| 2026 | ACL | Embedding-based In-Context Prompt Training for Enhancing LLMs as Text Encoders. | Ailiang Lin, Zhuoyun Li, Keyu Mao, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2026 | ACL | Causal2Vec: Improving Decoder-only LLMs as Embedding Models through a Contextual Token. | Ailiang Lin, Zhuoyun Li, Yusong Wang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2026 | EACL | Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations through Speaker Identification, Knowledge Distillation, and Hierarchical Fusion. | Xiao Li, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2026 | SIGdial | Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues. | Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2025 | ACL | Unveiling the Power of Source: Source-based Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Neural Machine Translation. | Boxuan Lyu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2025 | ACL | Live Football Commentary System Providing Background Information. | Yuichiro Mori, Chikara Tanaka, Aru Maekawa, Satoshi Kosugi, Tatsuya Ishigaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura |
| 2025 | IJCNN | S2N: A Synthetic Data-Driven Approach for Speaker-To-Dialogue Attribution in Novels. | Yiqian Huang, Ying Zhang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura, Yang Cao |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Key Challenges in Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: Insights from a Large Competition-Based Dataset. | Shiki Sato, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Yuta Sasaki, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Analyzing Dialogue System Behavior in a Specific Situation Requiring Interpersonal Consideration. | Tetsuro Takahashi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Masato Komuro, Ryosaku Makino, Shiki Sato, Yuta Sasaki, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka |
| 2024 | COLING | myMediCon: End-to-End Burmese Automatic Speech Recognition for Medical Conversations. | Hay Man Htun, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Kotaro Funakoshi, Thepchai Supnithi |
| 2024 | EACL | Extreme Fine-tuning: A Novel and Fast Fine-tuning Approach for Text Classification. | Boonnithi Jiaramaneepinit, Thodsaporn Chay-intr, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | EMNLP | LAMBDA: Large Language Model-Based Data Augmentation for Multi-Modal Machine Translation. | Yusong Wang, Dongyuan Li, Jialun Shen, Yicheng Xu, Mingkun Xu, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | HAI | Can Respiration Make Spoken Interactions Better? | Takao Obi, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2024 | HRI | Respiration-enhanced Human-Robot Communication. | Takao Obi, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2024 | NAACL | DiLM: Distilling Dataset into Language Model for Text-level Dataset Distillation. | Aru Maekawa, Satoshi Kosugi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | PACLIC | Enhancing Image Clustering with Captions. | Yuanyuan Cai, Satoshi Kosugi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | PACLIC | LPLS: A Selection Strategy Based on Pseudo-Labeling Status for Semi-Supervised Active Learning in Text Classification. | Chun-Fang Chuang, Dongyuan Li, Satoshi Kosugi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | PRICAI | FINE-LMT: Fine-Grained Feature Learning for Multi-modal Machine Translation. | Yusong Wang, Ying Zhang, Dongyuan Li, Jialun Shen, Yicheng Xu, Mingkun Xu, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2024 | SIGdial | Using Respiration for Enhancing Human-Robot Dialogue. | Takao Obi, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2023 | ACL | Dataset Distillation with Attention Labels for Fine-tuning BERT. | Aru Maekawa, Naoki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | ASRU | After: Active Learning Based Fine-Tuning Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition. | Dongyuan Li, Yusong Wang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | CIKM | Temporal and Topological Augmentation-based Cross-view Contrastive Learning Model for Temporal Link Prediction. | Dongyuan Li, Shiyin Tan, Yusong Wang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | EACL | Generative Replay Inspired by Hippocampal Memory Indexing for Continual Language Learning. | Aru Maekawa, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Joyful: Joint Modality Fusion and Graph Contrastive Learning for Multimoda Emotion Recognition. | Dongyuan Li, Yusong Wang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | ICMI | Video-based Respiratory Waveform Estimation in Dialogue: A Novel Task and Dataset for Human-Machine Interaction. | Takao Obi, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2023 | INLG | Feedback comment generation using predicted grammatical terms. | Kunitaka Jimichi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | PACLIC | A Follow-up Study on Evaluation Metrics Using Follow-up Utterances. | Toshiki Kawamoto, Yuki Okano, Takato Yamazaki, Toshinori Sato, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2023 | RANLP | Coherent Story Generation with Structured Knowledge. | Congda Ma, Kotaro Funakoshi, Kiyoaki Shirai, Manabu Okumura |
| 2022 | COLING | A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model. | Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2022 | NAACL | Generating Repetitions with Appropriate Repeated Words. | Toshiki Kawamoto, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2022 | NAACL | Joint Learning-based Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network for Timeline Summarization. | Jingyi You, Dongyuan Li, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2021 | ACL | Towards Table-to-Text Generation with Numerical Reasoning. | Lya Hulliyyatus Suadaa, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura, Hiroya Takamura |
| 2021 | CIKM | Robust Dynamic Clustering for Temporal Networks. | Jingyi You, Chenlong Hu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura |
| 2021 | EACL | Generating Weather Comments from Meteorological Simulations. | Soichiro Murakami, Sora Tanaka, Masatsugu Hangyo, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura |
| 2020 | ICTAI | Who Speaks Next? Turn Change and Next Speaker Prediction in Multimodal Multiparty Interaction. | Usman Malik, Julien Saunier, Kotaro Funakoshi, Alexandre Pauchet |
| 2019 | HRI | Personal Partner Agents for Cooperative Intelligence. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Hideaki Shimazaki, Takatsune Kumada, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2019 | RO-MAN | Audio-Visual SLAM towards Human Tracking and Human-Robot Interaction in Indoor Environments. | Aaron Chau, Kouhei Sekiguchi, Aditya Arie Nugraha, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2018 | CHI | Vibrational Artificial Subtle Expressions: Conveying System's Confidence Level to Users by Means of Smartphone Vibration. | Takanori Komatsu, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2018 | RO-MAN | Interaction Modeling Based on Segmenting Two Persons Motions Using Coupled GP-HSMM. | Satoru Oshikawa, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Masahide Kaneko, Kotaro Funakoshi, Naoto Iwahashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | CHI | Response Times when Interpreting Artificial Subtle Expressions are Shorter than with Human-like Speech Sounds. | Takanori Komatsu, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | HRI | Online Evaluation of Response Obligation Estimation on the HALOGEN Multimodal Interaction Framework. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | IJCAI | An Attention-based Regression Model for Grounding Textual Phrases in Images. | Ko Endo, Masaki Aono, Eric Nichols, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2017 | MMM | Boredom Recognition Based on Users' Spontaneous Behaviors in Multiparty Human-Robot Interactions. | Yasuhiro Shibasaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Koichi Shinoda |
| 2016 | EMNLP | Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Spoken Language Understanding. | Kei Wakabayashi, Johane Takeuchi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2016 | LREC | The dialogue breakdown detection challenge: Task description, datasets, and evaluation metrics. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuka Kobayashi, Michimasa Inaba |
| 2015 | CHI | Is Interpretation of Artificial Subtle Expressions Language-Independent?: Comparison among Japanese, German, Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. | Takanori Komatsu, Rui Prada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2015 | CogSci | Investigating Ways of Interpretations of Artificial Subtle Expressions Among Different Languages: A Case of Comparison Among Japanese, German, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. | Takanori Komatsu, Rui Prada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2015 | EMNLP | Fatal or not? Finding errors that lead to dialogue breakdowns in chat-oriented dialogue systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi |
| 2015 | SIGdial | Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi, Masahiro Mizukami |
| 2014 | HRI | Probabilistic multiparty dialogue management for a game master robot. | Casey Kennington, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuki Takahashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | IROS | Integration of various concepts and grounding of word meanings using multi-layered multimodal LDA for sentence generation. | Muhammad Attamimi, Muhammad Fadlil, Kasumi Abe, Tomoaki Nakamura, Kotaro Funakoshi, Takayuki Nagai |
| 2014 | IROS | Mutual learning of an object concept and language model based on MLDA and NPYLM. | Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Kotaro Funakoshi, Shogo Nagasaka, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Naoto Iwahashi |
| 2013 | CHI | Expressing a robot's confidence with motion-based artificial subtle expressions. | Seiji Yamada, Kazunori Terada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Takanori Komatsu, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2013 | SIGdial | A Robotic Agent in a Virtual Environment that Performs Situated Incremental Understanding of Navigational Utterances. | Takashi Yamauchi, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi |
| 2012 | CHI | Can users live with overconfident or unconfident systems?: a comparison of artificial subtle expressions with human-like expression. | Takanori Komatsu, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2012 | CogSci | How Can We Live with Overconfident or Unconfident Systems?: A Comparison of Artificial Subtle Expressions with Human-like Expression. | Takanori Komatsu, Kazuki Kobayashi, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2012 | RO-MAN | Impressions made by blinking light used to create artificial subtle expressions and by robot appearance in human-robot speech interaction. | Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Seiji Yamada, Mikio Nakano, Takanori Komatsu, Yasunori Saito |
| 2012 | SIGdial | A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Takenobu Tokunaga, Ryu Iida |
| 2011 | ACII | Interpretations of Artificial Subtle Expressions (ASEs) in Terms of Different Types of Artifact: A Comparison of an on-screen Artifact with A Robot. | Takanori Komatsu, Seiji Yamada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2011 | CHI | Effects of different types of artifacts on interpretations of artificial subtle expressions (ASEs). | Takanori Komatsu, Seiji Yamada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2011 | HRI | The chanty bear: a new application for hri research. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Ryo Nagata, Mikio Nakano |
| 2011 | Interspeech | Learning Place-Names from Spoken Utterances and Localization Results by Mobile Robot. | Ryo Taguchi, Yuji Yamada, Koosuke Hattori, Taizo Umezaki, Masahiro Hoguro, Naoto Iwahashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2011 | IROS | Autonomous acquisition of multimodal information for online object concept formation by robots. | Takaya Araki, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Naoto Iwahashi |
| 2011 | RO-MAN | Blinking light patterns as artificial subtle expressions in human-robot speech interaction. | Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Seiji Yamada, Mikio Nakano, Takanori Komatsu, Yasunori Saito |
| 2011 | SIGdial | 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 |
| 2010 | CHI | How do users interact with a pet-robot and a humanoid. | Anja Austermann, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | CHI | Artificial subtle expressions: intuitive notification methodology of artifacts. | Takanori Komatsu, Seiji Yamada, Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | COLING | 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 |
| 2010 | HRI | Similarities and differences in users' interaction with a humanoid and a pet robot. | Anja Austermann, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | ICASSP | Robot-directed speech detection using Multimodal Semantic Confidence based on speech, image, and motion. | Xiang Zuo, Naoto Iwahashi, Ryo Taguchi, Shigeki Matsuda, Komei Sugiura, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Natsuki Oka |
| 2010 | Interspeech | Learning naturally spoken commands for a robot. | Anja Austermann, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | IROS | Real-time 3D visual sensor for robust object recognition. | Muhammad Attamimi, Akira Mizutani, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | RO-MAN | Does the appearance of a robot affect users' ways of giving Commands and feedback? | Anja Austermann, Seiji Yamada, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2010 | RO-MAN | Detecting robot-directed speech by situated understanding in object manipulation tasks. | Xiang Zuo, Naoto Iwahashi, Ryo Taguchi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Shigeki Matsuda, Komei Sugiura, Natsuki Oka |
| 2010 | SIGdial | Non-humanlike Spoken Dialogue: A Design Perspective. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Kazuki Kobayashi, Takanori Komatsu, Seiji Yamada |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Improving speech understanding accuracy with limited training data using multiple language models and multiple understanding models. | Masaki Katsumaru, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Learning lexicons from spoken utterances based on statistical model selection. | Ryo Taguchi, Naoto Iwahashi, Takashi Nose, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2009 | NAACL | 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 |
| 2008 | ICMI | Smoothing human-robot speech interactions by using a blinking-light as subtle expression. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Kazuki Kobayashi, Mikio Nakano, Seiji Yamada, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2008 | IJCNLP | 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 |
| 2008 | RO-MAN | Smoothing human-robot speech interaction with blinking-light expressions. | Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Seiji Yamada, Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2008 | SIGdial | A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model. | Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2007 | IROS | Robust acquisition and recognition of spoken location names by domestic robots. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Toyotaka Torii, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Noriyuki Kimura, Naoto Iwahashi |
| 2007 | IUI | A markup language for describing interactive humanoid robot presentations. | Yoshitaka Nishimura, Shinichiro Minotsu, Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Johane Takeuchi, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2007 | SIGdial | 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 |
| 2006 | EACL | Identifying Repair Targets in Action Control Dialogue. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 2006 | INLG | Group-Based Generation of Referring Expressions. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 2005 | CW | Understanding Referring Expressions Involving Perceptual Grouping. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Takenobu Tokunaga, Naoko Kuriyama |
| 2005 | IJCNLP | Controlling Animated Agents in Natural Language. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokugana |
| 2004 | COLING | Generation of Relative Referring Expressions based on Perceptual Grouping. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama, Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 2004 | INLG | Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama, Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 2004 | PRICAI | K | Takenobu Tokugana, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hozumi Tanaka |
| 2002 | COLING | Processing Japanese Self-correction in Speech Dialog Systems. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka |