Hiroaki Sugiyama

Conference Paper

1. Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro, Mizukami, Tetsuya Kinebuchi, Ryuta, Nakamura, Noritake Adachi and Hidetoshi Kawabata, Fine-tuning a pre-trained Transformer-based encoder-decoder model with user-generated question-answer pairs to realize character-like chatbots, IWSDS, 202109.
2. Hiromi Narimatsu, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami and Tsunehiro Arimoto - Rationale for Using Chat-Oriented Dialogue System’s Experience to Convey Empathy (Best Social impact Paper Award)
3. Tsunehiro Arimoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koki Tanaka, Takahito Kawanishi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Sawada, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Collection and Analysis of Dialogue Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One, SIGDIAL, 202003.
4. Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Noboru Miyazaki, Takahito Kawanishi and Kunio Kashino, DNN-based Speech Synthesis considering Dialogue-Act Information and its Evaluation with Respect to Illocutionary Act Naturalness, SpeechProsody, 2020.
5. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Dialogue breakdown detection using BERT with traditional dialogue features, Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 4 (DBDC4@ IWSDS2019), 201904 (1st prize in Japanese task).
6. Tsunehiro Arimoto, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Hiromi Narimatsu and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. Analysis of satisfaction and topics in repeated conversation through days, SEMDIAL, 2019.
7. Hiromi Narimatsu, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami and Tsunehiro Arimoto, Analyzing How a Talk Show Host Performs Follow-Up Questions for Developing an Interview Agent, In Second Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies (WOCHAT@ IWSDS2019), 201904.
8. Wataru Akahori, Asuka Miyake, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Watanabe, Hiroya Minami, Paired Conversational Agents for Easy-to-Understand Instruction, CHI Late breaking report, 201905.
9. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Junji Yamato, Improving Dialogue Continuity Using Inter-Robot Interaction, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2018), 201808.
10. Masahiro Mizukami, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu, Event Data Collection for Recent Personal Questions, the 4th linguistic and cognitive approaches to dialog agents workshop (LACATODA 2018), 201807.
11. Hiromi Narimatsu, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Detecting Location-Indicating Phrases in User Utterances for Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems, the 4th linguistic and cognitive approaches to dialog agents workshop (LACATODA 2018), 201807.
12. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Junji Yamato, Improving continuity of conversational dialogue through inter-robots coordination International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2018), 201807.
13. Masahiro Araki, Sayaka Tomimasu, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Shogo Okada, Shinya Fujie and Hiroaki Sugiyama, Collection of Multimodal Dialog Data and Analysis of the Result of Annotation of Users' Interests, LREC, 201712.
14. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Dialogue Breakdown Detection based on Estimation of Appropriateness of Topic Transitions, Dialogue System Technology Challenge 6, 201712.
15. Kazunori Sakai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu, Tsunehiro Arimoto, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Junji Tomita, Implementation of an Argumentative Dialogue System Based on Large-Scale Argumentation Structures, The 1st International Symposium on Systems Intelligence Division, 201801.
16. Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Takamasa Iio, Tsunehiro Arimoto, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Proactive Conversation between Multiple Robots to Improve the Sense of Human–Robot Conversation, AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Agent Groups, 201707.
17. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazuki Sakai, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu, Tsunehiro Arimoto, Takaaki Fukutomi, Kiyoaki Matsui, Yusuke Ijima, Hiroaki Ito, Shoko Araki, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Argumentative dialogue system based on argumentation structures, SEMDIAL 2017 (SaarDial) Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pp. 146-147, 201706.
18. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Automatic Evaluation of Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems using Large-scale Multi-references, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2017.
19. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Utterance Selection based on Sentence Similarities and Dialogue Breakdown Detection on NTCIR-12 STC Task, NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research Conference (NTCIR), 201603.
20. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Evaluation of Responses for Questions about Conversational Agent’s Personality, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems（IWSDS）, 201511.
21. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toyomi Meguro, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo，On the difficulty of improving hand-crafted rules in chat-oriented dialogue systems，Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), pp. 1014-1018, 2015.
22. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Open-domain Utterance Generation using Phrase Pairs based on Dependency Relations, Spoken Language Technologies, 2014.
23. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-answer Pairs for Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agent, 2014.
24. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kenji Imamura, Toyomi Meguro, Chiaki Miyazaki, Nozomi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toru Hirano, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Towards a fully-NLP based open domain conversational system, Coling, 2014.
25. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toyomi Meguro, Kenji Imamura, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Evaluating Coherence in Open Domain Conversational Systems, Interspeech, 2014.
26. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures, The 14th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 334-338, 2013.
27. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Tessei Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Minami, Individual variation of word acquisition age: a comparison of Japanese- and English-speaking infants, Workshop on Infant Language Development, 2013.
28. Yasuhiro Minami, Tessei Kobayashi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Cross-linguistic universality of word acquisition ages in comprehension and production, Workshop on Infant Language Development, 2013.
29. Tessei Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Minami, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Vocabulary spurt and noun　acquisition: Empirical evidence from longitudinal data in Japanese-speaking children, Child Language Seminar, 2013.
30. Tessei Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Minami and Hiroaki Sugiyama, Word-class composition in first 20 words predicts later word acquisition rate, SRCD, 2013.
31. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro and Yasuhiro Minami. Preference-learning based Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control, Interspeech, 2012
32. Tessei Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Minami and Hiroaki Sugiyama, Vocabulary spurt and word-class composition: Further evidence for a model of plateaus and linearity in early vocabulary growth, AMLaP, 2012.
33. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Tessei Kobayashi and Yasuhiro Minami. Prediction of Vocabulary Growth Using Locally Linearity, ISSBD, 2012
34. Yasuhiro Minami, Tessei Kobayashi and Hiroaki Sugiyama. Plateaus and linearity of early vocabulary growth, ISSBD, 2012
35. Yasuhiro Minami, Hiroaki Sugiyama and Tessei Kobayashi. Multiple vocabulary spurts in Japanese children. IASCL, 2011
36. Hiroaki Sugiyama, Tessei Kobayashi and Yasuhiro Minami. Analysis of Vocabulary Spurt From Prediction Performance Evaluation, SRCD, 1-088-190, 2011
37. Hiroaki Sugiyama and Yasuhiro Minami. Information Provision-timing Control for Informational Assistance Robot, HRI, pp259-260, 2011