Research Activities

Akira Nakada, a fourth-year student from the Faculty of Informatics and a member of the Yoshinobu Kano Research Group at the Field Informatics Research Core, achieved top performance in the QA Lab for Political Information-4 ("QA Lab-PoliInfo-4") Stance Classification subtask at the international conference NTCIR-17.

Furthermore, his presentation earned him both the Best Oral Presentation Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award. Reference: Akira Nakada and Yoshinobu Kano. KIS's Stance Classification Model at the NTCIR-17 QA Lab-PoliInfo-4. In proceedings of NTCIR-17 conference, pp. 232-236. December 15, 2023.

*NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research) is a project that provides a large-scale evaluation infrastructure for technologies that facilitate access to, understanding of, and utilization of vast information resources in fields such as information retrieval, question answering, summarization, text mining, and machine translation. This project forms a forum where numerous researchers from Japan and abroad share this common base to advance, validate, and comparatively evaluate their research, while learning from one another. For more information:

https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/

*The Kano Research Group specializes in natural language processing, working towards developing language processing models closer to human-like understanding and applying them in dialogue, medical, legal, and political domains. Kano Research Group page: https://kanolab.net/index.ja.html
Associate Professor Kano's page: https://kanolab.net/kano/index.ja.html