| 2026 | SIGdial | Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users. | Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Mikio Nakano |
| 2025 | COLING | A Career Interview Dialogue System using Large Language Model-based Dynamic Slot Generation. | Ekai Hashimoto, Mikio Nakano, Takayoshi Sakurai, Shun Shiramatsu, Toshitake Komazaki, Shiho Tsuchiya |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Generating Diverse Personas for User Simulators to Test Interview Dialogue Systems. | Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Hironori Takeuchi |
| 2024 | SIGdial | DialBB: A Dialogue System Development Framework as an Educational Material. | Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani |
| 2021 | IUI | Knowledge Graph Completion-based Question Selection for Acquiring Domain Knowledge through Dialogues. | Kazunori Komatani, Yuma Fujioka, Keisuke Nakashima, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2020 | SIGdial | User Impressions of Questions to Acquire Lexical Knowledge. | Kazunori Komatani, Mikio Nakano |
| 2019 | PRICAI | AutoEncoder Guided Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicon. | Chenlong Hu, Mikio Nakano, Manabu Okumura |
| 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 | HRI | Getting to Know Each Other: The Role of Social Dialogue in Recovery from Errors in Social Robots. | Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David R. Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2018 | IVA | Culture, Errors, and Rapport-building Dialogue in Social Agents. | Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David R. Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2018 | LREC | 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 |
| 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 | FlAIRS | Listen to My Body: Does Making Friends Help Influence People? | Ron Artstein, David R. Traum, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | HAI | The Role of Social Dialogue and Errors in Robots. | Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David R. Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | HRI | Online Evaluation of Response Obligation Estimation on the HALOGEN Multimodal Interaction Framework. | Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Lexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues. | Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani |
| 2016 | EMNLP | Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Spoken Language Understanding. | Kei Wakabayashi, Johane Takeuchi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2016 | ICMI | Niki and Julie: a robot and virtual human for studying multimodal social interaction. | Ron Artstein, David R. Traum, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems. | Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano, Tomoaki Nakamura |
| 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 | SIGdial | User Adaptive Restoration for Incorrectly-Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Kazunori Komatani, Naoki Hotta, Satoshi Sato, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | HRI | Probabilistic multiparty dialogue management for a game master robot. | Casey Kennington, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuki Takahashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | ICMI | Selection of an Object Requested by Speech Based on Generic Object Recognition. | Hitoshi Nishimura, Yuko Ozasa, Yasuo Ariki, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | ICPR | Selection of Unknown Objects Specified by Speech Using Models Constructed from Web Images. | Hitoshi Nishimura, Yuko Ozasa, Yasuo Ariki, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | Interspeech | Detecting incorrectly-segmented utterances for posteriori restoration of turn-taking and ASR results. | Naoki Hotta, Kazunori Komatani, Satoshi Sato, Mikio Nakano |
| 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 | Generating More Specific Questions for Acquiring Attributes of Unknown Concepts from Users. | Tsugumi Otsuka, Kazunori Komatani, Satoshi Sato, 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 | ACCV | Disambiguation in Unknown Object Detection by Integrating Image and Speech Recognition Confidences. | Yuko Ozasa, Yasuo Ariki, Mikio Nakano, Naoto Iwahashi |
| 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 | Interspeech | Detecting System-directed Utterances using Dialogue-level Features. | Kazunori Komatani, Akira Hirano, 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 |
| 2010 | SIGdial | The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction. | Antoine Raux, Mikio Nakano |
| 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 | ASRU | Design and implementation of a robot audition system for automatic speech recognition of simultaneous speech. | Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2007 | ICMI | Multimodal interfaces in semantic interaction. | Naoto Iwahashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 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 | Interspeech | Speech recognition for a robot under its motor noises by selective application of missing feature theory and MLLR. | Yoshitaka Nishimura, Mikio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Mitsuru Ishizuka |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Leak energy based missing feature mask generation for ICA and GSS and its evaluation with simultaneous speech recognition. | Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2006 | IROS | Comparison of a Humanoid Robot and an On-Screen Agent as Presenters to Audiences. | Johane Takeuchi, Kushida Kazutaka, Yoshitaka Nishimura, Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino |
| 2006 | IROS | Real-Time Robot Audition System That Recognizes Simultaneous Speech in The Real World. | Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2006 | PRICAI | Recognition of Simultaneous Speech by Estimating Reliability of Separated Signals for Robot Audition. | Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2006 | SIGdial | Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue System with Extensibility and Robustness against Speech Recognition Errors. | Kazunori Komatani, Naoyuki Kanda, Mikio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2005 | ICASSP | Incorporating Discourse Features into Confidence Scoring of Intention Recognition Results in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh, Mikio Nakano |
| 2005 | IROS | A two-layer model for behavior and dialogue planning in conversational service robots. | Mikio Nakano, Yuji Hasegawa, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Takahiro Nakamura, Johane Takeuchi, Toyotaka Torii, Hiroshi Tsujino, Naoyuki Kanda, Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| 2004 | IJCNLP | Fast Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Policies Using Stable Function Approximation. | Matthias Denecke, Kohji Dohsaka, Mikio Nakano |
| 2004 | Interspeech | Learning dialogue policies using state aggregation in reinforcement learning. | Matthias Denecke, Kohji Dohsaka, Mikio Nakano |
| 2003 | ACL | Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2003 | Interspeech | Evaluating discourse understanding in spoken dialogue systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2003 | Interspeech | Using untranscribed user utterances for improving language models based on confidence scoring. | Mikio Nakano, Timothy J. Hazen |
| 2002 | Interspeech | A method for evaluating incremental utterance understanding in spoken dialogue systems. | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2002 | Interspeech | Learning decision trees to determine turn-taking by spoken dialogue systems. | Ryo Sato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masafumi Tamoto, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2001 | Interspeech | Mokusei: a telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain. | Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiro Minami, Stephanie Seneff, Timothy J. Hazen, D. Scott Cyphers, James R. Glass, Joseph Polifroni, Victor Zue |
| 2000 | Interspeech | An efficient dialogue control method under system²s limited knowledge. | Kohji Dohsaka, Norihito Yasuda, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2000 | Interspeech | New feature parameters for detecting misunderstandings in a spoken dialogue system. | Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2000 | Interspeech | A new method for understanding sequences of utterances by multiple speakers. | Noboru Miyazaki, Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 2000 | SIGdial | WIT: A Toolkit for Building Robust and Real-Time Spoken Dialogu Systems. | Mikio Nakano, Noboru Miyazaki, Norihito Yasuda, Akira Sugiyama, Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 1999 | ACL | Understanding Unsegmented User Utterances in Real-Time Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Mikio Nakano, Noboru Miyazaki, Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Takeshi Kawabata |
| 1999 | Interspeech | Effects of system barge-in responses on user impressions. | Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Mikio Nakano, Takeshi Kawabata, Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 1999 | Interspeech | Handling rich turn-taking in spoken dialogue systems. | Mikio Nakano, Kohji Dohsaka, Noboru Miyazaki, Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Masafumi Tamoto, Masahito Kawamori, Akira Sugiyama, Takeshi Kawabata |
| 1998 | ACL | Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints. | Mikio Nakano, Akira Shimazu |
| 1998 | Interspeech | Implementation of coordinative nodding behavior on spoken dialogue systems. | Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Takeshi Kawabata |
| 1996 | COLING | Parsing Plans Situation-Dependently in Dialogues. | Kiyoshi Kogure, Akira Shimazu, Mikio Nakano |
| 1994 | COLING | A Grammar And A Parser For Spontaneous Speech. | Mikio Nakano, Akira Shimazu, Kiyoshi Kogure |
| 1994 | Interspeech | Recognizing plans in more natural dialogue utterances. | Kiyoshi Kogure, Akira Shimazu, Mikio Nakano |
| 1994 | Interspeech | Cooperative distributed processing for understanding dialogue utterances. | Akira Shimazu, Kiyoshi Kogure, Mikio Nakano |
| 1991 | ACL | Constraint Projection: An Efficient Treatment of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions. | Mikio Nakano |