Intelligence Science and Technology Course, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

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FY 2024 †

Zhuoyuan Mao who got his Ph.D. degree last fiscal year received the AAMT Nagao Award Student Encouragement Award for his following doctoral thesis (2024/5). †

• Breaking Language Barriers: Enhancing Multilingual Representation for Sentence Alignment and Translation

We will present the following papers at ACL 2024 (2024/8) . †

• Sirou Chen, Sakiko Yahata, Shuichiro Shimizu, Zhengdong Yang, Yihang Li, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi:
  MELD-ST: An Emotion-aware Speech Translation Dataset (Findings)
• Yahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui Chu:
  Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity Recognition (Findings)
• Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong, Dan Su, Chenhui Chu, Dong Yu:
  MM-LLMs: Recent Advances in MultiModal Large Language Models (Findings)
• Zhen Wan, Yating Zhang, Yexiang Wang, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Reformulating Domain Adaptation of Large Language Models as Adapt-Retrieve-Revise: A Case Study on Chinese Legal Domain (Findings)

We will hold a briefing session (2024/5/11) †

• As part of the admission orientation of the Intelligence Science and Technology Course held on 11 May, 2024, our lab will have an onsite briefing session after the course-wide session. We plan to hold two briefing sessions from 15:00 and 16:00, respectively.

FY 2023 †

The following paper received the FY2023 best paper award of the Journal of Natural Language Processing (2024/3) †

• Kazumasa Omura, Daisuke Kawahara, and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset based on Basic Events and its Application

We will present the following papers at LREC-COLING 2024 (2024/5). †

• Taishi Chika, Taro Okahisa, Takashi Kodama, Yin Jou Huang, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Domain Transferable Semantic Frames for Technical Interview Dialogues
• Yikun Sun, Zhen Wan, Nobuhiro Ueda, Sakiko Yahata, Fei Cheng, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Rapidly Developing High-quality Instruction Data and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models with Minimal Human Effort: A Case Study on Japanese
• Norizo Sakaguchi, Yugo Murawaki, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Identifying Source Language Expressions for Pre-editing in Machine Translation
• Nobuhiro Ueda, Hideko Habe, Yoko Matsui, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Sadao Kurohashi and Koichiro Yoshino: J-CRe3:
  A Japanese Conversation Dataset for Real-world Reference Resolution
• Hao Wang, Tang Li, Chenhui Chu, Rui Wang and Pinpin Zhu:
  Towards Human-Like Machine Comprehension: Few-Shot Relational Learning in Visually-Rich Documents
• Rikito Takahashi, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Abstractive Multi-Video Captioning: Benchmark Dataset Construction and Extensive Evaluation
• Yugo Murawaki:
  Principal Component Analysis as a Sanity Check for Bayesian Phylolinguistic Reconstruction
• Kazumasa Omura, Fei Cheng and Sadao Kurohashi:
  An Empirical Study of Synthetic Data Generation for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
• Xiaotian Lu, Jiyi Li, Zhen Wan, Xiaofeng Lin, Koh Takeuchi and Hisashi Kashima:
  Evaluating Saliency Explanations in NLP by Crowdsourcing

We will present the following papers at EMNLP2023 (2023/12) †

• Yihang Li, Shuichiro Shimizu, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, Wei Li:
  Video-Helpful Multimodal Machine Translation
• Shunya Kato, Shuhei Kurita, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi: ARKitSceneRefer:
  Text-based Localization of Small Objects in Diverse Real-World 3D Indoor Scenes (Findings)
• Hao Wang, Xiahua Chen, Rui Wang, Chenhui Chu:
  Vision-Enhanced Semantic Entity Recognition in Document Images via Visually-Asymmetric Consistency Learning
• Hao Wang, Qingxuan Wang, Yue Li, Changqing Wang, Chenhui Chu, Rui Wang:
  DocTrack: A Visually-Rich Document Dataset Really Aligned with Human Eye Movement for Machine Reading (Findings)
• Zhen Wan, Fei Cheng, Zhuoyuan Mao, Qianying Liu, Haiyue Song, Jiwei Li, Sadao Kurohashi:
  GPT-RE: In-context Learning for Relation Extraction using Large Language Models

We had a lab trip to Ehime. (9/13-14) †

The following paper received the best paper award of ACL2023 Student Research Workshop (2023/7) †

• Takashi Kodama, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yin Jou Huang, Taro Okahisa, and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Is a Knowledge-based Response Engaging?: An Analysis on Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Information Source Annotation

The following paper was accepted for ICCE 2023. †

• Kazumasa Omura, Kei Kubo, Frederic Bergeron, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Toward Game-Based Learning of Japanese Writing for Elementary School Students (accepted as a short paper)

We will present the following paper at IWSLT2023 (2023/7) †

• Zhengdong Yang, Shuichiro Shimizu, Zhou Wangjin, Sheng Li, and Chenhui Chu:
  Kyoto Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023

We will present the following papers at ACL2023 (2023/7). †

• Tatsuro Inaba, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Fei Cheng and Sadao Kurohashi:
  MultiTool-CoT: GPT-3 Can Use Multiple External Tools with Chain of Thought Prompting
• Zhuoyuan Mao, Raj Dabre, Qianying Liu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Exploring the Impact of Layer Normalization for Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation
• Shuichiro Shimizu, Chenhui Chu, Sheng Li, and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Towards Speech Dialogue Translation Mediating Speakers of Different Languages (Findings)
• Nobuhiro Ueda, Kazumasa Omura, Takashi Kodama, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: KWJA: A Unified Japanese Analyzer Based on Foundation Models (System Demonstration)

FY 2022 †

The following papers received the excellence award of the 29-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (2023/3) †

• Tatsuro Inaba, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi:
  A Reasoning Framework Using Multiple External Tools based on Large Language Models

The following papers received the young researcher award of the 29-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (2023/3) †

• Koki Watanabe, Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Extracting Textual Expressions Characteristic of a Population by Means of Interpreting Neural Classifier Predictions: A Case Study in Americans
• Shunya Kato, Shuhei Kurita, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi:
  ARKitSceneRefer: Text-based Localization of Small Objects in Diverse Real-World 3D Indoor Scenes
• Shiho Matta, Yin Jou Huang, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Utilizing Pseudo Dialogue in Conversational Semantic Frame Analysis

The following papers received the special committee award of the 29-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (2023/3) †

• Nobuhiro Ueda, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Yasumoto Kawanishi, Sadao Kurohashi, Koichiro Yoshino:
  Construction of a Multi-modal Dialogue Dataset for Comprehensive Real-world Reference Resolution

We will present the following papers at ICASSP2023 (2023/6) †

• Qianying Liu, Zhuo Gong, Zhengdong Yang, Yuhang Yang, Sheng Li, Chenchen Ding, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hao Huang, Fei Cheng, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Hierarchical Softmax for End-to-End Low-resource Multilingual Speech Recognition
• Kak Soky, Sheng Li, Chenhui Chu, Tatsuya Kawahara:
  Domain and Language Adaptation Using Heterogeneous Datasets for Wav2vec2.0-based Speech Recognition of Low-resource Language

We will present the following papers at EACL2023 (2023/5). †

• Zhuoyuan Mao and Tetsuji Nakagawa:
  LEALLA: Learning Lightweight Language-agnostic Sentence Embedding with Knowledge Distillation

• Qianying Liu, Wenyu Guan, Jianhao Shen, Fei Cheng and Sadao Kurohashi:
  ComSearch: Equation Searching with Combinatorial Strategy for Solving Math Word Problems with Weak Supervision

• Zhen Wan, Fei Cheng, Qianying Liu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Haiyue Song and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Relation Extraction with Weighted Contrastive Pre-training on Distant Supervision (Findings)

Prof. Sadao Kurohashi will assume the position of Director of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in April 2023. The cross-appointment procedure between Kyoto University and NII is under way. †

We released the Japanese Culinary Interview Dialog Corpus (CIDC). †

The following paper has been selected as Outstanding Paper of COLING2022. (10/15) †

• Kazumasa Omura and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Improving Commonsense Contingent Reasoning by Pseudo-data and its Application to the Related Tasks

We will present the following papers at EMNLP2022 (2022/12) †

• Zhen Wan, Qianying Liu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi and Jiwei Li:
  Rescue Implicit and Long-tail Cases: Nearest Neighbor Relation Extraction
• Yibin Shen, Qianying Liu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Fei Cheng and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Textual Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Solving Math Word Problems (Findings)

We will present the following papers at AACL-IJCNLP2022 (2022/11/20-23) †

• Haiyue Song, Raj Dabre, Zhuoyuan Mao, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi:
  BERTSeg: BERT Based Unsupervised Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation

• Yibin Shen, Qianying Liu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Zhen Wan, Fei Cheng and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Seeking Diverse Reasoning Logic: Controlled Equation Expression Generation for Solving Math Word Problems

• Jumon Nozaki and Yugo Murawaki:
  Addressing Segmentation Ambiguity in Neural Linguistic Steganography

We released a Japanese analyzer named KWJA on Github. The following paper presented KWJA and received the Outstanding Research Award of the 253-th Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (2022/9) †

• Nobuhiro Ueda, Kazumasa Omura, Takashi Kodama, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  KWJA: A Japanese Analyzer Based on Pre-trained Language Models

We will present the following paper at CRAC2022 (2022/10) †

• Nobuhiro Ueda and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Improving Bridging Reference Resolution using Continuous Essentiality from Crowdsourcing

We will present the following paper at COLING2022 (2022/10/12-17) †

• Kazumasa Omura and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Improving Commonsense Contingent Reasoning by Pseudo-data and its Application to the Related Tasks

We will present the following papers at Interspeech 2022 (2022/9) †

• Zhengdong Yang, Wangjin Zhou, Chenhui Chu, Sheng Li, Raj Dabre, Raphael Rubino and Yi Zhao:
  Fusion of Self-supervised Learned Models for MOS Prediction

• Kak Soky, Sheng Li, Masato Mimura, Chenhui Chu and Tatsuya Kawahara:
  Leveraging Simultaneous Translation for Enhancing Transcription of Low-resource Language via Cross Attention Mechanism

Project Researcher Taro Okahisa moved to Shizuoka University as an Assistant Professor. (2021/7/1) †

We will present the following papers at NAACL 2022 Student Research Workshop †

• Takumi Yoshikoshi, Takashi Kodama, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Explicit Use of Topicality in Dialogue Response Generation

• Prakhar Saxena, Yin Jou Huang and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Static and Dynamic Speaker Modeling based on Graph Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

We will present a paper at DialDoc2022 (2022/5) †

• Takashi Kodama, Ribeka Tanaka and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Construction of Hierarchical Structured Knowledge-based Recommendation Dialogue Dataset and Dialogue System

We will hold a briefing session (2022/5/14) †

As part of the admission orientation of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology held on 14 May, 2022, our lab will have an onsite & online hybrid briefing session. If you will join online. please proceed to a breakout room that will be set up after the department-wide session. We plan to hold two briefing sessions from 15:00 and 16:00, respectively.

We will present a paper at NAACL 2022 (2022/7) †

• Zhuoyuan Mao, Chenhui Chu, Raj Dabre, Haiyue Song, Zhen Wan, Sadao Kurohashi:
  When do Contrastive Word Alignments Improve Many-to-many Neural Machine Translation? (Findings)

We will present a paper at ACL 2022 Student Research Workshop (2022/5) †

• Yongmin Kim, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Flexible Visual Grounding

Associate Professor Chu received a Google Research Scholar Award for his Visual Scene-Aware Machine Translation research proposal. (2022/4) †

We will present the following papers at LREC2022 (2022/6) †

• Fei Cheng, Shuntaro Yada, Ribeka Tanaka, Eiji ARAMAKI and Sadao Kurohashi:
  JaMIE: A Pipeline Japanese Medical Information Extraction System with Novel Relation Annotation

• Felix Giovanni Virgo, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Improving Event Duration Question Answering by Leveraging Existing Temporal Information Extraction Data

• Taro Okahisa, Ribeka Tanaka, Takashi Kodama, Yin Jou Huang and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Constructing a Culinary Interview Dialogue Corpus with Video Conferencing Tool

• Yihang Li, Shuichiro Shimizu, Weiqi Gu, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  VISA: An Ambiguous Subtitles Dataset for Visual Scene-aware Machine Translation

FY 2021 †

The following paper received the Special Committee Award of the 28-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (2022/3) †

• Rikito Takahashi, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Abstractive Captioning from Multiple Videos
• Yihang Li, Shuichirou Shimizu, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Towards the Construction of Multimodal Machine Translation Dataset Focusing on Ambiguity of Translation

We have released the app for Japanese composition study "Let's get started with Ichimaru! Kotobamusubi" developed in the research project with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. †

The following article by Takumi Yoshikoshi and Hirokazu Kiyomaru received the WHI award of Qiita Advent Calendar. †

• Development of an automatic Japanese wordplay generator (in Japanese)

The following paper was accepted to AAAI 2022 †

• Hirokazu Kiyomaru and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Minimally-Supervised Joint Learning of Event Volitionality and Subject Animacy Classification

We went on a hike to Manshuin. (2021/11/17) †

The following papers are accepted by EMNLP2021 Findings †

• Masato Umakoshi, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution Can Benefit from Parallel Texts Through Neural Transfer Learning

Dr. Okahisa joined our lab as a researcher. (2021/8/1) †

Project Researcher Ribeka Tanaka moved to Ochanomizu University as a Project Lecturer. (2021/7/1) †

We will present the follwing papers at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Student Research Workshop (2021/8/1-6) †

• Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network
• Jules Samaran, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu and Yuta Nakashima:
  Attending Self-Attention: A Case Study of Visually Grounded Supervision in Vision-and-Language Transformers

We will present the follwing papers at ACL2021 (2021/8/1-6) †

• Zhuoyuan Mao, Prakhar Gupta, Chenhui Chu, Martin Jaggi, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Lightweight Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Learning

We will hold an online briefing session (8 May, 2021) †

As part of the online admission orientation of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology held on 8 May, 2021, our lab will have an briefing session. If you are considering taking the entrance examination to be held in August 2021, please submit the registration form to join!

FY 2020 †

We will present the follwing papers at NAACL2021 (2021/6/6-11) †

• Hirokazu Kiyomaru and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Contextualized and Generalized Sentence Representations by Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

• Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Chenhui Chu, Noriko Takemura, Yuta Nakashima, Hajime Nagahara:
  WRIME: A New Dataset for Emotional Intensity Estimation with Subjective and Objective Annotations

• Honai Ueoka, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Frustratingly Easy Edit-based Linguistic Steganography with a Masked Language Model

We will present the following paper at EACL2021 (2021/4/19-23) †

• Yin Jou Huang and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Extractive Summarization Considering Discourse and Coreference Relations based on Heterogeneous Graph

As part of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology's Artificial Intelligence online course, we held Session 3 Natural Language Processing †

We will present the following papers at COLING2020 (2020/12/8-13) †

• Raj Dabre, Chenhui Chu, Anoop Kunchukuttan:
  Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (Tutorial)

• Nobuhiro Ueda, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  BERT-based Cohesion Analysis of Japanese Texts

• Oleksandr Harust, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Native-like Expression Identification by Contrasting Native and Proficient Second Language Speakers

The following papers are accepted by EMNLP2020 Findings †

• Fei Cheng, Masayuki Asahara, Ichiro Kobayashi and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Dynamically Updating Event Representations for Temporal Relation Classification with Multi-category Learning
• Haoran Zhang, Qianying Liu, Aysa Xuemo Fan, Heng Ji, Daojian Zeng, Fei Cheng, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Minimize Exposure Bias of Seq2Seq Models in Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

We will present the following papers at EMNLP2020 (2020/11/8-12) †

• Kazumasa Omura, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  A Method for Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset based on Basic Events
• Yugo Murawaki:
  Latent Geographical Factors for Analyzing the Evolution of Dialects in Contact

The following paper received the Young Researcher award of the 244-th meeting of IPSJ Natural Language Processing(link in Japanese) (2020/7) †

• Takumi Yoshikoshi, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Multilingualization of a Natural Language Inference Dataset Using Machine Translation

We will hold an online briefing session (23 May, 2020) †

We will hold a zoom-based online briefing session (open-lab) for those who are considering taking the entrance examination to be held in August 2020. Please submit the registration form to join!

We will present the following papers at ACL2020SRW †

• Haiyue Song, Raj Dabre, Zhuoyuan Mao, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi and Eiichiro Sumita:
  Pre-training via Leveraging Assisting Languages for Neural Machine Translation
• Yu Tanaka, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Building a Japanese Typo Dataset from Wikipedia's Revision History

Associate Professor Daisuke Kawahara moved to School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University as a professor. †

We will present the following papers at LREC2020 (2020/5) †

• Yudai Kishimoto, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Adapting BERT to Implicit Discourse Relation Classification with a Focus on Discourse Connectives
• Ritsuko Iwai, Daisuke Kawahara, Takatsune Kumada and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Development of a Japanese Personality Dictionary based on Psychological Methods
• Ritsuko Iwai, Daisuke Kawahara, Takatsune Kumada and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Acquiring Social Knowledge about Personality and Driving-related Behavior
• Shuntaro Yada, Ayami Joh, Ribeka Tanaka, Fei Cheng, Eiji Aramaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Towards a Versatile Medical-Annotation Guideline Feasible Without Heavy Medical Knowledge: Starting From Critical Lung Diseases
• Haiyue Song, Raj Dabre, Atsushi Fujita, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Coursera Corpus Mining and Multistage Fine-Tuning for Improving Lectures Translation
• Zhuoyuan Mao, Fabien Cromieres, Raj Dabre, Haiyue Song and Sadao Kurohashi:
  JASS: Japanese-specific Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
• Takashi Kodama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi and Hidetoshi Kawabata:
  Generating Responses that Reflect Meta Information in User-Generated Question Answer Pairs

FY 2019 †

The following paper received a best paper award of the Journal of Natural Language Processing (2020/3) †

• Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Neural Network-based Chinese Joint Syntactic Analysis

The following paper received the Young Researcher award of the 26-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (link in Japanese) (2020/3) †

• Nobuhiro Ueda, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Integrated anaphora and coreference resolution using BERT and Refinement Network

We will present the following papers at EMNLP-IJCNLP2019 (2019/11/3-7) †

• Jun Saito, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Minimally Supervised Learning of Affective Events Using Discourse Relations
• Qianying Liu, Wenyu Guan, Sujian Li and Daisuke Kawahara:
  Tree-structured Decoding for Solving Math Word Problems
• Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Kazumasa Omura, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Diversity-aware Event Prediction based on a Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Reconstruction (COIN 2019)
• Norio Takahashi, Tomohide Shibata, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Machine Comprehension Improves Domain-Specific Japanese Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis (MRQA 2019)

We presented the following paper at SemDial2019(2019/9/4-6) †

• Takashi Kodama, Ribeka Tanaka and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Collection and Analysis of Meaningful Dialogue by Constructing a Movie Recommendation Dialogue System

We published the 2018 progress report about joint research for social problem-solving using LINE. (link in Japanese) (6/6) †

We will present the following paper at SIGIR2019 (2019/7/21-25) (4/15) †

• Wataru Sakata, Tomohide Shibata, Ribeka Tanaka and Sadao Kurohashi:
  FAQ Retrieval using Query-Question Similarity and BERT-Based Query-Answer Relevance

We will present the following paper at IJCNN2019 (2019/7/14-19) †

• Abhishek Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Emotion helps Sentiment: A Multi-task Model for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis

We presented the following papers at NAACL2019 (2019/6/2-7) †

• Yin Jou Huang, Jing Lu, Sadao Kurohashi and Vincent Ng:
  Improving Event Coreference Resolution by Learning Argument Compatibility from Unlabeled Data
• Arseny Tolmachev, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Shrinking Japanese Morphological Analyzers With Neural Networks and Semi-supervised Learning

Pretrained BERT model for Japanese has been released. (link in Japanese) (4/3) †

FY 2018 †

The following paper received the Best Paper award at the 25th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (link in Japanese) (3/18) †

• Shuhei Kurita and Anders Søgaard:
  The semantic dependency parsing model using deep reinforcement learning finds out the easy-first parsing strategy

The following paper received the Young Researcher award at the 25th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (link in Japanese) (3/18) †

• Hiroki Nakagawa, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  A quantitative and reductionist analysis of the funniness of Ogiri by crowdsourcing-based annotation

We will present the following papers at NAACL2019 (2019/6/2-7) (2/26) †

• Yin Jou Huang, Jing Lu, Sadao Kurohashi and Vincent Ng:
  Improving Event Coreference Resolution by Learning Argument Compatibility from Unlabeled Data
• Arseny Tolmachev, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Shrinking Japanese Morphological Analyzers With Neural Networks and Semi-supervised Learning

We went on a skiing trip to ShigaKogen. (2/16-18) †

We were interviewed by Hankei500m, a Kyoto-based free journal. (2/1) †

• Journal article (in Japanese)

We will present the following papers at EMNLP2018 (2018/10/31-11/4) (8/11) †

• Yugo Murawaki: Analyzing Correlated Evolution of Multiple Features Using Latent Representations
• Arseny Tolmachev, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Juman++: A Morphological Analysis Toolkit for Scriptio Continua (demo)

Practical Application Project of Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation by Kyoto University (Kurohashi-Kawahara Laboratory) and JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) received 13rd AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation) Nagao Award. (6/19) †

We will present the following papers at AI-MHRI (2018/7/14-15) †

• Katsuyoshi Yamagami, Hirokazu Kiyomaru and Sadao Kurohashi: Knowledge-based Dialog Approach for Exploring User's Intention

We will present the following papers at COLING2018 (2018/8/20-26) (5/18) †

• Yudai Kishimoto, Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi: A Knowledge-Augmented Neural Network Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
• Naoki Otani, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Cross-lingual Knowledge Projection Using Machine Translation and Target-side Knowledge Base Completion

We published a press release about launching a Japanese-Chinese machine translation system at JST (5/8) †

• Press release (in Japanese)

We will present the following papers at ACL2018 (2018/7/15-20) (4/23) †

• Tomohide Shibata and Sadao Kurohashi: Entity-Centric Joint Modeling of Japanese Coreference Resolution and Predicate Argument Structure Analysis

• Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Neural Adversarial Training for Semi-supervised Japanese Predicate-argument Structure Analysis

We published a press release about joint research for social problem-solving using LINE (4/12) †

• Press release (in Japanese)

We will present the following paper at NAACL2018 (2018/6/1-6/6) (4/3) †

• Abhishek Kumar, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Knowledge-enriched Two-layered Attention Network for Sentiment Analysis (short)

We will present the following papers at LREC2018 (2018/5/7-5/12) (4/3) †

• Yudai Kishimoto, Shinnosuke Sawada, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Improving Crowdsourcing-Based Annotation of Japanese Discourse Relations

• Tetsuaki Nakamura and Daisuke Kawahara: JFCKB: Japanese Feature Change Knowledge Base

• Tetsuaki Nakamura and Daisuke Kawahara: JDCFC: A Japanese Dialogue Corpus with Feature Changes

• Tomohiro Sakaguchi, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Comprehensive Annotation of Various Types of Temporal Information on the Time Axis

Dr. Ribeka Tanaka joined our lab as researcher (4/1). †

FY 2017 †

The following paper received a best paper award of the 24-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (3/15) †

• Tomohide Shibata and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Entity-Centric Joint Modeling of Predicate Argument Structure Analysis and Coreference Resolution

The following paper received a language resource award of the 24-th annual meeting of the association for natural language processing (3/15) †

• Arseny Tolmachev and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Juman++ v2: A Practical and Modern Morphological Analyzer

We went to Shigakogen for skip trip (3/3-5). †

KyotoU-Kanken Project "Research on Kanji and Japanese Language Learning by AI" was launched. (9/25) †

We will conduct the following tutorial at IJCNLP2017 (2017/11/27-12/1) (8/10) †

• Fabien Cromieres, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Raj Dabre:
  Neural Machine Translation: Basics, Practical Aspects and Recent Trends

We will present the following paper at PACLIC2017 (2017/11/16-18) (8/10) †

• Raj Dabre, Tetsuji Nakagawa and Hideto Kazawa:
  An Empirical Study of Language Relatedness for Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation (short; work done at Google)

We will present the following paper at MT SUMMIT 2017 (2017/9/18-22) (8/10) †

• Raj Dabre, Fabien Cromieres, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Enabling Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation By Concatenating Source Sentences In Multiple Languages (long)

We will present the following paper at IWPT 2017 (2017/9/20-22) (8/10) †

• Daisuke Kawahara, Yuta Hayashibe, Hajime Morita and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Automatically Acquired Lexical Knowledge Improves Japanese Joint Morphological and Dependency Analysis

The following paper has been selected as Outstanding Paper of ACL2017. (8/2) †

• Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Neural Joint Model for Transition-based Chinese Syntactic Analysis

John Richardson(Google) received 4th AAMT Nagao Student Award with his PhD thesis (2016/9) entitled "Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Target-Side Dependency Syntax." (6/14) †

Prof. Kurohashi and Prof. Kawahara received "The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" (Prizes for Science and Technology; Research Category). (4/12) †

We will present the following papers at ACL2017 (2017/7/30-8/4) (4/1) †

• Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi:
  Neural Joint Model for Transition-based Chinese Syntactic Analysis

• Chenhui Chu, Raj Dabre and Sadao Kurohashi:
  An Empirical Comparison of Domain Adaptation Methods for Neural Machine Translation (short)

FY 2016 †

We went to Shigakogen for skip trip (3/3-5). †

We will present the following paper at EACL2017 (2017/4/3-7) (12/4) †

• Gongye Jin, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Improving Chinese Semantic Role Labeling using High-quality Surface and Deep Case Frames

We will present following papers at COLING2016 (2016/12/11-6) (Updated:11/7) †

• Kenji Yamauchi and Yugo Murawaki: Contrasting Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Typological Features

• Mo Shen, Wingmui Li, HyunJeong Choe, Chenhui Chu, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Consistent Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Dependency Labelling Annotation for Chinese Language

• Fabien Cromieres: Kyoto-NMT: A Neural Machine Translation implementation in Chainer (System Demonstration)

• Chenhui Chu, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: SCTB: A Chinese Treebank in Scientific Domain (ALR12 2016)

• Naoki Otani, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Nobuhiro Kaji and Manabu Sassano: Large-Scale Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge from a Quiz Game on a Dialogue System (OKBQA2016)

• Fabien Cromieres, Chenhui Chu, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi: Kyoto University Participation to WAT 2016 (WAT2016)

• Toshiaki Nakazawa, Chenchen Ding, Hideya MINO, Isao Goto, Graham Neubig and Sadao Kurohashi: Overview of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016)

Kyoto University & JST Trilingual Technical Term Dictionary (TriTechDict) has been released. (10/24) †

SCTB: A Chinese Treebank in Scientific Domain has been released. (10/20) †

W.Sakata was awarded an incentive award of IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention at IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention with the following paper. (9/26) †

• W.Sakata, T.Shibata and S.Kurohashi: Improving Word Representations using Word Relational Knowledge and Patterns

New Japanese Morphology Analyzer JUMAN++ has been released. (9/23) †

We had a lab trip to Ise and Shima. (9/3-4) †

We will present following papers at EMNLP2016 (2016/11/1-5) (7/31) †

• Naoki Otani, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: IRT-based Aggregation Model of Crowdsourced Pairwise Comparison for Evaluating Machine Translations
• Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi: Insertion Position Selection Model for Flexible Non-Terminals in Dependency Tree-to-Tree Machine Translation

Dr. Morita was awarded a best paper award of IPSJ national convention in the 78th national convention of IPSJ with the following paper. (7/29) †

• Development of Practical Japanese Morphological Analysis using Recurrent Neural Network Language Model

Prof. Kurohashi was appointed to the reserach supervisor of PRESTO "Fundamental Information Technologies toward Innovative Social System Design." (6/5) †

We will present a paper at ACL2016 (2016/8/7-12) (5/25) †

• Tomohide Shibata, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi: Neural Network-Based Model for Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis
• Hitoshi Otsuki, Chenhui Chu, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi: Dependency Forest based Word Alignment (Student Research Workshop)
• Raj Dabre, Yevgeniy Puzikov, Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi: The Kyoto University Cross-Lingual Pronoun Translation System (WMT 2016)
• Yu Shen, Chenhui Chu, Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi: Cross-language Projection of Dependency Trees with Constrained Partial Parsing for Tree-to-Tree Machine Translation (WMT 2016)

FY 2015 †

We will present following papers at NAACL2016 (2016/6/12-17) (3/12) †

• Yugo Murawaki: Statistical Modeling of Creole Genesis

• John Richardson, Fabien Cromieres, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi: Flexible Non-Terminals for Dependency Tree-to-Tree Reordering

• Yuichiro Machida, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi and Manabu Sassano: Design of Word Association Games using Dialog Systems for Acquisition of Word Association Knowledge (AKBC 2016)

• Tetsuaki Nakamura and Daisuke Kawahara: Constructing a Dictionary Describing Feature Changes of Arguments in Event Sentences (EVENTS 2016)

We will present following papers at LREC2016 (2016/5/23-28) (1/29) †

• Yugo Murawaki and Shinsuke Mori: Wikification for Scriptio Continua

• Toshiaki Nakazawa, Manabu Yaguchi, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Sadao Kurohashi and Hitoshi Isahara: ASPEC: Asian Scientific Paper Excerpt Corpus

• Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi: Paraphrasing Out-of-Vocabulary Words with Word Embeddings and Semantic Lexicons for Low Resource Statistical Machine Translation

• Chenhui Chu, Raj Dabre and Sadao Kurohashi: Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora with Neural Network Features

• Antoine Bourlon, Chenhui Chu, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi: Simultaneous Sentence Boundary Detection and Alignment with Pivot-based Machine Translation Generated Lexicons

We went to Shigakogen for skip trip (2/20-22). †

Project Assistant Prof. Murawaki joined our lab. (1/1) †

The team consisting of the students in our lab won Design School Award in HackU Kyoto University 2015. (12/19) †

Dr. Hayashibe, Associate Prof. Kawahara and Prof. Kurohashi were awarded a best research award in the IPSJ SIGNL-224 conference with the following paper. (12/4) †

• Robust Japanese Case Frame Construction against Case Pattern Diversity

We will present a paper at PACLIC2015 (2015/10/30~11/1) †

• J. Richardson, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi: Pivot-Based Topic Models for Low-Resource Lexicon Extraction

• R. Dabre, C. Chu, F. Cromieres, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi: Large-scale Dictionary Construction via Pivot-based Statistical Machine Translation with Significance Pruning and Neural Network Features

• Y. Shen, C. Chu, F. Cromieres, and S. Kurohashi: Cross-language Projection of Dependency Trees for Tree-to-tree Machine Translation

We published a press release about joint development with Fumankaitori Center Inc (2015/10/2) †

• Press release (in Japanese)

Our lab held a tour to Tottori Prefecture. (9/7) †

We will present a paper at EMNLP2015(2015/9/17-21). (8/19) †

• H. Morita, D. Kawahara and S. Kurohashi:
  Morphological Analysis for Unsegmented Languages using Recurrent Neural Network Language Model

We will present a paper at MT-Summit XV(2015/10/30-11/3). (8/19) †

• Y. Lu, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi:
  Korean-to-Chinese Word Translation using Chinese Character Knowledge

Isao Goto(NHK) received 2nd AAMT Nagao Student Award with his PhD thesis (2014/5) entitled "Word Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation via Modeling Structural Differences between Languages." (6/16) †

We will present a paper at PACLING2015(5/20).(4/6) †

• T. Nakazawa, S. Kurohashi, H. Kobayashi, H. Ishikawa and M. Sassano:
  3-step Parallel Corpus Cleaning using Monolingual Crowd Workers

FY 2014 †

We will present a paper at SocialNLP2015(6/5). (3/25) †

• T. Awamura, E. Aramaki, D. Kawahara, T. Shibata and S. Kurohashi:
  Location Name Disambiguation Exploiting Spatial Proximity and Temporal Consistency

S.Kohama received a Young Researcher Award of NLP2015 with the following paper. (3/20) †

• Discriminative Argument Alignment Learning in Event Knowledge Acquisition

Prof. Kurohashi received a 2014 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Natural Language Processing. (3/18) †

• R. Sasano, S. Kurohashi and M. Okumura:
  A Simple Approach to Unknown Word Processing in Japanese Morphological Analysis, Vol.21, No.6, pp.1183-1205.

We will present a paper at NAACL2015(5/31-6/5). (3/5) †

• R. Dabre, F. Cromieres and S. Kurohashi:
  Leveraging Small Multilingual Corpora for SMT Using Many Pivot Languages

We held a ski tour to Shigakogen(2/22-24) †

Prof. Shibata stays at CMU as a visiting scholar for half a year. (10/6) †

An M1 Student and a research student joined our lab. (10/2) †

Our lab held a tour to Kagawa Prefecture. (9/26) †

We will present a poster at WPTP2014(10/26). (9/24) †

• Y.Kishimoto, T.Nakazawa, D.Kawahara and S.Kurohashi:
  Post-Editing User Interface Using Visualization of a Sentence Structure

We will present a paper at PACLIC 2014(12/12-14). (9/23) †

• C.Chu, T.Nakazawa and S.Kurohashi:
  Improving Statistical Machine Translation Accuracy Using Bilingual Lexicon Extraction with Paraphrases

Y.Machida received the "Best student paper award" at IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention with the following paper. (9/22) †

• Y.machida, D.Kawahara, T.Shibata, S.Kurohashi and M.Sassano:
  Acquiring word associations with Gamification

We will present a paper at EMNLP2014(10/25-29). (7/24) †

• Fabien Cromieres:
  Translation with Lattice Rules

Prof. Kawahara and Prof. Kurohashi received a 20th Anniversary Best Paper Award of the Association for Natural Language Processing. (7/23) †

• Gradual Fertilization of Case Frames, Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.12, No.2, pp.109-131.

We will present a paper at COLING2014(8/23-29). (5/24) †

• D. Kawahara, Y. Machida, T. Shibata, S. Kurohashi, H. Kobayashi and M. Sassano:
  Rapid Development of a Corpus with Discourse Annotations using Two-stage Crowdsourcing

Our department will hold a meeting for prospective students and "open labs" on May 10th 2014. (4/30) †

• "open labs" will be held at 11:00-12:30 and 15:30-17:00.

2014/04/18 †

• A paper was accepted for ACL2014(2014/6/22-27).
  • M. Shen, H. Liu, D. Kawahara, S. Kurohashi: Chinese Morphological Analysis with Character-level POS Tagging (Short Paper)

2014/04/16 †

• Chu received the "Best student paper award" at CICLing2014 with the following paper:
  • C. Chu, T. Nakazawa, S. Kurohashi:
    Iterative Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora with Topical and Contextual Knowledge
• A paper was accepted for ACL2014(2014/6/22-27).
  • J. Richardson, F. Cromieres, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi:
    KyotoEBMT: An Example-Based Dependency-to-Dependency Translation Framework (System Demonstration)

2014/04/01 †

• Dr. Morita and Dr. Hayashibe joined our lab as researchers.
• Three M1 students and five B4 students joined our lab.

FY 2013 †

2014/03/06 †

• A paper was accepted for ACL2014(2014/6/22-27).
  • D. Kawahara, D. W. Peterson and M. Palmer:
    A Step-wise Usage-based Method for Inducing Polysemy-aware Verb Classes

2014/02/22-23 †

• We held a ski tour to Shigakogen:
  

2014/02/13 †

• A paper was accepted for CILC2014.
  • H. Nozawa and D. Kawahara:
    A Self-correcting Approach to Solve Syntactic Ambiguities based on Collocational Strength

2014/02/01 †

• A paper was accepted for CICLing2014.
  • C. Chu, T. Nakazawa, S. Kurohashi:
    Iterative Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora with Topical and Contextual Knowledge

2013/12/20 †

• A paper was accepted for EACL2014.
  • D. Kawahara, D. W. Peterson, O. Popescu and M. Palmer: Inducing Example-based Semantic Frames from a Massive Amount of Verb Uses

2014/01/24 †

• Papers were accepted for LREC2014(2014/05/26-31).
  • G. Jin, D. Kawahara and S. Kurohashi:
    A Framework for Compiling High Quality Knowledge Bases From Raw Corpora
  • J. Richardson, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi:
    Bilingual Dictionary Construction with Transliteration Filtering
    

• D. Kawahara and M. Palmer:
  Single Classifier Approach for Verb Sense Disambiguation based on Generalized Features
• T. Izumi, T. Shibata, H. Asano, Y. Matsuo and S. Kurohashi:
  Constructing a Corpus of Japanese Predicate Phrases for Synonym/Antonym Relations
• T. Shibata, S. Kohama and S. Kurohashi:
  A Large Scale Database of Strongly-related Events in Japanese
• C. Chu, T. Nakazawa, S. Kurohashi:
  Constructing a Chinese–Japanese Parallel Corpus from Wikipedia

2013/11/28 †

• We presented the following paper at IWPT2013:
  • J. Park, et al.: Towards Fully Lexicalized Dependency Parsing for Korean

2013/11/25 †

• A paper was accepted for IWSDS2014:
  • T. Shibata, Y. Egashira and K. Sadao: Chat-like Conversational System based on Selection of Reply Generating Module with Reinforcement Learning

2013/10/01 †

• CREST project "Establishment of Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and Construction of Knowledge Infrastructure" (PI: Prof. Kurohashi, Area: Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration) just started from 2013/10.
• Dr. Murawaki moved to Tanaka Lab. at Kyushu University as an assistant professor.
• One M1 student join our lab.

2013/9/21-22 †

• Our lab held a tour to Tojinbo.
  

2013/08/26 †

• Papers were accepted for EMNLP2013:
  • M. Hangyo, D. Kawahara and S. Kurohashi: Japanese Zero Reference Resolution Considering Exophora and Author/Reader Mentions
  • R. Sasano, D. Kawahara, S. Kurohashi and M. Okumura: Automatic Knowledge Acquisition for Case Alternation between the Passive and Active Voices in Japanese

2013/07/15 †

• Papers were accepted for IJCNLP2013:
  • M. Shen, D. Kawahara and S. Kurohashi: Chinese Word Segmentation by Mining Maximized Substrings
  • Y. Murawaki: Global Model for Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Classification
  • J. Richardson, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi: Robust Transliteration Mining from Comparable Corpora with Bilingual Topic Models
  • D. Kawahara, K. Shinzato, T. Shibata and S. Kurohashi: Precise Information Retrieval Exploiting Predicate-Argument Structures
  • G. Jin, D. Kawahara and S. Kurohashi: High Quality Dependency Selection from Automatic Parses
  • C. Chu, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi: Accurate Parallel Fragment Extraction from Quasi–Comparable Corpora using Alignment Model and Translation Lexicon

2013/05/20 †

• A paper was accepted for BUCC2013 workshop in ACL2013:
  • C. Chu, T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi: Chinese-Japanese Parallel Sentence Extraction from Quasi-Comparable Corpora

2013/04/01 †

• Four B4 students and three M1 students join our lab.

FY 2012 †

2013/03/25 †

• Prof. Kawahara left for U.S.A. for overseas research at the University of Colorado Boulder.

2013/03/14 †

• Jun Harashima and Prof. Kurohashi received a Best Paper Award of the Journal of Natural Language Processing:
  • J. Harashima and S. Kurohashi. Relevance Feedback using Surface and Latent Information in Texts. Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2012.9.

2012/12/06 †

• Prof. Kurohashi gave a talk at the IPSJ lecture series "Natural Language Processing at the big data era."

2012/11/09 †

• A paper was accepted for ALR10 workshop in COLING2012:
  • D. Cahyadi, F. Cromieres and S. Kurohashi. Constrained Hidden Markov Model for Bilingual Keyword Pairs Alignment

2012/10/25 †

• Papers were accepted for COLING2012:
  • T. Nakazawa and S. Kurohashi. Alignment by Bilingual Generation and Monolingual Derivation.
  • Y. Murawaki and S. Kurohashi. Semi-Supervised Noun Compound Analysis with Edge and Span Features.
  • J. Harashima and S. Kurohashi. Flexible Japanese Sentence Compression by Relaxing Unit Constraints.

2012/10/01 †

• "Inter-Graduate School Program for Design Studies" is accepted for Program for Leading Graduate Schools, MEXT. Prof. Kurohashi takes participation in the program.

2012/09/21 †

• Yuusuke Egashira, who graduated the master course in 2012, received a Young Researcher Award of NLP2012.

2012/08/13 †

• Papers of Masatsugu Hangyo and Shen Mo were accepted for PACLIC26:
  • Masatsugu Hangyo, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi. Building a Diverse Document Leads Corpus Annotated with Semantic Relations.
  • Mo Shen, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi. A Reranking Approach for Dependency Parsing with Variable-sized Subtree Features.

2012/08/11 †

• We had a vacation in Lake Biwa.
  

2012/08/10 †

• High school students visited our lab during open campus.
  

2012/05/28 †

• Chu Chenhui made a talk at LREC 2012 on May 26 and at EAMT 2012 on May 28.

2012/04/01 †

• Three B4 students and four M1 students join our lab.

FY 2011 †

2012/02/19-21 †

• We held a ski tour to Shigakogen.
  

2012/01/12 †

• Morphological Analyzer JUMAN 7.0 and Syntax and Case Analyzer KNP 4.0 are distributed.

2011/12/6-9 †

• Assistant Prof. Shibata and Assistant Prof. Nakazawa made a talk at NTCIR-9.

2011/11/9-11 †

• Associate Prof. Kawahara, Assistant Prof. Shibata, Assistant Prof. Nakazawa, and Mr. Harashima made a talk at IJCNLP 2011.

2011/9/30, 10/1 †

• Our lab held a tour to Hiruzen.
  

2011/9/19-23 †

• Chu Chenhui made a talk at MT-Summit XIII.

2011/07/28 †

• Assistant Prof. Murawaki and Dr. Cromieres　made a talk at EMNLP2011.

2011/07/13 †

• We began to distribute the JEC Basic Sentence Data.

2011/04/01 †

• Dr. Shinzato moved to Rakuten Institute of Technology as a researcher.

FY 2010 †

2011/03/22 †

• Prof. Kurohashi was awarded a Contribution Award in the 43rd Ichimura Academic //Awards.

2011/02/20-22 †

• We held a ski tour to Shigakogen.
  

2011/02/09 †

• Prof. Kurohashi and Associate Prof. Kawahara were awarded the 56th Maejima Award.

2010/12/01 †

• Dr. Sasano Moved to Okumura Lab. at Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor.

2010/10/15 †

• Prof. Kurohashi was awarded the 9th Docomo Mobile Science Prize.

2010/10/01 †

• Associate Prof. Kawahara joined the laboratory.

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