no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Taro Okahisa, Ribeka Tanaka, Takashi Kodama, Yin Jou Huang, Sadao Kurohashi
Interview is an efficient way to elicit knowledge from experts of different domains.
no code implementations • dialdoc (ACL) 2022 • Takashi Kodama, Ribeka Tanaka, Sadao Kurohashi
We work on a recommendation dialogue system to help a user understand the appealing points of some target (e. g., a movie).
no code implementations • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Takumi Yoshikoshi, Hayato Atarashi, Takashi Kodama, Sadao Kurohashi
In this study, we propose a dialogue system that responds appropriately following the topic by selecting the entity with the highest “topicality.” In topicality estimation, the model is trained through self-supervised learning that regards entities that appear in both context and response as the topic entities.
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2024 • Takashi Kodama, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yin Jou Huang, Sadao Kurohashi
Since there are no existing annotated resources for the analysis, we constructed RecMind, a Japanese movie recommendation dialogue dataset with annotations of the seeker's internal state at the entity level.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2020 • Takashi Kodama, Ribeka Tanaka, Sadao Kurohashi
In this paper, we model the UIS in dialogues, taking movie recommendation dialogues as examples, and construct a dialogue system that changes its response based on the UIS.
no code implementations • EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 • Akiko Aizawa, Frederic Bergeron, Junjie Chen, Fei Cheng, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Kentaro Inui, Hiroyoshi Ito, Daisuke Kawahara, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Kodama, Sadao Kurohashi, Qianying Liu, Masaki Matsubara, Yusuke Miyao, Atsuyuki Morishima, Yugo Murawaki, Kazumasa Omura, Haiyue Song, Eiichiro Sumita, Shinji Suzuki, Ribeka Tanaka, Yu Tanaka, Masashi Toyoda, Nobuhiro Ueda, Honai Ueoka, Masao Utiyama, Ying Zhong
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has made the public pay close attention to related news, covering various domains, such as sanitation, treatment, and effects on education.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Takashi Kodama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi, Hidetoshi Kawabata
This paper concerns the problem of realizing consistent personalities in neural conversational modeling by using user generated question-answer pairs as training data.