--- title: "Masayuki Asahara — author profile and papers" description: "Masayuki Asahara, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2026), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Masayuki Asahara # Masayuki Asahara 5 papers on this site · 2016–2026 current affiliation [National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-for-japanese-language-and-linguistics/), Tokyo, Japan Masayuki Asahara has 5 papers on this site, in 2016–2026, most of them on [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/); often with [Hiroshi Matsuda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-matsuda/), [Yuji Matsumoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/), [Hiroshi Kanayama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-kanayama/). 2 of them are among the papers [Mova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/projects/mova/) reads. [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002196974) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5178-7275) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002196974) · [172 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002196974) · [1 420 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002196974&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [5 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/#papers) · [39 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library 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=Masayuki+Asahara) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Masayuki+Asahara) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Masayuki+Asahara) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Masayuki+Asahara) ## Affiliations - [National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-for-japanese-language-and-linguistics/) · Tokyo, Japan —current · 2012–2026 on 69 papers - [The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-graduate-university-for-advanced-studies-sokendai/) · Hayama, Japan —2023–2025 on 5 papers - [Tokyo University of Foreign Studies](https://ror.org/027tyzk91) · Tokyo, Japan —2022–2023 on 5 papers - [Nara Institute of Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · Ikoma, Japan —2000–2020 on 56 papers - [National Institutes for the Humanities](https://ror.org/040xx6p34) · Tokyo, Japan —2013 on 2 papers - [University of Massachusetts Amherst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · Amherst Center, United States —2009–2011 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Universal Dependencies 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dependency parsing 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Treebanks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Interpretability 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsuda-2025-step-step-instructions-simple-tabular/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2018-universal-dependencies-version-2-japanese/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2016-bccwj-deppara-syntactic-annotation-treebank/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Universal Dependencies Version 2 for Japanese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2018-universal-dependencies-version-2-japanese/)** *(2018 · 50 citations)* The paper describes how the UD Japanese team built Japanese resources under version 2 of the Universal Dependencies guidelines. 2. **[BCCWJ-DepPara: A Syntactic Annotation Treebank on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2016-bccwj-deppara-syntactic-annotation-treebank/)** *(2016 · 23 citations)* In Japanese NLP, syntax is usually described as dependencies between bunsetsu, i.e., base phrasal units. However, coordinate constructions fit poorly into a dependency tree. The authors propose a new annotation scheme that moves coordination and apposition outside the tree. For this purpose it uses "segments" (spans… 3. **[Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsuda-2025-step-step-instructions-simple-tabular/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* The paper asks how to get structurally valid, accurate Universal Dependencies parses out of large language models. 4. **[Automatic Detection of Metaphorical Expressions in Classical Japanese Using WLSP-Enhanced BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-automatic-detection-metaphorical-expressions-classical/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Research on automatic metaphor detection has focused mostly on modern languages. Classical Japanese has received little attention, even though its vocabulary, grammar and figurative conventions differ from contemporary Japanese. The authors take a BERT-based detector that Zhu et al. (2025) first built for modern… 5. **[Probing the Dynamics of Syntactic Ability Acquisition Throughout LLM Pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsuda-2026-probing-dynamics-syntactic-ability-acquisition/)** *(2026)* The authors study when syntactic skills appear during LLM pretraining and which ones stay weak. Their method, LoRA probing, keeps the base model frozen and trains only low-rank adapters to produce step-by-step UD parses in a simple tabular format. They apply it to the public intermediate checkpoints of OLMo-2-7B… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hiroshi Matsuda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-matsuda/) ×2 - [Yuji Matsumoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/) ×2 - [Hiroshi Kanayama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-kanayama/) - [Shinsuke Mori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shinsuke-mori/) - [Takaaki Tanaka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takaaki-tanaka/) - [Yugo Murawaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yugo-murawaki/) - [Yusuke Miyao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yusuke-miyao/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/cited-by/).