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# Wataru Nakata

2 papers on this site · 2026

current affiliation [National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/), Tsukuba, Japan; [The University of Tokyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/), Tokyo, Japan

Wataru Nakata has 2 papers on this site, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hiroshi Saruwatari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-saruwatari/), [Yuki Saito](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuki-saito/), [Hitomi Yanaka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5134138830) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5134138830) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5134138830) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5134138830&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/#papers) · [2 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/cited-by/)

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=Wataru+Nakata) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wataru+Nakata) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wataru+Nakata) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wataru+Nakata)

## Affiliations

- [The University of Tokyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/) · Tokyo, Japan —current · 2025–2026 on 14 papers
- [National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/) · Tsukuba, Japan —current · 2026 on 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Topics

[Dialogue systems 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/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. **[DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakata-2026-dialoguesidon-recovering-full-duplex-dialogue/)** *(2026)* Spoken dialogue systems that model overlap, backchannels and turn-taking need full-duplex recordings, where each speaker has a separate track.

## 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/) ×2
- [Yuki Saito](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuki-saito/) ×2
- [Hitomi Yanaka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitomi-yanaka/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wataru-nakata/cited-by/).