FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO TAKE A MASTER COURSE

I. General Information

• Please contact the university office for the application procedures. We will not reply direct inquiries about the master course.


• We do not receive applicants who ever applied our laboratory but failed in the entrance examination.

II. Research activities required during the master course

• Students are required to write at least one scientific paper in English, with four pages or more, and to submit it to a peer-reviewed international conference or workshop.


• Students are required to present at least one paper at a Japanese domestic conference or workshop.

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO TAKE A DOCTORAL COURSE

I. General Information

• Please contact us by mmnlp -dot- naist -at- ml -dot- nict -dot- go -dot- jp.


• We do not receive applicants without first-authored and peer-reviewed scientific publications.

II. Research activities required during the doctoral course

• At a minimum, two related and well-organized research results + X are required.


• The research results are first-authored, peer-reviewed publications completed during the doctoral course. They should be written in English, at least four pages long, and co-authored with the supervisor; at least one of them must be published in a journal.


• The + X part is determined by the independence of research results. For example, the + X part will be substantially required if a published journal paper is only a trivial extension of a previously accepted conference paper.

Last Updated: 2026/05/01