| 2025 | ICASSP | Training Dialogue Systems by AI Feedback for Improving Overall Dialogue Impression. | Kai Yoshida, Masahiro Mizukami, Seiya Kawano, Canasai Kruengkrai, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | IJCNLP | Pragmatic Theories Enhance Understanding of Implied Meanings in LLMs. | Takuma Sato, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Rapport-Building Dialogue Strategies for Deeper Connection: Integrating Proactive Behavior, Personalization, and Aizuchi Backchannels. | Muhammad Yeza Baihaqi, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Co-Speech Motion for Virtual Agents in Dialogue Using LLM-Driven Primitive Action Selection. | Muhammad Yeza Baihaqi, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Dialogue Response Prefetching Based on Semantic Similarity and Prediction Confidence of Language Model. | Kiyotada Mori, Seiya Kawano, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | Interspeech | What Do Humans Hear When Interacting? Experiments on Selective Listening for Evaluating ASR of Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Kiyotada Mori, Seiya Kawano, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | MMM | Using Language Models to Generate and Forget the Narrative Memories of an Assistive Robot. | Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Wen-Yu Chang, Seiya Kawano, Yun-Nung Chen, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | MMM | RoboDJ: Live Commentary Robots System Driven by Physical- and Cyber-World Observations. | Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yutaka Nakamura, Taiken Shintani, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Takashi Minato, Michihiko Minoh |
| 2025 | MMM | What Should Autonomous Robots Verbalize and What Should They Not? | Daichi Yoshihara, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Takamasa Iio, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | LLM-Driven Approach for Motion Control in Human-Robot Dialogue for Elevating Engagement. | Muhammad Yeza Baihaqi, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Multi-step or Direct: A Proactive Home-Assistant System Based on Commonsense Reasoning. | Konosuke Yamasaki, Shohei Tanaka, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2024 | COLING | A Gaze-grounded Visual Question Answering Dataset for Clarifying Ambiguous Japanese Questions. | Shun Inadumi, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2024 | COLING | J-CRe3: A Japanese Conversation Dataset for Real-world Reference Resolution. | Nobuhiro Ueda, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Sadao Kurohashi, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2024 | Interspeech | Rapport-Driven Virtual Agent: Rapport Building Dialogue Strategy for Improving User Experience at First Meeting. | Muhammad Yeza Baihaqi, Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Analysis of Style-Shifting on Social Media: Using Neural Language Model Conditioned by Social Meanings. | Seiya Kawano, Shota Kanezaki, Angel Fernando Garcia Contreras, Akishige Yuguchi, Marie Katsurai, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2023 | ICRA | Operative Action Captioning for Estimating System Actions. | Taiki Nakamura, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2022 | HRI | Butsukusa: A Conversational Mobile Robot Describing Its Own Observations and Internal States. | Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Minato, Yasuki Saito, Michihiko Minoh |
| 2022 | Interspeech | Multimodal Persuasive Dialogue Corpus using Teleoperated Android. | Seiya Kawano, Muteki Arioka, Akishige Yuguchi, Kenta Yamamoto, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Satoshi Nakamura, Koichiro Yoshino |
| 2019 | INLG | Neural Conversation Model Controllable by Given Dialogue Act Based on Adversarial Learning and Label-aware Objective. | Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura |