Ryuichiro Higashinaka

175 papers A* 9A 14B 40C 7Misc 1Journal 41Unranked 63

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Dialogue System Symposium. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Koichiro Yoshino, Michimasa Inaba, Reina Akama, Koji Inoue, Shogo Okada, Yuka Kobayashi, Shiki Sato, Seitaro Shinagawa, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Ryoko Tokuhisa, Hiromi Narimatsu, Jun Baba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Shinya Fujie, Yoichi Matsuyama, Kenta Yamamoto
2026	J	`jnl`	Modeling the depth of grounding through a generative cognitive model in referential communication. Comput. Hum. Behav. Artif. Humans Ryunosuke Baba, Junya Morita, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yugo Takeuchi
2026	J	`jnl`	Proposal of Abstractive Dialogue Format Summary and Analysis of its Characteristics and Workload on Dialogue Handover. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Sanae Yamashita, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	—	`conf`	A Comparative Study of Human-operated and AI-driven Guidance with a Teleoperated Mobile Robot. IJCNLP-AACL (long papers) Ao Guo, Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Kenya Hoshimure, Jun Baba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	J	`jnl`	Adapting language generation to dialogue environments and users for task-oriented dialogue systems. Nat. Lang. Process. J. Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	A	`conf`	Anomaly Detection in Human-Robot Interaction Using Multimodal Models Constructed from In-the-Wild Interactions. IROS Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Kenya Hoshimure, Jun Baba, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	B	`conf`	Common Ground Building through Generative Cognitive Modules: Examining the Roles of Initial Perception, Imaging and Captioning. CogSci Ryunosuke Baba, Junya Morita, Takeru Amaya, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yugo Takeuchi
2025	—	`conf`	Constructing an In-the-Wild Spoken Dialogue Dataset Based on Youtube Dialogue Videos. APSIPA Yuki Sato, Sanae Yamashita, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	—	`conf`	Incorporating Dialogue State Tracking into Japanese Full-duplex Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Model. IJCNLP-AACL (Findings) Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	—	`conf`	Investigating Feasibility of Large Language Model Agent Collaboration in Minecraft and Comparison with Human-Human Collaboration. IJCNLP-AACL (long papers) Yuki Hirota, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	B	`conf`	Investigating the Impact of Incremental Processing and Voice Activity Projection on Spoken Dialogue Systems. COLING Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	J	`jnl`	Llama-Mimi: Speech Language Models with Interleaved Semantic and Acoustic Tokens. CoRR Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	J	`jnl`	Optimizing pipeline task-oriented dialogue systems using post-processing networks. Comput. Speech Lang. Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	B	`conf`	Teleoperation System Enabling Operator-Robot Dialogue for Reducing Operator Boredom during Long-Duration Tasks. HAI Manato Uetake, Tomonori Kubota, Masaya Iwasaki, Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Ao Guo, Kenya Hoshimure, Jun Baba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Satoshi Sato, Kohei Ogawa
2025	J	`jnl`	Thematic Session 2: Dialogue Systems and Language Use for Human-AI Symbiosis. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Mayumi Usami, Tetsuro Takahashi, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	A	`conf`	Towards a Japanese Full-duplex Spoken Dialogue System. INTERSPEECH Atsumoto Ohashi, Shinya Iizuka, Jingjing Jiang, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	J	`jnl`	Towards a Japanese Full-duplex Spoken Dialogue System. CoRR Atsumoto Ohashi, Shinya Iizuka, Jingjing Jiang, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	A*	`conf`	Universal Post-Processing Networks for Joint Optimization of Modules in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. AAAI Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2025	J	`jnl`	Universal Post-Processing Networks for Joint Optimization of Modules in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. CoRR Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	—	`conf`	Collecting and Analyzing Dialogues in a Tagline Co-Writing Task. LREC/COLING Xulin Zhou, Takuma Ichikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	J	`jnl`	Construction and Analysis of Utterance Corpus Incorporating Arbitrary User Information for Personalized Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	J	`jnl`	Effects of Demonstrating Consensus Between Robots to Change User's Opinion. Int. J. Soc. Robotics Kazuki Sakai, Koh Mitsuda, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro
2024	—	`conf`	Effects of Multiple Japanese Datasets for Training Voice Activity Projection Models. O-COCOSDA Yuki Sato, Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	B	`conf`	Estimating the Emotional Valence of Interlocutors Using Heterogeneous Sensors in Human-Human Dialogue. SIGDIAL Jingjing Jiang, Ao Guo, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	—	`conf`	I Remember You!: SUI Corpus for Remembering and Utilizing Users' Information in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems. LREC/COLING Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	—	`conf`	Investigating the Language Independence of Voice Activity Projection Models through Standardization of Speech Segmentation Labels. APSIPA Yuki Sato, Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	—	`conf`	JMultiWOZ: A Large-Scale Japanese Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset. LREC/COLING Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Shinya Iizuka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	J	`jnl`	JMultiWOZ: A Large-Scale Japanese Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset. CoRR Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Shinya Iizuka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	B	`conf`	Learning Anomaly Detection Models for Human-Robot Interaction. RO-MAN Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Reiko Yuasa, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	J	`jnl`	Overview of Dialogue Robot Competition 2023. CoRR Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2024	J	`jnl`	Selecting Iconic Gesture Forms Based on Typical Entity Images. J. Inf. Process. Yukiko I. Nakano, Fumio Nihei, Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2024	J	`jnl`	Special issue on multimodal processing and robotics for dialogue systems (Part II). Adv. Robotics David Traum, Gabriel Skantze, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Takayuki Nagai
2024	J	`jnl`	Travel Agency Task Dialogue Corpus: A Multimodal Dataset with Age-Diverse Speakers. ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Chiba, Zhiyang Qi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazunori Komatani, Yusuke Miyao, Takayuki Nagai
2023	J	`jnl`	Analyzing Variations of Everyday Japanese Conversations Based on Semantic Labels of Functional Expressions. ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	B	`conf`	Applying Item Response Theory to Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Accurately Determining User's Task Success Ability. SIGDIAL Ryu Hirai, Ao Guo, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	J	`jnl`	Cognitive Architecture Toward Common Ground Sharing Among Humans and Generative AIs: Trial on Model-Model Interactions in Tangram Naming Task. CoRR Junya Morita, Tatsuya Yui, Takeru Amaya, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yugo Takeuchi
2023	J	`jnl`	Design of a competition specifically for spoken dialogue with a humanoid robot. Adv. Robotics Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2023	J	`jnl`	Development of Character-like Chatbot with Role Play-Based Question Answering and a Large Language Model. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tingxuan Li, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi, Hidetoshi Kawabata, Sen Yoshida, Tetsuya Kinebuchi
2023	J	`jnl`	Dialogue Situation Recognition in Everyday Conversation From Audio, Visual, and Linguistic Information. IEEE Access Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	A*	`conf`	Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Generative Post-processing Networks. EMNLP Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	B	`conf`	Investigating the Effects of Dialogue Summarization on Intervention in Human-System Collaborative Dialogue. HAI Sanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	B	`conf`	Investigating the Intervention in Parallel Conversations. HAI Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Reiko Yuasa, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	B	`conf`	Personality-aware Natural Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue using Reinforcement Learning. RO-MAN Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Yuya Chiba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryu Hirai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	J	`jnl`	Proceedings of the Dialogue Robot Competition 2023. CoRR Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2023	C	`conf`	RealPersonaChat: A Realistic Persona Chat Corpus with Interlocutors' Own Personalities. PACLIC Sanae Yamashita, Koji Inoue, Ao Guo, Shota Mochizuki, Tatsuya Kawahara, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2023	J	`jnl`	Recording and Analyzing the Process of Building Common Ground in Dialogues in a Collaborative Task. J. Nat. Lang. Process. Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuhei Oga, Sen Yoshida
2023	—	`conf`	Reference Classification Using BERT Models to Support Scientific-Document Writing. JSAI-isAI Workshops Ryoma Hosokawa, Junji Yamato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Hiroaki Sugiyama
2023	J	`jnl`	Special Issue on Multimodal processing and robotics for dialogue systems (Part 1). Adv. Robotics David Traum, Gabriel Skantze, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Takayuki Nagai
2023	J	`jnl`	Team Flow at DRC2023: Building Common Ground and Text-based Turn-taking in a Travel Agent Spoken Dialogue System. CoRR Ryu Hirai, Shinya Iizuka, Haruhisa Iseno, Ao Guo, Jingjing Jiang, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	B	`conf`	A Speculative and Tentative Common Ground Handling for Efficient Composition of Uncertain Dialogue. LREC Saki Sudo, Kyoshiro Asano, Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yugo Takeuchi
2022	B	`conf`	Adaptive Natural Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue via Reinforcement Learning. COLING Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	J	`jnl`	Adaptive Natural Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue via Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	B	`conf`	Analysis of Dialogue in Human-Human Collaboration in Minecraft. LREC Takuma Ichikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	B	`conf`	Collection and Analysis of Travel Agency Task Dialogues with Age-Diverse Speakers. LREC Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazunori Komatani, Yusuke Miyao, Takayuki Nagai
2022	—	`conf`	Combining Argumentation Structure and Language Model for Generating Natural Argumentative Dialogue. AACL/IJCNLP (2) Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kuniko Saito
2022	B	`conf`	Data Collection for Empirically Determining the Necessary Information for Smooth Handover in Dialogue. LREC Sanae Yamashita, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	B	`conf`	Dialogue Collection for Recording the Process of Building Common Ground in a Collaborative Task. LREC Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuhei Oga, Sen Yoshida
2022	B	`conf`	Dialogue Corpus Construction Considering Modality and Social Relationships in Building Common Ground. LREC Yuki Furuya, Koki Saito, Kosuke Ogura, Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazunori Takashio
2022	—	`conf`	Dialogue Robot Competition for the Development of an Android Robot with Hospitality. GCCE Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2022	—	`conf`	Investigating person-specific errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems. ACL (2) Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tingxuan Li, Sen Yoshida
2022	—	`conf`	Optimal Summaries for Enabling a Smooth Handover in Chat-Oriented Dialogue. AACL/IJCNLP 2022 (Student Research Workshop) Sanae Yamashita, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	J	`jnl`	Overview of Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. CoRR Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2022	B	`conf`	Post-processing Networks: Method for Optimizing Pipeline Task-oriented Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement Learning. SIGDIAL Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	J	`jnl`	Post-processing Networks: Method for Optimizing Pipeline Task-oriented Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2022	J	`jnl`	Proceedings of the Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. CoRR Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai
2022	J	`jnl`	Team Flow at DRC2022: Pipeline System for Travel Destination Recommendation Task in Spoken Dialogue. CoRR Ryu Hirai, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ao Guo, Hideki Shiroma, Xulin Zhou, Yukihiko Tone, Shinya Iizuka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2021	—	`conf`	Data Collection for Detecting Unwillingness to Answer Questions in Dialogue. IWSDS Kazumi Nagao, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazuto Ataka
2021	A	`conf`	Dialogue Situation Recognition for Everyday Conversation Using Multimodal Information. Interspeech Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2021	—	`conf`	Estimation of Empathy Skill Level and Personal Traits Using Gaze Behavior and Dialogue Act During Turn-Changing. HCI (41) Ryo Ishii, Shiro Kumano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Shiro Ozawa, Tetsuya Kinebuchi
2021	—	`conf`	Fine-Tuning a Pre-trained Transformer-Based Encoder-Decoder Model with User-Generated Question-Answer Pairs to Realize Character-Like Chatbots. IWSDS Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Tetsuya Kinebuchi, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi, Hidetoshi Kawabata
2021	B	`conf`	Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems. SIGDIAL Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Masahiro Mizukami
2021	—	`conf`	Learning to Ask Specific Questions Naturally in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. IWSDS Sota Horiuchi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2021	J	`jnl`	Methods for Efficiently Constructing Text-dialogue-agent System using Existing Anime Characters. J. Inf. Process. Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Taichi Katayama, Masahiro Mizukami, Junji Tomita, Hidetoshi Kawabata, Emi Yamaguchi, Noritake Adachi, Yushi Aono
2021	—	`conf`	Using Presentation Slides and Adjacent Utterances for Post-editing of Speech Recognition Results for Meeting Recordings. TDS Kentaro Kamiya, Takuya Kawase, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katashi Nagao
2021	C	`conf`	Variation across Everyday Conversations: Factor Analysis of Conversations using Semantic Categories of Functional Expressions. PACLIC Yuya Chiba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2020	B	`conf`	Collection and Analysis of Dialogues Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One. SIGdial Tsunehiro Arimoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kou Tanaka, Takahito Kawanishi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Sawada, Hiroshi Ishiguro
2020	B	`conf`	Generating Responses that Reflect Meta Information in User-Generated Question Answer Pairs. LREC Takashi Kodama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi, Hidetoshi Kawabata
2020	J	`jnl`	Hierarchical Argumentation Structure for Persuasive Argumentative Dialogue Generation. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Kazuki Sakai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Junji Tomita
2020	—	`conf`	Methods of Efficiently Constructing Text-Dialogue-Agent System Using Existing Anime Character. HCI (45) Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Taichi Katayama, Masahiro Mizukami, Junji Tomita, Hidetoshi Kawabata, Emi Yamaguchi, Noritake Adachi, Yushi Aono
2019	—	`conf`	Analyzing How a Talk Show Host Performs Follow-Up Questions for Developing an Interview Agent. IWSDS Hiromi Narimatsu, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Tsunehiro Arimoto
2019	—	`conf`	Automatic Head-Nod Generation Using Utterance Text Considering Personality Traits. IWSDS Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2019	—	`conf`	Chat-Oriented Dialogue System That Uses User Information Acquired Through Dialogue and Its Long-Term Evaluation. IWSDS Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takeshi Yoshimura, Yoshinori Isoda
2019	B	`conf`	Determining Iconic Gesture Forms based on Entity Image Representation. ICMI Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ryo Ishii
2019	—	`conf`	Dialogue System Live Competition: Identifying Problems with Dialogue Systems Through Live Event. IWSDS Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Reina Akama
2019	—	`conf`	Estimating Interpersonal Reactivity Scores Using Gaze Behavior and Dialogue Act During Turn-Changing. HCI (14) Ryo Ishii, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2019	—	`conf`	Generating Supportive Utterances for Open-Domain Argumentative Dialogue Systems. IWSDS Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Taichi Katayama, Junji Tomita
2019	C	`conf`	Improving Speech-Based End-of-Turn Detection Via Cross-Modal Representation Learning with Punctuated Text Data. ASRU Ryo Masumura, Mana Ihori, Tomohiro Tanaka, Atsushi Ando, Ryo Ishii, Takanobu Oba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2019	—	`conf`	Overview of the Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 4. IWSDS Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Luis F. D'Haro, Bayan Abu Shawar, Rafael E. Banchs, Kotaro Funakoshi, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, João Sedoc
2019	J	`jnl`	Overview of the sixth dialog system technology challenge: DSTC6. Comput. Speech Lang. Chiori Hori, Julien Perez, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takaaki Hori, Y-Lan Boureau, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Koichiro Yoshino, Seokhwan Kim
2019	J	`jnl`	Prediction of Who Will Be Next Speaker and When Using Mouth-Opening Pattern in Multi-Party Conversation. Multimodal Technol. Interact. Ryo Ishii, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	A*	`conf`	Adversarial Training for Multi-task and Multi-lingual Joint Modeling of Utterance Intent Classification. EMNLP Ryo Masumura, Yusuke Shinohara, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yushi Aono
2018	B	`conf`	Analyzing Gaze Behavior and Dialogue Act during Turn-taking for Estimating Empathy Skill Level. ICMI Ryo Ishii, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	B	`conf`	Automatic Generation System of Virtual Agent's Motion using Natural Language. IVA Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	B	`conf`	Automatic Generation of Head Nods using Utterance Texts. RO-MAN Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	—	`conf`	Automatically Generating Head Nods with Linguistic Information. HCI (14) Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kyosuke Nishida, Taichi Katayama, Nozomi Kobayashi, Junji Tomita
2018	B	`conf`	Creating Large-Scale Argumentation Structures for Dialogue Systems. LREC Kazuki Sakai, Akari Inago, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Junji Tomita
2018	B	`conf`	Generating Body Motions using Spoken Language in Dialogue. IVA Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	—	`conf`	Improving Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. IWSDS Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Masahiro Mizukami
2018	—	`conf`	Introduction method for argumentative dialogue using paired question-answering interchange about personality. SIGDIAL Conference Kazuki Sakai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Junji Tomita
2018	B	`conf`	Multi-task and Multi-lingual Joint Learning of Neural Lexical Utterance Classification based on Partially-shared Modeling. COLING Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hirokazu Masataki, Yushi Aono
2018	Misc	`conf`	Neural Confnet Classification: Fully Neural Network Based Spoken Utterance Classification Using Word Confusion Networks. ICASSP Ryo Masumura, Yusuke Ijima, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2018	—	`conf`	Neural Dialogue Context Online End-of-Turn Detection. SIGDIAL Conference Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Atsushi Ando, Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yushi Aono
2018	B	`conf`	Predicting Nods by using Dialogue Acts in Dialogue. LREC Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2018	—	`conf`	Refinement of Utterance Database and Concatenation of Utterances for Enhancing System Utterances in Chat-oriented Dialogue System. LaCATODA@IJCAI Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takeshi Yoshimura
2018	—	`conf`	Role play-based question-answering by real users for building chatbots with consistent personalities. SIGDIAL Conference Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Hidetoshi Kawabata, Emi Yamaguchi, Noritake Adachi, Junji Tomita
2017	—	`conf`	Automatic Evaluation of Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems Using Large-Scale Multi-references. IWSDS Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2017	—	`conf`	Hyperspherical Query Likelihood Models with Word Embeddings. IJCNLP(2) Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kyosuke Nishida, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2017	—	`conf`	Investigating the Effect of Conveying Understanding Results in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. IJCNLP(2) Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita
2017	A	`conf`	Online End-of-Turn Detection from Speech Based on Stacked Time-Asynchronous Sequential Networks. INTERSPEECH Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2017	—	`conf`	Overview of the NTCIR-13 Short Text Conversation Task. NTCIR Lifeng Shang, Tetsuya Sakai, Hang Li, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yusuke Miyao, Yuki Arase, Masako Nomoto
2017	A*	`conf`	Understanding the Semantic Structures of Tables with a Hybrid Deep Neural Network Architecture. AAAI Kyosuke Nishida, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2017	—	`conf`	What Information Should a Dialogue System Understand?: Collection and Analysis of Perceived Information in Chat-Oriented Dialogue. IWSDS Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2017	A	`conf`	Zero-Shot Learning for Natural Language Understanding Using Domain-Independent Sequential Structure and Question Types. INTERSPEECH Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yukinori Homma, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2016	—	`conf`	Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers - How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? -. SIGDIAL Conference Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2016	—	`conf`	Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent's Personality. IWSDS Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2016	—	`conf`	Overview of the NTCIR-12 Short Text Conversation Task. NTCIR Lifeng Shang, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yusuke Miyao
2016	B	`conf`	The dialogue breakdown detection challenge: Task description, datasets, and evaluation metrics. LREC Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuka Kobayashi, Michimasa Inaba
2016	—	`conf`	Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters. SIGDIAL Conference Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2016	—	`conf`	Utterance Selection Using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems. IWSDS Atsushi Otsuka, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2015	C	`conf`	Automatic conversion of sentence-end expressions for utterance characterization of dialogue systems. PACLIC Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2015	—	`conf`	Classification and Acquisition of Contradictory Event Pairs using Crowdsourcing. EVENTS@HLP-NAACL Yu Takabatake, Hajime Morita, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2015	C	`conf`	Discourse Relation Recognition by Comparing Various Units of Sentence Expression with Recursive Neural Network. PACLIC Atsushi Otsuka, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryo Masumura, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2015	A*	`conf`	Fatal or not? Finding errors that lead to dialogue breakdowns in chat-oriented dialogue systems. EMNLP Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi
2015	—	`conf`	On the difficulty of improving hand-crafted rules in chat-oriented dialogue systems. APSIPA Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toyomi Meguro, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2015	—	`conf`	Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi, Masahiro Mizukami
2014	J	`jnl`	Effects of Conversational Agents on Activation of Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda
2014	A	`conf`	Evaluating coherence in open domain conversational systems. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toyomi Meguro, Kenji Imamura, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2014	B	`conf`	Extraction of Daily Changing Words for Question Answering. LREC Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2014	B	`conf`	Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents. IVA Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami
2014	—	`conf`	Open-domain utterance generation using phrase pairs based on dependency relations. SLT Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami
2014	B	`conf`	Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution for Dialogue Systems. COLING Kenji Imamura, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tomoko Izumi
2014	—	`conf`	Syntactic Filtering and Content-Based Retrieval of Twitter Sentences for the Generation of System Utterances in Dialogue Systems. IWSDS Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nozomi Kobayashi, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Toyomi Meguro, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2014	B	`conf`	Towards an open-domain conversational system fully based on natural language processing. COLING Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kenji Imamura, Toyomi Meguro, Chiaki Miyazaki, Nozomi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toru Hirano, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2013	A	`conf`	Estimating callers' levels of knowledge in call center dialogues. INTERSPEECH Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2013	J	`jnl`	Learning to control listening-oriented dialogue using partially observable markov decision processes. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka
2013	—	`conf`	Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures. SIGDIAL Conference Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami
2013	A	`conf`	Using role play for collecting question-answer pairs for dialogue agents. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Hideki Isozaki
2012	B	`conf`	Automatic Detection of Metonymies using Associative Relations between Words. CogSci Takehiro Teraoka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Jun Okamoto, Shun Ishizaki
2012	B	`conf`	Creating an Extended Named Entity Dictionary from Wikipedia. COLING Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo
2011	C	`conf`	Building a conversational model from two-tweets. ASRU Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noriaki Kawamae, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yasuhiro Minami, Toyomi Meguro, Kohji Dohsaka, Hirohito Inagaki
2011	—	`conf`	Dialogue Control by Pomdp Using Dialogue Data Statistics. IWSDS Yasuhiro Minami, Akira Mori, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda
2011	A	`conf`	Evaluation of Listening-Oriented Dialogue Control Rules Based on the Analysis of HMMs. INTERSPEECH Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka
2011	A	`conf`	Unsupervised Clustering of Utterances Using Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noriaki Kawamae, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yasuhiro Minami, Toyomi Meguro, Kohji Dohsaka, Hirohito Inagaki
2011	C	`conf`	Wizard of Oz evaluation of listening-oriented dialogue control using POMDP. ASRU Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka
2010	B	`conf`	Controlling Listening-oriented Dialogue using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. COLING Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka
2010	—	`conf`	Improving hmm-based extractive summarization for multi-domain contact center dialogues. SLT Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Hirokazu Masataki, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi, Gen-ichiro Kikui
2010	—	`conf`	Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models. IWSDS Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro
2010	—	`conf`	Learning to Model Domain-Specific Utterance Sequences for Extractive Summarization of Contact Center Dialogues. COLING (Posters) Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Satoshi Takahashi, Gen-ichiro Kikui
2010	—	`conf`	Modeling User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues from Overall Ratings. SIGDIAL Conference Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro
2010	A*	`conf`	Trend detection model. WWW Noriaki Kawamae, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
2010	—	`conf`	Trigram dialogue control using POMDPs. SLT Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Eisaku Maeda
2010	—	`conf`	User-adaptive Coordination of Agent Communicative Behavior in Spoken Dialogue. SIGDIAL Conference Kohji Dohsaka, Atsushi Kanemoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda
2009	—	`conf`	Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents. SIGDIAL Conference Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hideki Isozaki
2009	—	`conf`	Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues. SIGDIAL Conference Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda
2009	J	`jnl`	Ranking Multiple Dialogue States by Corpus Statistics to Improve Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano
2008	—	`conf`	"Who is this" quiz dialogue system and users' evaluation. SLT Minako Sawaki, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda
2008	J	`jnl`	Automatically Acquiring Causal Expression Patterns from Relation-annotated Corpora to Improve Question Answering for why-Questions. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hideki Isozaki
2008	B	`conf`	Corpus-based Question Answering for why-Questions. IJCNLP Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hideki Isozaki
2008	—	`conf`	Effects of self-disclosure and empathy in human-computer dialogue. SLT Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Hideki Isozaki
2008	—	`conf`	NTT's CCLQA System for NTCIR-7 ACLIA. NTCIR Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hideki Isozaki
2007	J	`jnl`	An unsupervised method for learning generation dictionaries for spoken dialogue systems by mining user reviews. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Marilyn A. Walker, Rashmi Prasad
2007	A	`conf`	Effects of quiz-style information presentation on user understanding. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Shigeaki Amano, Hideki Isozaki
2007	A*	`conf`	Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation. ACL Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Hideki Isozaki
2007	—	`conf`	NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR-6 QAC-4. NTCIR Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hideki Isozaki
2007	B	`conf`	The world of mushrooms: human-computer interaction prototype systems for ambient intelligence. ICMI Yasuhiro Minami, Minako Sawaki, Kohji Dohsaka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kentaro Ishizuka, Hideki Isozaki, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Masato Miyoshi, Atsushi Nakamura, Takanobu Oba, Hiroshi Sawada, Takeshi Yamada, Eisaku Maeda
2006	J	`jnl`	Incorporating discourse features into confidence scoring of intention recognition results in spoken dialogue systems. Speech Commun. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano
2006	A*	`conf`	Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems. ACL Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2006	B	`conf`	Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives. LREC Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, François Mairesse, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Marilyn A. Walker, Jonathan Foster
2005	—	`conf`	Incorporating Discourse Features into Confidence Scoring of Intention Recognition Results in Spoken Dialogue Systems. ICASSP (1) Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano
2004	J	`jnl`	Evaluating discourse understanding in spoken dialogue systems. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa
2003	A*	`conf`	Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. ACL Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa
2003	A	`conf`	Evaluating discourse understanding in spoken dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa
2002	A	`conf`	A method for evaluating incremental utterance understanding in spoken dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa
2002	B	`conf`	Interactive Paraphrasing Based on Linguistic Annotation. COLING Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katashi Nagao
2002	A	`conf`	Learning decision trees to determine turn-taking by spoken dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH Ryo Sato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masafumi Tamoto, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa