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FY 2016 †
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
We will present following papers at COLING2016 (2016/12/11-6) (9/21) †
- 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
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
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) †
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
- Discriminative Argument Alignment Learning in Event Knowledge Acquisition
- 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) †
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
- 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
- "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 †
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 †
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 †
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 †
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 †
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 †
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 †
2011/9/19-23 †
2011/07/28 †
- Assistant Prof. Murawaki and Dr. Cromieres made a talk at EMNLP2011.
2011/07/13 †
2011/04/01 †
FY 2010 †
2011/03/22 †
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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