News
2026
38AiTech Seminar: Future Corporation TeamAI Tech
Ryogo Ishikawa, an alumnus of our lab, visited from Future Corporation and presented a guest talk.
Lab Exhibition at Koudaisai 2026Event
We held a lab exhibition titled "How to Get the Most Out of Generative AI" at Koudaisai 2026.
Tutorial at AACL-IJCNLP 2026Presentation
Our tutorial proposal on diffusion language models was accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2026.
Farewell and Welcome PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Masayasu Muraoka-san and a welcome party for Chuyan Zhou-san at Optimum Eats Jiyugaoka.
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party at Cafe&Dining ballo ballo Shibuya for Donghui Lim-san.
Awards at YANS2026Award
Yuki Otsuka's presentation at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2026 received the Sponsorship Award offered by CyberAgent, Inc. Yuki Otsuka's team also received the YANS Committee Special Award in Hackathon.
Presentation at YANS2026Publication
We presented 4 papers at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2026.
Paper at ICML 2026 WorkshopsPresentation
We have 2 papers accepted at the workshops collocated with ICML 2026.
AiTech Seminar: Dr. Masafumi OyamadaAI Tech
Dr. Masafumi Oyamada from NEC visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Dr. Qiyu WuAI Tech
Dr. Qiyu Wu from Sony Corporation visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
BBQ PartyEvent
We held a BBQ party at Dejikyu BBQ terrace Don Quixote Mizonokuchi Station shop.
Laboratory guidanceEvent
The laboratory information session for those who wish to join the Okazaki Laboratory will be held in conjunction with the Graduate Information Session #1, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo, which will take place on Saturday, April 18.
Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for Masanari Oi, Issa Sugiura, Masahiro Uno, Thanasan Kumdee, and Yuki Otsuka.
AiTech Seminar: Preferred NetworksAI Tech
Preferred Networks visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Representative for Graduation CeremoniesNews
Ryuto Koike (doctoral student) and Tatsuya Ichinose (bachelor student) served as representatives in AY 2025 Spring Graduation Ceremonies. Tatsuya Ichinose also received the 2025 Institute of Science Tokyo Excellent Student Award.
Graduation Ceremonies 2025Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Marco Cognetta and Ryuto Koike got their doctoral degrees, Hinari Shimada, Taihei Shiotani and David Pohl got their master's degrees, and Tatsuya Ichinose and Naoya Matsushita got their bachelor's degrees.
Awards at JNLP 2026Award
We received 1 Best Paper Award (first-place), 2 Young Researchers’ Encouragement Awards, 5 Committee Special Awards, and 2 Sponsorship Awards at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026).
ANLP Excellence AwardAward
The following journal paper received the 2025 Excellence Award (first place) from The Association for Natural Language Processing.
AiTech Seminar: Professor Michael FärberAI Tech
Professor Michael Färber from ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at IPSJ-SIGNLPublication
We have a presentation at the 267th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL) as below.
To be presented at NLP2026Presentation
We will present 17 papers at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026).
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
2025
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AiTech Seminar: Mr. Ryo KamoiAI Tech
Mr. Ryo Kamoi from The Pennsylvania State University visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Mr. Issa SugiuraAI Tech
Mr. Issa Sugiura from Kyoto University visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Awards at JSAI2025Award
Taihei Shiotani's presentation at the The 39th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2025) received the JSAI Annual Conference Award.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Iryna GurevychAI Tech
Prof. Iryna Gurevych from TU Darmstadt visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party at Meguro Uokin for An Wang-san and Sangwhan Moon-san.
Awards at YANS2025Award
Tatsuya Ichinose and Hinari Shimada's presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2025 received the Sponsorship Award offered by CyberAgent, Inc and Polaris.AI, respectively. Koshiro Saito's team received the Examiner Special Award in Hackathon.
Accepted research proposals (ACT-X)Presentation
The research proposals of Eri Onami and Youmi Ma have been accepted by the FY2025 Strategic Basic Research Programs (ACT-X).
Presentation at YANS2025Publication
We have 6 presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2025.
Paper at Computational LinguisticsPublication
We have a paper accepted at Computational Linguistics.
Paper at MELT 2025Publication
We have a paper accepted at The 1st Workshop on Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT).
Paper at COLM 2025Publication
We have a paper accepted at The Second Conference On Language Modeling (COLM).
BBQ PartyEvent
We held a BBQ party at Dejikyu BBQ terrace Don Quixote Mizonokuchi Station shop.
AiTech Seminar: Dr. Ayana NiwaAI Tech
Dr. Ayana Niwa from MBZUAI visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
To be presented at JSAI2025Presentation
We will present a paper at the 39th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
AiTech Seminar: Dr. Masaru IsonumaAI Tech
Dr. Masaru Isonuma from NII LLMC/Tohoku University visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Pontus StenetorpAI Tech
Prof. Pontus Stenetorp from UCL visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Graduation Ceremonies 2024Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Moon-san, Yoshikawa-san, Yang-san got their doctoral degrees, Maruyama-san, Hattori-san, Endo-san, and Boost-san got their master's degrees, and Saito-san and Takahashi-san got their bachelor's degrees.
Awards at JNLP 2025Award
We received 1 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award, 4 Committee Special Awards and 1 Sponsorship Award at the 31th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2025). Additionally, Swallow LLM received the Language Resource Award from GSK.
ANLP Excellence AwardAward
The following journal paper received the 2024 Excellence Award from The Association for Natural Language Processing.
Paper at IPSJ-SIGNLPublication
We have a presentation at the 263rd meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL) as below.
To be presented at NLP2025Presentation
We will present 18 papers at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2025).
AiTech Seminar: Mr. Jan BuchmannAI Tech
Mr. Jan Buchmann from Technical University of Darmstadt visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
2024
33Year End Party & Farewell Party & Welcome PartyEvent
We held an year-end party (as well as the farewell party for Vijay Daultani-san, and the welcome party for Daisuke Oba-san) at Tsukasa, Ookayama.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Graduation Ceremonies 2024Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Ma-san got her doctoral degree.
Awards at YANS2024Award
Koshiro Saito's presentation at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2024 received the Encouragement Award and the Sponsorship Award offered by CyberAgent, Inc.
Award at IPSJ-SIGNLAward
Koshiro Saito's presentation at the 261th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL) received the best paper award.
Paper at IPSJ-SIGNLPublication
We have a presentation at the 261th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL) as below.
Presentation at YANS2024Publication
We have 5 presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2024.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Paper at INLG 2024Publication
We have a paper accepted at The 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG).
Paper at COLM 2024Publication
We have two papers accepted at The Conference On Language Modeling (COLM).
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Paolo PapottiAI Tech
Prof. Paolo Papotti from EURECOM visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at ECAI 2024Publication
We have a paper accepted at The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).
Paper at ECCV 2024Publication
We have a paper accepted at The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
Large Language Model Released: Llama 3 SwallowNews
We released Llama 3 Swallow, a large language model developed jointly with Yokoda lab.
Paper at Insights Workshop 2024Publication
We have a paper accepted at the Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Presentations at JSAI 2024Presentation
We have a paper presented at JSAI 2024 held from May 28th to 31st in Shizuoka, Japan.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Timothy BaldwinAI Tech
Prof. Timothy Baldwin from MBZUAI visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Welcome and Farewell PartyEvent
We held a welcome and farewell party at a rental space in KURASU Building.
Graduation Ceremonies 2023Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Iida-san got his doctoral degree, Trang-san, Loem-san, Hirai-san, Ishikawa-san, and Maeda-san got their master's degrees, and Wata-san, Ohi-san, and Kato-san got their bachelor's degrees.
Awards at JNLP 2024Award
We received 2 Best Paper Awards and 5 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Awards at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2024).
To be presented at NLP2024Presentation
We will present 13 papers at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2024).
Graduation Ceremonies 2023Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Mizuki-san got his doctoral degree.
2023
40AiTech Seminar: Prof. Roberto NavigliAI Tech
Prof. Roberto Navigli from Sapienza University of Rome visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Large Language Model Released: SwallowNews
We released Swallow, a large language model developed jointly with Yokoda lab.
Scheduled AiTech Seminar: Prof. Roberto NavigliAI Tech
Prof. Roberto Navigli from Sapienza University of Rome will visit our lab to present a guest talk on Dec. 25, 2023.
Year End Party & Farewell PartyEvent
We held an year-end party (as well as the farewell party for Sakae Mizuki-san and Junyoung Lee-san) at ROTONDA, Jiyugaoka.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
AiTech Seminar: PKSHA TechnologyAI Tech
PKSHA Technology visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Interview with Asahi ShimbunNews
Professor Okazaki and Kaneko-san had an interview with Asahi Shimbun about Gender Bias of ChatGPT.
Interview with NikkeiNews
Professor Okazaki and Koike-san had an interview with Nikkei about AI Misinformation.
Graduation Ceremonies 2023Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Liu-san got his doctoral degree.
Awards at YANS 2023Award
We received 1 Encouragement Award and 2 Sponsorship Awards at the 18th Symposium of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies (YANS 2023).
Presented at YANS 2023Presentation
We had 2 presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2023.
Invited Talk at YANS 2023Presentation
Masahiro Kaneko was invited to give a talk at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2023.
Professor Okazaki on NHK TV ShowPresentation
Professor Naoaki Okazaki appeared on the NHK TV show "science-zero" titled 「“ChatGPT”徹底解剖!AIと歩む未来を探る」.
Presentations at JSAI 2023Presentation
We have a paper presented at JSAI 2023 held from June 6th to 9th in Kumamoto, Japan.
AAMT Nagao Student AwardAward
Tatsuya Hiraoka, an OB of our lab, received the AAMT Nagao Student Award.
Round-Table Meeting with the Prime MinisterPresentation
Professor Naoaki Okazaki joined the round-table meeting at the Prime Minister's Office of Japan (related news), where a discussion about the potential and risk of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was held.
Presentations at EACL 2023Presentation
We have 5 papers presented at EACL 2023 held from May 2nd to 6th in Dubrovnik, Coratia.
AiTech Seminar: NEC Lab Europe GmbHAI Tech
Dr. Carolin Lawrence and other members from NEC Laboratories Europe visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Welcome and Farewell PartyEvent
We held a welcome and farewell party at a rental space in KURASU Building.
Graduation Ceremonies 2022Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Niwa-san got her doctoral degree, Taniguchi-san got his master's degree, and Anantaprayoon-san, Endo-san, and Hattori-san got their bachelor's degrees.
Awards at JNLP 2023Award
We received 1 Best Paper Award (first-place), 1 Best Paper Award, 2 Committee Special Awards and 1 Sponsorship Award at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2023).
To be presented at NLP2023Presentation
We will present 15 papers at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2023).
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
AiTech Seminar: Gunhee KimAI Tech
Prof. Gunhee Kim from Seoul National University (SNU) visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
2022
34Paper at AAAI 2023 WorkshopPresentation
We have a paper accepted at the workshop collocated with AAAI-23 on Scinetific Document Understanding (SDU).
AiTech Seminar: Natsuki NoguchiAI Tech
Ms. Natsuki Noguchi from Ehime University visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Yufei LiuAI Tech
Ms. Yufei Liu from École Polytechnique visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for Trang-san and Emil-san at Vinoteca Messina, Jiyugaoka.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Tim BaldwinAI Tech
Prof. Tim Baldwin from MBZUAI visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Simone TeufelAI Tech
Prof. Simone Teufel from Univserity of Cambridge visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
AiTech Seminar: Ms. Yuchen Eleanor JiangAI Tech
Ms. Yuchen Eleanor Jiang from ETH Zürich visited our lab and presented a guest talk.
Presentations at YANS 2022Presentation
We have 4 presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2022.
To be presented at JSAI2022Presentation
We will present a paper at The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for new members at BBQ place, Tamagawa-ryokuchi, Kawasaki.
Graduation Ceremonies 2021Event
Graduation Ceremonies were held. Hiraoka-san got his doctoral degree, Ueki-san and Koyama-san got master's degrees, and Ishikawa-san, Maeda-san, and Loem-san got bachelor's degrees.
Awards at JNLP 2022Award
We received the Best Paper Award and Committee Special Award at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2022).
ANLP Best Paper AwardAward
A paper by Tatsuya Hiraoka received the 2021 ANLP Best Paper Award (first place).
To be presented at NLP2022Presentation
We will present eleven papers at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2022).
2021
24Doctoral Dissertation DefensePresentation
Public Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Hiraoka-san will be held.
Paper at Journal of Natural Language ProcessingPublication
We have a paper accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
Outstanding Paper Award at AKBC 2021Presentation
Wiem-san presented a paper at AKBC 2021, and received the Outstanding Paper Award.
Accepted research proposals for ACT-XPresentation
The research proposal of Tatsuya Hiraoka has been selected as a New Research Areas for ACT-X FY2021.
Paper at ACM TALLIPPublication
We have a paper accepted at the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
Laboratory Tour (May 29)Event
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 3rd Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Laboratory Tour (May 15)Event
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 2nd Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Paper at ACM TALLIPPublication
We have a paper accepted at the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
Laboratory Tour (Apr 24)Event
We will hold an online (zoom) meeting for explaining our laboratory as part of the 1st Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
TokyoTech Education Award 2020Award
Professor Okazaki received the TokyoTech Education Award 2020.
Awards at JNLP 2021Award
We received the Best Paper Award, Young Researcher Award, Committee Special Award, and Sponsor Award in the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2021).
To be presented at NLP2021Presentation
We will present twelve papers at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2021).
Laboratory Tour (for TokyoTech students)Join Us
We will hold a laboratory tour event for B3 students in TokyoTech who are considering Okazaki Laboratory.
2020
28Award at NTCIR-15Award
Our team, which consists of Yuichi Sasawaza and Professor Okazaki, presented our work on a QALab PoliInfo2 task and won the presentation award at The 15th NTCIR Evaluation of Information Access Technologies.
AiTech Seminar: Prof. Kentaro InuiAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Prof. Kentaro Inui, from Tohoku University.
AiTech Seminar: Tomoyuki KajiwaraAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, specially-appointed assistant professor from Institute for Datability Science, Osaka University.
Accepted research proposals for ACT-XPresentation
The research proposal of Sho Takase, assistant professor at Okazaki Laboratory, has been selected as a New Research Areas for ACT-X FY2020.
Presentations at YANS 2020Presentation
We had presentations at the YANS (Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies) 2020.
AiTech Seminar: Kento WatanabeAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Kento Watanabe from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
AiTech Seminar: Masahiro KanekoAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Masahiro Kaneko from Komachi Lab, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Winning VMT Challenge 2020Award
Our team T&T won first place in the Video-guided Machine Translation (VMT) Challenge 2020, held by the workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR), ACL 2020.
To be presented at ALVR 2020Presentation
We will present a paper at the first workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR 2020)
Presentions at JSAI2020Presentation
We presentd two papers at the The 34th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2020 (JSAI2020).
Laboratory Tour [Updates]Event
We will hold online meetings of Question Time (May 16) and Laboratory Tour (May 30) in conjunction with Laboratory Orientation and the 2nd Round of School Orientation, School of Computing.
NeurIPS 2019 ReportInvited Talk
Niwa-san gave an online presentation titled "Natural Language Processing at NeurIPS 2019" at AI Trends & Top Conference Report (NeurIPS 2019).
Laboratory TourEvent
We will hold a virtual laboratory tour as part of the 1st Round of Orientation, School of Computing (in Japanese).
Announcement about Laboratory OrientationEvent
This is to inform of laboratory orientation for those who are considering entering or going to enter the Department of Computer Science.
Awards at JNLP 2020Award
We received a Young Researcher Award and a Language Resource Award in the 26th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2020).
To be presented at NLP2020Presentation
We will present seven papers at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2020).
AiTech Seminar: Kyosuke NishidaInvited Talk
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Kyosuke Nishida from NTT as part of RWBC-OIL seminar.
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Lars-san at the communication space on the sixth floor.
2019
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Presentations at AI 2019Event
We presented one paper at the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2019) held in Adelaide, Australia.
Presentations at INLG 2019Event
We presented one paper at the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) held in Japan.
Paper and Award at IPSJ-SIGNLEvent
Tatsuya Hiraoka presented a paper at the 242nd meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL), and received the young researcher's encouragement award.
Cancel of laboratory open dayEvent
We will cancel the laboratory open day due to the approaching typhoon.
Farewell & Welcome PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Wan-kun and Sato-san, and welcome party for Youmi-san, Lars-kun, Unzai-san, and Furuya-san at the rental space.
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Emanuele-san at the communication space on the sixth floor.
Presentations at YANS 2019Presentation
We had presentations at the YANS(Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies ) 2019.
Selection as JSAI reporterNews
Niwa-san(master student) was selected as a NeurIPS 2019 reporter of JSAI(The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence).
Presentations at ACL 2019Event
We presented one paper at the The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2019) held in Florence (Italy).
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Liu-san and Sun-san at the communication space of the sixth floor.
Paper and Award at IPSJ-SIGNLEvent
Kazuki Matsumaru presented a paper at the 240th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL), and received the best paper award.
Invited Talk at IPSJ-SIGNLInvited Talk
Sho Takase, a researcher in Okazaki laboratory, gave a talk at the 240th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL).
AiTech Seminar: Retrieva Inc.AI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Jiro Nishitoba, Hiroki Ida, Daisuke Kimura, and Hiromasa Sakata from Retrieva Inc..
Presentations at NAACL 2019Event
We presented two papers at the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL2019) and workshop SemEval-2019 held in Minneapolis, the United States.
Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for new members at the communication space of the sixth floor with members in Tokunaga Fujii lab and Shinoda lab.
AiTech Seminar: PKSHA TechnologyAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Yotaro Watanabe from PKSHA Technology.
AiTech Seminar: Google JapanAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Tsutomu Ohkura, Hideto kazawa from Google Japan.
Laboratory orientationEvent
Thank you for joining the laboratory orientation collocated with 2019 Orientation for School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
AiTech Seminar: Rakuten IncAI Tech
We held an AiTech Seminar with guest speakers, Ayana Yoshida, Lasguido Nio, Makoto Tsutsumi, and Yuki Nakayama from Rakuten Institute of Technology.
Representative for Spring Entrance CeremoniesNews
Sasazawa-kun(master student) in Okazaki laboratory served as a representative and delivered a statement in 2019 spring entrance ceremonies.
Awards at JNLP 2019Award
We received a Young Researcher Award and Poster Presentation Awards in the 25th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP 2019).
Presentations at JNLP 2019Event
We presented eight papers at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2019) held in Nagoya University.
Joint research with CyberAgentNews
We launched a joint research on text analysis and automatic generation of advertizing slogan with CyberAgent (Press release).
IGP-C applications closedJoin Us
Our laboratory has closed applications to the international summer internship (from June to August) and International Graduate Program C (IGP-C) commencing in September 2019.
To be presented at NLP2019Presentation
We will present eight papers at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (JNLP 2019).
Farewell PartyEvent
We held a farewell party for Sam-kun at the communication space of the fifth floor.
2018
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Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for newcomers at the communication space of the fifth floor.
New memberMember
We welcome a new member, Sho Takase, as a postdoctoral researcher of this laboratory.
Lecture at U TokyoInvited Talk
Okazaki gave a lecture at 2018 Summer School of Deep Learning (Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning).
Paper at Coling 2018Presentation
We have presented a paper at the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018).
Tokyo Fireworks FestivalEvent
We went to Tokyo Fireworks Festival with laboratory members and their friends.
Laboratory tourEvent
We made an exhibition of our laboratory in the Open Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Senior Scientific Research SpecialistNews
Okazaki was appointed to as a Senior Scientific Research Specialist of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Collaborated articleNews
Okazaki collaborated on writing an article, "Conversational AI - how Artificial Intelligence 'understand' language" in Science Magazine Newton (Sep 2018).
JSAI Best Paper AwardAward
A paper co-authored by Okazaki received the 2017 JSAI Best Paper Award.
Media coverageNews
An article about Asahi Shimbun, with which Okazaki cooperates as an advisor, appeared on June 1 at Weekly ASCII.
New Research ProjectNews
Our research proposal was accepted by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Visit of Tatsuya HiraokaGuest
Tatsuya Hiraoka at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) visited our laboratory and gave a talk.
Welcome PartyEvent
We held a welcome party for newcomers at the communication space of the fifth floor.
No vacancy for IGPJoin Us
Our laboratory has closed applications to the international summer internship (from June to August) and International Graduate Program (IGP) for entering on September 2018.
HanamiEvent
We held a small Hanami party with the new members at the wood deck in front of the main building of Oookayama Campus.
Young Researcher Awards at NLP2018Award
Two students who have been mentored by Okazaki (in Tohoku University) received Young Researcher Awards in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.
Best Paper Award at NLP2018Award
A paper co-authored by Okazaki received the Best Paper Award in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.
Laboratory FairJoin Us
We welcome B3 visitors at 17:00-19:00 on January 25 (Thu), 26 (Fri), 30 (Tue), 31 (Wed) and February 19 (Mon).
2017
7End Year PartyEvent
We held an end-year party at El Pescador with Dr Pontus Stenetorp who gave a talk on that day.
Visit of Dr StenetorpGuest
Dr Pontus Stenetorp at University College London (UCL) visited our laboratory and gave a talk.
Carpet cleaningEvent
We asked a cleaning service to clean up the carpet in room 501. The service could get out a number of stains in the room.
