In spoken dialogues, if a spoken dialogue system does not respond at all during user's utterances, the user might feel uneasy because the user does not know whether or not th...
We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system called Jess. The system needs expert writings rather than expert raters to build the evaluation model. By detecting st...
In this paper, we propose a new approach, called lemma-reusing, for accelerating SAT based planning and scheduling. Generally, SAT based approaches generate a sequence of SAT prob...
A large number of applications can be represented by quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). Although evaluating QBF is NP-hard and thus very difficult, there has been significant progr...
We empirically show that there are significant differences between the discourse structure of Japanese texts and the discourse structure of their corresponding English translation...