Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii


Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is a computational linguist and a professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Semiotics of Programming, an award-winning book semiotically analyzing computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs.

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Tanaka-Ishii received her doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 1997. In 1995, before completing her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, where she worked on semantic proximity matrices for the Japanese language. In 2010 she was awarded both the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities and the Okawa Publications Prize for her book, Semiotics of Programming. The book has been critically and favorably reviewed in Linguistic & Philosophical Investigations, Cognitive Technology Journal, and Semiotica.

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