Publications

Journal papers

  1. Naoaki Okazaki, and Sophia Ananiadou. Building an Abbreviation Dictionary Using a Term Recognition Approach. Bioinformatics, 22(22):3089--3095, December 2006. (ISSN: 1367-4803) [DOI] [LINK]
  2. Naoaki Okazaki, Santi Saeyor, Hiroshi Dohi, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. An Extension of the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language (MPML) to a Three-dimensinal VRML Space. Systems and Computers in Japan, 36(36):69--80, October 2005. (ISSN: 0882-1666) [DOI] [LINK]
  3. 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: Inforamtion Access towards Asian Languages), 4(4):321--339, September 2005. (ISSN: 1530-0226) [DOI] [LINK]
  4. 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. KI Zeitschrift (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence), 1:4--10, February 2004. (ISSN: 0933-1875) [LINK]
  5. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Similarity Measure. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Special Issue on Text Processing for Information Access), E86-D(E86-D):915--926, September 2003. (ISSN: 0916-8532) [LINK]
  6. Matsuo Yutaka, Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Takuichi Nishimura, Koiti Hasida, and Hideyuki Nakashima. User Modeling Based on Location History. 情報処理学会論文誌, 48(48):2106--2117, June 2007. (ISSN: 1346-0714) [LINK]
  7. Sohei Aya, Yutaka Matsuo, Naoaki Okazaki, K\hatoiti Hashida, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Summarization of Multiple Documents with Rhetorical Annotation. Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan (in Japanese), 20(20):149--158, May 2005. [LINK]
  8. Naoaki Okazaki, Santi Saeyor, Hiroshi Dohi, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. An Extension of Multimodal Presentation Markup Language MPML to a 3D VRML Space. Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) (in Japanese), J85-D(J85-D):1687--1694, September 2002. [LINK]

International conference papers

  1. 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. [LINK]
  2. 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. [LINK]
  3. 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. [LINK]
  4. 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 125--128, Manchester, UK, August 2008. [LINK]
  5. 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.
  6. Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Building Bilingual Lexicons using Lexical Translation Probabilities via Pivot Languages. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), pages , Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
  7. Rune Sætre, Brian Kemper, Kanae Oda, Naoaki Okazaki, Yukiko Matsuoka, Norihiro Kikuchi, Hiroaki Kitano, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun’ichi Tsujii. Connecting Text Mining and Pathways using the PathText Resource. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), pages , Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
  8. 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, pages 65, Manchester, UK, March 2008.
  9. 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. [LINK]
  10. 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. [LINK]
  11. 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. [LINK]
  12. 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), pages G35, Long Beach, USA, Oct 2007.
  13. 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. [LINK]
  14. Bollegala, Danushka, Okazaki, Naoaki, and Ishizuka, Mitsuru. 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. [LINK]
  15. 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 , Genoa, Italy, May 2006. [LINK]
  16. 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 , Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
  17. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. A Machine Learning Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multidocument Summarization and its Evaluation. In Proc. of 2nd Internaional Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), pages 624--635, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005. [LINK]
  18. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Improving Chronological Sentence Ordering by Precedence Relation. In Proc. 20th Internaional Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 04), pages 750--756, Geneva, Swiss, August 2004. [LINK]
  19. 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, pages 882--891, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2004. [LINK]
  20. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Coherent Arrangement of Sentences Extracted from Multiple Newspaper Articles. In PRICAI 2004 Pre-Conference Workshop Notes (Workshop of Language Sense on Computer), pages , Auckland, New Zealand, August 2004.
  21. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. TISS: An Integrated Summarization System for TSC-3. In TSC3, pages , Tokyo, Japan, June 2004. [LINK]
  22. 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), pages , Tokyo, Japan, June 2004. [LINK]
  23. 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 , Maebashi, Japan, October 2003.
  24. 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 Conputer Interaction Conference (HCI2003)), pages 27--30, Crete, Greece, June 2003. [LINK]
  25. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Refined Similarity Measure. In The 16th International FLAIRS Conference, pages , St Augustine, USA, May 2003. [LINK]
  26. 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), pages , Melbourne, Australia, November 2002. [LINK]
  27. Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Two Different Methods at NTCIR3-TSC2: Coverage Oriented and Focus Oriented. In NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, pages , Tokyo, Japan, October 2002. [LINK]
  28. 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. [LINK]