Publications

Journals

1. Daniel Andrade, Bing Bai, Ramkumar Rajendran and Yotaro Watanabe. Leveraging Knowledge Bases for Future Prediction with Memory Comparison Networks. In the Journal of AI Communications, 2018.

2. Kentaro Inui, Yotaro Watanabe, Kenshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Koumoto, Naoko Kosaka, Akira Koyama, Tomohiro Kokogawa, and Yuji Maeda. Computer-Assisted Databasing of Disaster Management Information Through Natural Language Processing. Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.10, No.5, 830-844, 2015.

3. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Katsuma Narisawa, Keita Nabeshima, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. Leveraging Diverse Lexical Resources for Textual Entailment Recognition. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) - Special Issue on RITE, December 2012. [paper]

4. Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Nichols Eric, Koji Murakami, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto. Organizing Agreeing and Conflicting Opinions Based on Semantic Relation Recognition. Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.52, No.12, pp.3408-3422, December, 2011. (in Japanese)

5. Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. A Structured Prediction Model for Joint Learning of Predicate Senses and Argument Roles. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.25, No.2, pp.252-261, January, 2010. [paper] (in Japanese)

6. Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. Graph-structured Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Categorization in Wikipedia. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.23, No.4, pp.245-254, 2008. [paper] (in Japanese)

7. Yotaro Watanabe. Word Code and Lexeme Code Annotation Tool: Code Annotator. The Journal of The Study of Vocabulary Vol.5, pp.71-74, December 2007. (in Japanese)

International Conferences / Workshops / Others

1. Chihiro Yano, Akihiko Fukuchi, Shoko Fukasawa, Hideyuki Tachibana, and Yotaro Watanabe. Multilingual Sentence-T5: Scalable Sentence Encoders for Multilingual Applications. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024.

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3. Hideyuki Tachibana, Mocho Go, Muneyoshi Inahara, Yotaro Katayama, and Yotaro Watanabe. Diffusion Generative Vocoder for Fullband Speech Synthesis Based on Weak Third-order SDE Solver. In Procedings of Interspeech 2022.

4. Hideyuki Tachibana, Mocho Go, Muneyoshi Inahara, Yotaro Katayama, and Yotaro Watanabe. Itô-Taylor Sampling Scheme for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models using Ideal Derivatives. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13339.

5. Shunta Nagasawa, Yotaro Watanabe, and Hitoshi Iyatomi. Validity-Based Sampling and Smoothing Methods for Multiple Reference Image Captioning. In Proc. of the NAACL2021 Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (MAI-Workshop), 2021.

6. Takuya Hiraoka, Masaaki Tsuchida and Yotaro Watanabe. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Inquiry Dialog Policies with Logical Formula Embeddings. arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00667

7. Shohei Higashiyama, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Takashi Onishi and Yotaro Watanabe. Event Relation Acquisition Using Dependency Patterns and Confidence-Weighted Co-occurrence Statistics. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications (LTA'17), 2017. 

8. Daniel Andrade, Bing Bai, Ramkumar Rajendran and Yotaro Watanabe. Analogy-based Reasoning with Memory Networks for Future Prediction. In Proceedings of the workshop on Cognitive Computation: Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches (CoCo) at NIPS 2016, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.

9. Suguru Matsuyoshi, Yusuke Miyao, Tomohide Shibata, Chuan-Jie Lin, Cheng-Wei Shih, Yotaro Watanabe and Teruko Mitamura. Overview of the NTCIR-11 Recognizing Inference in TExt and Validation (RITE-VAL) Task. In Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2014.

10. Masayasu Muraoka, Sonse Shimaoka, Kazeto Yamamoto, Yotaro Watanabe, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. Finding The Best Model Among Representative Compositional Models. In Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2014).

11. Yotaro Watanabe, Kentaro Inui, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Koumoto, Mitsuhiro Higashida, Yuji Maeda and Katsumi Iwatasuki. Computer-assisted Structuring of Emergency Management Information: A Project Note. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2013 Workshop on Language Processing and Crisis Information (LPCI) 2013, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013. [paper] [slides]

12. Katsuma Narisawa, Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. Is a 204 cm Man Tall or Small ? Acquisition of Numerical Comon Sense from the Web. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.

13. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno and Kentaro Inui. THK's Natural Logic-based Compositional Textual Entailment Model at NTCIR-10 RITE-2. In Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference, June 2013. [paper] [poster] 

14. Yotaro Watanabe, Yusuke Miyao, Junta Mizuno, Tomohide Shibata, Hiroshi Kanayama, Cheng-Wei Lee, Chuan-Jie Lin, Shuming Shi, Teruko Mitamura, Noriko Kando, Hideki Shima and Kohichi Takeda. Overview of the Recognizing Inference in Text (RITE-2) at NTCIR-10. In Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference, June 2013. [paper] [slides] [poster]

15. Kazeto Yamamoto, Naoya Inoue, Yotaro Watanabe, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. Discriminative Learning of First-order Weighted Abduction from Partial Discourse Explanations. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2013), Samos, Greece, March 2013.

16. Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Yotaro Watanabe and Kentaro Inui. Organizing Information on the Web through Agreement-Conflict Relation Classification. In Proceedings of the Eighth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2012), December 2012.

17. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition Using Natural Logic. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pages 2805-2820, Mumbai, India, December 2012. [paper] [slides]

18. Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Katsuma Narisawa, Keita Nabeshima and Kentaro Inui. TU Group at NTCIR9-RITE: Leveraging Diverse Lexical Resources for Recognizing Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of the 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-9), Tokyo, Japan, 2011. [paper] [poster]

19. Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Shouko Masuda, Hayato Goto, Megumi Ohki, Chitose Sao, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto. Statement Map: Reducing Web Information Credibility Noise through Opinion Classification. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2010), Toronto, Canada, 26 October, 2010.

20. Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Hayato Goto, Megumi Ohki, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto. Automatic Classification of Semantic Relations between Facts and Opinions. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2010), Beijing, China, August 2010.

21. Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. A Structured Model for Joint Learning of Argument Roles and Predicate Senses. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers, pages 98-102, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010. [paper] [slides] [poster]

22. Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. Multilingual Syntactic-Semantic Dependency Parsing with Three-Stage Approximate Max-Margin Linear Models. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL): Shared Task, pages 114-119, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009. [paper] [poster].

23. Yotaro Watanabe, Masakazu Iwatate, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. A Pipeline Approach for Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2008), pp. 228-232, Manchester, August 2008. [paper] [poster].

24. Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto. A Graph-based Approach to Named Entity Categorization in Wikipedia Using Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), pp. 649-657, Prague, June 2007. [paper] [slides]

25. Masayuki Asahara, Kenta Fukuoka, Ai Azuma, Chooi-Ling Goh, Yotaro Watanabe, Yuji Matsumoto and Takashi Tsuzuki. Combination of Machine Learning Methods for Optimum Chinese Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of the Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005).

Dissertations

1. Yotaro Watanabe. Dependency-based Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis Using Structured Learning and Named Entity Information. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Information Processing, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, NAIST-IS-DD0761031, March 17, 2010. [paper]

2. Yotaro Watanabe. A Graph-based Approach to Named Entity Categorization in Wikipedia Texts. Master's Thesis, Department of Information Processing, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, NAIST-IS-MT0551137, March 9, 2007. [paper] (in Japanese)

Books / Book Chapters

1. 渡邉 陽太郎. 表現学習. 人工知能学大事典, pp.610-611, July 2017.

2. 渡邉 陽太郎. 構造学習. 人工知能学大事典, pp.612-613, July 2017.

Domestic Conferences / Workshops

1. 長澤駿太, 渡邉陽太郎, 彌冨仁. 画像キャプション生成における多様性と妥当性を考慮した学習手法. NLP若手の会 (YANS) 第15回シンポジウム, September 2020. 

2. 大曽根宏幸, 稲原宗能, 渡邉陽太郎. TransferTransfoに基づくマルチターン対話生成における発話順序を考慮した学習の有効性について. NLP若手の会 (YANS) 第15回シンポジウム, September 2020. 

3. 稲村和樹, 渡邉陽太郎. BERTの転移学習によって獲得した日本語固有表現抽出モデルの性能評価. NLP若手の会 (YANS) 第14回シンポジウム, August 2019. 

4. 藤田篤, 柴田知秀, 松吉俊, 渡邉陽太郎, 梶原智之. 言い換え認識技術の評価に適した言い換えコーパスの構築指針. 言語処理学会第21回年次大会ワークショップ「自然言語処理におけるエラー分析」発表論文集, ID:20, March 2015.

5. 村岡雅康, 島岡聖世, 山本風人, 渡邉陽太郎, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 係り受け関係を用いた句ベクトルの生成. 言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集, March 2014. (言語処理学会第20回年次大会若手奨励賞)

6. 島岡聖世, 村岡雅康, 山本風人, 渡邉陽太郎, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. ガウス分布による単語と句の意味の分布的表現. 言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集, March 2014. (言語処理学会第20回年次大会優秀賞)

7. 渡邉陽太郎, 佐々木彬, 五十嵐祐貴, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 実世界指向情報構造化支援のための情報抽出技術. 言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集, March 2014.

8. 佐々木彬, 五十嵐祐貴, 渡邉陽太郎, 乾健太郎. 場所参照表現のグラウンディングに向けて. 言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集, March 2014. 

9. 渡邉陽太郎, 乾健太郎. 防災情報データベース化支援システム. ALAGIN & NLP若手の会 合同シンポジウム (第8回NLP若手の会シンポジウム）, September, 2013.

10. 成澤克麻, 渡邉陽太郎, 水野淳太, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 数量の大小の自動判定：「彼は身長が2mある」は高いか低いか. 言語処理学会第19回年次大会発表論文集, March 2013. 

11. 大西真輝, 水野淳太, 福原裕一, 渡邉陽太郎, 乾健太郎. 文節間限定関係に基づく文間弱対立関係認識. 言語処理学会第19回年次大会発表論文集, March 2013. 

12. Naoya Inoue, Kazeto Yamamoto, Yotaro Watanabe, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui. Online Large-margin Weight Learning for First-order Logic-based Abduction. In Proceedings of the 15th Information-Based Induction Sciences Workshop, November 2012. (Honorable Mention)

13. 山本風人, 井之上直也, 渡邉陽太郎, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 重み付き仮説推論における部分的な正解仮説からの識別学習. NLP若手の会 第7回シンポジウム, September 2012. (奨励賞)

14. 鍋島啓太, 水野淳太, 渡邉陽太郎, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 命題ネット構築にむけて. NLP若手の会 第7回シンポジウム, September 2012. 

15. 渡邉陽太郎, 水野淳太, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. Natural Logicと条件付確率場の融合による構成的文間関係認識. 2012-NL-208, September 2012.

16. 山本風人, 井之上直也, 渡邉陽太郎, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 誤差逆伝播を利用した重み付き仮説推論の教師あり学習. 2012-NL-206, May 2012. (学生奨励賞)

17. 成澤克麻, 渡邉陽太郎, 水野淳太, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 数量表現を伴う文における含意関係認識の課題分析. 言語処理学会第18回年次大会発表論文集, March 2012.

18. 渡邉陽太郎, 水野淳太, 岡崎直観, 乾健太郎. 隠れ変数を持つ識別モデルによる文間意味関係の学習. 言語処理学会第18回年次大会発表論文集, March 2012.

19. 岡嶋穣, 河合剛巨, 中澤聡, 村上浩司, 松吉俊, 水野淳太, エリック・ニコルズ, 渡邉陽太郎, 乾健太郎, 渋木英潔, 中野正寛, 宮崎林太郎, 石下円香, 森辰則. Web文書の時間・論理関係分析に基づく情報信頼性判断支援システムの開発と実証実験. 言語処理学会第17回年次大会発表論文集, March 2011.

20. Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, and Kentaro Inui. Toward Evidence Search. In Proceedings of The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing. 2011.

21. 水野淳太, Eric Nichols, 渡邉陽太郎, 村上浩司, 松吉俊, 大木環美, 乾健太郎, 松本裕治.言論マップ生成技術の現状と課題.言語処理学会第17回年次大会発表論文集, March 2011.

22. 水野淳太, 後藤隼人, 渡邉陽太郎, 村上浩司, 乾健太郎, 松本裕治.文間関係認識のための局所構造アライメント.2010-NL-196, No.16, May 2010.

23. 渡邉陽太郎, 浅原正幸, 松本裕治. 述語語義と意味役割の結合学習のための構造予測モデル. 言語処理学会第16回年次大会発表論文集, pp.840-843, March 2010.

24. 渡邉陽太郎, 浅原正幸, 松本裕治. オンライン最大マージン学習アルゴリズムに基づく多言語依存構造-述語項構造解析. 2009-NL-192, No.2, July 2009.

25. 渡邉陽太郎, 浅原正幸, 松本裕治. DOM構造上の条件付確率場を用いたWikipedia文書中の用語の意味体系への割り当て. 第21回人工知能学会全国大会 (JSAI2007), June 2007.

26. 渡邉陽太郎, 浅原正幸, 松本裕治. HTMLの木構造を利用した条件付確率場による固有表現分類: Wikipediaからのシソーラス半自動構築. NL179-14, May 2007.

27. 浅原正幸, 福岡健太, 東藍, ゴーチュイリン, 渡邉陽太郎, 松本裕治, 續木貴史(松下電器), 「学習器の組み合わせによる中国語わかち書き」, 言語処理学会第12回年次大会論文集, pp.532-535, March 2006.

Misc

• 渡邉陽太郎. COLING2012参加報告（その７）-論文紹介- [pdf]