--- title: "Hitomi Yanaka — author profile and papers" description: "Hitomi Yanaka, RIKEN: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hitomi Yanaka # Hitomi Yanaka Hitomi Yanaka has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Hiroshi Saruwatari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-saruwatari/), [Wataru Nakata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/), [Yuki Saito](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuki-saito/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5045824013) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0354-6116) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5045824013) · [88 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045824013) · [287 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045824013&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/#papers) · [🔗 207 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/cited-by/) · [11 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #5055](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5055) 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=Hitomi+Yanaka) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hitomi+Yanaka) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hitomi+Yanaka) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hitomi+Yanaka) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Tokyo** Tokyo · Japan 2016–2026 · 47 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/) · [🔬**RIKEN** Wako · Japan 2018–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/riken/) · [🔬**RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project** Tokyo · Japan 2019–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03ckxwf91) · [🎓**Ochanomizu University** Tokyo · Japan 2019 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/03599d813) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[J-CHAT: Japanese Large-scale Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakata-2026-j-chat-japanese-large-scale/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* End-to-end spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) model speech directly instead of chaining ASR, text generation and TTS. 2. **[Developing a Guideline for the Labovian-Structural Analysis of Oral Narratives in Japanese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/watahiki-2026-developing-guideline-labovian-structural-analysis/)** *(2026)* Labov's structural model of oral narrative divides a story into clauses and assigns each a discourse function. 3. **[Seeing the Other Side: Diagnostic Tasks for Viewpoint Reasoning in Vision–Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/takenaka-2026-seeing-other-side-diagnostic-tasks/)** *(2026)* The paper tests whether large vision–language models (LVLMs) can reason about the hidden sides of an object from given views, an ability people use easily. ## Also in our library 11 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hiroshi Saruwatari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-saruwatari/) - [Wataru Nakata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/) - [Yuki Saito](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuki-saito/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 207 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/cited-by/).