Publications

Journals

1

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Induction of Japanese-English translation rules from ambiguous examples and a large semantic hierarchy.
Journal of JSAI, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 730-740, 9 1994.

2

Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A simplification method using BDD for majority-voting classifier (in Japanese).
The Transaction of IEICE D-II, Vol. J78-D-II, No. 10, pp. 1469-1478, 10 1995.

3

Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A revision learner to acquire English verb selection rules (in Japanese).
Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 53-68, 7 1996.

4

Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Simplification of majority voting classifiers using binary decision diagrams.
Syst&Comput.Jpn., Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 25-40, 1996.

5

Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A knowledge revision learner using artificial examples generation (in Japanese).
The Transaction of IEICE D-II, Vol. J80-D-II, No. 1, pp. 237-246, 1 1997.

6

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
On handling tree-structured attributes in decision tree learning (in Japanese).
Journal of JSAI, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 421-429, 5 1997.

7

Shigeo Kaneda, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Megumi Ishii.
Learning from expert hypotheses and training examples.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E80-D, No. 12, pp. 1205-1214, 1997.

8

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Learning from examples: Application to industry -- 1. basic techniques and application issues (in Japanese).
Journal of IPS Japan, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 145-151, 1998.

9

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Learning from examples: Application to industry -- 2. application problems and their solutions (in Japanese).
Journal of IPS Japan, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 245-251, 1998.

10

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Yoshifumi Ooyama and Satoshi Shirai.
Interactive Generalization of a Translation Example Using Queries Based on a Semantic Hierarchy.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 675-690, 2001.

11

Andrew Michael Finch, Taro Watanabe, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Eiichiro Sumita.
Paraphrasing as Machine Translation.
Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 87-111, 2004.

12

Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroshi G. Okuno.
Automatic Grader of MT Outputs in Colloquial Style by Using Multiple Edit Distances (in Japanese).
Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 139-148, 2005.

13

Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroshi G. Okuno.
Using Multiple Edit Distances to Automatically Grade Outputs from Machine Translation Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (formerly, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 393-402, March 2006.

Books

1

Shigeo Kaneda, Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, and Tsukasa Kawaoka.
A revision learner to acquire verb selection rules from hand-made rules and examples.
In Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (Springer Lecture Note 1040), pp. 439-452. Springer, 1 1996.

2

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Learning verb translation rules from ambiguous examples and a large semantic hierarchy.
In Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems Volume IV, pp. 323-336. MIT Press, 2 1997.

3

Hussein Almuallim, Shigeo Kaneda, and Yasuhiro Akiba.
Development and applications of decision trees.
In Expert Systems The Technology of Knowledge Management and Decision Making for the 21st Century Six-Volume Set , pp. 53-77, Academic Press, 10 2001.

4

Yasuhiro Akiba.
Automatic Evaluation Methods for Machine Translation Systems,
as a doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, Japan, 1 2005. ( The National Diet Library of Japan, NDL-OPAC Record ID 000007825615)

International Conferences

1

Hussein Almuallim, Takefumi Yamazaki, Yasuhiro Akiba, Akio Yokoo, Shigeo Kaneda, and Tsukasa Kawaoka.
Acquisition of machine translation rules using inductive learning techniques.
In Proc. IJCAI93 Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, pp. 1-16, 8/29 1993.

2

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, Akio Yokoo, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A tool for the acquisition of Japanese-English machine translation rules using inductive learning techniques.
In Proc. CAIA-94, pp. 194-201, 3/1-3/4 1994.

3

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, Akio Yokoo, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Two methods for learning ALT-J/E translation rules from examples and a semantic hierarchy.
In Proc. COLING-94, pp. 57-63, 8/5-8/9 1994.

4

Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A simplification method using BDD for majority voting classifiers.
In Proc. 12th IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics, pp. 148-155, 2/21-2/23 1995.

5

Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Learning English verb selection rules from hand-made rules and translation examples.
In Proc. TMI-95, pp. 206-220, 7/5-7/7 1995.

6

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
On handing tree-structured attributes in decision tree learning.
In Proc. ICML-95, pp. 12-20, 7/7-7/12 1995.

7

Shigeo Kaneda, Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Tsukasa Kawaoka, and Hussein Almuallim.
A revision learner to acquire verb selection rules from hand-made rules and examples.
In IJCAI-95 Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, pp. 95-102, 8/21 1995.

8

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
An efficient algorithm for finding optimal gain-ratio multiple-split tests on hierarchical attributes in decision tree learning.
In Proc. AAAI-96, pp. 703-708, 8 1996.

9

Yasuhiro Akiba, Shigeo Kaneda, and Hussein Almuallim.
Turning majority voting classifiers into a single decision tree.
In Proc. ICTAI-98, pp. 224-230, 11/10-11/12 1998.
ISBN: 0-7803-5214-9, INSPEC Accession Number: 6155523.

10

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Satoshi Shirai, Yoshifumi Ooyama.
Interactive Generalization of a Translation Example Using Queries Based on a Semantic Hierarchy.
In Proc. ICTAI-00 , pp. 326-332, 11/13-11/15 2000.
ISBN: 0-7695-0909-6, INSPEC Accession Number: 6784253.
The paper received the CV Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award of IEEE ICTAI-00.

11

Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita.
Using Multiple Edit Distances to Automatically Rank Machine Translation Output.
In Proc. MT-Summit VIII, pp. 15-20, 9/18-9/22 2001.

12

Yasuhiro Akiba, Taro Watanabe, and Eiichiro Sumita.
Using Language and Translation Models to Select the Best among Outputs from Multiple MT systems.
In Proc. COLING-2002, pp. 8-14, 8/24-9/1 2002.

13

Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Kenji Imamura.
Reliability Measures for Translation Quality.
In Proc. 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing: ICSLP-2002, pp. 1893-1896, 9/16-9/20 2002.

14

Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Michael Paul, Mitsuo Shimohata, and Taro Watanabe.
A Corpus-Centered Approach to Spoken Language Translation.
In Proc. of 10th Conference of European chapter of the association for Computational Linguistics: EACL-2003, pp. 171-174, 4/12-4/17 2003.

15

Kenji Imamura, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Eiichiro Sumita.
Automatic Expansion of Equivalent Sentence Set Based on Syntactic Substitution.
In Proc. of the HLT-NAACL-2003: short papers, pp. 37-39, 5/27-6/1 2003.

16

Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, and Hiroshi G. Okuno.
Experimental Comparison of MT Evaluation Methods: RED vs. BLEU
In Proc. of Machine Translation Summit IX, pp. 1-8, 9/23-9/27 2003.

17

Andrew Michael Finch, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Eiichiro Sumita.
Using a Paraphraser to Improve Machine Translation Evaluation
In Proc. of the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP-2004, pp. 566-571, 3/22-3/26 2004.

18

Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, and Hiroshi G. Okuno.
Incremental methods of selecting test sentences for evaluating translation ability.
In Proc. of LREC-2004: the fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 2015-2018, 5/24-5/30 2004.

19

Andrew Michael Finch, Yasuhiro Akiba and Eiichiro Sumita
How Does Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Correlate with Human Scoring as the Number of Reference Translations Increases?
In Proc. of LREC-2004: the fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 2019-2022, 5/24-5/30 2004.

20

Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, and Seiichi Yamamoto and Hiroshi G. Okuno.
Using a Mixture of N-Best Lists from Multiple MT Systems in Rank-Sum-Based Confidence Measure for MT Outputs.
In Proceedings of COLING-2004: the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 322-328, 8/22-8/29 2004.

21

Yasuhiro Akiba, Marcello Federico, Noriko Kando, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Michael Paul and Jun'ichi Tsujii
Overview of the IWSLT04 Evaluation Campaign
In Proceedings of IWSLT-2004: ICSLP-2004 satellite workshop, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation -- Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation --, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1-12, 9/30 -- 10/1 2004.

22

Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Michael Paul, Mitsuo Shimohata, Taro Watanabe
EBMT, SMT, Hybrid and More: ATR Spoken Language Translation System
In Proceedings of IWSLT-2004: ICSLP-2004 satellite workshop, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation -- Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation --, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 13--20, 9/30 -- 10/1 2004.

23

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hirotoshi Taira, Sanae Fujita, Kaname Kasahara and Masaaki Nagata
NTTCS Textual Entailment Recognition System for NTCIR-9 RITE.
in Proceedings of the 9th NTCIR(NII Test Collection for IR Systems) Workshop Meeting Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, pp. 330--334, 12/6 -- 12/9 2011.

Local Conferences

1

Yasuhiro Akiba and Shigeo Kaneda.
Two-stage rule induction using mdl principle (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 44th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 23-24, 3/17-3/20 1992.

2

Hussein Almuallim, Takefumi Yamazaki, Yasuhiro Akiba, Akio Yokoo, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Induction of machine translation rules based on semantic-hierarchy (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 7th Annual Conference of JSAI, pp. 395-398, 7/27-7/29 1993.

3

Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A multi-class learning method using covering ratio and binary-class hypotheses (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 47th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 11-12, 10/6-10/8 1993.

4

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, Takefumi Yamazaki, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Induction of translation rules from ambiguous training examples (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 47th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 19-20, 10/6-10/8 1993.

5

Shigeo Kaneda, Megumi Ishii, and Yasuhiro Akiba.
A simplification method using BDD for majority-voting classifier (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 8th Annual Conference of JSAI, pp. 191-194, 6/21-6/23 1994.

6

Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Acquisition of translation rules using machine learning techunique (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 49th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 203-204, 9/28-9/30 1994.

7

Shigeo Kaneda, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Megumi Ishii.
A revision learner of English verb selection rules based on examples (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, pp. 333-336, 3/30-3/31 1995.

8

Megumi Ishii, Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A knowledge revision learner using artificial examples generation (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 9th Annual Conference of JSAI, pp. 131-134, 7/25-7/27 1995.

9

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Decision tree learner handling tree-structured attributes (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 52th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 121-122, 3 1996.

10

Shigeo Kaneda, Hussein Almuallim, Megumi Ishii, and Yasuhiro Akiba.
A revision learner for expert-knowledge and real examples (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 52th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 119-120, 3 1996.

11

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, Akio Yokoo, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Learning decision trees using the bootstrap (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 55th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 521-522, 9/24-9/26 1997.

12

Yasuhiro Akiba, Shigeo Kaneda, and Hussein Almuallim.
Learning a single decision tree that approximates majority voting classifiers (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 57th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol.3 pp.323-324, 10/5-10/7 1998.

13

Yasuhiro Akiba and Satoshi Shirai.
Acquiring Transfer Rules from Queries on Sentences in Source Language and their Translations (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP99), pp.430-433, 3/16-3/18 1999.

14

Yasuhiro Akiba.
On Handling Numerical Attributes in Approximating Majority Voting Classifiers (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 59th Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol.2, pp.113-114, 9/28-9/30 1999.

15

Yasuhiro Akiba and Hiromi Nakaiwa.
Collection of Typical Words on each Semantic Attribute by Using Corpora (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 61st Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol.2, pp.137-137, 10/3-10/5 2000.

16

Kenji Imamura, Yasuhiro Akiba and Eiichiro Sumita.
Paraphrasing Japanese Translated Sentences by Using Hierarchical Phrase Alignment (in Japanese).
In Proc. of NLP2001 Workshop program on automatic paraphrasing (PostWorkshop of the 7th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing), pp.15-20, 3/30 2001.

17

Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita.
Automatic Evaluation of Translation Systems by Using Multiple Edit Distances (in Japanese).
In Proc. of the 63rd Annual Convention IPS Japan, Vol.2, pp.257-258, 9/26-9/28 2001.

18

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hiromi Nakaiwa and Francis Bond.
An Evaluation of a Translation Example Generalization Method Based on Interactions between a System and Its Operator (in Japanese).
In Proc. of 9th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing, pp.330-333, 3/17-3/21 2003.

19

Hiromi Nakaiwa, Yasuhiro Akiba, Michael Paul.
For the Establishment of Evaluation Techniques of Machine Translation Systems -- International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT2004) -- (in Japanese).
In Proc. NLP2005 Workshop program on Evaluation Workshops (PostWorkshop of the 11th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing), 3 2005.

SIG Notes or Technical Reports

1

Shigeo Kaneda, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Takefumi Yamazaki.
Learning translation rules using semantic-herarchy (in Japanese).
In Symposium on Learning in Natural Language Processing, 1993.

2

Shigeo Kaneda, Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, and Hussein Almuallim.
A revision learner of English verb selection rules based on examples (in Japanese).
In Symposium on Natural Language Processing, pp. 158-165, 11/30-12/2 1994.

3

Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Shigeo Kaneda.
A knowledge revision learner using artificial facts generation (in Japanese).
In Technical Report of IEICE, AI94, pp. 33-40, 3/18 1995.

4

Yasuhiro Akiba, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Decision tree learner handling tree-structured attributes (in Japanese).
In Technical Report of IEICE, AI95, pp. 25-32, 1 1996.

5

Shigeo Kaneda, Megumi Ishii, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Hussein Almuallim.
A revision learner for expert-knowledge and real examples (in Japanese).
In Technical Report of IEICE, AI95, pp. 17-24, 1 1996.

6

Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Hussein Almuallim, and Shigeo Kaneda.
Machine learning algorithms to acquiring knowledge from scarce examples (in Japanese).
NTT R&D, Vol. 45, pp. 49-58, 4 1996.

7

Yasuhiro Akiba, Shigeo Kaneda, and Hussein Almuallim.
Acquiring a Single Decision Tree Representation of Majority Voting Classifiers (in Japanese).
In Technical Report of IEICE, AI2000, pp. 21-28, 7 2000.

8

Yasuhiro Akiba, Taro Watanabe, and Eiichiro Sumita.
Selection of the Best Output from Multiple MT Engines by Using SMT Scores (in Japanese).
In IPSJ SIG Notes (2002-NL-150), pp. 63-68, 7 2002.

9

Hiromi Nakaiwa, Yasuhiro Akiba, Michael Paul.
[Invited talk] Open Evaluation Campaign of Multilingual Machine Translation Technology International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT2004) (in Japanese).
In IPSJ SIG Technical Reports (2004-SLP-54), pp. 133-138, 12 2004.

10

Yasuhiro Akiba, Takaaki Tanaka, Takayuki Suyama, Masaaki Nagata.
Grading Examinee's Answer Sentences by Verifying Syntactic and Semantic Compatibility (in Japanese).
In IPSJ SIG Technical Reports (2006-NL-174), pp. 31-35, 7 2006.

11

Masaaki Nagata, Katsuhito Sudoh, Jun Suzuki, Yasuhiro Akiba, Tsutomu Hirao, and Hajime Tsukada.
Recent Innovations in NTT's Statistical Machine Translation.
NTT Technical Review, Vol. 11 No. 12, 12 2013.

Others

1

Setsuo Yamada, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Francis Bond.
The sixth international conference on theoretical and methodological issues in machine translation (in Japanese).
AAMT Journal, Vol. 12, pp. 13-18, 10 1995.

2

Fumiaki Sugaya and Yasuhiro Akiba.
Conference Report: 8th Machine Translation Summit --- MT SUMMIT VIII (in Japanese).
IEICE Information and System Society Journal,Vol. 6, pp. 26-27, 2 2002.