Invited talk at The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Cybernetics Technology & Applications 2024 (ICICyTA 2024), Bali, Indonesia, 2024.
Share What You Already Know: Cross-Language-Script Transfer and Alignment for Sentiment Detection in Code-Mixed Data [link]
Niraj Pahari and Kazutaka Shimada
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 2024.
Simile Identification with Pseudo Data Acquisition and Re-labeling [link]
Jintaro Jimi and Kazutaka Shimada
International Journal of Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-14, 2024.
Dataset Construction and Verification for Detecting Factual Inconsistency in Japanese Summarization [link]
Keisuke Iwamoto and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2024.
Automatic Few-shot Selection on In-Context Learning for Aspect Term Extraction [link]
Koki Imazato and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management, 2024.
Towards Human-Level Evaluation: Assessing the Potential of GPT-4 in Automated Evaluation and Feedback Generation on Japanese Essays [link]
Sayaka Nakamoto and Yoshiaki Okamoto, Takashi Nakakouchi, Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Learning Technologies and Learning Environments, 2024.
An utterance is enough to the gaze? Gaze detection from utterance information in multiparty discussion [link]
Kensho Wakita and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing, 2024.
Layer Configurations of BERT for Multitask Learning and Data Augmentation [link]
Niraj Pahari and Kazutaka Shimada
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 28. No. 1, pp. 29-40, 2024.
Automated Scoring of Logical Consistency of Japanese Essay
Sayaka Nakamoto and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2023, Late Breaking Results, 2023.
Annotation and multi-modal methods for quality assessment of multi-party discussion
Tsukasa Shiota and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of PACLIC36, 2022.
A Compression-Based Multiple Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation [link]
Keita Nonaka, Kazutaka Yamanouchi, Tomohiro I, Tsuyoshi Okita, Kazutaka Shimada, and Hiroshi Sakamoto
Electronics 2022, 11, 1014, 13 pages, 2022.
Discussion Structure Prediction Based on Two-step Method [pdf]
Takumi Himeno and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2021, pp. 543-551, 2021.
Development and Application of Leader Identification Model Using Multimodal Information in Multi-party Conversations [link]
Tsukasa Shiota, Koki Honda, Kazutaka Shimada, and Takeshi Saitoh
International Journal of Asian Language Processing, 2021.
The Discussion Corpus toward Argumentation Quality Assessment in Multi-Party Conversation
Tsukasa Shiota and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Technologies and Learning Environments, 2020.
Don't beat a dead horse: Recognizing a person who returns to a done-deal in a multi-party conversation
Shunsuke Yonemitsu and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
Sarcasm Detection Using RNN with Relation Vector [link]
Satoshi Hiai and Kazutaka Shimada
The International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM), Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 66-78, 2019.
Acquisition of Knowledge with Time Information from Twitter [link]
Kohei Yamamoto and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of IALP2019, 2019.
Automatic Training Data Construction and Extractive Supervised Summarization for NTCIR-14 QA Lab-PoliInfo [link]
Satoshi Hiai, Yuka Otani, Takashi Yamamura and Kazutaka Shimada
NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research. NTCIR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,11966, pp 97-109, Springer, \
2019 * Post-Proceedings of NTCIR 14 (Selected and revised papers)
Timing Prediction of Facilitating Utterance in Multi-party Conversation [pdf]
Tomonobu Sembokuya and Kazutaka Shimada
Computational Linguistics. PACLING 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1215. Springer, Singapore.
Dialogue Act Annotation and Identification in a Japanese Multi-party Conversation Corpus [pdf]
Takashi Yamamura, Masato Hino and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conferenc (APCLC2018).
Discussion map with an assistant function for decision-making: a tool supporting consensus-building [link]
Ryunosuke Kirikihira and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech 2018), pp. 3-18, 2018.
Analysis of facilitators' behaviors in multi-party conversations for constructing a digital facilitator system [link]
Tsukasa Shiota, Takashi Yamamura and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech 2018), pp.145-158, 2018.
Annotation and Analysis of Extractive Summaries for the Kyutech Corpus [pdf]
Takashi Yamamura and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), pp. 3216-3220, 2018.
Stock market prediction using keywords from expert articles [link]
Ko Ichinose and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining 2018 (SCDM 2018).
Sarcasm detection Using Features Based on Indicator and Roles [link]
Satoshi Hiai and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining 2018 (SCDM 2018).
Sports game summarization based on sub-events and game-changing phrases [link]
Yuuki Tagawa and Kazutaka Shimada
New Trends in E-Service and Smart Computing, Springer, 2018.
Simple and sophisticated inning summary generation based on encoder-decoder model and transfer learning
Yuuki Tagawa and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2017.
Image based Attention Estimation for Interaction Scene
Rinko Komiya, Takeshi Saitoh and Kazutaka Shimada
International Conference on ICT Robotics (ICT-ROBOT2017), 2017.
The Kyutech corpus and the topic segmentation using a combined method [pdf]
Takashi Yamamura, Kazutaka Shimada and Shintaro Kawahara
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, pp. 95-104, 2016.
Generating abstractive summaries of sports games from Japanese tweets [link]
Yuuki Tagawa and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management (ESKM 2016), 2016.
A Sarcasm Extraction Method Based on Patterns of Evaluation Expressions [link]
Satoshi Hiai and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management (ESKM 2016), 2016.
Stock market prediction from news on the Web and a new evaluation approach in trading [link]
Ko Ichinose and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management (ESKM 2016), 2016.
KitAi-QA: a Question Answering System for NTCIR-12 QALab-2 (* Oral presentation and Unrefereed publication) [pdf]
Shuji Fukamachi and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference , QALab2, 2016.
The Kyutech corpus: a multi-party conversation corpus on a decision-making task [PDF in Japanese]
Kazutaka Shimada, Takashi Yamamura, Shintaro Kawahara, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing, pp. 1097-1100, 2016.
Trouble information extraction based on a bootstrap approach from Twitter [pdf]
Kohei Kurihara and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC29), pp.471-479, 2015.
Multi-aspects Rating Prediction Using Aspect Words and Sentences [pdf]
Takuto Nakamuta and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC29), pp.513-521, 2015.
Extractive Summarization Based on a Combined Method Using Several Features for Multi-Party Conversation [pdf]
Yo Tokunaga and Kazutaka Shimada
ACIS International Journal of Computer and Information Science, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 12-21, 2015. (to appear)
On-site likelihood identification of tweets using a two-stage method [link]
Kazutaka Shimada, Yurie Onitsuka, Shunsuke Inoue and Tsutomu Endo
Tourism Informatics: Towards novel knowledge based approaches, Springer, pp.77-90, 2015.
The effectiveness of time sequence information on a sightseeing spot recommender [link]
Kazutaka Shimada, Hisashi Uehara and Tsutomu Endo
Tourism Informatics: Towards novel knowledge based approaches, Springer, pp.135-150, 2015.
KitAi-VAL: Textual Entailment Recognition System for NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL [paper] [poster] (*Unrefereed publication)
Ayaka Morimoto, Kenta Kurashima, Yo Tokunaga and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference , 2014.
Understanding level estimation using discussion maps for supporting consensus-building [link]
Hironobu Takagi and Kazutaka Shimada
18th International Conference in Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - KES2014, pp. 786-793, 2014.
A comparative study of potential-of-interest days on a sightseeing spot recommender [paper]
Kazutaka Shimada, Hisashi Uehara and Tsutomu Endo
International Workshop on Sustainable Tourism Innovations and Information Systems (STIIS2014), 2014.
Multi-party conversation summarization based on sentence selection using verbal and nonverbal information [paper]
Yo Tokunaga and Kazutaka Shimada
2nd International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICSCAI 2014), 2014
Conversation summarization using machine learning and scoring method [paper]
Kazutaka Shimada, Shinpei Toyodome, and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING2013), 2013.
KitAi: Textual Entailment Recognition System for NTCIR-10 RITE2 [paper] [poster] (*Unrefereed publication)
Kazutaka Shimada, Yasuto Seto, Mai Omura and Kohei Kurihara
Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference , 2013.
Person Identification Using Top-View Image with Depth Information [link]
Daichi Kouno, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
International Journal of Software Innovation (IJSI) , Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp.67-79, 2013. *This article is an extend version of SNPD2012.
Cooperation Level Estimation of Pair Work Using Top-view Image [PDF]
Katsuya Sakaguchi and Kazutaka Shimada
Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent
Systems (ISIS2013). (Session Best Paper Award)
Supporting consensus-building and management of conversation using tablet terminals [PDF]
Hironobu Takagi and Kazutaka Shimada
IEICE HCG Symposium, 2013 (in Japanese).
Twitter Sentiment Analysis Based on Writing Style [link]
Hiroshi Maeda, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing JapTAL 2012, 2012, to appear
A Combined Method Based on SVM and Online Learning with HOG for Hand Shape Recognition [link]
Kazutaka Shimada, Ryosuke Muto, and Tsutomu Endo
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.16, No.5, 2012.
A Person Identificatio Method Using a Top-view Head Image from an Overhead Camera [link]
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.16, No.5, 2012.
Hot spot detection in multi-party conversation using laughing feature [PDF]
Kazutaka Shimada, Akihiro Kusumoto, Takahiko Yokoyama and Tsutomu Endo
IEICE SIG-NLC, 25-30, 2012. (Best Paper Award) (in Japanese)
Multi-aspects review summarization with objective information [link]
Kazutaka Shimada, Ryosuke Tadano, Tsutomu Endo
Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Special Issues - Computational Linguistics and Related Fields, Vol. 27, pp. 140-149, 2011.
Aspect Identification of Sentiment Sentences Using A Clustering Algorithm [link]
Masashi Hadano, Kazutaka Shimada, Tsutomu Endo
Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Special Issues - Computational Linguistics and Related Fields, Vol. 27, pp. 22-31, 2011.
Analyzing Tourism Information on Twitter for a Local City [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Shunsuke Inoue, Hiroshi Maeda and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of SSNE2011, International Workshop on Innovative Tourism, 2011.
Person Identification Using Top-view Image with Depth Information [pdf]
Daichi Kouno, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2012), pp. 140-145, 2012.
Developing of Interactive e-Learning System with Dialogue [link]
Sayaka Minewaki, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of ICIS '12 and the 2012 IEEE/ACIS 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Science, pp. 272-276, 2012.
A person identification method using facial, clothing and time feature [pdf]
Kazuaki Komatsu, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (IWACIII2011), GS4-2, 2011. (Session Best Presentation)
A Person Identification Method Using a Top-view Head Image from an Overhead Camera [pdf]
Ryota Nakatani, Daichi Kouno, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (IWACIII2011), SS4-1, 2011.
A Combined Method Based on SVM and Online Learning with HOG for Hand Shape Recognition [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Ryosuke Muto and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (IWACIII2011), SS4-3, 2011.
Interactive Aspect Summarization Using Word-Aspect Relations for Review Documents [pdf]
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 11th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2010), TH-A3-4, pp.183-188, 2010.
Combination of 3 types of speech recognizers for anaphora resolution [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Noriko Tanamachi and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 24nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC24), pp. 281-290, 2010.
A Hierarchical Multiple Recognizer for Robust Speech Understanding [LNCS]
Takahiko Yokoyama, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI),LNAI 6230, pp. 706-712, 2010.
Multi-aspects Review Summarization Based on Identification of Important Opinions and their Similarity [pdf]
Ryosuke Tadano, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 24nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC24), pp. 685-692, 2010.
Web image retrieval for abstract queries using text and image information [LNCS]
Kazutaka Shimada, Suguru Ishikawa and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), LNCS 5839, Springer, pp.300-309, 2009.
Effective construction and expansion of a sentiment corpus using an existing corpus and evaluative criteria estimation [pdf]
Ryosuke Tadano, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING2009), pp.211-216, 2009.
Speech Understanding in a Multiple Recognizer with an Anaphora Resolution Process [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Akira Uzumaki, Mai Kitajima and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING2009), pp. 262-267, 2009.
A Graph-based Approach for Sentiment Sentence Extraction [LNCS]
Kazutaka Shimada, Daigo Hashimoto and Tsutomu Endo
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5433, New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining, PAKDD 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 38-48, 2009.
Sentiment Sentence Extraction Using a Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Structure and a Bootstrap Approach [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Daigo Hashimoto and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC22), pp.341-349, 2008.
Seeing several stars: a rating inference task for a document containing several evaluation criteria [LNCS]
Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), pp. 1006-1014, 2008.
An Effective Speech Understanding Method with a Multiple Speech Recognizer based on Output Selection using Edit Distance [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Satomi Horiguchi and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC22), pp.350-357, 2008.
Acquisition of Synonyms Using Relations in Product Specification Tables [link]
Tsunehito Seki, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 25-36, 2007.
A case study of comparison of several methods for corpus-based speech intention identification [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Kaoru Iwashita and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING2007), pp. 255-262, 2007.
Speech Understanding Based on Keyword Extraction and Relations Between Words
Kazutaka Shimada, Tsutomu Endo and Sayaka Minewaki
Computational Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 45-60, 2007.
Movie Review Classification Based on a Multiple Classifier [pdf]
Kimitaka Tsutsumi, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC21), pp. 481-488, 2007.
Table Recognition Using Attribute Likelihood Computed from Words [pdf]
Tsubasa Kitayama, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Fourth Workshop on Learning with Logics and Logics for Learning (LLLL2006), the 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2006 .
Classification of evaluative sentences using sequential patterns [pdf]
Ikuko Osajima, Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proceedings of the 11nd Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing (in Japanese), pp.448-451, 2005.
Acquisition of new training data from unlabeled data for product specifications extraction [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Proc. of PACLING2005, pp. 272-277, 2005. 8.
Product Specifications Summarization and Product Ranking System using User's Requests [pdf]
- Revised Version of 13th European-Japanese Conference -
Kazutaka Shimada and Tsutomu Endo
Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XV, IOS Press, pp. 315-331, 2004. 3.
Multiform Summarization from Product Specifications [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Tetsuro Ito and Tsutomu Endo
Proc. of PACLING2003, pp. 83-92, 2003. 8.
Keyword and Weighting for Product Specifications Extraction [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Koji Hayashi and Tsutomu Endo
Proc. of PACLING2003, pp. 285-293, 2003. 8.
Information Extraction from Personal Computer Specifications on the Web Using a User's Request [pdf]
Kazutaka Shimada, Atsushi Fukumoto and Tsutomu Endo
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol E86-D, No. 8, pp. 1386-1395, 2003. 8.
Work Experience
2019 - present: Professor: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2018.7 - 2020.3: Visiting Researcher at RIKEN AIP-FUJITSU Collaboration Center
2014.10 - 2015.8: Visiting Associate Professor at Natural Language Processing group, UBC (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA)
2012 - 2019: Associate Professor: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2002 - 2012: Research Associate: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Education
1999 - 2002: Oita University (Energy and Environmental Engineering)
Doctor of Engineering
1997 - 1999: Oita University (Master Course: Computer Science and Intelligent Systems)
Master of Engineering
1993 - 1997: Oita University (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems)
Bachelor of Engineering