Naoaki Okazaki

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Ao Liu, Congjian Luo, and Naoaki Okazaki. Improving Logical-Level Natural Language Generation with Topic-Conditioned Data Augmentation and Logical Form Generation. Journal of Information Processing, 31:332–343, April 2023. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.31.332) DOI
  2. Ayana Niwa, Sho Takase, and Naoaki Okazaki. Nearest Neighbor Non-autoregressive Text Generation. Journal of Information Processing, 31:334–352, April 2023. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.31.344) DOI
  3. Zhishen Yang, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi, and Naoaki Okazaki. Why videos do not guide translations in video-guided machine translation? An empirical evaluation of video-guided machine translation dataset. Journal of Information Processing, 30:388–396, May 2022. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.30.388) DOI
  4. Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, and Naoaki Okazaki. Recurrent Neural Hidden Markov Model for High-Order Transition. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 21(2):1–15, March 2022. (doi: 10.1145/3476511) URL DOI
  5. Youmi Ma, Tatsuya Hiraoka, and Naoaki Okazaki. Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction Using Enhanced Table Filling by Contextualized Representations. 自然言語処理, 29(1):187–223, March 2022. (doi: 10.5715/jnlp.29.187) DOI
  6. Ayana Niwa, Naoaki Okazaki, Kohei Wakimoto, Keisuke Nishiguchi, and Masataka Mouri. Construction of a Corpus of Rhetorical Devices in Slogans and Structural Analysis of Antitheses. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 20(6), November 2021. (doi: 10.1145/3465218) DOI
  7. Emanuele Bugliarello, Ryan Cotterell, Naoaki Okazaki, and Desmond Elliott. Multimodal Pretraining Unmasked: A Meta-Analysis and a Unified Framework of Vision-and-Language BERTs. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:978–994, September 2021. (doi: 10.1162/tacl_a_00408) URL DOI
  8. Sangwhan Moon and Naoaki Okazaki. The Effects and Mitigation of Out-of-Vocabulary in Universal Language Models. Journal of Information Processing, 29:490–503, July 2021. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.29.490) DOI
  9. Kaori Abe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Multi-dialect Neural Machine Translation for 48 Low-resource Japanese Dialects. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 27(4):781–800, December 2020. (doi: 10.5715/jnlp.27.781) DOI
  10. Hayate Iso, Yui Uehara, Tatsuya Ishigaki, Hiroshi Noji, Eiji Aramaki, Ichiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Miyao, Naoaki Okazaki, and Hiroya Takamura. Learning to Select, Track, and Generate for Data-to-Text. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 27(3):599–626, September 2020. (doi: 10.5715/jnlp.27.599) DOI
  11. Diana Galvan-Sosa, Koji Matsuda, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Empirical Exploration of the Challenges in Temporal Relation Extraction from Clinical Text. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 27(2):383–409, June 2020. (doi: 10.5715/jnlp.27.383) DOI
  12. Kazuaki Hanawa, Akira Sasaki, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Stance Detection Attending External Knowledge from Wikipedia. Journal of Information Processing, 27:499–506, August 2019. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.27.499) DOI
  13. Masatoshi Suzuki, Koji Matsuda, Satoshi Sekine, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Joint Neural Model for Fine-Grained Named Entity Classification of Wikipedia Articles. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section on Semantic Web and Linked Data, E101.D(1):73–81, January 2018. (doi: 10.1587/transinf.2017SWP0005) DOI
  14. Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. The mechanism of additive composition. Machine Learning, 106(7):1083–1130, July 2017. (doi: 10.1007/s10994-017-5634-8) DOI
  15. Shuangshuang Zhou, Naoaki Okazaki, Koji Matsuda, Ran Tian, and Kentaro Inui. Supervised Approaches for Japanese Wikification. Journal of Information Processing, 25:341–350, April 2017. (doi: 10.2197/ipsjjip.25.341) DOI
  16. Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Modeling semantic compositionality of relational patterns. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 50:256–264, April 2016. (doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2016.01.027) URL DOI
  17. Shuangshuang Zhou, Canasai Kruengkrai, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Exploring Linguistic Features for Named Entity Disambiguation. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, 5(2):49–66, December 2014. URL
  18. Han-Cheol Cho, Naoaki Okazaki, Makoto Miwa, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Named entity recognition with multiple segment representations. Information Processing & Management, 49(4):954–965, July 2013. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2013.03.002) URL DOI
  19. Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki, Junichi Tsujii, and Houfeng Wang. Learning Abbreviations from Chinese and English Terms by Modeling Non-local Information. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 12(2):5:1–5:17, June 2013. (doi: 10.1145/2461316.2461317) URL DOI
  20. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Katsuma Narisawa, Keita Nabeshima, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Leveraging Diverse Lexical Resources for Textual Entailment Recognition. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 11(4):18:1–18:22, December 2012. (doi: 10.1145/2382593.2382600) URL DOI
  21. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A preference learning approach to sentence ordering for multi-document summarization. Information Sciences, 217:78–95, December 2012. (doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.06.015) URL DOI
  22. Zhiyong Lu, Hung-Yu Kao, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Minlie Huang, Jingchen Liu, Cheng-Ju Kuo, Chun-Nan Hsu, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hong-Jie Dai, Naoaki Okazaki, Han-Cheol Cho, Martin Gerner, Illes Solt, Shashank Agarwal, Feifan Liu, Dina Vishnyakova, Patrick Ruch, Martin Romacker, Fabio Rinaldi, et al. The gene normalization task in BioCreative III. BMC Bioinformatics, 12(Suppl 8):S9, September 2011. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S8-S9) URL DOI
  23. Cecilia N Arighi, Phoebe M Roberts, Shashank Agarwal, Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Gianni Cesareni, Andrew Chatr-aryamontri, Simon Clematide, Pascale Gaudet, Michelle Gwinn Giglio, Ian Harrow, Eva Huala, Martin Krallinger, Ulf Leser, Donghui Li, Feifan Liu, Zhiyong Lu, Lois J Maltais, Naoaki Okazaki, Livia Perfetto, et al. BioCreative III interactive task: an overview. BMC Bioinformatics, 12(Suppl 8):S8, September 2011. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S8-S8) URL DOI
  24. Tomoko Ohta, Takuya Matsuzaki, Naoaki Okazaki, Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Sampo Pyysalo, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Medie and Info-pubmed: 2010 update. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(Suppl 5):P7, October 2010. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-S5-P7) URL DOI
  25. Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Building a High Quality Sense Inventory for Improved Abbreviation Disambiguation. Bioinformatics, 26(9):1246–1253, May 2010. (doi: doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq129) URL DOI
  26. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A bottom-up approach to sentence ordering for multi-document summarization. Information Processing & Management, 46(1):89–109, January 2010. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.07.004) DOI
  27. Sophia Ananiadou, Brian Rea, Naoaki Okazaki, Rob Proctor, and James Thomas. Supporting Systematic Reviews using Text Mining. Social Science Computer Review, 27(4):509–523, November 2009. (doi: 10.1177/0894439309332293) URL DOI
  28. Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, Xiao Liu, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. A Chinese-Japanese Lexical Machine Translation through a Pivot Language. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 8(2):9:1–9:21, May 2009. (doi: 10.1145/1526252.1526257) URL DOI
  29. Naoaki Okazaki and Sophia Ananiadou. Building an Abbreviation Dictionary Using a Term Recognition Approach. Bioinformatics, 22(24):3089–3095, December 2006. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl534) URL DOI
  30. Kenich Horie, Yukio Ohsawa, and Naoaki Okazaki. Products Designed on Scenario Maps using Pictorial KeyGraph. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science & Applications, 3(7):1324–1331, July 2006. URL
  31. Naoaki Okazaki, Santi Saeyor, Hiroshi Dohi, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. An Extension of the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language (MPML) to a Three-dimensional VRML Space. Systems and Computers in Japan, 36(14):69–80, December 2005. (doi: 10.1002/scj.10449) URL DOI
  32. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Improving Chronological Ordering of Sentences Extracted from Multiple Newspaper Articles. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) (Special Issue on NTCIR-4: Information Access towards Asian Languages), 4(3):321–339, September 2005. (doi: 10.1145/1111667.1111673) URL DOI
  33. Helmut Prendinger, Junichiro Mori, Santi Saeyor, Kyoshi Mori, Naoaki Okazaki, Yustinus Juli, Sonja Mayer, Hiroshi Dohi, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Scripting and Evaluating Affective Interactions with Embodied Conversational Agents. Künstliche Intelligenz Zeitschrift (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence), 1:4–10, February 2004. URL
  34. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation through Sentence Similarity. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Special Issue on Text Processing for Information Access), E86-D(9):1686–1694, September 2003. URL

Conference Papers

  1. Masahiro Kaneko and Naoaki Okazaki. Reducing Sequence Length by Predicting Edit Operations with Large Language Models. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages (to appear), December 2023.
  2. Youmi Ma, Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrance, Goran Glavaš, and Naoaki Okazaki. Improving Cross-Lingual Transfer for Open Information Extraction with Linguistic Feature Projection. In The 3rd Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop (MRL), pages (to appear), December 2023.
  3. Koki Maeda, Shuhei Kurita, Taiki Miyanishi, and Naoaki Okazaki. Query-based Image Captioning from Multi-context 360° Images. In Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages (to appear), December 2023.
  4. Trang Nguyen and Naoaki Okazaki. Causal Reasoning through Two Layers of Cognition for Improving Generalization in Visual Question Answering. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages (to appear), December 2023.
  5. Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. The Impact of Debiasing on the Performance of Language Models in Downstream Tasks is Underestimated. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), pages (to appear), Bali, Indonesia, November 2023.
  6. Mengsay Loem, Masahiro Kaneko, Sho Takase, and Naoaki Okazaki. Exploring Effectiveness of GPT-3 in Grammatical Error Correction: A Study on Performance and Controllability in Prompt-Based Methods. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) (BEA), pages 205–219, Toronto, Canada, July 2023. URL
  7. An Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Youmi Ma, Ao Liu, and Naoaki Okazaki. Generative Data Augmentation for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction. In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), pages 128–140, Toronto, Canada, July 2023. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.12) URL DOI
  8. Marco Cognetta, Sangwhan Moon, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, and Naoaki Okazaki. Parameter-Efficient Korean Character-Level Language Modeling. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (EACL), pages 2350–2356, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023. URL
  9. Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. Comparing Intrinsic Gender Bias Evaluation Measures without using Human Annotated Examples. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (EACL), pages 2857–2863, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023. URL
  10. Youmi Ma, An Wang, and Naoaki Okazaki. DREEAM: Guiding Attention with Evidence for Improving Document-Level Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (EACL), pages 1971–1983, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023. URL
  11. Sakae Mizuki and Naoaki Okazaki. Semantic Specialization for Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (EACL), pages 3457–3470, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023. URL
  12. Hiyori Yoshikawa and Naoaki Okazaki. Selective-LAMA: Selective Prediction for Confidence-Aware Evaluation of Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023 (Findings of EACL), pages 2017–2028, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023. URL
  13. Zhishen Yang, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka, and Naoaki Okazaki. SciCap+: A Knowledge Augmented Dataset to Study the Challenges of Scientific Figure Captioning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding, co-located with 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), pages (to appear), Washington DC, USA, February 2023. arXiv
  14. Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. Gender Bias in Meta-Embeddings. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (EMNLP), pages 3118–3133, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2022. URL
  15. Ao Liu, Haoyu Dong, Naoaki Okazaki, Shi Han, and Dongmei Zhang. PLOG: Table-to-Logic Pretraining for Logical Table-to-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 5531–5546, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2022. URL
  16. Hiroki Iida and Naoaki Okazaki. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Sparse Retrieval by Filling Vocabulary and Word Frequency Gaps. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) (AACL), pages 752–765, Online, November 2022. URL
  17. Vijay Daultani and Naoaki Okazaki. Improving Automatic Evaluation of Acceptability Based on Language Models with a Coarse Sentence Representation. In Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pages 109–118, Manila, Philippines, October 2022. URL
  18. Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. Debiasing Isn’t Enough! – on the Effectiveness of Debiasing MLMs and Their Social Biases in Downstream Tasks. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 1299–1310, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 2022. URL
  19. Hsuan-Yu Kuo, Youmi Ma, and Naoaki Okazaki. Annotating Entity and Causal Relationships on Japanese Vehicle Recall Information. In Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pages 783–791, Manila, Philippines, October 2022. URL
  20. Koki Maeda, Masahiro Kaneko, and Naoaki Okazaki. IMPARA: Impact based Metric for GEC using Parallel Data. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 3578–3588, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 2022. URL
  21. Masahiro Kaneko, Aizhan Imankulova, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. Gender Bias in Masked Language Models for Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), pages 2740–2750, Seattle, United States, July 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.197) URL DOI
  22. Mengsay Loem, Sho Takase, Masahiro Kaneko, and Naoaki Okazaki. ExtraPhrase: Efficient Data Augmentation for Abstractive Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop (NAACL SRW), pages 16–24, Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online, July 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-srw.3) URL DOI
  23. Hwichan Kim, Sangwhan Moon, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mamoru Komachi. Learning How to Translate North Korean through South Korean. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 6711–6718, Marseille, France, June 2022. URL
  24. Sangwhan Moon, Won Ik Cho, Hye Joo Han, Naoaki Okazaki, and Nam Soo Kim. OpenKorPOS: Democratizing Korean Tokenization with Voting-Based Open Corpus Annotation. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 4975–4983, Marseille, France, June 2022. URL
  25. Sho Takase and Naoaki Okazaki. Multi-Task Learning for Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 3008–3016, Marseille, France, June 2022. URL
  26. Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, and Naoaki Okazaki. Word-level Perturbation Considering Word Length and Compositional Subwords. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (Findings of ACL), pages 3268–3275, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.258) URL DOI
  27. Masahiro Kaneko, Sho Takase, Ayana Niwa, and Naoaki Okazaki. Interpretability for Language Learners Using Example-Based Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL), pages 7176–7187, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.496) URL DOI
  28. Ao Liu, An Wang, and Naoaki Okazaki. Semi-Supervised Formality Style Transfer with Consistency Training. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL), pages 4689–4701, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.321) URL DOI
  29. Youmi Ma, Tatsuya Hiraoka, and Naoaki Okazaki. Joint Entity and Relation Extraction Based on Table Labeling Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP (SPNLP), pages 11–21, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.spnlp-1.2) URL DOI
  30. Sho Takase, Tatsuya Hiraoka, and Naoaki Okazaki. Single Model Ensemble for Subword Regularized Models in Low-Resource Machine Translation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (Findings of ACL), pages 2536–2541, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.199) URL DOI
  31. Hiroki Iida and Naoaki Okazaki. Incorporating Semantic Textual Similarity and Lexical Matching for Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pages 582–591, Shanghai, China, November 2021. URL
  32. Shota Koyama, Hiroya Takamura, and Naoaki Okazaki. Various Errors Improve Neural Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pages 251–261, Shanghai, China, November 2021. URL
  33. Kosuke Yamada, Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori, Ryohei Sasano, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, and Koichi Takeda. Transformer-based Lexically Constrained Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 4085–4090, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.335) URL DOI
  34. Wiem Ben Rim, Carolin Lawrence, Kiril Gashteovski, Mathias Niepert, and Naoaki Okazaki. Behavioral Testing of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models for Link Prediction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC), pages (19 pages), October 2021. URL
  35. Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, and Naoaki Okazaki. Joint Optimization of Tokenization and Downstream Model. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Findings of ACL), pages 244–255, Online, August 2021. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.21) URL DOI
  36. Ayana Niwa, Keisuke Nishiguchi, and Naoaki Okazaki. Predicting Antonyms in Context using BERT. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), pages 48–54, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, August 2021. URL
  37. Keiji Yasuda, Ichiro Yamada, Naoaki Okazaki, Hideki Tanaka, Hidehiro Asaka, Takeshi Anzai, and Fumiaki Sugaya. Field Experiments of Real Time Foreign News Distribution Powered by MT. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVIII: Users and Providers Track (MT Summit), pages 227–232, Virtual, August 2021. URL
  38. Shin Kanouchi, Masato Neishi, Yuta Hayashibe, Hiroki Ouchi, and Naoaki Okazaki. You May Like This Hotel Because ...: Identifying Evidence for Explainable Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP), pages 890–899, Suzhou, China, December 2020. URL
  39. Wiem Ben Rim and Naoaki Okazaki. SWAGex at SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Explanation as Next Event Prediction. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), pages 422–429, Barcelona (online), December 2020. URL
  40. Zhishen Yang and Naoaki Okazaki. Image Caption Generation for News Articles. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 1941–1951, Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.176) URL DOI
  41. Zhishen Yang, Lars Wolfsteller, and Naoaki Okazaki. TextLearner at SemEval-2020 Task 10: A Contextualized Ranking System in Solving Emphasis Selection in Text. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), pages 1691–1697, Barcelona (online), December 2020. URL
  42. Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, and Naoaki Okazaki. Optimizing Word Segmentation for Downstream Task. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 (Findings of EMNLP), pages 1341–1351, Online, November 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.120) URL DOI
  43. Sangwhan Moon and Naoaki Okazaki. PatchBERT: Just-in-Time, Out-of-Vocabulary Patching. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 7846–7852, Online, November 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.631) URL DOI
  44. Emanuele Bugliarello and Naoaki Okazaki. Enhancing Machine Translation with Dependency-Aware Self-Attention. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 1618–1627, Online, July 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.147) URL DOI
  45. Emanuele Bugliarello, Sabrina J. Mielke, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ryan Cotterell, and Naoaki Okazaki. It’s Easier to Translate out of English than into it: Measuring Neural Translation Difficulty by Cross-Mutual Information. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 1640–1649, Online, July 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.149) URL DOI
  46. Kazuki Matsumaru, Sho Takase, and Naoaki Okazaki. Improving Truthfulness of Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 1335–1346, Online, July 2020. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.123) URL DOI
  47. Sangwhan Moon and Naoaki Okazaki. Jamo Pair Encoding: Subcharacter Representation-based Extreme Korean Vocabulary Compression for Efficient Subword Tokenization. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 3490–3497, Marseille, France, May 2020. URL
  48. Sho Shimazu, Sho Takase, Toshiaki Nakazawa, and Naoaki Okazaki. Evaluation Dataset for Zero Pronoun in Japanese to English Translation. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 3630–3634, Marseille, France, May 2020. URL
  49. Sakae Mizuki and Naoaki Okazaki. Analyzing the Variation Property of Contextualized Word Representations. In AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pages 393–405, December 2019. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35288-2_32) URL DOI
  50. Yuichi Sasazawa, Sho Takase, and Naoaki Okazaki. Neural Question Generation using Interrogative Phrases. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), pages 106–111, Tokyo, Japan, October 2019. (doi: 10.18653/v1/W19-8613) URL DOI
  51. Hayate Iso, Yui Uehara, Tatsuya Ishigaki, Hiroshi Noji, Eiji Aramaki, Ichiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Miyao, Naoaki Okazaki, and Hiroya Takamura. Learning to Select, Track, and Generate for Data-to-Text. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 2102–2113, Florence, Italy, July 2019. (doi: 10.18653/v1/P19-1202) URL DOI
  52. Sho Takase and Naoaki Okazaki. Positional Encoding to Control Output Sequence Length. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) (NAACL), pages 3999–4004, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2019. (doi: 10.18653/v1/N19-1401) URL DOI
  53. Zhishen Yang, Sam Vijlbrief, and Naoaki Okazaki. TokyoTech_NLP at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Emotion-related Symbols in Emotion Detection. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), pages 350–354, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2019. (doi: 10.18653/v1/S19-2061) URL DOI
  54. Kaori Abe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Multi-dialect Neural Machine Translation and Dialectometry. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), Hong Kong, December 2018. URL
  55. Shun Kiyono, Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, and Masaaki Nagata. Reducing Odd Generation from Neural Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), Hong Kong, December 2018. URL
  56. Shun Kiyono, Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, and Masaaki Nagata. Unsupervised Token-wise Alignment to Improve Interpretation of Encoder-Decoder Models. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 74–81, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018. (doi: 10.18653/v1/W18-5410) URL DOI
  57. Diana Galvan, Naoaki Okazaki, Koji Matsuda, and Kentaro Inui. Investigating the Challenges of Temporal Relation Extraction from Clinical Text. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi), pages 55–64, Brussels, Belgium, October 2018. (doi: 10.18653/v1/W18-5607) URL DOI
  58. Akira Sasaki, Kazuaki Hanawa, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Predicting Stances from Social Media Posts using Factorization Machines. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 3381–3390, August 2018. URL
  59. Kazuaki Hanawa, Akira Sasaki, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Crowdsourcing Approach for Annotating Causal Relation Instances in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pages 336–345, November 2017. URL
  60. Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Proofread Sentence Generation as Multi-Task Learning with Editing Operation Prediction. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), pages 436–441, November 2017. URL
  61. Sosuke Kobayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Neural Language Model for Dynamically Representing the Meanings of Unknown Words and Entities in a Discourse. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), pages 473–483, November 2017. URL
  62. Hideaki Tamori, Yuta Hitomi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Analyzing the Revision Logs of a Japanese Newspaper for Article Quality Assessment. In Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism, pages 46–50, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017. (doi: 10.18653/v1/W17-4208) URL DOI
  63. Sho Yokoi, Daichi Mochihashi, Ryo Takahashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Learning Co-Substructures by Kernel Dependence Maximization. In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 3329–3335, August 2017. URL
  64. Akira Sasaki, Kazuaki Hanawa, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Other Topics You May Also Agree or Disagree: Modeling Inter-Topic Preferences using Tweets and Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL), pages 398–408, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017. (doi: 10.18653/v1/P17-1037) URL DOI
  65. Shota Sasaki, Sho Takase, Naoya Inoue, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Handling Multiword Expressions in Causality Estimation. In IWCS 2017 — 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics — Short papers, pages (6 pages), 2017. URL
  66. Natsuda Laokulrat, Sang Phan, Noriki Nishida, Zhongyuan Zhu, Yo Ehara, Naoaki Okazaki, Yusuke Miyao, Shin’ichi Satoh, and Hideki Nakayama. Generating Video Description using Sequence-to-sequence Model with Temporal Attention. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2016), pages (to appear), December 2016.
  67. Naoya Inoue, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Masayuki Ono, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2016), pages (to appear), December 2016.
  68. Kento Watanabe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naho Orita, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, Satoru Fukayama, Tomoyasu Nakano, Jordan Smith, and Masataka Goto. Modeling Discourse Segments in Lyrics Using Repeated Patterns. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2016), pages (to appear), December 2016.
  69. Takuya Yashima, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, Kota Yamaguchi, and Takayuki Okatani. Learning to Describe E-Commerce Images from Noisy Online Data. In Proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV ’16), pages (to appear), November 2016.
  70. Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki, Naoaki Okazaki, Tsutomu Hirao, and Masaaki Nagata. Neural Headline Generation on Abstractive Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), pages (to appear), November 2016.
  71. Masatoshi Suzuki, Koji Matsuda, Satoshi Sekine, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Neural Joint Learning for Classifying Wikipedia Articles into Fine-grained Named Entity Types. In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  72. Mei Uemura, Naho Orita, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Toward the automatic extraction of knowledge of usable goods. In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  73. Masayasu Muraoka, Sumit Maharjan, Masaki Saito, Kota Yamaguchi, Naoaki Okazaki, Takayuki Okatani, and Kentaro Inui. Recognizing Open-vocabulary Relations between Objects in Images. In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  74. Shuangshuang Zhou, Koji Matsuda, Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Pipeline Japanese Entity Linking System with Embedding Features. In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  75. Akira Sasaki, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Stance Classification by Recognizing Related Events about Targets. In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2016), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  76. Masatoshi Suzuki, Koji Matuda, Satoshi Sekine, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Multi-label Classification of Wikipedia Articles into Fine-grained Named Entity Types. In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2016), pages (to appear), October 2016.
  77. Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Composing Distributed Representations of Relational Patterns. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2276–2286, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. URL
  78. Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Learning Semantically and Additively Compositional Distributional Representations. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1277–1287, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. URL
  79. Davaajav Jargalsaikhan, Naoaki Okazaki, Koji Matsuda, and Kentaro Inui. Building a Corpus for Japanese Wikification with Fine-Grained Entity Classes. In Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop, pages 138–144, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. URL
  80. Sosuke Kobayashi, Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Dynamic Entity Representation with Max-pooling Improves Machine Reading. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 850–855, San Diego, California, June 2016. URL
  81. Hiroya Komatsu, Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Reducing Lexical Features in Parsing by Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 29), pages 106–113, Shanghai, China, October 2015. URL
  82. Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Fast and Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 29), pages 96–105, Shanghai, China, October 2015. URL
  83. Shin Kanouchi, Mamoru Komachi, Naoaki Okazaki, Eiji Aramaki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa. Who caught a cold ? - Identifying the subject of a symptom. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1660–1670, Beijing, China, July 2015. URL
  84. Yoshiaki Kitagawa, Mamoru Komachi, Eiji Aramaki, Naoaki Okazaki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa. Disease Event Detection based on Deep Modality Analysis. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2015 Student Research Workshop, pages 28–34, Beijing, China, July 2015. URL
  85. Koji Matsuda, Akira Sasaki, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Annotating Geographical Entities on Microblog Text. In Proceedings of The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, pages 85–94, Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2015. URL
  86. Paul Reisert, Naoya Inoue, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Computational Approach for Generating Toulmin Model Argumentation. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Argumentation Mining, pages 45–55, Denver, CO, June 2015. URL
  87. Masayasu Muraoka, Sonse Shimaoka, Kazeto Yamamoto, Yotaro Watanabe, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Finding The Best Model Among Representative Compositional Models. In Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 65–74, Phuket, Thailand, December 2014. URL
  88. Paul Reisert, Junta Mizuno, Miwa Kanno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Corpus Study for Identifying Evidence on Microblogs. In Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VIII 2014), pages 70–74, Dublin, Ireland, August 2014.
  89. Keita Nabeshima, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Mining False Information on Twitter for a Major Disaster Situation. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT2014), pages 96–109, Warsaw, Poland, August 2014. URL
  90. Naoaki Okazaki, Keita Nabeshima, Kento Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, and Kentaro Inui. Extracting and Aggregating False Information from Microblogs. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Processing and Crisis Information 2013, pages 36–43, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013. URL
  91. Katsuma Narisawa, Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Is a 204 cm Man Tall or Small? Acquisition of Numerical Common Sense from the Web. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 382–391, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. URL
  92. Sho Takase, Akiko Murakami, Miki Enoki, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Detecting Chronic Critics Based on Sentiment Polarity and User’s Behavior in Social Media. In 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop, pages 110–116, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. URL
  93. Han-Cheol Cho, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Inducing Context Gazetteers from Encyclopedic Database for Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013), pages 378–389, Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013. URL
  94. Jiro Umezawa, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Evidence in Automatic Error Correction Improves Learners’ English Skill. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2013), pages 559–571, Samos, Greece, March 2013. URL
  95. Kazeto Yamamoto, Naoya Inoue, Yotaro Watanabe, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Discriminative Learning of First-order Weighted Abduction from Partial Discourse Explanations. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2013), pages 545–558, Samos, Greece, March 2013. URL
  96. Shohei Tanaka, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Acquiring and Generalizing Causal Inference Rules from Deverbal Noun Constructions. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012): Posters, pages 1209–1218, Mumbai, India, December 2012. URL
  97. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition Using Natural Logic. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pages 2805–2820, Mumbai, India, December 2012. URL
  98. Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui. Set Expansion using Sibling Relations between Semantic Categories. In Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 26), pages 525–534, Bali, Indonesia, November 2012. URL
  99. Yuta Tsuboi, Yuya Unno, Hisashi Kashima, and Naoaki Okazaki. Fast Newton-CG Method for Batch Learning of Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), pages 489–494, San Francisco, California , USA, August 2011.
  100. Yu Usami, Han-Cheol Cho, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Automatic Acquisition of Huge Training Data for Bio-Medical Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of BioNLP 2011 Workshop, pages 65–73, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2011. URL
  101. Naoaki Okazaki, Han-Cheol Cho, Rune Sætre, Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. The gene normalization and intractive systems of the University of Tokyo in the BioCreative III challenge. In Proceedings of BioCreative III, pages 125–130, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, September 2010.
  102. Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Approximate Dictionary Matching. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), pages 851–859, Beijing, China, August 2010.
  103. Shouhei Tanaka, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Learning Web Query Patterns for Imitating Wikipedia Articles. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010): Posters, pages 1229–1237, Beijing, China, August 2010.
  104. Takeshi Kobayakawa, Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka, Naoaki Okazaki, Jin-Dong Kim, and Junichi Tsujii. Opinion Classification with Tree Kernel SVM Using Linguistic Modality Analysis. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), pages 1791–1794, Hong Kong, China, November 2009.
  105. Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Accurate and Robust Semantic Role Labeling with Multiple Generalization Criteria in PropBank. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL 2009), pages 97–104, Pisa, Italy, September 2009.
  106. Yukiko Matsuoka, Samik Ghosh, Norihiko Kikuchi, Rune Saetre, Brian Kemper, Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun’ichi Tsujii, and Hiroaki Kitano. Community Platform for Pathway Model Building. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2009), pages 139–140, Stanford University, USA, September 2009.
  107. Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 19–27, Singapore, August 2009. URL
  108. Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 905–913, Singapore, August 2009. URL
  109. Yulan Yan, Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Zhenglu Yang, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Mining Wikipedia Texts Using Information from the Web. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 1021–1029, Singapore, August 2009. URL
  110. Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Semi-Supervised Lexicon Mining from Parenthetical Expressions in Monolingual Web Pages. In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL/HLT 2009), pages 424–432, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009. URL
  111. Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations. In Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), pages 447–456, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008. URL
  112. Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki, Takashi Tsunakawa, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Improving English-to-Chinese Translation for Technical Terms Using Morphological Information. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2008), pages 2.20 (10 pages), Hawai, USA, October 2008. URL
  113. Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. A Discriminative Alignment Model for Abbreviation Recognition. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), pages 657–664, Manchester, UK, August 2008. URL
  114. Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Building a Bilingual Lexicon Using Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation via a Pivot Language. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008): Companion volume: Posters and Demonstrations, pages 127–130, Manchester, UK, August 2008. URL
  115. Chikashi Nobata, Philip Cotter, Naoaki Okazaki, Brian Rea, Yutaka Sasaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii, and Sophia Ananiadou. Kleio: a knowledge-enriched information retrieval system for biology. In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’08), pages 787–788, Singapore, Singapore, July 2008.
  116. Naoaki Okazaki Takashi Tsunakawa and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Building Bilingual Lexicons using Lexical Translation Probabilities via Pivot Languages. In European Language Resources Association (ELRA), editor, Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), pages 1664–1667, Marrakech, Morocco, 28AD.
  117. Connecting Text Mining and Pathways using the PathText Resource. In European Language Resources Association (ELRA), editor, Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), pages 1736–1740, Marrakech, Morocco, 28AD.
  118. Rune Sætre, Brian Kemper, Kanae Oda, Naoaki Okazaki, Yukiko Matsuoka, Nobuo Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Kitano, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. PathText: Text Mining Tools Integrated with Biological Pathway. In Genomes to Systems Conference 2008, page 65, Manchester, UK, March 2008.
  119. Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), pages 889–894, Hyderabad, India, January 2008. URL
  120. Kenji Hirohata, Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Identifying Sections in Scientific Abstracts using Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), pages 381–388, Hyderabad, India, January 2008. URL
  121. Sophia Ananiadou, Philip Cotter, Chikashi Nobata, Naoaki Okazaki, Brian Rea, Yutaka Sasaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. SemText: a semantically enriched information retrieval system for biology. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB2007), page G35, Long Beach, USA, October 2007.
  122. Yutaka Matsuo, Naoaki Okazaki, Kiyoshi Izumi, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Takuichi Nishimura, Koiti Hasida, and Hideyuki Nakashima. Inferring Long-term User Properties based on Users’ Location History. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pages 2159–2165, Hyderabad, India, January 2007. URL
  123. Naoaki Okazaki and Sophia Ananiadou. A Term Recognition Approach to Acronym Recognition. In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 643–650, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. URL
  124. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A Bottom-Up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 385–392, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. URL
  125. Naoaki Okazaki and Sophia Ananiadou. Clustering acronyms in biomedical text for disambiguation. In Proceedings of fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), pages 959–962, Genoa, Italy, May 2006. URL
  126. Goran Nenadic, Naoki Okazaki, and Sophia Ananiadou. Towards a terminological resource for biomedical text mining. In Proceedings of fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), pages 1071–1076, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
  127. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A Machine Learning Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multidocument Summarization and its Evaluation. In Proc. of 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 3651), pages 624–635, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005. URL
  128. Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, and Naoaki Okazaki. Understanding Scenarios of Individual Patients of Hepatitis in Double Helical Process Involving KeyGraph and DSV. In The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST05), pages 456–469, Muroran, Japan, May 2005.
  129. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Improving Chronological Sentence Ordering by Precedence Relation. In Proc. 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 04), pages 750–756, Geneva, Swiss, August 2004. URL
  130. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Coherent Arrangement of Sentences Extracted from Multiple Newspaper Articles. In PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3157 / 2004), pages 882–891, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2004. URL
  131. Yukio Ohsawa, Hajime Fujie, Akio Saiura, Naoaki Okazaki, and Naohiro Matsumura. Process to Discovering Iron Decrease as Chance to Use Interferon to Hepatitis B. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2004), pages 21–30, Kanazawa, Japan, June 2004.
  132. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. TISS: An Integrated Summarization System for TSC-3. In Working Notes of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-4), Tokyo, Japan, June 2004. URL
  133. Gakuto Kurata, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. GDQA: Graph Driven Question Answering System – NTCIR-4 QAC2 Experiments –. In Working Notes of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-4), Tokyo, Japan, June 2004. URL
  134. Yukio Ohsawa, Naoaki Okazaki, Naohiro Matsumura, Aiko Saiura, and Hajime Fujie. A Scenario Development on Hepatitis B and C. In Second International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2003), pages 130–140, Maebashi, Japan, October 2003.
  135. Yutaka Matsuo, Shigeyoshi Hiratsuka, Tomohisa Yamashita, Akira Takagi, Naoaki Okazaki, Takuji Tokiwa, and Koichi Kurumatani. Story-Based Planning in Theme Park. In Multi-Agent for Mass User Support: International Workshop (MAMUS 2003), pages 70–85, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.
  136. Naoaki Okazaki and Yukio Ohsawa. Polaris: An Integrated Data Miner for Chance Discovery. In Workshop of Chance Discovery and Its Management (in conjunction with International Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI2003)), pages 27–30, Crete, Greece, June 2003. URL
  137. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Refined Similarity Measure. In The 16th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-16), pages 407–411, St Augustine, USA, May 2003. URL
  138. Naoaki Okazaki, Sohei Aya, Santi Saeyor, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A Multimodal Presentation Markup Language MPML-VR for a 3D Virtual Space. In Workshop Proc. (CD-ROM) on Virtual Conversational Characters: Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges (in conjunction with HF2002 and OZCHI2002), Melbourne, Australia, November 2002. URL
  139. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Two Different Methods at NTCIR3-TSC2: Coverage Oriented and Focus Oriented. In Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, and Noriko Kando, editors, NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, Tokyo, Japan, October 2002. URL
  140. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Extracting Characteristic Sentences from Related Documents. In 6th International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Applied Technologies (KES2002), pages 1257–1261, Crema, Italy, September 2002. URL

Invited Talks

  1. Jun Suzuki, Kyosuke Nishida, and Naoaki Okazaki. A Gentle Introduction to Technologies Behind Language Models and Recent Achievement in ChatGPT. In Tutorial 2, the 27nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), May 2023. URL
  2. Naoaki Okazaki. Neural Machine Translation and Summarization for News. In International Workshop on Speech to Speech Machine Translation (IWSSMT), November 2020. URL
  3. Naoaki Okazaki. Towards Natural Language Processing that Understands Context. In AI Shooting Stars Session, Artificial Intelligence — International Research and Applications: 1st Japanese-German-French DWIH Symposium, November 2018. URL
  4. Naoaki Okazaki. How Deep Learning Changes Natural Language Processing. In Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018), September 2018. URL
  5. Naoaki Okazaki. Bridging Knowledge and Text with Deep Neural Networks. In Second International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL-2018), July 2018. URL
  6. Naoaki Okazaki. Generating Text with Deep Neural Networks. In Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, March 2018. URL

Non-refereed Papers

  1. Wiem Ben Rim, Carolin Lawrence, Kiril Gashteovski, Mathias Niepert, and Naoaki Okazaki. Behavioral Testing of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models for Link Prediction. In Proceedings of the Fifth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP2021), November 2021.
  2. Zhishen Yang, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi, and Naoaki Okazaki. Do Videos Guide Translations? Evaluation on Video-guided Machine Translation dataset. In Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL), 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) workshop, June 2021. URL
  3. Tosho Hirasawa, Zhishen Yang, Mamoru Komachi, and Naoaki Okazaki. Keyframe Segmentation and Positional Encoding for Video-guided Machine Translation Challenge 2020. In First Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR 2020), ACL 2020, July 2020. arXiv
  4. Youmi Ma, Tatsuya Hiraoka, and Naoaki Okazaki. Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction using Enhanced Table Filling by Contextualized Representations, 2020. arXiv