--- title: "Naoki Otani — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Naoki Otani: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2023), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoki-otani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoki-otani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Naoki Otani # Naoki Otani Naoki Otani has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Aditi Chaudhary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-chaudhary/), [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/), [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103177065) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5855-7616) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103177065) · [34 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103177065) · [231 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103177065&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoki-otani/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 29 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoki-otani/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5504](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5504) 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=Naoki+Otani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Naoki+Otani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Naoki+Otani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Naoki+Otani) ## Affiliations [🎓**Tokyo University of Foreign Studies** Tokyo · Japan 2020–2024 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/027tyzk91) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2018–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Kyoto University** Kyoto · Japan 2015–2018 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Construction grammar · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/construction-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weissweiler-2023-construction-grammar-provides-unique-insight/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hayati-2019-what-sunny-day-emoji-sensitive/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weissweiler-2023-construction-grammar-provides-unique-insight/)** *(2023 · 26 citations)* This is a position paper. The authors ask whether large pretrained language models (PLMs) learn constructions in the sense of Construction Grammar (CxG). A construction here is a pairing of form and meaning that may have open slots and cannot be reduced to the sum of its individual words. The authors explain why this… 2. **[What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hayati-2019-what-sunny-day-emoji-sensitive/)** *(2019 · 10 citations)* Irony on social media often depends on emojis. A rainy-weather emoji after a cheerful sentence can flip its meaning. But the SemEval 2018 irony corpus has few ironic tweets that carry emojis, so classifiers trained on it largely ignore them. The authors first profile emoji use in that corpus and find that ironic and… ## 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. **[Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weissweiler-2023-construction-grammar-provides-unique-insight/)**Leonie Weissweiler, Taiqi He, Naoki Otani, et al.*[International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cxgsnlp/) · 26 citations* 2. **[IRT-based Aggregation Model of Crowdsourced Pairwise Comparison for Evaluating Machine Translations](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1049/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language…**Naoki Otani et al.*2016 · 22 citations* 3. **[What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hayati-2019-what-sunny-day-emoji-sensitive/)**Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Aditi Chaudhary, Naoki Otani, et al.*[Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/) · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aditi Chaudhary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-chaudhary/) - [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [Hinrich Schütze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) - [Leonie Weissweiler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonie-weissweiler/) - [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cxgsnlp/): [International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cxgsnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/): [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/2019/) - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 29 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naoki-otani/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026