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# Nara Institute of Science and Technology

University · NAIST [Ikoma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/osaka/), [Japan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/japan/)in the agglomeration of [Osaka Kyoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/osaka/)

- [Website](https://www.naist.jp)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/05bhada84)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I75917431)

[**27** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/works/) · [**48** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/authors/) · [**3,838** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/works/) · [**1,220** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/works/)

## People (48)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Nara Institute of Science and Technology: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (19)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

1. [**Taku Kudo**2000–2010 on 11 papers*4 papers here · 6,283 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-kudo/)
2. [**Yuji Matsumoto**1994–2022 on 313 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata)*16 papers here · 3,689 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/)
3. [**Kevin Duh**2011–2016 on 35 papers*11 papers here · 3,973 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/)
4. [**Katsuhito Sudoh**2014–2025 on 89 papers · employment (ORCID)*3 papers here · 1,166 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katsuhito-sudoh/)
5. [**Kentaro Inui**2002–2011 on 55 papers*8 papers here · 1,877 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-inui/)
6. [**Hiroyuki Shindo**current · 2015–2026 on 59 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (Wikidata)*5 papers here · 707 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroyuki-shindo/)
7. [**Ryu Iida**current · 2003–2021 on 14 papers*5 papers here · 624 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryu-iida/)
8. [**Mamoru Komachi**2006–2014 on 31 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID)*8 papers here · 822 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mamoru-komachi/)
9. [**Taro Watanabe**current · 2025–2026 on 27 papers*4 papers here · 451 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taro-watanabe/)
10. [**Frances Yung**2013–2017 on 11 papers*11 papers here · 216 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frances-yung/)
11. [**Tomoya Mizumoto**2011–2017 on 9 papers*5 papers here · 143 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomoya-mizumoto/)
12. [**Masayuki Asahara**2000–2020 on 56 papers*5 papers here · 77 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/)
13. [**Eiji Aramaki**current · 2015–2026 on 193 papers · employment (Wikidata)*2 papers here · 106 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eiji-aramaki/)
14. [**Justin Vasselli**current · 2022–2026 on 37 papers*2 papers here · 41 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-vasselli/)
15. [**Akihiko Kato**2016–2019 on 4 papers*2 papers here · 37 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akihiko-kato/)
16. [**Hidetaka Kamigaito**current · 2022–2026 on 112 papers*4 papers here · 69 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hidetaka-kamigaito/)
17. [**Hiroki Ouchi**current · 2014–2026 on 58 papers*4 papers here · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroki-ouchi/)
18. [**Tomohiro Nishiyama**current · 2022–2026 on 29 papers*2 papers here · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomohiro-nishiyama/)
19. [**Shoko Wakamiya**current · 2016–2026 on 164 papers · employment (Wikidata)*2 papers here · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shoko-wakamiya/)

**Also published with this affiliation (29)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

20. [**Graham Neubig**2012–2018 on 65 papers*45 papers here · 26,101 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/)
21. [**Xiaodong Liu**2013–2015 on 3 papers*11 papers here · 14,105 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodong-liu/)
22. [**Satoshi Nakamura**current · 2026 on 2 papers*4 papers here · 1,175 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satoshi-nakamura/)
23. [**Changhan Wang**2021–2022 on 2 papers*5 papers here · 2,923 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/changhan-wang/)
24. [**Deng Cai**2022–2024 on 5 papers*2 papers here · 1,941 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deng-cai/)
25. [**Defu Lian**2022 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 2,367 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/)
26. [**Keisuke Sakaguchi**2012–2013 on 6 papers*7 papers here · 1,579 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keisuke-sakaguchi/)
27. [**Tomoyuki Kajiwara**current · 2025–2026 on 2 papers*5 papers here · 774 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomoyuki-kajiwara/)
28. [**Chris Dyer**2015–2016 on 2 papers*27 papers here · 25,459 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/)
29. [**Sebastian Riedel**2009–2011 on 2 papers*17 papers here · 18,749 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/)
30. [**Eric Nichols**2004–2010 on 8 papers*2 papers here · 2,859 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-nichols/)
31. [**Lemao Liu**2022–2024 on 4 papers*2 papers here · 1,508 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lemao-liu/)
32. [**Alex Waibel**2012–2024 on 3 papers*5 papers here · 1,459 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-waibel/)
33. [**Fajri Koto**2014–2015 on 3 papers*5 papers here · 1,357 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fajri-koto/)
34. [**Jan Niehues**2021–2024 on 2 papers*6 papers here · 1,294 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-niehues/)
35. [**Masaaki Nagata**2008–2014 on 3 papers*4 papers here · 1,266 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masaaki-nagata/)
36. [**Akiko Aizawa**current · 2026 on 1 paper*2 papers here · 1,260 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akiko-aizawa/)
37. [**Andros Tjandra**2015–2023 on 29 papers*2 papers here · 1,130 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andros-tjandra/)
38. [**Roldano Cattoni**2021–2024 on 2 papers*5 papers here · 955 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roldano-cattoni/)
39. [**Tsutomu Hirao**2003–2014 on 4 papers*5 papers here · 886 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsutomu-hirao/)
40. [**Fatiha Sadat**2000–2014 on 12 papers*2 papers here · 640 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatiha-sadat/)
41. [**Fei Cheng**2014–2017 on 4 papers*3 papers here · 344 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-cheng/)
42. [**Hiroshi Saruwatari**2001–2014 on 235 papers*2 papers here · 326 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroshi-saruwatari/)
43. [**Imane Guellil**2024 on 4 papers*3 papers here · 298 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imane-guellil/)
44. [**Kentaro Torisawa**2009–2021 on 3 papers*2 papers here · 248 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-torisawa/)

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 48 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/authors/)

## Works in our library (27)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines**Hiroyasu Yamada, Yuji Matsumoto*2003 · 878 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2003-statistical-dependency-analysis-support-vector/)
2. [**Chunking with Support Vector Machines**Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto*2001 · 647 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kudo-2001-chunking-support-vector-machines/)
3. [**Representation Learning Using Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Classification and Information Retrieval**Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, et al.*2015 · 463 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2015-representation-learning-multi-task-deep/)
4. [**Joint Learning of the Embedding of Words and Entities for Named Entity Disambiguation**Ikuya Yamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, et al.*2016 · 427 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2016-joint-learning-embedding-words-entities/)
5. [**Incorporating Discrete Translation Lexicons into Neural Machine Translation**Philip Arthur, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura*2016 · 298 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arthur-2016-incorporating-discrete-translation-lexicons-into/)
6. [**Tense and Aspect Error Correction for ESL Learners Using Global Context**Toshikazu Tajiri, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto*2012 · 206 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tajiri-2012-tense-aspect-error-correction-esl/)
7. [**Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign**Antonios Anastasopoulos, Loïc Barrault, Luisa Bentivogli, et al.*2022 · 177 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anastasopoulos-2022-findings-iwslt-2022-evaluation-campaign/)
8. [**Annotating a Japanese Text Corpus with Predicate-Argument and Coreference Relations**Ryu Iida, Mamoru Komachi, Kentaro Inui, et al.*2007 · 162 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iida-2007-annotating-japanese-text-corpus-predicate/)
9. [**FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2023 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN**Milind Agarwal, Sweta Agrawal, Antonios Anastasopoulos, et al.*2023 · 153 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2023-findings-iwslt-2023-evaluation-campaign/)
10. [**Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution**Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto*2006 · 84 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iida-2006-exploiting-syntactic-patterns-as-clues/)
11. [**Joint Transition-based Dependency Parsing and Disfluency Detection for Automatic Speech Recognition Texts**Masashi Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto*2016 · 56 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yoshikawa-2016-joint-transition-based-dependency-parsing/)
12. [**Universal Dependencies Version 2 for Japanese**Masayuki Asahara, Hiroshi Kanayama, Takaaki Tanaka, et al.*2018 · 50 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2018-universal-dependencies-version-2-japanese/)
13. [**Reference-based Metrics can be Replaced with Reference-less Metrics in Evaluating Grammatical Error Correction Systems**Hiroki Asano, Tomoya Mizumoto, Kentaro Inui*2017 · 49 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asano-2017-reference-based-metrics-can-be/)
14. [**Joint Prediction of Morphosyntactic Categories for Fine-Grained Arabic Part-of-Speech Tagging Exploiting Tag Dictionary Information**Go Inoue, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto*2017 · 39 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/inoue-2017-joint-prediction-morphosyntactic-categories-fine/)
15. [**Construction of English MWE Dictionary and its Application to POS Tagging**Yutaro Shigeto, Ai Azuma, Sorami Hisamoto, et al.*2013 · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shigeto-2013-construction-english-mwe-dictionary-its/)
16. [**Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification**Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Raphael Rubino, et al.*2017 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2017-explicit-discourse-connectives-translation-implicit/)
17. [**BCCWJ-DepPara: A Syntactic Annotation Treebank on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese'**Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto*2016 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2016-bccwj-deppara-syntactic-annotation-treebank/)
18. [**Narrative Schema as World Knowledge for Coreference Resolution**Joseph Irwin, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto*2011 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/irwin-2011-narrative-schema-as-world-knowledge/)
19. [**Pseudo Zero Pronoun Resolution Improves Zero Anaphora Resolution**Ryuto Konno, Shun Kiyono, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, et al.*2021 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/konno-2021-pseudo-zero-pronoun-resolution-improves/)
20. [**Construction of an English Dependency Corpus incorporating Compound Function Words**Akihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto*2016 · 12 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kato-2016-construction-english-dependency-corpus-incorporating/)
21. [**Joint English Spelling Error Correction and POS Tagging for Language Learners Writing**Keisuke Sakaguchi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Mamoru Komachi, et al.*2012 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sakaguchi-2012-joint-english-spelling-error-correction/)
22. [**English Multiword Expression-aware Dependency Parsing Including Named Entities**Akihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto*2017 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kato-2017-english-multiword-expression-aware-dependency/)
23. [**Modelling the Usage of Discourse Connectives as Rational Speech Acts**Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, et al.*2016 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2016-modelling-usage-discourse-connectives-as/)
24. [**XQ-MEval: A Dataset with Cross-lingual Parallel Quality for Benchmarking Translation Metrics**Jingxuan Liu, Zhi Qu, Jin Tei, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-xq-meval-dataset-cross-lingual/)
25. [**LLM-Assisted Spanish Dialect Corpus Construction**Jessica Claribel RAMIREZ VIDAL, Hiroki Ouchi, Sakriani Sakti*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vidal-2026-llm-assisted-spanish-dialect-corpus/)

[See all 27 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/works/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2023-findings-iwslt-2023-evaluation-campaign/) · [**2022** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anastasopoulos-2022-findings-iwslt-2022-evaluation-campaign/) · [**2021** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/konno-2021-pseudo-zero-pronoun-resolution-improves/)

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asahara-2018-universal-dependencies-version-2-japanese/) · [**2017** 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/year/2017/) · [**2016** 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/year/2016/) · [**2015** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2015-representation-learning-multi-task-deep/) · [**2013** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shigeto-2013-construction-english-mwe-dictionary-its/) · [**2012** 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/year/2012/) · [**2011** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/irwin-2011-narrative-schema-as-world-knowledge/)

### 2000s

[**2007** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iida-2007-annotating-japanese-text-corpus-predicate/) · [**2006** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iida-2006-exploiting-syntactic-patterns-as-clues/) · [**2003** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2003-statistical-dependency-analysis-support-vector/) · [**2001** 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kudo-2001-chunking-support-vector-machines/)

## Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

💡 Concepts 3[Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/named-entity-recognition/) · [Lexicography · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lexicography/) · [Corpus linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/corpus-linguistics/)

📚 Shelves 8[Computer Science · 26 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 26 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 16 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 16 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/)

🧭 Topics 18[English · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Coreference resolution · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [Machine translation · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Speech & spoken language · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Universal Dependencies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Semantic role labeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Part-of-speech tagging · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Discourse analysis · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Treebanks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Dependency parsing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/)+3 more

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here, the most works shared first.

1. **[Tohoku University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tohoku-university/)***4 works shared*
2. **[Johns Hopkins University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/)***3 works shared*
3. **[Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)***2 works shared*
4. **[University of Edinburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)***2 works shared*
5. **[National Institute of Informatics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/)***2 works shared*
6. **[Microsoft](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/)***1 work shared*
7. **[IBM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/)***1 work shared*
8. **[Charles University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/)***1 work shared*
9. **[Fudan University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/)***1 work shared*
10. **[Saarland University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/)***1 work shared*
11. **[University of Toronto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/)***1 work shared*
12. **[University of Science and Technology of China](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/)***1 work shared*

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Nara Institute of Science and Technology; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.

Updated 23 October 2026