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cs.CL2026

FrameBench:A Language Understanding Benchmark Based on Frame Semantics

Chihiro Yano, Ryohei Sasano

In frame semantics, sentence comprehension is assumed to proceed by relating lexical meaning to background knowledge called semantic frames, thereby enabling readers to implicitly…

cs.CL2026

When Is 0.1% Enough? Analyzing the Combined Effects of Dimensionality Reduction and Quantization on Text Embedding Compression

Riku Kisako, Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano

Recent high-performing text embedding models often produce high-dimensional real-valued vectors, resulting in substantial storage and computational costs. To address this issue, em…

cs.CL2026

Can We Still Trace L1 Signals? Investigating the Resilience of Native Language Signals in the LLM Era

Nabelanita Utami, Ryohei Sasano

The widespread use of LLM-based writing assistance has raised an interesting question about the homogenization of English. As LLMs tend to revise texts toward mainstream English co…

cs.CL2026

How Do Language Models Acquire Character-Level Information?

Soma Sato, Ryohei Sasano

Language models (LMs) have been reported to implicitly encode character-level information, despite not being explicitly provided during training. However, the mechanisms underlying…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs and Humans Find the Same Questions Difficult? A Case Study on Japanese Quiz Answering

Naoya Sugiura, Kosuke Yamada, Yasuhiro Ogawa +2

LLMs have achieved performance that surpasses humans in many NLP tasks. However, it remains unclear whether problems that are difficult for humans are also difficult for LLMs. This…

cs.CL2025

FrameEOL: Semantic Frame Induction using Causal Language Models

Chihiro Yano, Kosuke Yamada, Hayato Tsukagoshi +2

Semantic frame induction is the task of clustering frame-evoking words according to the semantic frames they evoke. In recent years, leveraging embeddings of frame-evoking words th…

cs.CL2025

Redundancy, Isotropy, and Intrinsic Dimensionality of Prompt-based Text Embeddings

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano

Prompt-based text embedding models, which generate task-specific embeddings upon receiving tailored prompts, have recently demonstrated remarkable performance. However, their resul…

cs.CL2025

On Representational Dissociation of Language and Arithmetic in Large Language Models

Riku Kisako, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ryohei Sasano

The association between language and (non-linguistic) thinking ability in humans has long been debated, and recently, neuroscientific evidence of brain activity patterns has been c…

cs.CL2024

CiMaTe: Citation Count Prediction Effectively Leveraging the Main Text

Jun Hirako, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Prediction of the future citation counts of papers is increasingly important to find interesting papers among an ever-growing number of papers. Although a paper's main text is an i…

cs.CL2024

Ruri: Japanese General Text Embeddings

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano

We report the development of Ruri, a series of Japanese general text embedding models. While the development of general-purpose text embedding models in English and multilingual co…

cs.CL2024

Are Social Sentiments Inherent in LLMs? An Empirical Study on Extraction of Inter-demographic Sentiments

Kunitomo Tanaka, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Large language models (LLMs) are supposed to acquire unconscious human knowledge and feelings, such as social common sense and biases, by training models from large amounts of text…

cs.CL2024

Simplifying Translations for Children: Iterative Simplification Considering Age of Acquisition with LLMs

Masashi Oshika, Makoto Morishita, Tsutomu Hirao +2

In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) has been widely used in everyday life. However, the current NMT lacks a mechanism to adjust the difficulty level of translations t…

cs.CL2024

WikiSplit++: Easy Data Refinement for Split and Rephrase

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Tsutomu Hirao, Makoto Morishita +3

The task of Split and Rephrase, which splits a complex sentence into multiple simple sentences with the same meaning, improves readability and enhances the performance of downstrea…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

To Drop or Not to Drop? Predicting Argument Ellipsis Judgments: A Case Study in Japanese

Yukiko Ishizuki, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi +2

Speakers sometimes omit certain arguments of a predicate in a sentence; such omission is especially frequent in pro-drop languages. This study addresses a question about ellipsis -…

cs.CL2024

Verifying Claims About Metaphors with Large-Scale Automatic Metaphor Identification

Kotaro Aono, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

There are several linguistic claims about situations where words are more likely to be used as metaphors. However, few studies have sought to verify such claims with large corpora.…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Improving Sentence Embeddings with Automatic Generation of Training Data Using Few-shot Examples

Soma Sato, Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano +1

Decoder-based large language models (LLMs) have shown high performance on many tasks in natural language processing. This is also true for sentence embedding learning, where a deco…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Japanese SimCSE Technical Report

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

We report the development of Japanese SimCSE, Japanese sentence embedding models fine-tuned with SimCSE. Since there is a lack of sentence embedding models for Japanese that can be…

cs.CL2023

Transformer-based Live Update Generation for Soccer Matches from Microblog Posts

Masashi Oshika, Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano +1

It has been known to be difficult to generate adequate sports updates from a sequence of vast amounts of diverse live tweets, although the live sports viewing experience with tweet…

cs.CL2023

Acquiring Frame Element Knowledge with Deep Metric Learning for Semantic Frame Induction

Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

The semantic frame induction tasks are defined as a clustering of words into the frames that they evoke, and a clustering of their arguments according to the frame element roles th…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Sentence Representations via Gaussian Embedding

Shohei Yoda, Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano +1

Recent progress in sentence embedding, which represents the meaning of a sentence as a point in a vector space, has achieved high performance on tasks such as a semantic textual si…

cs.CL2023

Semantic Frame Induction with Deep Metric Learning

Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of contextualized word embeddings in unsupervised semantic frame induction. However, they have also revealed that generic contextual…

cs.CL2022

Comparison and Combination of Sentence Embeddings Derived from Different Supervision Signals

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

There have been many successful applications of sentence embedding methods. However, it has not been well understood what properties are captured in the resulting sentence embeddin…

cs.CL2021

Transformer-based Lexically Constrained Headline Generation

Kosuke Yamada, Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori +4

This paper explores a variant of automatic headline generation methods, where a generated headline is required to include a given phrase such as a company or a product name. Previo…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

DefSent: Sentence Embeddings using Definition Sentences

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Sentence embedding methods using natural language inference (NLI) datasets have been successfully applied to various tasks. However, these methods are only available for limited la…