2023

Six students received M.S. degrees, and five received B.S. degrees from our lab. Congratulations to all! (Mar 22, 2024)

Hikari Funabiki received the Committee Member’s Special Award at NLP2024 held online on Mar 11-15, 2024. News (Mar 22nd, 2024)

Yukako Nakano received the Best Presentation Award, and Haruka Kawasaki, Momoka Narita and Satoko Hirano received the Best Session Award at The 24th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems held online on Dec 6-9, 2023. News1, News2 (Dec 22nd, 2023)

Five papers were accepted to ISIS2023. (Nov 13th, 2023)

Eri Kuroda received the Yasui-Kuroda Scholarship from Ochanomizu University. (Nov 10th, 2023)

Prof. Ichiro Kobayashi gave a plenary talk at International Conference on Advanced Intelligent MAritime Safety and Technology (Ai-MAST) 2023 held at Korea. (Nov 2nd-4th, 2023)

Kobayashi Laboratory’s 20th anniversary OG party was held. (Oct 21st, 2023)

One student gave an oral presentation at DS2023 held at Porto, Portugal. (Oct 9th-11th, 2023)

Prof. Ichiro Kobayashi et al. received the Best Demo Paper Award at The 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) held on September 11th-15th, 2023. News (Oct 3rd, 2023)

Two students gave online oral presentations at IEEE-SMC2023 held at Oahu, Hawaii. (Oct 1st-4th, 2023)

One student gave an oral presentation at ICANN2023 held at Crete, Greece. (Sep 26th-29th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to PACLIC2023. (Sep 10th, 2023)

Haruka Iwai received the Fuzzy Special Session Presentation Award at FSS2023 held on September 5th-7th, 2023. News (Sep 7th, 2023)

Two studenta gave oral presentations at FSS2023 held at Villas des Mariages in Nagano, Japan. (Sep 5-7th, 2023)

One student gave an online oral presentation at PRML2023 held at Urumqi, China. (Aug 4th-6th, 2023)

One student gave a poster presentations at The 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society held at the Sendai International Center in Miyagi, Japan. (Aug 1-4th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to ISCMI2023. (Jul 30th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to DS2023. (Jul 21th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to  ICANN2023. (Jun 30th, 2023)

Twelve students gave presentations at The 37th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence held at the Kumamoto-jo Hall in Kumamoto, Japan. (Jun 6-9th, 2023)

Our paper was published in JACIII. (May 30th, 2023)

Two papers were accepted to IEEE-SMC2023. (May 27th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to PRML2023. (May 10th, 2023)

One paper was accepted to JSAA-ICNTJ2023. (Apr 15th, 2023)

Eight students joined our lab. (Apr 1st, 2023)

Four students received Ph.D. degrees, eight received M.S. degrees, and five received B.S. degrees from our lab. Congratulations to all! (Mar 23, 2023)

Fourteen students gave presentations at The 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing held at the Okinawa Convention Center in Okinawa, Japan. (Mar 13-17, 2023)

Six students gave presentations at The 85th National Convention of IPSJ held at The University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. (Mar 2-4, 2023)

Our research was picked up by Nikkei Business Daily. Innovation page (Feb 3, 2023) and electronic version. Please take a look.

2022

Chihiro Maru received the Best Paper Award at SCIS&ISIS2022 held on November 29 – December 2, 2022. News (Dec 3rd, 2022)

One paper was accepted to IEEE BigData2022. (Nov 6th, 2022)

Six papers were accepted to SCIS&ISIS2022. (Oct 15th, 2022)

One paper was accepted to AACL-IJCNLP2022 as short (Findings) and two papers were accepted to AACL-IJCNLP2022 SRW. (Oct 15th, 2022)

Haruka Taguchi received the Fuzzy Special Session Presentation Award at The 38th Fuzzy System Symposium held on September 14-16, 2022. News (Oct 11th, 2022)

Sayako Watanabe received the JSAI Annual Conference Award at The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence held on June 14-17, 2022. News (Jul 27th,2022)

Fourteen students gave presentations at The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan. (Jun 14-17th, 2022)

Eri Kuroda received the Student Encouragement Award of IPSJ National Convention at the 84th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan held online on Mar 3-5, 2022. Check the news here. (Mar 5th, 2022)

Luo Ying received the Best Presentation Award, and Nozomi Origushi and Eri Kuroda received the Best Session Award at The 22nd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems held online on Dec 15-18, 2021. Check the news here and here. (Feb 17th, 2022)

Momoka Sudo received the Encouragement Award at the 2nd New Academic Area “Chronogenesis” Area Conference in FY2021 held online on Feb 12-13, 2022. (Feb 14th, 2022)

2021

Rikako Sumida received the Best Award at The 37th Symposium on Fuzzy Systems held online on Sep 13-15, 2021. Check the news here. (Dec 14th, 2021).

The research work conducted by Yumi Hamazono, Prof. Ichiro Kobayashi, and other authors at the Artificial Intelligence Center, AIST, received the Outstanding Research Award at the 250th Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing. Check the news here. (Oct 14th, 2021).

The paper co-authored by Prof. Ichiro Kobayashi received the Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award at the 9th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards of the Robotics Society of Japan. ・Check the news here. (Sep 13th, 2021).

Yuki Taya and Lis Kanashiro Pereira and other authors received an Honorable mention at The 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), held online on Aug 5-6, 2021. Check the news here. (Aug 17th, 2021).

2020

Eri Kuroda received the FTY2020 Ochanomizu University Student Award. (Dec 23rd, 2020).

Eri Kuroda received the Best Paper Award of IPSJ National Convention at the 82nd National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan held online on Mar 3-5, 2020. Check the news here. (May 29th, 2020).

Eri Kuroda received the Student Encouragement Award of IPSJ National Convention at the 82nd National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan held online on Mar 3-5, 2020. Check the news here. (Mar 7th, 2020).

2019

Chihiro Maru received the Student Presentation Award at the 11th Proceedings of Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management held in Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki, Mar 4-6, 2019. (Mar 18th, 2019).

2018

Kana Ozaki received the Presentation Award at The 34th Symposium on Fuzzy Systems held at Nagoya University, Aichi, Sep 3-5, 2018. Check the news here. (Sep 7th, 2018).

2017

Eri Matsuo received the Best Presentation Award, and Chihiro Fujiyama received the Presentation Award at The 33rd Symposium on Fuzzy Systems held at Yamagata University, Yamagata, Sep 13-15, 2017. Check the news here. (Sep 20th, 2017).

Eri Matsuo and Chiaki Kawase received the JSAI Annual Conference Award at The 31st Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence held at Wink Aichi, Aichi, May 23-26, 2017. Check the news here and here. (Jul 24th, 2017).

Mariho Oyama, Eri Matsuo, Akari Inago, and Chihiro Fujiyama received the Student Encouragement Award of IPSJ National Convention at the 79th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan held at Nagoya University, Aichi, Mar 16-18, 2017. Check the news here. (Jul 24th, 2017).

2016

Eri Matsuo received the JSAI Annual Conference Award at The 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence held at Kitakyusyu Convention & Visitors Association, Fukuoka, Jun 6-9, 2016. Check the news here. (Jun 9th, 2016).