--- title: "Takenobu Tokunaga — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Takenobu Tokunaga: 4 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2021), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Takenobu Tokunaga # Takenobu Tokunaga Takenobu Tokunaga has 4 papers in our library, in 1998–2021, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Atsushi Fujii](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atsushi-fujii/), [Kentaro Inui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-inui/), [Simone Teufel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-teufel/). 4 papers in our library · 1998–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5057761218) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1399-9517) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90816174) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5057761218) · [249 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057761218) · [2,156 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057761218&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6001](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6001) 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=Takenobu+Tokunaga) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Takenobu+Tokunaga) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Takenobu+Tokunaga) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Takenobu+Tokunaga) ## Affiliations [🎓**Tokyo Institute of Technology** Tokyo · Japan 1988–2025 · 156 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tokyo-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Institute of Science Tokyo** Tokyo · Japan 2025 · 5 papersEmployment · Professor, School of Computing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institute-of-science-tokyo/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Coreference resolution · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/year/2017/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/year/1998/) ### Undated [**undated** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/year/undated/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Selective Sampling for Example-based Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fujii-1998-selective-sampling-example-based-word/)** *(1998 · 129 citations)* Example-based word sense disambiguation systems choose a verb's sense by finding the most similar stored example. 2. **[Neural Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution using Smoothed Large-scale Case Frames with Word Embedding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamashiro-neural-japanese-zero-anaphora-resolution/)** *(17 citations)* Japanese texts often omit verb arguments, so a system has to recover these zero anaphors and link them to antecedents. 3. **[Parsing Argumentative Structure in English-as-Foreign-Language Essays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/putra-2021-parsing-argumentative-structure-english-as/)** *(2021 · 12 citations)* The paper applies argument mining to essays by learners of English as a foreign language. Their writing is noisier and less coherent than the polished texts that most argument-mining corpora assume. The authors use ICNALE-AS2R, a sentence-level annotation of 434 ICNALE essays by Asian college students. Each sentence… 4. **[Evaluation of Automatically Generated Pronoun Reference Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/satria-2017-evaluation-automatically-generated-pronoun-reference/)** *(2017 · 8 citations)* The paper evaluates a system that automatically writes English pronoun reference questions: multiple-choice items in which a reader picks the antecedent of a pronoun in a passage from four options. ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Selective Sampling for Example-based Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fujii-1998-selective-sampling-example-based-word/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Atsushi Fujii, Kentaro Inui, Takenobu Tokunaga, et al.*1998 · 129 citations* 2. **[Building a corpus of legal argumentation in Japanese judgement documents: towards structure-based summarisation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-019-09242-3) Artificial Intelligence and Law (Springer) · no summary yet**Hiroaki Yamada, Simone Teufel, Takenobu Tokunaga*2019 · 28 citations* 3. **[Japanese Tort-case Dataset for Rationale-supported Legal Judgment Prediction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-024-09402-0) arXiv:2312.00480 · Artif. Intell. Law 33, 3 (Sep 2025), 783-807 · no summary yet**Hiroaki Yamada et al.*2023 · 17 citations* 4. **[Neural Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution using Smoothed Large-scale Case Frames with Word Embedding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamashiro-neural-japanese-zero-anaphora-resolution/) [Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/paclic/)**Souta Yamashiro, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Takenobu Tokunaga*17 citations* 5. **[Parsing Argumentative Structure in English-as-Foreign-Language Essays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/putra-2021-parsing-argumentative-structure-english-as/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Simone Teufel, Takenobu Tokunaga*2021 · 12 citations* 6. **[Annotation of argument structure in Japanese legal documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5103/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining · no summary yet**Hiroaki Yamada, Simone Teufel, Takenobu Tokunaga*2017 · 10 citations* 7. **[Evaluation of Automatically Generated Pronoun Reference Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/satria-2017-evaluation-automatically-generated-pronoun-reference/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Arief Yudha Satria, Takenobu Tokunaga*2017 · 8 citations* 8. **[Cross-domain Analysis on Japanese Legal Pretrained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-aacl.26/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022 · no summary yet**Keisuke Miyazaki, Hiroaki Yamada, Takenobu Tokunaga*2022 · 7 citations* 9. **[Paraphrasing Japanese Noun Phrases using Character-based Indexing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W03-1611/) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing · no summary yet**Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka, Kenji Kimura*2003 · 4 citations* 10. **[Annotation Study of Japanese Judgments on Tort for Legal Judgment Prediction with Rationales ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.83/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Hiroaki Yamada et al.*2022 · 2 citations* 11. **[SIERA: An Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification using the Ranking Model and Data Augmentation by Edit Operations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.readi-1.5/) Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yet**Hikaru Yamanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga*2024 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Atsushi Fujii](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atsushi-fujii/) - [Kentaro Inui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-inui/) - [Simone Teufel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-teufel/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/) ×2: [BEA 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2021/), [BEA 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2017/) - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1998/) - [Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/paclic/) - Artificial Intelligence and Law (Springer) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022 - Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining - Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takenobu-tokunaga/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026