2024
Operator Enjoyment in Teleoperation of Customer Service Robots: Interface Design Guidelines from a Field Study.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2024

Voice Volume Gauge to Encourage Vocal Adaptation of an Operator of a Teleoperated Social Robot.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2024

Navigating Gender Influences in Avatar-Based Communication.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2024

Deep Single Image Camera Calibration by Heatmap Regression to Recover Fisheye Images Under Manhattan World Assumption.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

Self-Instructional Training Interface Using a Speech Bubble That Facilitates Users to Internalize the Automatically Generated Texts.
Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, 2024

Automatic Decomposition of Text Editing Examples into Primitive Edit Operations: Toward Analytic Evaluation of Editing Systems.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
Deep Single Image Camera Calibration by Heatmap Regression to Recover Fisheye Images Under ManhattanWorld AssumptionWithout Ambiguity.
CoRR, 2023

Gauging the Gap Between Human and Machine Text Simplification Through Analytical Evaluation of Simplification Strategies and Errors.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023

2022
Rethinking Generic Camera Models for Deep Single Image Camera Calibration to Recover Rotation and Fisheye Distortion.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2022, 2022

2021
Soft-Material-Based Highly Reliable Tri-Axis Tactile Thin-Film Sensors for Robotic Manipulation Tasks.
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Sensors, Sydney, Australia, October 31 - Nov. 3, 2021, 2021

2020
BERT-Based Simplification of Japanese Sentence-Ending Predicates in Descriptive Text.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

Privacy-Aware Face Recognition with Lensless Multi-pinhole Camera.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2020 Workshops, 2020

2019
Formalising Document Structure and Automatically Recognising Document Elements: A Case Study on Automobile Repair Manuals.
Proceedings of the Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future, 2019

2017
User-Adaptive A Posteriori Restoration for Incorrectly Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Dialogue Discourse, 2017

SML Question-Answering System for World History Essay Exams at NTCIR-13 QALab-3.
Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference, 2017

Compressive color sensing using random complementary color filter array.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 2017

Coreference Resolution on Math Problem Text in Japanese.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2017

2016
SML Question-Answering System for World History Essay and Multiple-choice Exams at NTCIR-12 QA@Lab-2.
Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2016

Question Selection Based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information Through Dialogue.
Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

A Challenge to the Third Hoshi Shinichi Award.
Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, 2016

2015
Posteriori Restoration of Turn-Taking and ASR Results for Incorrectly Segmented Utterances.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2015

User Adaptive Restoration for Incorrectly-Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

Compressive sensing reconstruction using collaborative sparsity among color channels.
Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 2015

2014
A Surface-Similarity Based Two-Step Classifier for RITE-VAL.
Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2014

Text Readability and Word Distribution in Japanese.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Evaluating Model that Predicts When People Will Speak to a Humanoid Robot and Handling Variations of Individuals and Instructions.
Proceedings of the Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, 2014

Restoring Incorrectly Segmented Keywords and Turn-Taking Caused by Short Pauses.
Proceedings of the Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, 2014

Detecting incorrectly-segmented utterances for posteriori restoration of turn-taking and ASR results.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

2013
Normalizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates: Linguistically-Directed Rule-Based Paraphrasing and Its Application.
ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process., 2013

Generating More Specific Questions for Acquiring Attributes of Unknown Concepts from Users.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Team SKL's Strategy and Experience in RITE2.
Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2013

2012
Dictionary Look-up with Katakana Variant Recognition.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Predicting When People Will Speak to a Humanoid Robot.
Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

Integration of Multiple Sound Source Localization Results for Speaker Identification in Multiparty Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

Blur-free high-sensitivity imaging system utilizing combined long/short exposure green pixels.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2012

Real-time computational camera system for high-sensitivity imaging by using combined long/short exposure.
Proceedings of the Computational Imaging X, 2012

2011
Paraphrasing Japanese Light Verb Constructions: Towards the Normalization of Complex Predicates.
Int. J. Comput. Process. Orient. Lang., 2011

Real Time High-Sensitivity Imaging for Home Surveillance System by Using Combined Long/Short Exposure.
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2011

2010
Measuring the Appropriateness of Automatically Generated Phrasal Paraphrases.
Inf. Media Technol., 2010

Non-productive machine transliteration.
Proceedings of the Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur, 2010

Standardizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates: Applying Theoretically-Based Paraphrasing Rules.
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications, 2010

A Person-Name Filter for Automatic Compilation of Bilingual Person-Name Lexicons.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Automatic generation of listing ads by reusing promotional texts.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2010

2009
Inherent limitations on specular highlight analysis.
Vis. Comput., 2009

Crawling English-Japanese person-name transliterations from the web.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2009

Web-Based Transliteration of Person Names.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2009

2008
Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Automatic Paraphrasing of Japanese Functional Expressions Using a Hierarchically Organized Dictionary.
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2008

Computing Paraphrasability of Syntactic Variants Using Web Snippets.
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2008

A Probabilistic Model for Measuring Grammaticality and Similarity of Automatically Generated Paraphrases of Predicate Phrases.
Proceedings of the COLING 2008, 2008

2007
Domain classification of technical terms using the Web.
Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2007

A Compositional Approach toward Dynamic Phrasal Thesaurus.
Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL@ACL 2007 Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, 2007

2006
Detecting Japanese idioms with a linguistically rich dictionary.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2006

Photometric Linearization under Near Point Light Sources.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2006

Adjective-to-Verb Paraphrasing in Japanese Based on Lexical Constraints of Verbs.
Proceedings of the INLG 2006, 2006

Collecting Novel Technical Terms from the Web by Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term.
Proceedings of the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead, 2006

Compilation of a Dictionary of Japanese Functional Expressions with Hierarchical Organization.
Proceedings of the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead, 2006

Compiling French-Japanese Terminologies from the Web.
Proceedings of the EACL 2006, 2006

Towards Automatic Domain Classification of Technical Terms: Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term Using the Web.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Technology, 2006

Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings.
Proceedings of the ACL 2006, 2006

2005
Effect of Domain-Specific Corpus in Compositional Translation Estimation for Technical Terms.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2005, Second International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, October 11-13, 2005, 2005

2004
Integrating Cross-Lingually Relevant News Articles and Monolingual Web Documents in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

2003
Fast Base NP Chunking with Decision Trees - Experiments on Different POS Tag Settings.
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2003

Automatic Detection of Grammar Elements that Decrease Readability.
Proceedings of the ACL 2003, 2003

Automatic Collection of Related Terms from the Web.
Proceedings of the ACL 2003, 2003

2002
Discovery of Definition Patterns by Compressing Dictionary Sentences.
Proceedings of the Progress in Discovery Science, 2002

Verb Paraphrase based on Case Frame Alignment.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002

2001
Automated Editing of Hypertext Résumé from the World Wide Web.
Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001), 2001

Finding translation correspondences from parallel parsed corpus for example-based translation.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, 2001

1998
Non-destructive Depth-Dependent Crossover for Genetic Programming.
Proceedings of the Genetic Programming, First European Workshop, 1998

1995
MBT2: A Method for Combining Fragments of Examples in Example-Based Translation.
Artif. Intell., 1995

1992
CTM: An Example-Based Translation Aid System.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1992

A Method of Automatic Hypertext Construction from an Encyclopedic Dictionary of a Specific Field.
Proceedings of the 3rd Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1992

1990
Toward Memory-based Translation.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1990