--- title: "Akihiro Tamura — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Akihiro Tamura, Doshisha University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiro-tamura/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiro-tamura/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Akihiro Tamura # Akihiro Tamura Akihiro Tamura has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Takashi Ninomiya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takashi-ninomiya/), [Isao Goto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isao-goto/), [Yichen Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichen-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5134445129) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5134445129) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5134445129) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5134445129&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiro-tamura/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12727](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/128/#star-12727) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Akihiro+Tamura) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Akihiro+Tamura) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Akihiro+Tamura) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Akihiro+Tamura) ## Affiliations [🎓**Doshisha University** Kyoto · Japan 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/doshisha-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Health Information Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/health-information-management/) · [Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiro-tamura/year/2026/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiro-tamura/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Utterance Position-Aware Dialogue Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yano-2021-utterance-position-aware-dialogue-act/)** *(2021 · 1 citation)* The paper looks at dialogue act recognition (DAR), the task of labelling each utterance in a conversation with its communicative function. 2. **[Interpretable ICD Code Classification with Faithful Sentence Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-interpretable-icd-code-classification-faithful/)** *(2026)* Transformer models such as PLM-CA lead automatic ICD coding of discharge summaries, but their attention weights are not reliable explanations. 3. **[Probabilistic Bilingual Subword Segmentation with Latent Subword Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nishida-2026-probabilistic-bilingual-subword-segmentation-latent/)** *(2026)* Standard subword tokenizers for neural machine translation, such as BPE or SentencePiece unigram models, are trained on each language separately. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Takashi Ninomiya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takashi-ninomiya/) ×2 - [Isao Goto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isao-goto/) - [Yichen Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichen-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/): [BioNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/2026/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/): [RANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/2021/) Updated 1 November 2026