Mikio Nakano


2020

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User Impressions of Questions to Acquire Lexical Knowledge
Kazunori Komatani | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

For the acquisition of knowledge through dialogues, it is crucial for systems to ask questions that do not diminish the user’s willingness to talk, i.e., that do not degrade the user’s impression. This paper reports the results of our analysis on how user impression changes depending on the types of questions to acquire lexical knowledge, that is, explicit and implicit questions, and the correctness of the content of the questions. We also analyzed how sequences of the same type of questions affect user impression. User impression scores were collected from 104 participants recruited via crowdsourcing and then regression analysis was conducted. The results demonstrate that implicit questions give a good impression when their content is correct, but a bad impression otherwise. We also found that consecutive explicit questions are more annoying than implicit ones when the content of the questions is correct. Our findings reveal helpful insights for creating a strategy to avoid user impression deterioration during knowledge acquisition.

2019

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Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Satoshi Nakamura | Milica Gasic | Ingrid Zuckerman | Gabriel Skantze | Mikio Nakano | Alexandros Papangelis | Stefan Ultes | Koichiro Yoshino
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

2018

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Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Kazunori Komatani | Diane Litman | Kai Yu | Alex Papangelis | Lawrence Cavedon | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

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Collection of Multimodal Dialog Data and Analysis of the Result of Annotation of Users’ Interest Level
Masahiro Araki | Sayaka Tomimasu | Mikio Nakano | Kazunori Komatani | Shogo Okada | Shinya Fujie | Hiroaki Sugiyama
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2017

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Lexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues
Kohei Ono | Ryu Takeda | Eric Nichols | Mikio Nakano | Kazunori Komatani
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

We address the problem of acquiring the ontological categories of unknown terms through implicit confirmation in dialogues. We develop an approach that makes implicit confirmation requests with an unknown term’s predicted category. Our approach does not degrade user experience with repetitive explicit confirmations, but the system has difficulty determining if information in the confirmation request can be correctly acquired. To overcome this challenge, we propose a method for determining whether or not the predicted category is correct, which is included in an implicit confirmation request. Our method exploits multiple user responses to implicit confirmation requests containing the same ontological category. Experimental results revealed that the proposed method exhibited a higher precision rate for determining the correctly predicted categories than when only single user responses were considered.

2016

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Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Spoken Language Understanding
Kei Wakabayashi | Johane Takeuchi | Kotaro Funakoshi | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems
Takahiro Kobori | Mikio Nakano | Tomoaki Nakamura
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2015

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User Adaptive Restoration for Incorrectly-Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani | Naoki Hotta | Satoshi Sato | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2013

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Generating More Specific Questions for Acquiring Attributes of Unknown Concepts from Users
Tsugumi Otsuka | Kazunori Komatani | Satoshi Sato | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

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A Robotic Agent in a Virtual Environment that Performs Situated Incremental Understanding of Navigational Utterances
Takashi Yamauchi | Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

2012

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A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions
Kotaro Funakoshi | Mikio Nakano | Takenobu Tokunaga | Ryu Iida
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2011

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A Two-Stage Domain Selection Framework for Extensible Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mikio Nakano | Shun Sato | Kazunori Komatani | Kyoko Matsuyama | Kotaro Funakoshi | Hiroshi G. Okuno
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference

2010

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Automatic Allocation of Training Data for Rapid Prototyping of Speech Understanding based on Multiple Model Combination
Kazunori Komatani | Masaki Katsumaru | Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno
Coling 2010: Posters

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Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference
Yasuhiro Katagiri | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

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The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction
Antoine Raux | Mikio Nakano
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

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Non-humanlike Spoken Dialogue: A Design Perspective
Kotaro Funakoshi | Mikio Nakano | Kazuki Kobayashi | Takanori Komatsu | Seiji Yamada
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

2009

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A Speech Understanding Framework that Uses Multiple Language Models and Multiple Understanding Models
Masaki Katsumaru | Mikio Nakano | Kazunori Komatani | Kotaro Funakoshi | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

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A Probabilistic Model of Referring Expressions for Complex Objects
Kotaro Funakoshi | Philipp Spanger | Mikio Nakano | Takenobu Tokunaga
Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)

2008

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Rapid Prototyping of Robust Language Understanding Modules for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Yuichiro Fukubayashi | Kazunori Komatani | Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Hiroshi Tsujino | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-I

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A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model
Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Yuji Hasegawa | Hiroshi Tsujino
Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2007

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Analysis of User Reactions to Turn-Taking Failures in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mikio Nakano | Yuka Nagano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Toshihiko Ito | Kenji Araki | Yuji Hasegawa | Hiroshi Tsujino
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2006

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Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue System with Extensibility and Robustness against Speech Recognition Errors
Kazunori Komatani | Naoyuki Kanda | Mikio Nakano | Kazuhiro Nakadai | Hiroshi Tsujino | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno
Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2003

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Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Mikio Nakano | Kiyoaki Aikawa
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2000

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WIT: A Toolkit for Building Robust and Real-Time Spoken Dialogu Systems
Mikio Nakano | Noboru Miyazaki | Norihito Yasuda | Akira Sugiyama | Jun-ichi Hirasawa | Kohji Dohsaka | Kiyoaki Aikawa
1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

1999

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Understanding Unsegmented User Utterances in Real-Time Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mikio Nakano | Noboru Miyazaki | Jun-ichi Hirasawa | Kohji Dohsaka | Takeshi Kawabata
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1998

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Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints
Mikio Nakano | Akira Shimazu
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2

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Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints
Mikio Nakano | Akira Shimazu
COLING 1998 Volume 2: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1996

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Parsing Plans Situation-Dependently in Dialogues
Kiyoshi Kogure | Akira Shimazu | Mikio Nakano
COLING 1996 Volume 2: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1994

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A Grammar and a Parser for Spontaneous Speech
Mikio Nakano | Akira Shimazu | Kiyoshi Kogure
COLING 1994 Volume 2: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1991

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Constraint Projection: An Efficient Treatment of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions
Mikio Nakano
29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics