Papers by Yoshihiko Asao
Understanding User Utterances in a Dialog System for Caregiving (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a dialog system that can monitor the health status of seniors has a huge potential for solving the labor shortage in the caregiving industry in aging societies. |
| Approach: | They are developing a yes/no response classifier and an entailment recognizer to correctly interpret user utterances. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can correctly interpret user utterances and can monitor the health of seniors. |
Annotating Zero Anaphora for Question Answering (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a large dataset of zero pronouns has been constructed to identify adjunct zero anaphoras . a lack of a dataset covering them has limited our ability to annotate them exhaustively . |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate adjuncts marked by -de in Japanese and a second scheme to annnotate them in a more direct manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotation schemes are more accurate than the first one. |