Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems. - Takahiro Kobori; Mikio Nakano; Tomoaki Nakamura (SIGDIAL Conference, 2016)

Robust comprehension of natural language instructions by a domestic service robot. - Takahiro Kobori; Tomoaki Nakamura; Mikio Nakano; Takayuki Nagai; Naoto Iwahashi; Kotaro Funakoshi; Masahide Kaneko (Adv. Robotics, 2016)

Learning Dialogue Strategies for Interview Dialogue Systems that Can Engage in Small Talk. - Tomoaki Nakamura; Takahiro Kobori; Mikio Nakano (IWSDS, 2018)