--- title: "Gakuto Kurata — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Gakuto Kurata, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gakuto Kurata # Gakuto Kurata Gakuto Kurata has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/), [Michael Picheny](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-picheny/), [Samuel Thomas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021294422) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021294422) · [86 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021294422) · [1,393 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021294422&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 33 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3771](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3771) 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=Gakuto+Kurata) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gakuto+Kurata) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gakuto+Kurata) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gakuto+Kurata) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2016–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Tokyo** Tokyo · Japan 2006–2025 · 18 papers](https://ror.org/04915qk43) · [🏢**IBM Japan, Ltd.** Minato · Japan 2006–2011 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/01t8cbh24) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Gakuto Kurata's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thomas-2019-english-broadcast-news-speech-recognition/) · [**2017** 1 paper Gakuto Kurata's papers of 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2017-english-conversational-telephone-speech-recognition/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2017-english-conversational-telephone-speech-recognition/)** *(2017 · 382 citations)* The paper tests the claim that machines reached human-level accuracy on conversational telephone speech. It also reports a stronger IBM recognizer. The authors hired the transcription vendor Appen to run their own human benchmark on the Switchboard (SWB) and CallHome (CH) subsets of the NIST Hub5 2000 test set. Three… 2. **[English Broadcast News Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thomas-2019-english-broadcast-news-speech-recognition/)** *(2019 · 12 citations)* The paper asks whether deep-learning recipes that brought conversational telephone speech (CTS) recognition near human level also work for English broadcast news (BN). ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/) ×2 - [Michael Picheny](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-picheny/) ×2 - [Samuel Thomas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/) ×2 - [Bhuvana Ramabhadran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhuvana-ramabhadran/) - [Brian Kingsbury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-kingsbury/) - [Kartik Audhkhasi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kartik-audhkhasi/) - [Tom Sercu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-sercu/) - [Zoltan Tuske](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zoltan-tuske/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/): [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/2019/) - [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/): [Interspeech 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/2017/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 33 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026