Agnostic Information Extraction for Ontological Annotation of Biomedical Articles" (El Khettari and Nishida et al.) has been accepted by BioNLP 2024 co-located with ACL 2024.
• April 2024: Our paper titled "Weakly Supervised Named Entity Recognition Using Thesaurus with Hierarchical Structure" (Shibahara et al.) has been accepted by Journal of Natura Language Processing.
• Febrary 2024: Our paper titled "Recent Trends in Personalized Dialogue Generation: A Review of Datasets, Methogolodies, and Evaluations" (Chen et al.) has been accepted by LREC-COLING 2024!

Research Areas

• natural language processing
• knowledge acquisition
• information extraction
• discourse analysis
• multimodal modeling
• large language models

Employment History

• December 2023 - Present: Research Scientist. RIKEN AIP.
• April 2022 - March 2025: Part-Time Lecturer. University of Tsukuba.
• July 2020 - June 2021: Visiting Researcher. The University of Tokyo.
• April 2020 - November 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher. RIKEN AIP.
• April 2018 - March 2020: Young Research Fellow (DC2). The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• November 2014 - August 2015: Part-Time Software Engineer. Logarhythm Inc.

Education

• March 2020: Ph.D. of Information Science and Technology. Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
• March 2017: Master of Information Science and Technology. Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
• March 2015: Bachelor of Engineering. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.

Teaching History

• October 2022 - March 2025: Data Science. University of Tsukuba.
• April 2022 - March 2025: Information Literacy. University of Tsukuba.
• October 2017 - March 2018: Data Science. The University of Tokyo. (TA)
• October 2014 - March 2015: Basic Programming Exercise. The University of Tokyo. (TA)

Awards

• December 2020: Outstanding Reviewers. EMNLP 2020.
• March 2020: Young Researcher Encouragement Award. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• July 2017: Annual Conference Award. The Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

Talks

• March 2025: Choosing to Conduct Research at a National Research Institute in This Era. The SOKENDAI Career Path Support Seminar.
• June 2023: Standard Supervision vs. In-Context Learning in NLP. RIKEN AIP.
  
• May 2022: Machine Learning for Knowledge Acquisition from Scholarly Articles. The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Biometric Society of Japan.
  
• November 2018: Towards Unsupervised Discourse Parsing. Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), Japan.
  
• March 2016: Deep Learning in Computer Vision. Kansai Chapter of the Acoustic Society of Japan.
  
• September 2015: Deep Learning in Video Recognition. Prometech Simulation Conference 2015.

Research Grants

• July 2022 - March 2023: JST AIP Challenge Program.
• May 2022 - March 2025: JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B) (Co-Investigator).
• April 2021 - March 2024: LJSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists.
• April 2018 - March 2020: JSPS KAKENHI Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2).

Academic Activities

• Program Committee
  • EMNLP 2023 Publicity Chairs
  • SCIDOCA 2021,2022,2023,2024
• Journal Editor
  • Journal of Natural Language Processing (April 2023 - Present)
• Journal Reviewer
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • ACM Transactions of Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
  • Journal of Natural Language Processing
• Conference Reviewer
  • ACL Rolling Review
  • ACL, NAACL, EACL
  • EMNLP
  • COLING
  • COLM
  • AAAI
  • IJCAI
  • ANLP (domestic conference)
  • MIRU (domestic conference)