no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Satoshi Akasaki, Nobuhiro Kaji
In this paper, we consider the system as a conversation initiator and propose a novel task of generating the initial utterance in open-domain non-task-oriented conversation.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Shumpei Sano, Nobuhiro Kaji, Manabu Sassano
To remove this hindrance, we focus on reformulation, which is a useful signal of user dissatisfaction, and propose a method to predict the reformulation causes.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Satoshi Akasaki, Nobuhiro Kaji
Recently emerged intelligent assistants on smartphones and home electronics (e. g., Siri and Alexa) can be seen as novel hybrids of domain-specific task-oriented spoken dialogue systems and open-domain non-task-oriented ones.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2017 • Nobuhiro Kaji, Hayato Kobayashi
This paper explores an incremental training strategy for the skip-gram model with negative sampling (SGNS) from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Tatsuya Iwanari, Kohei Ohara, Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
Kotonush, a system that clarifies people{'}s values on various concepts on the basis of what they write about on social media, is presented.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Naoki Otani, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Nobuhiro Kaji, Manabu Sassano
Commonsense knowledge is essential for fully understanding language in many situations.