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2026

Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies for Multilingual Machine Translation

• Kenji Imamura and Masao Utiyama.

• The 9th Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026), to Appear, March. 2026.

Multilingual Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies

• in Japanese. 「自動獲得語彙に基づく多言語対応テキストフィルター」

• Kenji Imamura and Masao Utiyama.

• The 32th Annual Meeting of Assoc. for Natural Language Processing, pp. 4104-4109, March. 2026.

• [paper / bib]

Study of LLM Safety QA Dataset Focused on Illegal Activity

• in Japanese. 「違法行為を対象としたLLM安全性評価質問応答の検討」

• Kenji Imamura, Masao Ideuchi, and Atsushi Fujita.

• The 32th Annual Meeting of Assoc. for Natural Language Processing, pp. 619-624, March. 2026.

• [paper / bib]

2025

A Language-Free Expo Experience for All

• in Japanese. 「「言葉の壁」から解放された万博体験の実現」

• Michael Paul, Kenji Imamura, Xiaolin Wang, Shohei Higashiyama, Masao Utiyama, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Takuma Okamoto, Takefumi Kikuchi, Hirohiko Shiaku, and Kentaro Kayama.

• NICT Research Report, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 53-70, Dec. 2025.

• [paper / bib]

2024

An Empirical Study of Multilingual Vocabulary for Neural Machine Translation Models

• Kenji Imamura and Masao Utiyama.

• The 11th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2024), pp. 22-35, Nov. 2024.

• [paper (ACL anthology) / bib]

2023

NAIST-NICT WMT’23 General MT Task Submission

• • Hiroyuki Deguchi, Kenji Imamura, Yuto Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Justin Vasselli and Taro Watanabe.

  • The 8th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT23), pp. 110-118, Dec. 2023.

  • [paper (statmt.org) / bib]

Pivot Translation for Zero-resource Language Pairs Based on a Multilingual Pretrained Model

• • Kenji Imamura, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita.

  • Machine Translation Summit XIX (MT Summit 2023), pp. 348-359, Sep. 2023.

  • [paper (ACL anthology) / bib]

A Study of Pivot Translation between Non-English Languages Using Multilingual Models

• • in Japanese. 「多言語事前学習モデルを前提とした非英語間ピボット翻訳の特徴調査」

  • Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita.

  • The 29th Annual Meeting of Assoc. for Natural Language Processing, pp. 2483-2488, Mar. 2023.

  • [paper / bib]

Subword Addtion to a SentencePiece Tokenizer for Multilingual Pretrained Models

• • in Japanese. 「多言語事前学習モデルのためのSentencePieceトークナイザーへのサブワード追加」

  • Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita.

  • The 29th Annual Meeting of Assoc. for Natural Language Processing, pp. 1474-1479, Mar. 2023.

  • [paper / bib / sample code]

Construction of GCP Simultaneous Corpus

• • in Japanese. 「GCP同時通訳コーパスの構築」

  • Shohei Higashiyama, Kenji Imamura, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita.

  • The 29th Annual Meeting of Assoc. for Natural Language Processing, pp. 1405-1410, Mar. 2023.

  • [paper / bib]