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• April 27, 2022
• paper

Paper Accepted for AIED 2022

The following paper with Funayama-san in Inui lab has been accepted for AIED 2022!

Hiroaki Funayama, Tasuku Sato, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Jun Suzuki and Kentaro Inui. Balancing Cost and Quality: An Exploration of Human-in-the-loop Frameworks for Automated Short Answer Scoring, The 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2022), pp.xxx-xxx, July 2022.

• March 25, 2022
• graduation

Arai-san, Ishizuki-san and Minoh-san graduated! Congratulations!

Our undergraduate members, Madoka Arai-san, Yukiko Ishizuki-san and Yuki Minoh-san graduated. Congratulations!

• March 16, 2022
• presentation

Presentation at NLP 2022

We made the following two presentations at NLP 2022!

D3:心理言語学・認知モデリング 　　3月15日(火) 15:20-17:00 Zoom

• D3-4 情報量に基づく日本語項省略の分析
  ○石月由紀子 (東北大), 栗林樹生 (東北大/Langsmith), 松林優一郎 (東北大/理研), 大関洋平 (東大/理研)

E4:教育応用(2) 　　3月15日(火) 17:20-19:00 Zoom

• E4-1 記述式答案自動採点における確信度推定とその役割
  ○舟山弘晃, 佐藤汰亮, 松林優一郎 (東北大/理研), 水本智也 (フューチャー/理研), 鈴木潤, 乾健太郎 (東北大/理研)

• Nov. 8, 2021
• presentation

Presentation at EMNLP 2021

Konno-san made a presentation for the following paper at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021) main conference.

Pseudo Zero Pronoun Resolution Improves Zero Anaphora Resolution
Ryuto Konno, Shun Kiyono, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Hiroki Ouchi and Kentaro Inui

Paper DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07425
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• Sept. 1, 2021
• presentation

Presentation at YANS2021

Ishizuki-san made a presentation at The 16th Symposium of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies (YANS)

[P4-10] 情報量に基づく日本語項省略の分析
○石月由紀子（東北大），栗林樹生（東北大/Langsmith），松林優一郎（東北大/理研），大関洋平（東大/理研）

• Aug. 26, 2021
• paper

Paper Accepted for EMNLP 2021

The following paper with Konno-san has been accepted for EMNLP 2021 main conference!

Pseudo Zero Pronoun Resolution Improves Zero Anaphora Resolution
Ryuto Konno, Shun Kiyono, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Hiroki Ouchi and Kentaro Inui

paper DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07425

• July 14, 2021
• new member

Our new members!

Fujita-san, Iwase-san, Oba-san joined our lab. Welcome!

• April 1, 2021
• admission

Kikuchi-san entered our graduate school

Kikuchi-san entered our graduate course. Welcome again!

• March 31, 2021
• graduation

Onaka-san and Kikuchi-san graduated. Congratulations!

Our undergraduate members, Taisuke Onaka-san and Seiya Kikuchi-san graduated. Congratulations!

• March 20, 2021
• award

Received the Special Committee Award at NLP2021!

The following paper of Onaka-san, Kikuchi-san, and Funayama-san received the Special Committee Award at NLP 2021!

菊地正弥, 尾中大介, 舟山弘晃, 松林優一郎, 乾健太郎 /
“項目採点技術に基づいた和文英訳答案の自動採点”

• March 19, 2021
• paper
• presentation

Presentations at NLP 2021

We made the following three presentations at NLP 2021.

• D4-3　項目採点技術に基づいた和文英訳答案の自動採点 ○菊地正弥, 尾中大介, 舟山弘晃, 松林優一郎, 乾健太郎 (東北大/理研)
• C9-4 事前学習とfinetuningの類似性に基づくゼロ照応解析 ○今野颯人 (東北大), 清野舜 (理研/東北大), 松林優一郎 (東北大/理研), 大内啓樹 (理研), 乾健太郎 (東北大/理研)
• WS3-6 実用的な自動採点のための確信度推定と根拠事例の提供 ○舟山弘晃（東北大/理研），王天奇（東北大/理研），松林優一郎（東北大/理研），水本智也（フューチャー/理研），佐藤汰亮（東北大/理研），鈴木潤（東北大/理研），乾健太郎（東北大/理研）

• Sept. 30, 2020
• paper

Paper Accepted for COLING 2020

The following paper with Konno-san has been accepted for COLING 2020!

An Empirical Study of Contextual Data Augmentation for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution.
Ryuto Konno, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Shun Kiyono, Hiroki Ouchi, Ryo Takahashi and Kentaro Inui.
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020) pp.4956–4968, December 2020.

• Aug. 27, 2020
• paper

Paper Accepted for Journal of Natural Language Processing

The following paper with Abe-san in Inui lab has been accepted for Journal of Natural Language Processing.

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. Volume 27, Number 4, pp.781-800, December 2020.

Paper DOI: https://doi.org/10.5715/jnlp.27.781

• July 15, 2020
• new member

New lab members!

Arai-san, Ishizuki-san, and Minoh-san joined our lab. Welcome!

• April 17, 2020
• paper

Paper accepted at ACL SRW 2020

The following paper with Funayama-san in Inui lab has been accepted for ACL SRW 2020!

Hiroaki Funayama, Shota Sasaki, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Jun Suzuki, Masato Mita and Kentaro Inui.
Preventing Critical Scoring Errors in Short Answer Scoring with Confidence Estimation.
In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW), pp. 237–243, July 2020.

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• March 31, 2020
• graduation

Haruki Oka-san, graduated!

The first student in our laboratory, Haruki Oka-san, graduated. Congratulations!

• June 24, 2019
• paper

Paper Accepted for BUCLD44

The paper "The Input to Verb Learning in Japanese: Picture Books for Syntactic Bootstrapping" has been accepted for BUCLD 44.

Naho Orita, Asumi Suzuki, Yuichiro Matsubayashi.
The Input to Verb Learning in Japanese: Picture Books for Syntactic Bootstrapping.
In BUCLD 44: Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) edited by Megan M. Brown and Alexandra Kohut, pp. 457-464.

• April 11, 2019
• poster

Poster Accepted at CogSci 2019

Naho Orita, Asumi Suzuki, Yuichiro Matsubayashi. Verb arguments in Japanese picture books. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019), July 2019.