Volume 31 Number 2 (Journal of NLP)

ISSN 1340-7619
Journal of Natural Language Processing Volume 31 Number 2

Table of Contents

Preface

[title in Japanese] [in Japanese] 326

General Paper


Cloze Quality Estimation for Language Assessment Zizheng Zhang, Masato Mita and Mamoru Komachi 328
Evaluating ChatGPT’s Ability to Generate Japanese Sora Tarumoto, Koki Hatagaki, Rina Miyata, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Takashi Ninomiya 349
Subset Retrieval Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation Hiroyuki Deguchi, Taro Watanabe, Yusuke Matsui, Masao Utiyama, Hideki Tanaka and Eiichiro Sumita 374
Self-Adaptive Named Entity Recognition by Retrieving Unstructured Knowledge Kosuke Nishida, Naoki Yoshinaga and Kyosuke Nishida 407
Second Language Acquisition of Neural Language Models Miyu Oba, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Hiroki Ouchi and Taro Watanabe 433
Japanese-to-English Multi-Level Complexity-Controllable MT: Test Data and Multi-Reference-Based Learning Kazuki Tani, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya and Tsuneo Kato 456
Towards Flow Graph Prediction of Open-Domain Procedural Texts Keisuke Shirai, Hirotaka Kameko and Shinsuke Mori 479
Example-based Emotion Recognition in Conversations Taichi Ishiwatari, Jun Goto, Hiroaki Yamada and Takenobu Tokunaga 504
Revisiting Pre-training of Embedding Layers in Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation Masato Neishi and Naoki Yoshinaga 534
Synonym Detection between Senses of Japanese Words Using Sentence-BERT and Sense Definitions Yuki Ishii and Minoru Sasaki 568
MATCHA: Parallel Corpus for Japanese Text Simplification Based on Professionally Simplified Articles Rina Miyata, Hyuga Koretaka, Hiroki Yamauchi, Daiki Yanamoto, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya and Yasuhiro Nishiwaki 590
Neural Machine Translation Based on Insertion of Target-Side NE Tags Naoki Minamibata, Akihiro Tamura and Tsuneo Kato 610
Jamp_sp : A Controlled Japanese Temporal Inference Dataset Considering Aspect Tomoki Sugimoto, Yasumasa Onoe and Hitomi Yanaka 637
Self-Ensemble: Integration of N-best Hypotheses by Lexically Constrained Decoding Ryota Miyano, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Yuki Arase 680
Building a Large Corpus and Pre-trained Language Models from National and Local Assembly Minutes Keiyu Nagafuchi, Yasutomo Kimura, Kazuma Kadowaki and Kenji Araki 707

Society Column


JGLUE: Japanese General Language Understanding Evaluation Kentaro Kurihara, Daisuke Kawahara and Tomohide Shibata 733
Research History on “Sentence Embeddings using Definition Sentences” Hayato Tsukagoshi 742
Research Process of “Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset based on Basic Events and its Application” Kazumasa Omura 748
NLP 2024 Theme Session: Evaluation of Language by Humans and Computers Katsuhito Sudoh, Mamoru Komachi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Masato Mita 755
Advances in Language Processing in the Financial and Economic Domain Hiroki Sakaji and Kei Nakagawa 763
NLP2024 Theme Session “NLP in the Legal Domain” Yoshinobu Kano, Kotaro Sakamoto, Sho Yamauchi, Hiroaki Yamada and Masaharu Yoshioka 769
Emergence of Language and Communication Ryo Ueda 773
Theme Session 5: Information Processing for Language and Geospace Hiroki Ouchi 779
Report on the Theme Session “Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in the Era of Deep Learning” Ryo Nagata, Naoki Otani, Yoshifumi Kawasaki and Hiroya Takamura 786
Report on the NLP2024 Workshop: Analyzing the Successes and Challenges of Generative AI (specifically ChatGPT) Implementation in Local Governments Noriyuki Okumura, Toshihisa Tatsuki, Takeshi Anpo, Kenji Iwasaki, Hiroki Kishimoto, Sho-ichiro Naya and Ko-ichi Higashi 794
Roles and Challenges of Industry, Academia, and Government for Natural Language Processing in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Era: An NLP2024 Workshop Hiroki Iida, Tomoya Iwakura, Jungo Kasai, Noriyuki Kojima, Mamoru Komachi, Kanako Komiya, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya, Tatsuya Hiraoka and Sakae Mizuki 798
NLP2024 Workshop on Japanese Language Resources (JLR2024) Masayuki Asahara, Mai Omura, Daisuke Kawahara, Takahiro Kubo, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Tomohide Shibata, Hiroshi Matsuda and Yusuke Miyao 805
Real World Applications of Large Language Models Koichiro Yoshino, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Daichi Mochihashi, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Seitaro Shinagawa and Ichiro Kobayashi 809

Editorial Note

Tatsuya Hiraoka and Kei Wakabayashi 816

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