Akiko Aizawa

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

Achievements

🏃 Academic Marathon (23) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (108) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (10) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (20) 👥 Mega-Team (29) 🧬 Topic Evolution 💎 Century Club (72) 🚀 Conference Pioneer 📈 Trend Setter ❓ The Questioner (5) ⚡ Prolific Year (9) 🔥 Unstoppable (11) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (305)

Conferences

ACL (17) EMNLP (16) COLING (13) EACL (8) IJCNLP (7) AAAI (6) NAACL (5) AACL (2) CONLL (2) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Saku Sugawara (20) Florian Boudin (8) Xanh Ho (6) Junfeng Jiang (5) Kazutoshi Shinoda (5) Jiahao Huang (4) Yang Zhao (4) Qianying Liu (3) Terry Ruas (3) Takato Yamazaki (3)

Research topics

Digital Humanities (1) Education (1)

Keywords

large language model (10) question answering (7) reading comprehension (6) natural language understanding (5) benchmark dataset (5) text classification (5) japanese language (4) data augmentation (4) machine translation (4) keyphrase generation (3) representation learning (3) media bias detection (3) transformer model (3) variational inference (3) benchmark evaluation (3) machine reading comprehension (3) spurious correlation (3) domain adaptation (3) pre-trained language model (3) shortcut learning (2)

Papers

Completely Modular Fine-tuning for Dynamic Language Adaptation EACL 2026

Beyond Chains: Bridging Large Language Models and Knowledge Bases in Complex Question Answering AAAI 2026

Format Matters: The Robustness of Multimodal LLMs in Reviewing Evidence from Tables and Charts AAAI 2026

From Semantics to Style: A Cross-Dataset Comparative Framework for Sentence Similarity Predictions EACL 2026

Tracing Multilingual Knowledge Acquisition Dynamics in Domain Adaptation: A Case Study of Biomedical Adaptation EACL 2026

Leveraging High-Resource English Corpora for Cross-lingual Domain Adaptation in Low-Resource Japanese Medicine via Continued Pre-training EMNLP 2025

ParaRev : Building a dataset for Scientific Paragraph Revision annotated with revision instruction COLING 2025

Development of Numerical Error Detection Tasks to Analyze the Numerical Capabilities of Language Models COLING 2025

An Analysis of Datasets, Metrics and Models in Keyphrase Generation ACL 2025

MCQFormatBench: Robustness Tests for Multiple-Choice Questions ACL 2025

Overcoming Data Scarcity in Named Entity Recognition: Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models ACL 2025

The Promises and Pitfalls of LLM Annotations in Dataset Labeling: a Case Study on Media Bias Detection NAACL 2025

JMedBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Japanese Biomedical Large Language Models COLING 2025

Doppelganger-JC: Benchmarking the LLMs’ Understanding of Cross-Lingual Homographs between Japanese and Chinese IJCNLP 2025

Harnessing PDF Data for Improving Japanese Large Multimodal Models ACL 2025

Med-CoDE: Medical Critique based Disagreement Evaluation Framework NAACL 2025

Doppelganger-JC: Benchmarking the LLMs’ Understanding of Cross-Lingual Homographs between Japanese and Chinese AACL 2025

Table-Text Alignment: Explaining Claim Verification Against Tables in Scientific Papers EMNLP 2025

Automatically Suggesting Diverse Example Sentences for L2 Japanese Learners Using Pre-Trained Language Models ACL 2024

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Keyphrase Generation using Citation Contexts EMNLP 2024

MAGPIE: Multi-Task Analysis of Media-Bias Generalization with Pre-Trained Identification of Expressions COLING 2024

Improving Referring Ability for Biomedical Language Models EMNLP 2024

Probing Physical Reasoning with Counter-Commonsense Context ACL 2023

Which Shortcut Solution Do Question Answering Models Prefer to Learn? AAAI 2023

SuperDialseg: A Large-scale Dataset for Supervised Dialogue Segmentation EMNLP 2023

Analyzing the Effectiveness of the Underlying Reasoning Tasks in Multi-hop Question Answering EACL 2023

Predicting Numerals in Text Using Nearest Neighbor Language Models ACL 2023

How Well Do Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Models Understand Date Information? IJCNLP 2022

How Well Do Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Models Understand Date Information? AACL 2022

Incorporating the Rhetoric of Scientific Language into Sentence Embeddings using Phrase-guided Distant Supervision and Metric Learning COLING 2022

Look to the Right: Mitigating Relative Position Bias in Extractive Question Answering EMNLP 2022

Debiasing Masks: A New Framework for Shortcut Mitigation in NLU EMNLP 2022

Cross-Modal Similarity-Based Curriculum Learning for Image Captioning EMNLP 2022

Gender Biases and Where to Find Them: Exploring Gender Bias in Pre-Trained Transformer-based Language Models Using Movement Pruning NAACL 2022

Can Question Generation Debias Question Answering Models? A Case Study on Question–Context Lexical Overlap EMNLP 2021

Improving the Robustness of QA Models to Challenge Sets with Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation ACL 2021

Embracing Ambiguity: Shifting the Training Target of NLI Models IJCNLP 2021

Embracing Ambiguity: Shifting the Training Target of NLI Models ACL 2021

Predicting Numerals in Natural Language Text Using a Language Model Considering the Quantitative Aspects of Numerals NAACL 2021

Benchmarking Machine Reading Comprehension: A Psychological Perspective EACL 2021

Attention-based Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Target-Oriented Opinion Words Extraction EACL 2021

Phrase-Level Action Reinforcement Learning for Neural Dialog Response Generation IJCNLP 2021

Improving the Robustness of QA Models to Challenge Sets with Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation IJCNLP 2021

Communicative-Function-Based Sentence Classification for Construction of an Academic Formulaic Expression Database EACL 2021

Phrase-Level Action Reinforcement Learning for Neural Dialog Response Generation ACL 2021

Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE - Bias Annotations By Experts EMNLP 2021

Effect of Visual Extensions on Natural Language Understanding in Vision-and-Language Models EMNLP 2021

Deconstruct to Reconstruct a Configurable Evaluation Metric for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems COLING 2020

Assessing the Benchmarking Capacity of Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets AAAI 2020

An Annotated Corpus of Reference Resolution for Interpreting Common Grounding AAAI 2020

Keyphrase Generation for Scientific Document Retrieval ACL 2020

Constructing A Multi-hop QA Dataset for Comprehensive Evaluation of Reasoning Steps COLING 2020

A Linguistic Analysis of Visually Grounded Dialogues Based on Spatial Expressions EMNLP 2020

Language-Conditioned Feature Pyramids for Visual Selection Tasks EMNLP 2020

A System for Worldwide COVID-19 Information Aggregation EMNLP 2020

Towards Grounding of Formulae EMNLP 2020

Unsupervised Rewriter for Multi-Sentence Compression ACL 2019

A Natural Language Corpus of Common Grounding under Continuous and Partially-Observable Context AAAI 2019

UC3M-NII Team at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Semantic Relation Classification in Scientific Papers via Convolutional Neural Network SEMEVAL 2018

Using Formulaic Expressions in Writing Assistance Systems COLING 2018

A Language Model based Evaluator for Sentence Compression ACL 2018

What Makes Reading Comprehension Questions Easier? EMNLP 2018

Evaluation Metrics for Machine Reading Comprehension: Prerequisite Skills and Readability ACL 2017

A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation ACL 2017

Seq2seq for Morphological Reinflection: When Deep Learning Fails CONLL 2017

SideNoter: Scholarly Paper Browsing System based on PDF Restructuring and Text Annotation COLING 2016

Discourse Relation Sense Classification with Two-Step Classifiers CONLL 2016

Learning Succinct Models: Pipelined Compression with L1-Regularization, Hashing, Elias-Fano Indices, and Quantization COLING 2016

Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts COLING 2016

CroVeWA: Crosslingual Vector-Based Writing Assistance NAACL 2015

Sense Disambiguation: From Natural Language Words to Mathematical Terms IJCNLP 2013

Diagnosing Causes of Reading Difficulty using Bayesian Networks IJCNLP 2013

Framework of Semantic Role Assignment based on Extended Lexical Conceptual Structure: Comparison with VerbNet and FrameNet EACL 2012

Recognizing Personal Characteristics of Readers using Eye-Movements and Text Features COLING 2012

Clustering Comparable Corpora For Bilingual Lexicon Extraction ACL 2011

Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship ACL 2003

A Method of Cluster-Based Indexing of Textual Data COLING 2002