Augmenting a Semantic Verb Lexicon with a Large Scale Collection of Example Sentences. - Kentaro Inui; Toru Hirano; Ryu Iida; Atsushi Fujita; Yuji Matsumoto 001 (LREC, 2006)

Detecting Semantic Relations between Named Entities in Text Using Contextual Features. - Toru Hirano; Yoshihiro Matsuo; Gen-ichiro Kikui (ACL, 2007)

Recognizing Relation Expression between Named Entities based on Inherent and Context-dependent Features of Relational words. - Toru Hirano; Hisako Asano; Yoshihiro Matsuo; Gen-ichiro Kikui (COLING (Posters), 2010)

Diversity of neural-hemodynamic relationships associated with differences in cortical processing during bilateral somatosensory activation in rats. - Masahito Nemoto; Yoko Hoshi; Chie Sato; Yoshinobu Iguchi; Isao Hashimoto; Eiji Kohno; Toru Hirano; Susumu Terakawa (NeuroImage, 2012)

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)

Syntactic Filtering and Content-Based Retrieval of Twitter Sentences for the Generation of System Utterances in Dialogue Systems. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Nozomi Kobayashi; Toru Hirano; Chiaki Miyazaki; Toyomi Meguro; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (IWSDS, 2014)

Automatic conversion of sentence-end expressions for utterance characterization of dialogue systems. - Chiaki Miyazaki; Toru Hirano; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (PACLIC, 2015)

Discourse Relation Recognition by Comparing Various Units of Sentence Expression with Recursive Neural Network. - Atsushi Otsuka; Toru Hirano; Chiaki Miyazaki; Ryo Masumura; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (PACLIC, 2015)

Utterance Selection Using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems. - Atsushi Otsuka; Toru Hirano; Chiaki Miyazaki; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Toshiro Makino; Yoshihiro Matsuo (IWSDS, 2016)

Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers - How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? -. - Toru Hirano; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yoshihiro Matsuo (SIGDIAL Conference, 2016)

Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters. - Chiaki Miyazaki; Toru Hirano; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yoshihiro Matsuo (SIGDIAL Conference, 2016)