Information provision-timing control for informational assistance robot. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Yasuhiro Minami (HRI, 2011)

Preference-learning based Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (SIGDIAL Conference, 2013)

Towards an open-domain conversational system fully based on natural language processing. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kenji Imamura; Toyomi Meguro; Chiaki Miyazaki; Nozomi Kobayashi; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toru Hirano; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (COLING, 2014)

Evaluating coherence in open domain conversational systems. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Toyomi Meguro; Kenji Imamura; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (INTERSPEECH, 2014)

Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (IVA, 2014)

Surface-tension microscopy by noncontact meniscus-manipulation. - Nobuyuki Tanaka; Makoto Kondo; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masayuki Yamato; Teruo Okano; Jun Miyake (MHS, 2014)

Open-domain utterance generation using phrase pairs based on dependency relations. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (SLT, 2014)

On the difficulty of improving hand-crafted rules in chat-oriented dialogue systems. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Toyomi Meguro; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (APSIPA, 2015)

Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent's Personality. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka (IWSDS, 2016)

Utterance Selection Based on Sentence Similarities and Dialogue Breakdown Detection on NTCIR-12 STC Task. - Hiroaki Sugiyama (NTCIR, 2016)

Proactive Conversation between Multiple Robots to Improve the Sense of Human-Robot Conversation. - Yuichiro Yoshikawa; Takamasa Iio; Tsunehiro Arimoto; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Hiroshi Ishiguro (AAAI Fall Symposia, 2017)

Automatic Evaluation of Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems Using Large-Scale Multi-references. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka (IWSDS, 2017)

Avoiding Breakdown of Conversational Dialogue through Inter-Robot Coordination. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Yuichiro Yoshikawa; Junji Yamato (AAMAS, 2018)

Event Data Collection for Recent Personal Questions. - Masahiro Mizukami; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Hiromi Narimatsu (LaCATODA@IJCAI, 2018)

Detecting Location-Indicating Phrases in User Utterances for Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. - Hiromi Narimatsu; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami (LaCATODA@IJCAI, 2018)

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 (LREC, 2018)

Improving Dialogue Continuity using Inter-Robot Interaction. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Yuichiro Yoshikawa; Junji Yamato (RO-MAN, 2018)

Paired Conversational Agents for Easy-to-Understand Instruction. - Wataru Akahori; Asuka Miyake; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Watanabe; Hiroya Minami (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2019)

Analyzing How a Talk Show Host Performs Follow-Up Questions for Developing an Interview Agent. - Hiromi Narimatsu; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami; Tsunehiro Arimoto (IWSDS, 2019)

Dialogue Breakdown Detection Using BERT with Traditional Dialogue Features. - Hiroaki Sugiyama (IWSDS, 2019)

Empirical feature analysis for dialogue breakdown detection*. - Hiroaki Sugiyama (Comput. Speech Lang., 2019)

Collection and Analysis of Dialogues Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One. - Tsunehiro Arimoto; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kou Tanaka; Takahito Kawanishi; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Hiroshi Sawada; Hiroshi Ishiguro (SIGdial, 2020)

Fine-Tuning a Pre-trained Transformer-Based Encoder-Decoder Model with User-Generated Question-Answer Pairs to Realize Character-Like Chatbots. - Koh Mitsuda; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami; Tetsuya Kinebuchi; Ryuta Nakamura; Noritake Adachi; Hidetoshi Kawabata (IWSDS, 2021)

Citation Sentence Generation Leveraging the Content of Cited Papers. - Akito Arita; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Kohji Dohsaka; Rikuto Tanaka; Hirotoshi Taira (SDP@COLING, 2022)

Bipartite-play Dialogue Collection for Practical Automatic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems. - Shiki Sato; Yosuke Kishinami; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Reina Akama; Ryoko Tokuhisa; Jun Suzuki 001 (AACL/IJCNLP 2022 (Student Research Workshop), 2022)

Empirical Analysis of Training Strategies of Transformer-Based Japanese Chit-Chat Systems. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami; Tsunehiro Arimoto; Hiromi Narimatsu; Yuya Chiba; Hideharu Nakajima; Toyomi Meguro (SLT, 2022)

Spoken Dialogue Strategy Focusing on Asymmetric Communication with Android Robots. - Daisuke Kawakubo; Hitoshi Ishii; Riku Okazawa; Shunta Nishizawa; Haruki Hatakeyama; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masaki Shuzo; Eisaku Maeda (CoRR, 2022)

Temporary improvement of cognitive and behavioral scales for Dementia elderly by Shiritori word game with a dialogue robot: A pilot study. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Kenji Nakamura (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022)

Time-Considerable Dialogue Models via Reranking by Time Dependency. - Yuiko Tsunomori; Masakazu Ishihata; Hiroaki Sugiyama (EMNLP (Findings), 2023)

Reference Classification Using BERT Models to Support Scientific-Document Writing. - Ryoma Hosokawa; Junji Yamato; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Gen-ichiro Kikui; Hiroaki Sugiyama (JSAI-isAI Workshops, 2023)

Asymmetric communication: cognitive models of humans toward an android robot. - Daisuke Kawakubo; Masaki Shuzo; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Eisaku Maeda (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2023)

Chat agents respond more empathetically by using hearsay experience. - Hiromi Narimatsu; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami; Tsunehiro Arimoto (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2023)

Comparison of the Intimacy Process between Real and Acting-based Long-term Text Chats. - Tsunehiro Arimoto; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Hiromi Narimatsu; Masahiro Mizukami (LREC/COLING, 2024)

LLM-jp: A Cross-organizational Project for the Research and Development of Fully Open Japanese LLMs. - Akiko Aizawa; Eiji Aramaki; Bowen Chen; Fei Cheng 002; Hiroyuki Deguchi 002; Rintaro Enomoto; Kazuki Fujii; Kensuke Fukumoto; Takuya Fukushima; Namgi Han; Yuto Harada; Chikara Hashimoto; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

User-Specific Dialogue Generation with User Profile-Aware Pre-Training Model and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. - Atsushi Otsuka; Kazuya Matsuo; Ryo Ishii; Narichika Nomoto; Hiroaki Sugiyama (CoRR, 2024)

ToMATO: Verbalizing the Mental States of Role-Playing LLMs for Benchmarking Theory of Mind. - Kazutoshi Shinoda; Nobukatsu Hojo; Kyosuke Nishida; Saki Mizuno; Keita Suzuki; Ryo Masumura; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Kuniko Saito (AAAI, 2025)

GenerativeGUI: Dynamic GUI Generation Leveraging LLMs for Enhanced User Interaction on Chat Interfaces. - Nobukatsu Hojo; Kazutoshi Shinoda; Yoshihiro Yamazaki; Keita Suzuki; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Kyosuke Nishida; Kuniko Saito (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2025)

Training Dialogue Systems by AI Feedback for Improving Overall Dialogue Impression. - Kai Yoshida; Masahiro Mizukami; Seiya Kawano; Canasai Kruengkrai; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Koichiro Yoshino (ICASSP, 2025)

Enhancing Impression Change Prediction in Speed Dating Simulations Based on Speakers' Personalities. - Kazuya Matsuo; Yoko Ishii; Atsushi Otsuka; Ryo Ishii; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Masahiro Mizukami; Tsunehiro Arimoto; Narichika Nomoto; Yoshihide Sato; Tetsuya Yamaguchi (CoRR, 2025)

Let's Put Ourselves in Sally's Shoes: Shoes-of-Others Prefixing Improves Theory of Mind in Large Language Models. - Kazutoshi Shinoda; Nobukatsu Hojo; Kyosuke Nishida; Yoshihiro Yamazaki; Keita Suzuki; Hiroaki Sugiyama; Kuniko Saito (CoRR, 2025)