Background Measuring patient satisfaction is a crucial aspect of medical care. Advanced
natural language processing (NLP) techniques enable the extraction and analysis of high …

Communication between humans and avatars will increase in the Metaverse, and the quality
of that conversation will be important. Natural language communication of man-machine …

This paper investigates the pretrained language model (PLM) specialised in the Japanese
legal domain. We create PLMs using different pretraining strategies and investigate their …

This paper presents a bimodal emotion recognition system based on the voice and text
information using small amount of speech data. Specifically, speech is divided into voice …

The language style on social media platforms is informal and many Internet slang words are
used. The presence of such out-of-vocabulary words significantly degrades the performance …

Artificial reality, stemming from telexistence, is evolving into the virtual spaces, emphasizing
user interaction across language, multimodal, multitask, and embedded interactions, as well …

The manual assessment of creativity by human raters is coupled with unavoidable
subjectivity and often costs much time and human resources. To address these issues, this …

This study clarifies how the domain adaptation of bidirectional encoder representations from
transformers (BERT) contributes to the syntactic analysis of mathematical texts and their …

Danmaku commenting has become popular for co-viewing on video-sharing platforms, such
as Nicovideo. However, many irrelevant comments usually contaminate the quality of the …

In this study, we focus on conjunctions between sentences to estimate the semantic relations
between sentences. As a method for estimating the types of hidden conjunctions, we …