| 2026 | SIGIR | NumColBERT: Non-Intrusive Numeracy Injection for Late-Interaction Retrieval Models. | Haruki Fujimaki, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2026 | SIGIR | H-MAPS: Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Proactive Search Assistant for Scientific Literature. | Koji Nishikawa, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2026 | WSDM | Preface to the WSDM 2026 Workshops Companion Volume. | Andrea D'Angelo, Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro, Francesco Gullo, Makoto P. Kato, Domenico Mandaglio, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, Giovanni Stilo |
| 2025 | CHIIR | Eliciting Implicit Information Needs in E-Commerce Search by Using the Think-Aloud Method. | Kosetsu Tsukuda, Atsuki Maruta, Makoto P. Kato, Hideo Joho |
| 2025 | ECIR | Investigating the Performance of Dense Retrievers for Queries with Numerical Conditions. | Haruki Fujimaki, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2025 | HCI | Enhancing User Understanding of Entity Relationships with Knowledge Graphs: A Dataset for Multi-entity Relationship Explanation. | Wiradee Imrattanatrai, Makoto P. Kato, Ken Fukuda |
| 2025 | SIGIR | LLM-based Query Expansion Fails for Unfamiliar and Ambiguous Queries. | Kenya Abe, Kunihiro Takeoka, Makoto P. Kato, Masafumi Oyamada |
| 2024 | CIKM | Over-penalization for Extra Information in Neural IR Models. | Kota Usuha, Makoto P. Kato, Sumio Fujita |
| 2024 | WISE | PR-Rank: A Parameter Regression Approach for Learning-to-Rank Model Adaptation Without Target Domain Data. | Takumi Ito, Atsuki Maruta, Makoto P. Kato, Sumio Fujita |
| 2023 | ECIR | Theoretical Analysis on the Efficiency of Interleaved Comparisons. | Kojiro Iizuka, Hajime Morita, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2021 | CIKM | The Effect of News Article Quality on Ad Consumption. | Kojiro Iizuka, Yoshifumi Seki, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2021 | ICTIR | Decomposition and Interleaving for Variance Reduction of Post-click Metrics. | Kojiro Iizuka, Yoshifumi Seki, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2021 | ICTIR | Session details: Session 1C - Content Analysis. | Makoto P. Kato |
| 2021 | SIGIR | A Test Collection for Ad-hoc Dataset Retrieval. | Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Ying-Hsang Liu, Hsin-liang Oliver Chen |
| 2021 | WISE | Intent-Aware Visualization Recommendation for Tabular Data. | Atsuki Maruta, Makoto P. Kato |
| 2020 | CIKM | What Rankers Can be Statistically Distinguished in Multileaved Comparisons? | Makoto P. Kato, Akiomi Nishida, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, Takehiro Yamamoto |
| 2020 | ECIR | Context-Guided Learning to Rank Entities. | Makoto P. Kato, Wiradee Imrattanatrai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Identifying Entity Properties from Text with Zero-shot Learning. | Wiradee Imrattanatrai, Makoto P. Kato, Masatoshi Yoshikawa |
| 2018 | CIKM | Challenges of Multileaved Comparison in Practice: Lessons from NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task. | Makoto P. Kato, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, Akiomi Nishida, Takehiro Yamamoto |
| 2017 | SIGIR | A Comparative Live Evaluation of Multileaving Methods on a Commercial cQA Search. | Tomohiro Manabe, Akiomi Nishida, Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, Sumio Fujita |
| 2016 | WSDM | To Suggest, or Not to Suggest for Queries with Diverse Intents: Optimizing Search Result Presentation. | Makoto P. Kato, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2014 | CIKM | Re-call and Re-cognition in Episode Re-retrieval: A User Study on News Re-finding a Fortnight Later. | Shuya Ochiai, Makoto P. Kato, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2014 | WWW | Cognitive search intents hidden behind queries: a user study on query formulations. | Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Investigating users' query formulations for cognitive search intents. | Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2013 | CHI | Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&A. | Makoto P. Kato, Ryen W. White, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Exploring semi-automatic nugget extraction for Japanese one click access evaluation. | Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Report from the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Japanese subtask: baselines, upperbounds and evaluation robustness. | Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Summary of the NTCIR-10 INTENT-2 task: subtopic mining and search result diversification. | Tetsuya Sakai, Zhicheng Dou, Takehiro Yamamoto, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Makoto P. Kato, Ruihua Song, Mayu Iwata |
| 2013 | WSDM | Estimating content concreteness for finding comprehensible documents. | Shinya Tanaka, Adam Jatowt, Makoto P. Kato, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2012 | WWW | Structured query suggestion for specialization and parallel movement: effect on search behaviors. | Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Content-based retrieval for heterogeneous domains: domain adaptation by relative aggregation points. | Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2011 | CIKM | Click the search button and be happy: evaluating direct and immediate information access. | Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto P. Kato, Young-In Song |
| 2010 | CIKM | Search as if you were in your home town: geographic search by regional context and dynamic feature-space selection. | Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2009 | CIKM | Query by analogical example: relational search using web search engine indices. | Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2008 | WISE | Can Social Tagging Improve Web Image Search?. | Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, Katsumi Tanaka |