Taro Watanabe

161 papers · 2002–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

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Conferences

ACL (48) EMNLP (37) COLING (22) NAACL (16) IJCNLP (15) EACL (13) AACL (4) CONLL (4) NIPS (1) WACV (1)

Top co-authors

Hidetaka Kamigaito (49) Yusuke Sakai (44) Eiichiro Sumita (24) Justin Vasselli (16) Hiroki Ouchi (15) Yuji Matsumoto (15) Katsuhiko Hayashi (13) Lemao Liu (11) Masao Utiyama (10) Yiran Wang (9)

Research topics

Linguistics (2)

Keywords

large language model (22) neural machine translation (13) machine translation (13) named entity recognition (10) language model (9) low-resource language (7) japanese language (6) grammatical error correction (6) multilingual nlp (6) multimodal learning (5) vision-language model (5) text generation (5) cross-lingual transfer (5) information extraction (4) minimum bayes risk decoding (4) neural network (4) vision language model (4) attention mechanism (4) translation quality (4) entity linking (3)

Papers

Completely Modular Fine-tuning for Dynamic Language Adaptation EACL 2026

Toward Automatic Delegation Extraction in Japanese Law EACL 2026

Towards Singable Lyrics Translation Using Large Language Models EACL 2026

entity-linkings: A Unified Library for Entity Linking EACL 2026

Measuring Linguistic Competence of LLMs on Indigenous Languages of the Americas EACL 2026

Diagnosing Vision Language Models’ Perception by Leveraging Human Methods for Color Vision Deficiencies EACL 2026

Cosine Similarity as Logits?: A Scalable Knowledge Probe Using Embedding Vectors from Generative Language Models EACL 2026

Beyond Sampling: Self-Sorting for Long-Context Ranking EACL 2026

“Yuki Gets Sushi, David Gets Steak?”: Uncovering Gender and Racial Biases in LLM-Based Meal Recommendations EACL 2026

Speaker Identification and Dataset Construction Using LLMs: A Case Study on Japanese Narratives NAACL 2025

Leveraging Dictionaries and Grammar Rules for the Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages NAACL 2025

Long-Tail Crisis in Nearest Neighbor Language Models NAACL 2025

Efficient Nearest Neighbor based Uncertainty Estimation for Natural Language Processing Tasks NAACL 2025

Towards Cross-Lingual Explanation of Artwork in Large-scale Vision Language Models NAACL 2025

Reliability of Distribution Predictions by LLMs: Insights from Counterintuitive Pseudo-Distributions NAACL 2025

Tonguescape: Exploring Language Models Understanding of Vowel Articulation NAACL 2025

AdTEC: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Text Quality in Search Engine Advertising NAACL 2025

How to Make the Most of LLMs’ Grammatical Knowledge for Acceptability Judgments NAACL 2025

WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines NAACL 2025

Investigating Omission as a Latency Reduction Strategy in Simultaneous Speech Translation IJCNLP 2025

Agreement-Constrained Probabilistic Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding IJCNLP 2025

Knowledge Editing Induces Underconfidence in Language Models EMNLP 2025

Improving Language Transfer Capability of Decoder-only Architecture in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2025

Reliability Crisis of Reference-free Metrics for Grammatical Error Correction EMNLP 2025

BannerBench: Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Multi-Ad Selection with Human Preferences EMNLP 2025

Decoding Uncertainty: The Impact of Decoding Strategies for Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models EMNLP 2025

JaCorpTrack: Corporate History Event Extraction for Tracking Organizational Changes EMNLP 2025

Investigating Omission as a Latency Reduction Strategy in Simultaneous Speech Translation AACL 2025

Agreement-Constrained Probabilistic Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding AACL 2025

Graph-Structured Trajectory Extraction from Travelogues ACL 2025

Registering Source Tokens to Target Language Spaces in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation ACL 2025

CoAM: Corpus of All-Type Multiword Expressions ACL 2025

Diversity Explains Inference Scaling Laws: Through a Case Study of Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding ACL 2025

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability ACL 2025

BQA: Body Language Question Answering Dataset for Video Large Language Models ACL 2025

Rethinking Evaluation Metrics for Grammatical Error Correction: Why Use a Different Evaluation Process than Human? ACL 2025

gec-metrics: A Unified Library for Grammatical Error Correction Evaluation ACL 2025

Translating Movie Subtitles by Large Language Models using Movie-meta Information ACL 2025

Improving Explainability of Sentence-level Metrics via Edit-level Attribution for Grammatical Error Correction ACL 2025

IMPARA-GED: Grammatical Error Detection is Boosting Reference-free Grammatical Error Quality Estimator ACL 2025

Dictionaries to the Rescue: Cross-Lingual Vocabulary Transfer for Low-Resource Languages Using Bilingual Dictionaries ACL 2025

Superfluous Instruction: Vulnerabilities Stemming from Task-Specific Superficial Expressions in Instruction Templates ACL 2025

Understanding the Impact of Confidence in Retrieval Augmented Generation: A Case Study in the Medical Domain ACL 2025

LoCt-Instruct: An Automatic Pipeline for Constructing Datasets of Logical Continuous Instructions EMNLP 2025

SinhalaMMLU: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Multitask Language Understanding in Sinhala EMNLP 2025

Multilingual Dialogue Generation and Localization with Dialogue Act Scripting EMNLP 2025

IRR: Image Review Ranking Framework for Evaluating Vision-Language Models COLING 2025

Beyond Film Subtitles: Is YouTube the Best Approximation of Spoken Vocabulary? COLING 2025

A Text Embedding Model with Contrastive Example Mining for Point-of-Interest Geocoding COLING 2025

Measuring the Robustness of Reference-Free Dialogue Evaluation Systems COLING 2025

HLU: Human Vs LLM Generated Text Detection Dataset for Urdu at Multiple Granularities COLING 2025

Can Language Models Induce Grammatical Knowledge from Indirect Evidence? EMNLP 2024

Towards Artwork Explanation in Large-scale Vision Language Models ACL 2024

Alignment-Based Decoding Policy for Low-Latency and Anticipation-Free Neural Japanese Input Method Editors ACL 2024

TextBind: Multi-turn Interleaved Multimodal Instruction-following in the Wild ACL 2024

Centroid-Based Efficient Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding ACL 2024

mCSQA: Multilingual Commonsense Reasoning Dataset with Unified Creation Strategy by Language Models and Humans ACL 2024

Modeling Overregularization in Children with Small Language Models ACL 2024

Unified Interpretation of Smoothing Methods for Negative Sampling Loss Functions in Knowledge Graph Embedding ACL 2024

Synthetic Context with LLM for Entity Linking from Scientific Tables ACL 2024

Constructing Indonesian-English Travelogue Dataset COLING 2024

Disentangling Pretrained Representation to Leverage Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Machine Translation COLING 2024

JDocQA: Japanese Document Question Answering Dataset for Generative Language Models COLING 2024

Monolingual Paraphrase Detection Corpus for Low Resource Pashto Language at Sentence Level COLING 2024

Generating Diverse Translation with Perturbed kNN-MT EACL 2024

Arukikata Travelogue Dataset with Geographic Entity Mention, Coreference, and Link Annotation EACL 2024

Are Data Augmentation Methods in Named Entity Recognition Applicable for Uncertainty Estimation? EMNLP 2024

Exploring Intrinsic Language-specific Subspaces in Fine-tuning Multilingual Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2024

Attention Score is not All You Need for Token Importance Indicator in KV Cache Reduction: Value Also Matters EMNLP 2024

Simul-MuST-C: Simultaneous Multilingual Speech Translation Corpus Using Large Language Model EMNLP 2024

Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus Construction by Large Language Models in Distant Language Pair EMNLP 2024

mbrs: A Library for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding EMNLP 2024

Cross-lingual Contextualized Phrase Retrieval EMNLP 2024

Toward the Evaluation of Large Language Models Considering Score Variance across Instruction Templates EMNLP 2024

Evaluating Language Models in Location Referring Expression Extraction from Early Modern and Contemporary Japanese Texts EMNLP 2024

Difficult for Whom? A Study of Japanese Lexical Complexity EMNLP 2024

Does Pre-trained Language Model Actually Infer Unseen Links in Knowledge Graph Completion? NAACL 2024

Applying Linguistic Expertise to LLMs for Educational Material Development in Indigenous Languages NAACL 2024

Japanese Rule-based Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion System and Multilingual Named Entity Dataset with International Phonetic Alphabet NAACL 2024

Second Language Acquisition of Neural Language Models ACL 2023

A Closer Look at k-Nearest Neighbors Grammatical Error Correction ACL 2023

Repetition In Repetition Out: Towards Understanding Neural Text Degeneration from the Data Perspective NIPS 2023

Japanese Lexical Complexity for Non-Native Readers: A New Dataset ACL 2023

NAIST-NICT WMT’23 General MT Task Submission EMNLP 2023

Findings of the Word-Level AutoCompletion Shared Task in WMT 2023 EMNLP 2023

Subset Retrieval Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation ACL 2023

Table and Image Generation for Investigating Knowledge of Entities in Pre-trained Vision and Language Models ACL 2023

NAISTeacher: A Prompt and Rerank Approach to Generating Teacher Utterances in Educational Dialogues ACL 2023

24-bit Languages IJCNLP 2023

Model-based Subsampling for Knowledge Graph Completion IJCNLP 2023

Model-based Subsampling for Knowledge Graph Completion AACL 2023

24-bit Languages AACL 2023

Switching to Discriminative Image Captioning by Relieving a Bottleneck of Reinforcement Learning WACV 2023

NAIST-NICT-TIT WMT22 General MT Task Submission EMNLP 2022

Sharing Parameter by Conjugation for Knowledge Graph Embeddings in Complex Space COLING 2022

Adapting to Non-Centered Languages for Zero-shot Multilingual Translation COLING 2022

Residual Learning of Neural Text Generation with n-gram Language Model EMNLP 2022

JADES: New Text Simplification Dataset in Japanese Targeted at Non-Native Speakers EMNLP 2022

Findings of the Word-Level AutoCompletion Shared Task in WMT 2022 EMNLP 2022

Visualizing the Relationship Between Encoded Linguistic Information and Task Performance ACL 2022

What Works and Doesn’t Work, A Deep Decoder for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022

Improving Discriminative Learning for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction ACL 2022

Neural Machine Translation with Synchronous Latent Phrase Structure ACL 2021

Structured Refinement for Sequential Labeling ACL 2021

Zero Pronouns Identification based on Span prediction ACL 2021

Dependency Patterns of Complex Sentences and Semantic Disambiguation for Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing ACL 2021

Nested Named Entity Recognition via Explicitly Excluding the Influence of the Best Path IJCNLP 2021

A Text Editing Approach to Joint Japanese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Lexical Normalization EMNLP 2021

Nested Named Entity Recognition via Explicitly Excluding the Influence of the Best Path ACL 2021

Transliteration for Low-Resource Code-Switching Texts: Building an Automatic Cyrillic-to-Latin Converter for Tatar NAACL 2021

User-Generated Text Corpus for Evaluating Japanese Morphological Analysis and Lexical Normalization NAACL 2021

Zero Pronouns Identification based on Span prediction IJCNLP 2021

Neural Machine Translation with Synchronous Latent Phrase Structure IJCNLP 2021

Removing Word-Level Spurious Alignment between Images and Pseudo-Captions in Unsupervised Image Captioning EACL 2021

Dependency Patterns of Complex Sentences and Semantic Disambiguation for Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing IJCNLP 2021

Structured Refinement for Sequential Labeling IJCNLP 2021

Coordination Boundary Identification without Labeled Data for Compound Terms Disambiguation COLING 2020

Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection EMNLP 2018

Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) IJCNLP 2017

Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) IJCNLP 2017

Phrase-based Machine Translation using Multiple Preordering Candidates COLING 2016

Hierarchical Back-off Modeling of Hiero Grammar based on Non-parametric Bayesian Model EMNLP 2015

Transition-based Neural Constituent Parsing ACL 2015

Leave-one-out Word Alignment without Garbage Collector Effects EMNLP 2015

Transition-based Neural Constituent Parsing IJCNLP 2015

Recurrent Neural Network-based Tuple Sequence Model for Machine Translation COLING 2014

Recurrent Neural Networks for Word Alignment Model ACL 2014

Unsupervised Word Alignment Using Frequency Constraint in Posterior Regularized EM EMNLP 2014

Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation using Syntax-Label Clustering EMNLP 2014

Tuning SMT with a Large Number of Features via Online Feature Grouping IJCNLP 2013

Additive Neural Networks for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013

Hierarchical Phrase Table Combination for Machine Translation ACL 2013

Part-of-Speech Induction in Dependency Trees for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013

Locally Training the Log-Linear Model for SMT EMNLP 2012

Inducing a Discriminative Parser to Optimize Machine Translation Reordering EMNLP 2012

Optimized Online Rank Learning for Machine Translation NAACL 2012

Machine Translation without Words through Substring Alignment ACL 2012

Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Label Propagation CONLL 2012

Head-driven Transition-based Parsing with Top-down Prediction ACL 2012

Locally Training the Log-Linear Model for SMT CONLL 2012

Inducing a Discriminative Parser to Optimize Machine Translation Reordering CONLL 2012

Expected Error Minimization with Ultraconservative Update for SMT COLING 2012

Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Label Propagation EMNLP 2012

An Unsupervised Model for Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction ACL 2011

Machine Translation System Combination by Confusion Forest ACL 2011

Third-order Variational Reranking on Packed-Shared Dependency Forests EMNLP 2011

A Succinct N-gram Language Model ACL 2009

A Succinct N-gram Language Model IJCNLP 2009

Online Large-Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2007

Online Large-Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation CONLL 2007

Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation ACL 2006

Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation COLING 2006

Empirical Study of Utilizing Morph-Syntactic Information in SMT IJCNLP 2005

A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating Features of Speech recognition and Machine Translation COLING 2004

Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2004

Example-based Machine Translation Based on Syntactic Transfer with Statistical Models COLING 2004

Chunk-Based Statistical Translation ACL 2003

A corpus-centered approach to spoken language translation EACL 2003

Bidirectional Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2002

Language Model Adaptation with Additional Text Generated by Machine Translation COLING 2002

Using Language and Translation Models to Select the Best among Outputs from Multiple MT Systems COLING 2002