Journal Papers (Referred)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Yun-Nung Chen, Paul Crook, Satwik Kottur, Jinchao Li, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seungwhan Moon, Zhengcong Fei, Zekang Li, Jinchao Zhang, Yang Feng, Jie Zhou, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Babak Damavandi, Alborz Geramifard, Chiori Hori, Ankit Shah, Chen Zhang, Haizhou Li, Joao Sedoc, Luis F. D'Haro, Rafael Banchs and Alexander Rudnicky.
    Overview of the Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC10.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), accepted, 2023.

  • Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura.
    End-to-End Dialogue Structure Parsing on Multi-Floor Dialogue Based on Multi-Task Learning.
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol.10, May 2023.

  • Akishige Yuguchi, Masayuki Toyoda, Takashi Cho, Koichiro Yoshino, Jun Takamatsu, Atsushi Nakazawa and Tsukasa Ogasawara.
    Capturing Contact Surfaces by Frustrated Total Internal Reflection System using a Curved Plate for Analysis of the Beginning of Humanitude's Tourching Motions
    RSJ Letter, 2023.

  • Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Reflective Action Selection Based on Positive-Unlabeled Learning and Causality Detection Model.
    Computer Speech & Language, Vol. 78, 101463, 2023.

  • Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Carlos T. Ishi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Minato, Yasuki Saito, Michihiko Minoh
    Butsukusa: A Conversational Mobile Robot Describing Its Own Observations and Internal States.
    RSJ Letter, 2022.

  • Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Controlled Neural Response Generation by Given Dialogue Acts Based on Label-aware Adversarial Learning
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.36, No.4, pp.E-KC9_1-14,July 2021. PDF

  • Yoichi Ishibashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Reflection-based Word Attribute Transfer
    Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.28, No.1 pp.206-234, March 2021. PDF

  • Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Relationships Between Coherency of Sequential Events and Dialogue Continuity on Conversational Response
    Transaction of Natural Langauge Processing (in Japanese), Vol.28, No.1, pp.26-59, March 2021. PDF

  • Seiya Kawano, Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Entrainable Neural Conversation Model based on Reinforcement Learning
    IEEE Access, Vol.8, pp.178283 - 178294, September 2020. PDF

  • The Tung Nguyen, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura
    Policy Reuse for Dialog Management Using Action-Relation Probability
    IEEE Access, Vol.8, pp.159639-159649, August 2020. PDF

  • Luis Fernando D'Haro, Koichiro Yoshino, Chiori Hori, Tim K. Marks, Lazaros Polymenakos, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Michel Galley, and Xiang Gao.
    Overview of the seventh Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC7
    Computer Speech & Language, Volume 62, July 2020. PDF

  • Seitaro Shinagawa, Koichiro Yoshino, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Kallirroi Georgila, David Traum, Sakriani Sakti, and Satoshi Nakamura.
    An Interactive Image Editing System using an Uncertainty-based Confirmation Strategy
    IEEE Access, Vol.8, pp.98471 - 98480, May 2020. PDF

  • The Tung Nguyen, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
    Dialog Management of Healthcare Consulting System by Utilizing Deceptive Information
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.35, No.1, pp.DSI-C_1-12, January 2020. PDF

  • Katsumi Hisao, Koichiro Yoshino, Takuya Hiraoka, Kosuke Akimoto, Kazeto Yamamoto, Shota Motoura, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Satoshi Nakamura
    Optimization of Information-Seeking Dialogue Strategy for Argumentation-Based Dialogue System
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.35, No.1, pp.DSI-D_1-12, January 2020. PDF

  • Seitaro Shinagawa, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakti Sakriani, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Image Manipulation System with Natural Language Instruction
    IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.J102-D, No.8, pp.514--529, August, 2019. PDF

  • Chiori Hori, Julien Perez, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takaaki Hori, Y-Lan Boureau, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Koichiro Yoshino, Seokhwan Kim
    Overview of the Sixth Dialogue System Technology Challenge: DSTC6
    Computer Speech & Language, Vol.54, No.3, pp.1--25, May 2019. PDF

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakti Sakriani, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Positive Emotion Elicitation in Chat-based Dialogue Systems
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), Vol.27, Issue.4, pp.866--877, April 2019. PDF

  • Yukitoshi Murase, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Associative Knowledge Feature Vector Inferred on External Knowledge Base for Dialog State Tracking
    Computer Speech & Language, Vol.54, No.3, pp.1--16, March 2019. PDF

  • Hiroaki Tanaka, Yu Suzuki Shotaro Yamasaki, Koichiro Yoshino, Ko Kato, Satoshi Nakamura
    R-STEINER: Generation Method of 5'UTR for Increasing the Amount of Translated Proteins
    IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics, Vol.11, pp.14--23, July 2018. PDF

  • Ikuo Keshi, Yu Suzuki, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Semantically Readable Distributed Representation Learning and Its Expandability Using a Word Semantic Vector Dictionary
    IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E101.D, No.4, pp.1066--1078, April 2018. PDF

  • Yusuke Oda, Philip Arthur, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Neural Machine Translation via Binary Code Prediction.
    Journal of Natural Langauge Processing (in Japanese), Vol.25, No.2, pp.167--199, March 2018. PDF

  • Yoko Ishikawa, Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakti Sakriani, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura
    Persuasive Dialog System Using Emotional Expressions.
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (in Japanese), Vol.33, No.1, pp.DSH-B1--9, January 2018. PDF

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakti Sakriani, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Emotional Triggers and Responses in Spontaneous Affective Interaction: Recognition, Prediction, and Analysis.
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.33, No.1, pp.DSH-D1--10, January 2018. PDF

  • Ikuo Keshi, Yu Suzuki, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, Kazuto Ohara, Toshiro Mukai, Satoshi Nakamura
    Reputation Information Extraction from Twitter Using a Word Semantic Vector Dictionary.
    IEICE Transaction, Vol.J100-D, No.4, pp.530--543, April 2017. PDF

  • Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Evaluation Metrics of Machine Translation that Adapt Cross-Lingual Question Answering.
    Transaction of Natural Langauge Processing (in Japanese), Vol.23, No.5, pp.437--461, December 2016. PDF

  • Lasguido Nio, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Neural Network Approaches to Dialog Response Retrieval and Generation.
    IEICE Transaction, Vol.E99-D, No.10, October 2016. PDF

  • Makoto Morishita, Koichi Akabe, Yuto Hatakoshi, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Parser Self-Training for Syntax-Based Machine Translation.
    Transaction of Natural Language Processing (in Japanese), Vol.23, No.4, pp.353-376, September 2016. PDF

  • Takashi Yanaguchi, Koji Inoue, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel G. Ward, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Generating a Variety of Backchannel Forms Based on Linguistic and Prosodic Features for Attentive Listening Agents.
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (in Japanese), Vol.31, No.4, August 2016. PDF

  • Takeshi Yamasaki, Koichiro Yoshino, Hirokuni Maeta, Tetsuro Sasada, Atsushi Hashimoto, Takuya Funatomi, Yoko Yamakata and Shinsuke Mori
    Procedual Text Generation from A Flow Graph.
    Transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan (in Japanese), Vol.57, No.3, pp.849--862, March 2016. PDF

  • Masahiro Mizukami, Hideaki Kizuki, Toshio Nomura, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura
    Example Based Dialogue System Based on Satisfaction Prediction.
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (in Japanese), Vol.31, No.1, January 2016. PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino and Tatsuya Kawahara
    Conversational System for Information Navigation based on POMDP with User Focus Tracking.
    Computer Speech & Language, Vol.34, Issue.1, pp.275--291, November 2015. PDF

  • Naoki Hirayama, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Shinsuke Mori, and Hiroshi G. Okuno
    Automatic Speech Recognition for Mixed Dialect Utterances by Mixing Dialect Language Models.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), Vol.32, Issue.2, pp.373--382, 2014. PDF

  • Naoki Hirayama, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Shinsuke Mori, and Hiroshi G. Okuno
    Dialect-mixed Speech Recognition by Mixing Simulated Multiple Dialect Language Models.
    Transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan (in Japanese), Vol.55, No.7, pp.1681--1694, July 2014. PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System Based on Sentence Filtering Using Predicate-Argument Structures.
    Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (in Japanese), Vol.29, No.1, pp.53--59, January 2014. PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Spoken Dialogue System based on Information Extraction and Presentation using Similarity of Predicate Argument Structures.
    Transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan (in Japanese), Vol.52, No.12, pp.3386--3397, December 2011. PDF

Conference Papers (Referred)

  • Kanta Watanabe, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Koichiro Yoshino
    Toward building dialogue system deepening knowledges on past dialogue: a corpus study and analysis
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan, March. 2024.

  • Angel Garcia Contreras, Seiya Kawano, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yutaka Nakamura, Saito Satoru, Koichiro Yoshino
    Examining the Impact of a Forgetful Multi-store Memory System in a Cognitive Assistive Robot
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan, March. 2024.

  • Shota Kanezaki, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Marie Katsurai, Koichiro Yoshino
    Investigation of the Influence of Different Entrainment Metrics/Strategies on Subjective Evaluation in Re-ranking Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan, March. 2024.

  • Kenta Yamamoto, Seiya Kawano, Tatsuya Kawahara, Koichiro Yoshino
    Data Augmentation for Robust Natural Language Generation Based on Phrase Alignment and Sentence Structure
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan, March. 2024.

  • Shang-Chi Tsai, Seiya Kawano, Angel Garcia Contreras, Koichiro Yoshino, Yun-Nung Chen
    ASMR: Augmenting Life Scenario using Large Generative Models for Robotic Action Reflection
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan, March. 2024.

  • Seiya Kawano, Shota Kanezaki, Angel Fernando Garcia Contreras, Akishige Yuguchi, Marie Katsurai, Koichiro Yoshino
    Analysis of Style-Shifting on Social Media: Using Neural Language Model Conditioned by Social Meanings
    In Proceedings of The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) findings, Singapore, Singapore, December 2023.

  • Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Shohei Tanaka, Gabriel Roccabruna, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura, Giuseppe Riccardi.
    Whats New? Identifying the Unfolding of New Events in Narratives.
    In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 5th Workshop of Narrative Understanding, Tronto, Canada, July 2023.

  • Taiki Nakamura, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi and Koichiro Yoshino.
    Operative Action Captioning for Estimating System Actions.
    In Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May 2023.

  • Seiya Kawano, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi and Koichiro Yoshino.
    Analysis of Face Acts in Japanese Multimodal Persuasive Dialogue Corpus.
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2023, Los Angles, USA, Feb. 2023.

  • Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Takashi Minato and Koichiro Yoshino.
    Conveying Intentions for Attentive Listening by Facial Motions Using an Android.
    In the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems LBR, Kyoto, Japan, October 2022.

  • Daichi Yoshihara, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Takamasa Iio and Koichiro Yoshino.
    An Autonomous Mobile Robot Generating Context-Aware Description Using Its Observation and Memory.
    In the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems LBR, Kyoto, Japan, October 2022.

  • Seiya Kawano, Muteki Arioka, Akishige Yuguchi, Kenta Yamamoto, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Satoshi Nakamura and Koichiro Yoshino.
    Multimodal Persuasive Dialogue Corpus using Teleoperated Android.
    In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH2022, pp.2308-2312, Incheon, Korea, September 2022.

  • Yuya Nakano, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Pseudo Ambiguous and Clarifying Questions Based on Sentence Structures Toward Clarifying Question Answering System.
    In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics DialDoc Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022.

  • Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Minato, Yasuki Saito, Michihiko Minoh.
    Butsukusa: A Conversational Mobile Robot Describing Its Own Observations and Internal States
    In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2022, Sapporo (virtual), Japan, March 2022.

  • Sara Asai, Koichiro Yoshino, Seitaro Shinagawa, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Eliciting Cooperative Persuasive Dialogue by Multimodal Emotional Robot
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2021, Singapore (virtual), Singapore, Nov. 2021.

  • Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura.
    ARTA: Collection and Classification of Ambiguous Requests and Thoughtful Actions
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021), pp.(accepted), Singapore, Singapore, July 2021.

  • Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Dialogue Structure Parsing on Multi-Floor Dialogue Based on Multi-Task Learning
    In Proceedings of the first ROBOT-DIAL workshop at IJCAI 2020.

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Kana Ikeuchi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Improving Spoken Language Understanding by Wisdom of Crowds
    In Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2020), Barcelona (virtual), Spain, December 2020 (accepted).

  • Yoichi Ishibashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Reflection-based Word Attribute Transfer
    In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2020) Student Research Workshop, Seattle, USA, July 2020.

  • Sara Asai, Koichiro Yoshino, Seitaro Shinagawa, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Emotional Speech Corpus for Persuasive Dialogue System
    In Proceedings of 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp.484-489, Marseilles, France, May 2020.

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Kohei Wakimoto, Yuta Nishimura and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Caption Generation of Robot Behaviors based on Unsupervised Learning of Action Segments
    In Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2020, Siracusa, Italy, Apr. 2019 Best paper award, Best video finalist

  • Nguyen The Tung, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
    Hierarchical Tensor Fusion Network for Deception Handling Negotiation Dialog Model
    3rd Conversational AI: "Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential" workshop in NeurIPS2019 conference, Vancouver, Canada, December 2019.

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Dialogue Model and Response Generation for Emotion Improvement Elicitation
    3rd Conversational AI: "Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential" workshop in NeurIPS2019 conference, Vancouver, Canada, December 2019.

  • Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Neural Conversation Model Controllable by Given Dialogue Act Based on Adversarial Learning and Label-aware Objective
    The 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2019), Tokyo, Japan, October 2019.

  • Andrei Catalin Coman, Koichiro Yoshino, Yukitoshi Murase, Satoshi Nakamura, Giuseppe Riccardi.
    An Incremental Turn-Taking Model For Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
    The 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH2019), pp.4155-4159, Graz, Austria, September 2019

  • Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Conversational Response Re-ranking Based on Event Causality and Role Factored Tensor Event Embedding
    The 1st workshop on NLP for ConvAI workshop in ACL conference, Florence, Italy, July 2019

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Yukitoshi Murase, Nurul Lubis, Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Hiroki Tanaka, Sakriani Sakti, Shinnosuke Takamichi and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Spoken Dialogue Robot for Watching Daily Life of Elderly People
    International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS2019), Siracusa, Italy, Apr. 2019

  • Hisao Katsumi, Takuya Hiraoka, Koichiro Yoshino, Kazeto Yamamoto, Shota Motoura, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Satoshi Nakamura
    Optimization of Information-Seeking Dialogue Strategy for Argumentation-Based Dialogue System
    the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2019) Deep-DIAL Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 2019

  • Ryo Nakamura, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Another Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Dialogue Generation
    the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2019) Deep-DIAL Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 2019

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Chiori Hori, Julien Perez, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Lazaros Polymenakos, Chulaka Gunasekara, Wakter S. Lasecki, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan, Xiang Gao, Tim K. Marks, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra.
    Dialog System Technology Challenge 7
    Thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2nd Conversational AI Workshop, Montreal, Canada, December 2018.

  • Naoki Hosomi, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Deception Detection and Analysis in Spoken Dialogues based on fastText
    Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2018), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November 2018.

  • Hiroaki Tanaka, Yu Suzuki, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    TRANS-AM: Discovery Method of Optimal Input Vectors Corresponding to Objective Variables
    International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2018), Regensburg, Germany, September 2018.

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
    Unsupervised Counselor Dialogue Clustering for Positive Emotion Elicitation in Neural Dialogue System
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018), pp.161--170, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018.

  • Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Dialogue Act Classification in Reference Interview Using Convolutional Neural Network with Byte Pair Encoding.
    International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (IWSDS2018), Singapore, Singapore, 2018 (Best Paper Runner-Up)

  • The Tung Nguyen, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakti Sakriani and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Impact of deception information on negotiation dialog.
    International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (IWSDS2018), Singapore, Singapore, 2018

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Yoko Ishikawa, Masahiro Mizukami, Sakti Sakriani, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Dialogue Scenario Collection of Persuasive Dialogue with Emotional Expressions via Crowdsourcing.
    11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan. May 2018

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Hiroki Tanaka, Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Makoto Kondo, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Japanese Dialogue Corpus of Information Navigation and Attentive Listening Annotated with Extended ISO-24617-2 Dialogue Act Tags
    11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan. May 2018

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakti Sakriani, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Eliciting Positive Emotion through Affect-Sensitive Dialogue Response Generation: A Neural Network Approach.
    the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2018

  • Seitaro Shinagawa, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakti Sakriani, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Interactive Image Manipulation with Natural Language Instruction Commands
    NIPS conference, the Visually Grounded Interaction and Language workshop (ViGIL2017), Long Beach, California, USA, 2017

  • Louisa Pragst, Koichiro Yoshino, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura and Stefan Ultes.
    Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, 2017

  • Ikuo Keshi, Yu Suzuki, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Semantically Readable Distributed Representation Learning for Social Media Mining.
    The International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2017), pp.716--722, Leipzig, Germany, 2017 PDF

  • Yu Suzuki, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    A k-anonymized Text Generation Method.
    the 20th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS2017), Toronto, Canada, 2017 PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Information Navigation System with Discovering User Interests
    The 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL2017), pp.356--359, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2017 PDF

  • Makoto Morishita, Yusuke Oda, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura.
    An Empirical Study of Mini-Batch Creation Strategies for Neural Machine Translation.
    The 1st Workshop of Neural Machine Translation (WMT2017), pp.61--68, Vancouver, Canada, 2017 PDF

  • Yusuke Oda, Philip Arthur, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Neural Machine Translation via Binary Code Prediction.
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, 2017 PDF

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Eliciting Positive Emotional Impact in Dialogue Response Selection.
    International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (IWSDS2017),pp.1--12, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, 2017 PDF

  • Yukitoshi Murase, Koichiro Yoshino, Masahiro Mizukami, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Feature Inference based on Label Propagation on Wikidata Graph for Dialogue State Tracking.
    International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (IWSDS2017),pp.1--12, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, 2017 PDF

  • Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael Enrique Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Koichiro Yoshino.
    The Fifth Dialog State Tracking Challenge.
    2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), pp.511--517 San Diego, California, USA, 2016

  • Sakriani Sakti, Seiji Kawanishi, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Deep Bottleneck Features and Sound-Dependent i-vector for Simultaneous Recognition of Speech and Environment Sounds.
    2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), pp.35--42, San Diego, California, USA, 2016 PDF

  • Hiroki Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Makoto Kondo, Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Multimodal Interaction Data between Clinical Psychologists and Students for Attentive Listening modeling.
    Oriental COCOSDA, pp.95--98, Benoa, Bali, Indonesia, 2017 PDF

  • Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura and Wolfgang Minker.
    Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction.
    The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2016), Los Angeles, California, USA, pp.74-79, September 2016 PDF

  • Masahiro Mizukami, David Traum, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts.
    The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2016), Los Angeles, California, USA, pp.310-318, September 2016 PDF

  • Satoshi Tsujioka, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura.
    Unsupervised Joint Estimation of Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion Systems and Acoustic Model Adaptation for Non-native Speech Recognition.
    INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, California, USA, September 2016 PDF

  • Rui Hiraoka, Hiroki Tanaka, Sakti Sakriani, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Eye Gaze-based Unknown Word Detection in Non-native Language Reading using SVMs and Random Forests
    International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August. 2016. PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Naoki Hirayama, Shinsuke Mori, Fumihiko Takahashi, Katsutoshi Itoyama and Hiroshi G. Okuno
    Parallel Speech Corpora of Japanese Dialects
    10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016

  • Nurul Lubis, Randy Gomez, Sakriani Sakti, Keisuke Nakamura, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura and Kazuhiro Nakadai
    Construction of Japanese Audio-Visual Emotion Database and Its Application in Emotion Recogntion
    10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Portoroz, Slovenia. May 2016

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Dialogue State Tracking using Long Short Term Memory Neural Networks
    7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS). Riekonlinna, Finland. January 2016 (Oral) PDF

  • Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Active Learning for Example-based Dialog Systems
    7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS). Riekonlinna, Finland. January 2016 (Oral) PDF

  • Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel Ward and Tatsuya Kawahara
    Analysis and Prediction of Morphological Patterns of Backchannels for Attentive Listening Agents
    7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS). Riekonlinna, Finland. January 2016 (Oral)

  • Makoto Morishita, Koichi Akabe, Yuto Hatakoshi, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Parser Self-Training for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
    12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). Da Nang, Vietnam. December 2015 (Poster) PDF

  • Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Miki Uesato, Koichiro Yoshino, and Katsuya Takanashi.
    Synchrony in prosodic and linguistic features between backchannels and preceding utterances in attentive listening.
    Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). pp.392--395, Hong Kong, China, 2015 (Oral)

  • Masahiro Mizukami, Hideaki Kizuki, Toshio Nomura, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura.
    Adaptive Selection from Multiple Reponse Candidates in Example-based Dialogue.
    2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. December 2015 (Poster) PDF

  • Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura.
    A Study of Social-Affective Communication: Automatic Prediction of Emotion Triggers and Responses in Television Talk Shows.
    2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. December 2015 (Poster) PDF

  • Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura
    An Investigation of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics in Cross-lingual Question Answering
    EMNLP 2015 10th workshop on statistical machine translation, pp.442--449 Lisbon, Portugal. September 2015. (Oral) PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Tatsuya Kawahara
    News Navigation System based on Proactive Dialogue Strategy.
    International Workshop series on Spoken Dialogue Systems technology, Busan, Korea. January 2015. (Oral)

  • Tatsuya Kawahara, Miki Uesato, Koichiro Yoshino and Katsuya Takanashi
    Toward Adaptive Generation of Backchannels for Attentive Listening Agents.
    International Workshop series on Spoken Dialogue Systems technology, Busan, Korea. January 2015. (Oral)

  • Shinsuke Mori, Hirokuni Maeta, Tetsuro Sasada, Koichiro Yoshino, Atsushi Hashimoto, Takuya Funatomi, Yoko Yamakata
    FlowGraph2Text: Automatic Sentence Skeleton Compilation for Procedural Text Generation.
    8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2014. (Poster)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus.
    Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL2014), pp.32--40, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2014. (Oral)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux, John R. Hershey
    Statistical Dialogue Management using Intention Dependency Graph.
    The 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2013), pp.962--966, Nagoya, Japan. October 2013. (Poster) PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Partially Annotated Corpora.
    The 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2013), pp.957--961, Nagoya, Japan. October 2013. (Poster) PDF

  • Naoki Hirayama, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Shinsuke Mori, and Hiroshi G. Okuno
    Automatic Estimation of Dialect Mixing Ratio for Dialect Speech Recognition.
    The 14th Annual Conference on the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013), pp.1492--1496, Lyon, France. August 2013. (Poster)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Incorporating Semantic Information to Selection of Web Texts for Language Model of Spoken Dialogue System.
    The 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2013), pp.8252--8256, Vancouver, Canada. May 2013. (Oral)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures.
    24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2012), pp.2993--3002, Mumbai, India. December, 2012. (Oral)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Sentence Transformation and Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures.
    Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA2012), Hollywood, California, USA. December, 2012. (Oral)

  • Shinsuke Mori, Tetsuro Sasada, Yoko Yamakata, Koichiro Yoshino
    A Machine Learning Approach to Recipe Text Processing.
    Cooking with Computers workshop, Montpellier, France. August 2012. (Oral) PDF

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Spoken Dialogue System based on Information Extraction using Similarity of Predicate Argument Structures.
    Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL2011), pp.59--66, Portland, Oregon. June 2011. (Oral)

  • Koichiro Yoshino, Tatsuya Kawahara
    Spoken Dialogue System based on Information Extraction from Web Text.
    International Workshop series on Spoken Dialogue Systems technology (IWSDS 2010)(LNAI 6932), Vol.Demo. Paper, pp.196--197, Gotenba, Japan. October 2010. (Poster+Demo)