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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!

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

We built a website that aggregates information about COVID-19 from around the world. (6/2)

covid-19

Research Overview

Language is the most reliable medium of human intellectual activities. Our objective is to establish the technology and academic discipline for handling and understanding language, in a manner that is as close as possible to that of humans, using computers. These include syntactic language analysis, semantic analysis, context analysis, text comprehension, text generation and dictionary systems to develop various application systems for machine translation and information retrieval.

Search Engine Infrastructure based on Deep Natural Language Processing

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The essential purpose of information retrieval is not to retrieve just a relevant document but to acquire the information or knowledge in the document. We have been developing a next-generation infrastructure of information retrieval on the basis of the following techniques of deep natural language processing: precise processing based not on words but on predicate-argument structures, identifying the variety of linguistic expressions and providing a bird's-eye view of search results via clustering and interaction.

Machine Translation

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To bring automatic translation by computers to the level of human translation, we have been studying next-generation methodology of machine translation on the basis of text understanding and a large collection of translation examples. We have already accomplished practical translation on the domain of travel conversation, and constructed a translation-aid system that can be used by experts of patent translation.

Fundamental Studies on Text Understanding

To make computers understand language, it is essential to give computers world knowledge. This was a very hard problem ten years ago, but it has become possible to acquire knowledge from a massive amount of text in virtue of the drastic progress of computing power and network. We have successfully acquired linguistic patterns of predicate-argument structures from automatic parses of 7 billion Japanese sentences crawled from the Web using grid computing machines. By utilizing such knowledge, we study text understanding, i.e., recognizing the relationships between words and phrases in text.

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