--- title: "Kuniko Saito — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kuniko Saito, NTT: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2009–2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kuniko Saito # Kuniko Saito Kuniko Saito has 2 papers in our library, in 2009–2026, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hiroaki Sugiyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroaki-sugiyama/), [Kazutoshi Shinoda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kazutoshi-shinoda/), [Kyosuke Nishida](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyosuke-nishida/). 2 papers in our library · 2009–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051002856) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6476-4063) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051002856) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051002856) · [359 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051002856&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 83 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7206](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7206) 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=Kuniko+Saito) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kuniko+Saito) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kuniko+Saito) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kuniko+Saito) ## Affiliations [🏢**NTT** Tokyo · Japan 2002–2026 · 39 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ntt/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Coreference resolution · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semantic role labeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/year/2026/) ### 2000s [**2009** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/year/2009/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/imamura-2009-discriminative-approach-predicate-argument-structure/)** *(2009 · 77 citations)* Japanese sentences often leave arguments unexpressed as zero pronouns. Purely syntactic, sentence-level analysis therefore cannot recover full predicate-argument structures. The authors combine predicate-argument structure analysis and zero-anaphora resolution into a single supervised selection task. For each… 2. **[Let's Put Ourselves in Sally's Shoes: Shoes-of-Others Prefilling Improves Theory of Mind in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shinoda-2026-let-s-put-ourselves-sally/)** *(2026)* Large language models still trail humans on Theory of Mind (ToM), and fine-tuning on ToM data tends to hurt out-of-distribution generalization. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[SlideVQA: A Dataset for Document Visual Question Answering on Multiple Images ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04883) arXiv:2301.04883 · no summary yet**Ryota Tanaka et al.*2023 · 116 citations* 2. **[Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/imamura-2009-discriminative-approach-predicate-argument-structure/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Tomoko Izumi*2009 · 77 citations* 3. **[Let's Put Ourselves in Sally's Shoes: Shoes-of-Others Prefilling Improves Theory of Mind in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shinoda-2026-let-s-put-ourselves-sally/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Kazutoshi Shinoda, Nobukatsu Hojo, Kyosuke Nishida, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hiroaki Sugiyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroaki-sugiyama/) - [Kazutoshi Shinoda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kazutoshi-shinoda/) - [Kyosuke Nishida](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyosuke-nishida/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2009/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 83 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuniko-saito/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026