Understanding User Utterances in a Dialog System for Caregiving

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Yoshihiko Asao, Julien Kloetzer, Junta Mizuno, Dai Saiki, Kazuma Kadowaki, Kentaro Torisawa

A dialog system that can monitor the health status of seniors has a huge potential for solving the labor force shortage in the caregiving industry in aging societies.

Event Causality Recognition Exploiting Multiple Annotators' Judgments and Background Knowledge

no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Kazuma Kadowaki, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Torisawa, Jong-Hoon Oh, Julien Kloetzer

Furthermore, we investigate the effect of supplying background knowledge to our classifiers.

Open-Domain Why-Question Answering with Adversarial Learning to Encode Answer Texts

no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Jong-Hoon Oh, Kazuma Kadowaki, Julien Kloetzer, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Torisawa

In this paper, we propose a method for why-question answering (why-QA) that uses an adversarial learning framework.

Question Answering Sentence