FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO TAKE A MASTER COURSE

I. Steps

• First, please check the admission information and contact the university office. Please be sure to tell them your "first choice" is our laboratory.


• The university office will reply to the applicant whether it is possible to contact our laboratory.


• After contacting with our laboratory, the applicant will be asked to submit a research plan written in English and then we will arrange an online interview.


• The applicant will be assigned to our laboratory as long as passing our interview and then the university's entrance examination.

II. To avoid problems in laboratory assignment

• We do not accept applicants who do not apply for our laboratory as their "first choice".


• We will confirm whether the applicant wants to join other laboratories of NAIST at the interview.

III. Language skills required by our laboratory

• If the applicant can pass the entrance examination, no specific language test score is required, whilst:


• The applicant needs to have English ability to read and write scientific papers. This will be confirmed by the submitted research plan.


• The applicant needs to have English or Japanese ability to communicate orally. This will be confirmed at the online interview.


• It is possible to communicate in Chinese at our laboratory, but we cannot accept applicants who do not have the English or Japanese skills mentioned above.


• International students with difficulties in language skills can be accepted as non-degree research students (i.e., 研究生). Please consult with us.

IV. 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.

V. To further take a doctoral course after the master course

• Please read the following section from III. and consult with us at any time.


• Notice that the requirements for a doctoral student are more than those for the master course. Master students at our laboratory are not encouraged to take a further doctoral course if they cannot meet the requirements.

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO TAKE A DOCTORAL COURSE

I. Steps

• Please feel free to contact us directly at any time. Please send e-mails to: att-mnlp -at- khn -dot- nict -dot- go -dot- jp


• We will ask the applicant to submit an academic curriculum vitae and a research plan, and then arrange an online interview.


• If it is possible for us to accept the applicant, the applicant can contact the university office to confirm the admission procedure.

II. To avoid problems in laboratory assignment

• We will confirm whether the applicant has consulted or will do so with other laboratories of NAIST at the interview.

III. Language skills required by our laboratory

• The applicant should be proficient in English to read and write scientific papers, and to orally introduce, explain, and discuss his/her own research. This will be confirmed at the online interview.


• Applicants who do not have the above-mentioned English skills will not be accepted, even if they can communicate in Japanese or Chinese.

IV. Research abilities required by our laboratory

• The applicant is required to have ever published at least one first-authored and peer-reviewed scientific paper, written in English with at least four pages.


• Please consult with us if you have decent English scientific publications but cannot meet the "first-authored" and "peer-reviewed" requirements at the same time.


• We will not accept applicants having no "first-authored" nor "peer-reviewed" English scientific publications.

V. 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 during the doctoral course. They should be written in English, at least four pages; 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.

FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS OF LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES

If you are a native speaker of a certain low-resource and under-studied language, and have an interest in the fields of computational linguistics, natural language processing, or speech processing, We can provide supervision of a master course with a research theme on data construction and application of your language.

Please feel free to contact us directly by: att-mnlp -at- khn -dot- nict -dot- go -dot- jp

For general information to take a master course, please refer to here, whilst:

• Please first talk with us for the research theme before contact the university office.


• We may accept the applicant as a non-degree research student up to one year, if the applicant cannot meet the requirements of a master course.

Last Updated: 2025/05/22