Paper at EACL 2023
We have 5 papers accepted at EACL 2023.
News Archive
2023
AiTech Seminar: Gunhee Kim
Prof. Gunhee Kim from Seoul National University (SNU) visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
2022
Paper at AAAI 2023 Workshop
We have a paper accepted at the workshop collocated with AAAI-23 on Scinetific Document Understanding (SDU).
Papers at IPSJ TOD
We have two paper accepted at IPSJ TOD.
Year End Party
We held an year-end party at Cerdi, Jiyugaoka.
AiTech Seminar: Natsuki Noguchi
Ms. Natsuki Noguchi from Ehime University visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Yufei Liu
Ms. Yufei Liu from École Polytechnique visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for Trang-san and Emil-san at Vinoteca Messina, Jiyugaoka.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Tim Baldwin
Prof. Tim Baldwin from MBZUAI visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at EMNLP 2022
We have 2 papers accepted at EMNLP 2022.
New members
We welcome new member, Emil Hukic (from Chalmers University of Technology), as an international visiting student of USEP.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language Processing
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Graduation Ceremonies 2022
We had a graduation ceremony. Kuo-san got her master’s degree.
Paper at AACL-IJCNLP 2022
We have a paper accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Simone Teufel
Prof. Simone Teufel from Univserity of Cambridge visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Ms. Yuchen Eleanor Jiang
Ms. Yuchen Eleanor Jiang from ETH Zürich visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Presentations at YANS 2022
We have 4 presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2022.
Recommend Doctor Dissertation at IPSJ NLP Seminar
Tatsuya Hiraoka’s doctor dissertation has been recommended at IPSJ’s NLP Seminar 2022.
Paper at COLING 2022
We have papers accepted at COLING 2022.
Papers at PACLIC 36
We have two papers accepted at the PACLIC 36 (2022).
Paper at IEEE Access
We have a paper accepted at the IEEE Access.
To be presented at JSAI2022
We will present a paper at The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language Processing
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Paper at IPSJ TOD
We have a paper accepted at the IPSJ TOD.
Papers at NAACL 2022 SRW
We have a paper accepted at NAACL 2022 SRW.
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for new members at BBQ place, Tamagawa-ryokuchi, Kawasaki.
Papers at NAACL 2022
We have a paper accepted at NAACL 2022.
Papers at LREC 2022
We have 5 papers accepted at LREC 2022.
New members
We welcome new members, Wang An (doctor course), Shota Hirai (master course), Trang NP Nguyen (master course), Anantaprayoon Panatchakorn, Kosuke Endo and Ka...
Paper at SPNLP 2022
We have a paper accepted at the SPNLP 2022.
Graduation Ceremonies 2021
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Hiraoka-san got his doctoral degree, Ueki-san and Koyama-san got master’s degrees, and Ishikawa-san, Maeda-san, and Loem-san...
Awards at JNLP 2022
We received the Best Paper Award and Committee Special Award at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2022).
ANLP Best Paper Award
A paper by Tatsuya Hiraoka received the 2021 ANLP Best Paper Award (first place).
To be presented at NLP2022
We will present eleven papers at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2022).
Papers at ACL 2022
We have papers accepted at the ACL 2022.
Paper at IPSJ TOD
We have a paper accepted at the IPSJ TOD.
2021
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Public Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Hiraoka-san will be held.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language Processing
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Outstanding Paper Award at AKBC 2021
Wiem-san presented a paper at AKBC 2021, and received the Outstanding Paper Award.
New member
We welcome new member, Marco Cognetta (doctor course).
Papers at PACLIC 35
We have two papers accepted at the PACLIC 35 (2021).
Accepted research proposals for ACT-X
The research proposal of Tatsuya Hiraoka has been selected as a New Research Areas for ACT-X FY2021.
Paper at AKBC 2021
We have a paper accepted at the AKBC 2021.
Paper at INLG 2021
We have a paper accepted at the INLG 2021.
Paper at ACM TALLIP
We have a paper accepted at the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
Paper at WiNLP 2021
We have a paper accepted at the WiNLP 2021.
Paper at IPSJ TOD
We have a paper accepted at the IPSJ TOD.
Laboratory Tour (May 29)
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 3rd Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Laboratory Tour (May 15)
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 2nd Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Paper at ACL 2021
We have a paper accepted at the ACL 2021.
Paper at ACM TALLIP
We have a paper accepted at the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
Laboratory Tour (Apr 24)
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 1st Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
TokyoTech Education Award 2020
Professor Okazaki received the TokyoTech Education Award 2020.
New members
We welcome new members, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Vijay Daultani (doctor course), Naoto Toyama (master course), Ryogo Ishikawa, Maeda Koki, and Mengsay Loem (B4).
Paper at NAACL 2021
We have papers accepted at the NAACL 2021.
Selection as JSPS Fellow
Ayana Niwa has been selected as JSPS Research Fellow for the academic year 2021.
New members
We welcome new members, Masahiro Kaneko (postdoctoral researcher) and Yukiko Konishi (staff).
Awards at JNLP 2021
We received the Best Paper Award, Young Researcher Award, Committee Special Award, and Sponsor Award in the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural...
To be presented at NLP2021
We will present twelve papers at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2021).
Laboratory Tour (for TokyoTech students)
We will hold a laboratory tour event for B3 students in TokyoTech who are considering Okazaki Laboratory.
2020
Award at NTCIR-15
Our team, which consists of Yuichi Sasawaza and Professor Okazaki, presented our work on a QALab PoliInfo2 task and won the presentation award at The 15th NT...
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Kentaro Inui
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Prof. Kentaro Inui, from Tohoku University.
AiTech Seminar: Tomoyuki Kajiwara
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, specially-appointed assistant professor from Institute for Datability Science, Osaka Univer...
Paper at COLING 2020
We have a paper accepted at the COLING 2020.
Accepted research proposals for ACT-X
The research proposal of Sho Takase, assistant professor at Okazaki Laboratory, has been selected as a New Research Areas for ACT-X FY2020.
New members
We welcome new members, Muraoka Masayasu, Liu Ao (doctor course), and Hsuan-Yu Kuo (master course).
Papers at NeurIPS 2020
We have a paper accepted at the NeurIPS 2020.
Presentations at YANS 2020
We had presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2020.
Papers at EMNLP 2020
We have papers accepted at the EMNLP 2020.
Paper at AACL-IJCNLP 2020
We have a paper accepted at the AACL-IJCNLP 2020.
AiTech Seminar: Kento Watanabe
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Kento Watanabe from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
AiTech Seminar: Masahiro Kaneko
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Masahiro Kaneko from Komachi Lab, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Winning VMT Challenge 2020
Our team T&T won first place in the Video-guided Machine Translation (VMT) Challenge 2020, held by the workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Resear...
Paper at SemEval 2020
We have two papers accepted at the SemEval 2020.
To be presented at ALVR 2020
We will present a paper at the first workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR 2020)
Presentions at JSAI2020
We presentd two papers at the The 34th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2020 (JSAI2020).
Laboratory Tour [Updates]
We will hold online meetings of Question Time (May 16) and Laboratory Tour (May 30) in conjunction with Laboratory Orientation and the 2nd Round of School Or...
NeurIPS 2019 Report
Niwa-san gave an online presentation titled “Natural Language Processing at NeurIPS 2019” at AI Trends & Top Conference Report (NeurIPS 2019).
Laboratory Tour
We will hold a virtual laboratory tour as part of the 1st Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Papers at ACL 2020
We have four papers accepted at the ACL 2020.
Announcement about Laboratory Orientation
This is to inform of laboratory orientation for those who are considering entering or going to enter the Department of Computer Science.
New members
We welcome new members, Hiroki Iida(doctor course), Daisuke Taniguchi(B4), Yuki Maruyama(B4), Keisuke Miyazaki(B4), and Yuki Wahira(research student).
Awards at JNLP 2020
We received a Young Researcher Award and a Language Resource Award in the 26th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2020).
To be presented at NLP2020
We will present seven papers at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2020).
AiTech Seminar: Kyosuke Nishida
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Kyosuke Nishida from NTT as part of RWBC-OIL seminar.
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Lars-san at the communication space on the sixth floor.
Papers at LREC 2020
We have two papers accepted at the LREC 2020.
Laboratory Tour
We will hold laboratory tour events.
2019
Year-End Party
We held a year-end party and welcome party for Wiem-san at Toitoitoi.
Presentations at AI 2019
We presented one paper at the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2019) held in Adelaide, Australia.
Presentations at INLG 2019
We presented one paper at the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) held in Japan.
Paper and Award at IPSJ-SIGNL
Tatsuya Hiraoka presented a paper at the 242nd meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL), and received the young research...
Cancel of laboratory open day
We will cancel the laboratory open day due to the approaching typhoon.
Tokyo Tech Festival 2019
We will hold a laboratory open day at Tokyo Tech Festival 2019.
New members
We welcome new members, Youmi Ma (MSc student), Wiem Ben Rim (MSc student), and Lars Wolfsteller(ACAP student from Technical University of Munich (TUM)).
Farewell & Welcome Party
We held a farewell party for Wan-kun and Sato-san, and welcome party for Youmi-san, Lars-kun, Unzai-san, and Furuya-san at the rental space.
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Emanuele-san at the communication space on the sixth floor.
Papers at AI 2019
We have papers accepted at the AI 2019.
Papers at INLG 2019
We have papers accepted at the INLG 2019.
New members
We welcome new members, Yuko Unzai and Naoko Furuya, as technical staff.
Presentations at YANS 2019
We had presentations at the YANS(Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies ) 2019.
Selection as JSAI reporter
Niwa-san(master student) was selected as a NeurIPS 2019 reporter of JSAI(The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence).
Presentations at ACL 2019
We presented one paper at the The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2019) held in Florence (Italy).
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Liu-san and Sun-san at the communication space of the sixth floor.
New members
We welcome new members, Hyung Junha(from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)),as an international visiting student of TKT CAMPUS Asia ...
Paper and Award at IPSJ-SIGNL
Kazuki Matsumaru presented a paper at the 240th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL), and received the best paper aw...
Invited Talk at IPSJ-SIGNL
Sho Takase, a researcher in Okazaki laboratory, gave a talk at the 240th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL).
AiTech Seminar: Retrieva Inc.
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Jiro Nishitoba, Hiroki Ida, Daisuke Kimura, and Hiromasa Sakata from Retrieva Inc..
Presentations at NAACL 2019
We presented two papers at the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL2019) and workshop ...
New members
We welcome new members,Yusen Sun(from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology),as an international visiting student of Tokyo Tech Summer Program.
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for new members at the communication space of the sixth floor with members in Tokunaga Fujii lab and Shinoda lab.
Lab moving
Okazaki Laboratory moved to 6th floor in the same building, West Bldg. 8E.
Papers at ACL 2019
We have papers accepted at the ACL 2019.
AiTech Seminar: PKSHA Technology
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Yotaro Watanabe from PKSHA Technology.
Papers at IJCAI 2019
We have papers accepted at the IJCAI 2019.
New member
We welcome a new member, Eriko Nakagawa (staff).
AiTech Seminar: Google Japan
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Tsutomu Ohkura, Hideto kazawa from Google Japan.
Laboratory orientation
Thank you for joining the laboratory orientation collocated with 2019 Orientation for School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
AiTech Seminar: Rakuten Inc
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Ayana Yoshida, Lasguido Nio, Makoto Tsutsumi, and Yuki Nakayama from Rakuten Institute of Technology.
New members
We welcome new members, Koichiro Ueki (B4) and Shota Koyama (B4).
Representative for Spring Entrance Ceremonies
Sasazawa-kun(master student) in Okazaki laboratory served as a representative and delivered a statement in 2019 spring entrance ceremonies.
New members
We welcome new members, Sangwhan Moon (doctor course), Tatsuya Hiraoka (doctor course), Fuya Nakamura (master course), Hirofumi Fukushima (master course), an...
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Shimazu-kun at PANCHOS.
Paper at SemEval 2019
We have a paper accepted at the SemEval 2019.
TV coverage
Members in Okazaki Lab received an interview from a TV program, High School Q - Quiz for learning news - (BS TV Tokyo).
New members
We welcome new members, Yun-Hsuan Liu (from National Tsing Hua University), as an international visiting student of YSEP.
Awards at JNLP 2019
We received a Young Researcher Award and Poster Presentation Awards in the 25th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2019).
Presentations at JNLP 2019
We presented eight papers at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2019) held in Nagoya University.
Joint research with CyberAgent
We launched a joint research on text analysis and automatic generation of advertizing slogan with CyberAgent (Press release).
IGP-C applications closed
Our laboratory has closed applications to the international summer internship (from June to August) and International Graduate Program C (IGP-C) commencing i...
Paper at NAACL 2019
We have a paper accepted at the NAACL 2019.
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Kevin-kun at GOCCHI BATTA Shibuya Dogenzaka.
To be presented at NLP2019
We will present eight papers at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2019).
Farewell Party
We held a farewell party for Sam-kun at the communication space of the fifth floor.
Laboratory Tour
We will hold laboratory tour events.
2018
Welcome Party
We held an end-year party at Bar Niku-Sushi in Ooimachi.
Talk at DWIH Tokyo
Okazaki gave a talk at the 1st Japanese-German-French DWIH symposium on Artificial Intelligence.
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for newcomers at the communication space of the fifth floor.
New members
We welcome new members, Emanuele Bugliarello (researcher) and Ayumi Sato (staff).
Tokyo Tech Festival
Thank you for joining our exhibition in Tokyo Tech Festival!
New member
We welcome a new member, Sho Takase, as a postdoctoral researcher of this laboratory.
New members
We welcome new members, Ayana Niwa (MSc student), Zhishen Yang (MSc student), Sam Vijlbrief (ACAP student from Delft University of Technology), Kevin Lee (AC...
Plenary Talk at APCLC 2018
Okazaki gave a keynote speech at the Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018).
Lecture at U Tokyo
Okazaki gave a lecture at 2018 Summer School of Deep Learning (Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning).
Paper at Coling 2018
We have presented a paper at the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018).
Tokyo Fireworks Festival
We went to Tokyo Fireworks Festival with laboratory members and their friends.
Laboratory tour
We made an exhibition of our laboratory in the Open Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Senior Scientific Research Specialist
Okazaki was appointed to as a Senior Scientific Research Specialist of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Talk at IPSJ SIG-IFAT
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the 131st meeting of Information Fundamentals and Access Technologies, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ SIG-IFAT).
Collaborated article
Okazaki collaborated on writing an article, “Conversational AI - how Artificial Intelligence ‘understand’ language” in Science Magazine Newton (Sep 2018).
TV coverage
Okazaki received TV coverage from Shinichi Hatori’s Morning Show (TV Asahi).
Talk at SNL 2018
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the Second International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL-2018).
New member
We welcome a new member, Pedro Henrique Machado Wigderowitz (from York University), as an international visiting student of ACAP.
JSAI Best Paper Award
A paper co-authored by Okazaki received the 2017 JSAI Best Paper Award.
Talk at SSII 2018
Okazaki gave a talk at an organized session “multimodal deep learning” of the 24th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information.
Talk at JSAI 2018
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the organized session AI technologies for decision making and consensus building in the complicated society of JSAI 2018.
Media coverage
An article about Asahi Shimbun, with which Okazaki cooperates as an advisor, appeared on June 1 at Weekly ASCII.
New Research Project
Our research proposal was accepted by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
New member
We welcome a new member, Yuling Liu (from Carnegie Mellon University), as an international visiting student.
Visit of Tatsuya Hiraoka
Tatsuya Hiraoka at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) visited our laboratory and gave a talk.
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for newcomers at the communication space of the fifth floor.
New members
We welcome new members, Yuichi Sasazawa (B4) and Sho Shimadu (B4).
No vacancy for IGP
Our laboratory has closed applications to the international summer internship (from June to August) and International Graduate Program (IGP) for entering on ...
Hanami
We held a small Hanami party with the new members at the wood deck in front of the main building of Oookayama Campus.
New members
We welcome new members, Sakae Mizuki (doctor course), Kazuki Matsumaru (master course), and Erick Mendieta Molina (master course).
Talk at TDLW2018
Okazaki gave a talk at the workshop Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (TDLW2018) organized by RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Projec...
Talk at NLP2018 WS
Okazaki gave a talk at a workshop of the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.
Young Researcher Awards at NLP2018
Two students who have been mentored by Okazaki (in Tohoku University) received Young Researcher Awards in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natur...
Best Paper Award at NLP2018
A paper co-authored by Okazaki received the Best Paper Award in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.
Papers at NLP2018
We will present four papers at the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.
Invited talk at CVIM
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the 211st meeting of IPSJ SIG-CVIM: Computer Vision and Image Media.
Invited Talk at TUT
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the symposium held in Toyohashi University of Technology.
Laboratory Fair
We welcome B3 visitors at 17:00-19:00 on January 25 (Thu), 26 (Fri), 30 (Tue), 31 (Wed) and February 19 (Mon).
2017
Visit of Dr Stenetorp
Dr Pontus Stenetorp at University College London (UCL) visited our laboratory and gave a talk.
End Year Party
We held an end-year party at El Pescador with Dr Pontus Stenetorp who gave a talk on that day.
Carpet cleaning
We asked a cleaning service to clean up the carpet in room 501. The service could get out a number of stains in the room.
Invited talk at SIGMUS
Okazaki gave an invited talk at the 117th meeting of IPSJ Special Interest Group on Music and Computer (SIGMUS).
Wan will attend ICLR 2018 with a support from Google
Wan was accepted for the program for supporting young AI researchers sponsored by Google. He will attend International Conference on Learning Representations...
The first member
Wan Hongxiang joined as the first member of our laboratory!
A brand new laboratory
A new laboratory started as Prof. Okazaki was appointed in Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.