Assoc. prof. Jun Suzuki was recognized as an outstanding Area Chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. Researcher Hiroki Ouchi and 2nd-year doctorate student Sosuke Kobayashi have been recognized as outstanding reviewers. Congratulations!

鈴木潤准教授が EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 の Outstanding Area Chairs に選ばれました。AIP特別研究員の大内啓樹さんおよび社会人博士課程2年の小林颯介さんが同会議の Outstanding Reviewers に選ばれました。
おめでとうございます！

Dr. Ryo Nagata from the RIKEN AIP Natural Language Understanding team lead by Prof. Kentaro Inui released the “RIKEN Wex” tool. RIKEN Wex is an annotation tool that extracts the editing history and comments from MS Word documents and converts them to XML/TSV format.

乾健太郎教授がリーダーを務めるRIKEN AIP 言語理解チームの客員研究員 永田亮氏によるツール『RIKEN Wex』 を公開しました。RIKEN Wex は、MS Wordファイル形式で記録された編集履歴とコメントを抽出し、XML/TSV形式に変更するツールです。

Our team placed 25th out of 37 at the annual Ekiden relay race, followed by an Oden party.

恒例の駅伝大会が開催され37チーム中25位という結果でした。駅伝後には、おでんパーティーも行いました。

The following paper has been accepted to the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20).

AAAI-20 に下記の論文が採択されました。

• Saku Sugawara, Pontus Stenetorp, Kentaro Inui, Akiko Aizawa.
  “Assessing the Benchmarking Capacity of Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets”

The following works were presented at the main conference and workshops of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019) held from November 3rd to 7th.

11月3日から7日にかけて開催された EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 および併催ワークショップにて、下記の発表をおこないました。

Main Conference:

• Hiroki Ouchi, Jun Suzuki and Kentaro Inui.
  “Transductive Learning of Neural Language Models for Syntactic and Semantic Analysis”
• Shun Kiyono, Jun Suzuki, Masato Mita, Tomoya Mizumoto and Kentaro Inui.
  “An Empirical Study of Incorporating Pseudo Data into Grammatical Error Correction”
• Xiaoyu Shen, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui, Hui Su, Dietrich Klakow and Satoshi Sekine.
  “Select and Attend: Towards Controllable Content Selection in Text Generation”
• Masato Hagiwara, Takumi Ito, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Jun Suzuki and Kentaro Inui.
  “TEASPN: Framework and Protocol for Integrated Writing Assistance Environments” (Demo Track)

Workshops:

• Deep Learning For Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo-2019)
  • Tianqi Wang, Naoya Inoue, Hiroki Ouchi, Tomoya Mizumoto and Kentaro Inui.
    “Inject Rubrics into Short Answer Grading System”
• COIN: COmmonsense INference in Natural Language Processing
  • Pride Kavumba, Naoya Inoue, Benjamin Heinzerling, Keshav Singh, Paul Reisert and Kentaro Inui.
    “When Choosing Plausible Alternatives, Clever Hans can be Clever”
• FEVER: The Second Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification
  • Keshav Singh, Paul Reisert, Naoya Inoue, Pride Kavumba and Kentaro Inui.
    “Improving Evidence Detection by Leveraging Warrants”

Prof. Inui Kentaro served as the General Chair of the Organizing Committee of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, held from November 3rd to 7th.

乾健太郎教授が、11月3日から7日にかけて開催された国際会議 EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019のGeneral Chair を務めました。

The following works have been presented at the main conference of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) held from October 29th to November 1st.

10月29日から11月1日にかけて開催された INLG2019 にて、下記の発表をおこないました。

• Takumi Ito, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Hayato Kobayashi, Ana Brassard, Masato Hagiwara, Jun Suzuki and Kentaro Inui.
  “Diamonds in the Rough: Generating Fluent Sentences from Early-stage Drafts”
• Yuta Hitomi, Yuya Taguchi, Hideaki Tamori, Ko Kikuta, Jiro Nishitoba, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui and Manabu Okumura.
  “A Large-Scale Multi-Length Headline Corpus for Analyzing Length-Constrained Headline Generation Model Evaluation”

A prototype of the TEASPN protocol and framework, developed by 2nd year Master students Takumi Ito and Tatsuki Kuribayashi along with Masato Hagiwara from Octanove Labs/RIKEN AIP has been released. Give it a try!

伊藤拓海・栗林樹生（修士2年/Langsmith Inc.）らが萩原正人氏（Octanove Labs/理研AIP）との共同プロジェクトとして取り組んでいるTEASPN のサーバサンプル実装 が公開されました。ぜひお試しください。

An interview with Prof. Kentaro Inui was published in the 85th edition of “NII Today”.

乾健太郎教授のインタビューが NII Today 85号 に掲載されました。

Mr. Masashi Yoshikawa from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology visited the Lab and gave a talk on NLP systems based on theoretical linguistics. MiCS

奈良先端科学技術大学院大学の吉川将司氏にお越しいただき、「理論言語学に基づいた自然言語処理システム」という表題でご講演いただきました。（みちのく情報伝達学セミナー）

The RIKEN team lead by Prof. Kentaro Inui started a joint research project on AI technology that automatically grades written answers for middle and high school students with ZOSHINDO-JUKENKENKYUSHA Publishing Co., Ltd.

乾健太郎教授がリーダーを務める理化学研究所のチームが、株式会社増進堂・受験研究社と中高生向け記述式答案を自動で段階評価するAI技術について、教育現場での運用実証事業のための共同研究（関連記事）を開始しました。

Members of our laboratory recently enjoyed a nice stew and barbeque near the Hirose River. Family members and new laboratory members both joined, and the party was very festive!

広瀬川のせせらぎの下、芋煮とバーベキューを堪能しました。新メンバーや研究室メンバーのご家族も加わり、とても賑やかな会になりました。

Farjana Sultana Mim (2nd year Master’s student), congratulations on your graduation and best wishes for all your future endeavors!

Farjana Sultana Mimさん（修士2年）、ご修了おめでとうございます！これからの益々のご活躍をお祈り申し上げます。

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych from the Darmstadt University Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab visited and gave a talk titled “Let’s Debate: Claim Validation by Humans and Machines.” (MiCS)

Darmstadt University Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) LabのIryna Gurevych氏にお越しいただき、「Let’s Debate: Claim Validation by Humans and Machines」という表題でご講演いただきました。（みちのく情報伝達学セミナー）

An articled based on an interview with Prof. Inui appeared in the kids edition of the Kahoku Shinpo newspaper.

乾健太郎教授のインタビュー記事が河北新報 こども新聞「週刊かほピョンプレス」9月22日号に掲載されました。

The following paper has been accepted to FEVER: The Second Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification.

FEVER に下記の論文が採択されました。

• Keshav Singh, Paul Reisert, Naoya Inoue, Pride Kavumba and Kentaro Inui.
  “Improving Evidence Detection by Leveraging Warrants”

The following paper received the best paper award for The 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP).

下記の論文が RepL4NLP-2019 の best paper award を受賞しました。

• Federico López, Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube.
  “Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Hyperbolic Space”

The following paper has been accepted to the COIN: COmmonsense INference in Natural Language Processing workshop.

COIN に下記の論文が採択されました。

• Pride Kavumba, Naoya Inoue, Benjamin Heinzerling, Keshav Singh, Paul Reisert and Kentaro Inui.
  “When Choosing Plausible Alternatives, Clever Hans can be Clever”

The following paper has been accepted to the Deep Learning For Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo-2019) workshop.

DeepLo-2019 に下記の論文が採択されました。

• Tianqi Wang, Naoya Inoue, Hiroki Ouchi, Tomoya Mizumoto and Kentaro Inui.
  “Inject Rubrics into Short Answer Grading System”

Members of the Inui-Suzuki Lab went on a trip together! We enjoyed activities such as descending the Geibi Gorge, exploring the Yuugendo caves, and hiking up Kunimi Mountain in the Iwate prefecture. We also enjoyed a banquet and hot springs.

乾・鈴木研究室の研究室合宿が開催されました。猊鼻渓舟下り、幽玄洞探検、国見山登山などのアクティビティや温泉での宴会も楽しみました。