RZEPKA RAFAL (ジエプカ ラフアウ)

情報科学研究院 メディアネットワーク部門 情報メディア学分野准教授
Last Updated :2025/05/02

■研究者基本情報

学位

  • 博士(工学), 北海道大学, 2004年03月

プロフィール情報

  • 「心の仕組みとは何か」という疑問に惹かれ,答えを求めてAI分野に足を踏み入れました.出身は言語学と認知科学なので、既存のアルゴリズムを最適化することなどにはあまり興味がありません.それよりも,既存のアプローチを組み合わせたりして,AI分野が始まって以来解決されていない問題,例えば常識的知識の獲得や言語理解、倫理的な意思決定の能力などに取り組むことに興味があります.自然言語処理の研究室に勤めているため,私のほとんどの学生は標準的なNLPテーマを選択しますが,メタファーやユーモアのような,現在の機械の限界を明らかにするようなチャレンジングなテーマを薦めています.

Researchmap個人ページ

研究キーワード

  • 機械倫理
  • 人工知能
  • 汎用人工知能
  • 自然言語処理
  • 常識的知識
  • 感情処理
  • マシン・エシックス
  • machine intelligence

研究分野

  • 情報通信, 知能情報学, 知識獲得
  • 情報通信, 感性情報学, 感情分析
  • 人文・社会, 哲学、倫理学, 応用倫理学
  • 人文・社会, 認知科学, 心の理論
  • 情報通信, ロボティクス、知能機械システム
  • 情報通信, 学習支援システム, 第二言語習得支援

担当教育組織

■経歴

経歴

  • 2024年09月 - 現在
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究院, 准教授, 日本国
  • 2007年04月 - 2024年08月
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究院, 助教, 日本国
  • 2017年06月 - 2020年03月
    理化学研究所, 革新知能統合研究センター, 客員研究員, 日本国
  • 2019年02月 - 2019年03月
    クイーンズランド工科大学, デジタルメディア研究センター, 客員研究員, オーストラリア連邦
  • 2017年01月 - 2017年09月
    オーストラリア国立大学, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamic of Language, 客員研究員, オーストリア共和国
  • 2013年02月 - 2013年03月
    モナッシュ大学, Behavioural Studies, 客員研究員, オーストラリア連邦
  • 2011年02月 - 2011年03月
    スタンフォード大学, The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), アメリカ合衆国
  • 2004年04月 - 2007年03月
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 助手

学歴

  • 2001年04月 - 2004年03月, 北海道大学, 工学研究科, 電子情報工学専攻
  • 1993年10月 - 1999年06月, アダム・ミツキェヴィチ大学, 現代言語学研究科, ポーランド共和国

委員歴

  • 2023年07月 - 現在
    EMNLP, Ethics Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2023年06月 - 現在
    人工知能学会, 代議員, 学協会
  • 2021年 - 現在
    Information Processing and Management Journal Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2020年12月 - 現在
    人工知能学会, 国際セッション オーガナイザー, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 現在
    New Generation Computing Journal Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 現在
    汎用人工知能研究会, 幹事, 学協会
  • 2015年 - 現在
    IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing, Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2014年01月 - 現在
    Lifeboat Fundation (USA), Robotics/AI Board Member, 自治体
  • 2012年01月 - 現在
    Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society, Journal Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2011年04月 - 現在
    Artificial General Intelligence Conference, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 現在
    Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 現在
    Language Technology Conferences, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2010年08月 - 現在
    Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Conference, Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2022年12月 - 2024年03月
    MDPI, Guest Editor of Applied Sciences Journal Special Issue "Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Processing of Emotions, Decisions and Opinions", 学協会
  • 2023年06月 - 2023年10月
    IEEE, CSDE 2023 Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2022年07月 - 2023年06月
    人工知能学会, 国際化担当, 学協会
  • 2021年06月 - 2023年06月
    人工知能学会, 理事, 学協会
  • 2022年04月 - 2022年10月
    Main Organizer - The 8th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop - LaCATODA 2022
  • 2011年10月 - 2022年03月
    言語処理学会, PC委員, 学協会
  • 2020年10月 - 2021年10月
    "Recent Developments in Creative Language Processing" MDPI Special Issue, ゲスト編集者, その他
  • 2021年04月 - 2021年09月
    IJCAI 2021 Workshops, LaCATODA Workshop Organizer, その他
  • 2018年01月 - 2021年09月
    言語処理学会, 学会誌編集委員, 学協会
  • 2021年01月 - 2021年08月
    Main Organizer - The 7th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop - LaCATODA 2021, Rafal Rzepka;Jordi Vallverdu;Andre Wlodarczyk;Michal Ptaszynski;Pawel Dybala, その他
  • 2021年01月 - 2021年06月
    人工知能学会, 国際化担当, 学協会
  • 2021年01月 - 2021年06月
    JSAI 2021, International Session Co-organizer, 学協会
  • 2014年 - 2021年
    IEEE ICDM "Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction" (SENTIRE) workshop, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2021年01月
    "Ethical NLP" Special Issue of IPM Journal, ゲスト編集長, その他
  • 2020年04月 - 2020年08月
    IJCAI 2020 Workshops, LaCATODA Workshop Organizer, その他
  • 2020年 - 2020年
    IJCAI 2020 Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2020年 - 2020年
    AACL-IJCNLP 2020 Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2020年 - 2020年
    COLING 2020 Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2020年 - 2020年
    HAI 2020 Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2020年 - 2020年
    KBS Special Issue on Commonsense Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Guest Editor, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 2020年
    IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2019年03月 - 2019年08月
    IJCAI 2019 Workshops, LaCATODA Workshop Organizer, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 2019年
    LTC, Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2019) Program Chair, Organizer, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 2019年
    iCast 2019 Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 2019年
    Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2019) Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 2019年
    Paladyn - Journal of Behavioral Robotics Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2019年 - 2019年
    Symposium on Analytics-based (Cognitively-enabled) Social Systems Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2018年03月 - 2018年08月
    IJCAI-ECAI 2018, LaCATODA Workshop Organizer, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 2018年
    Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Journal, Guest Editor, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 2018年
    New Generation Computing Journal, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 2018年
    平成30年度電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会, 実行委員, 学協会
  • 2018年 - 2018年
    Artificial General Conference 2018, Program Chair, 学協会
  • 2013年01月 - 2018年
    IEICE, TRANSITIONS PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 学協会
  • 2017年03月 - 2017年08月
    IJCAI 2017, LaCATODA Workshop Organizer, 学協会
  • 2017年 - 2017年
    LTC, Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2017) Program Chair, Organizer, 学協会
  • 2017年 - 2017年
    ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC2017, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2014年04月 - 2016年03月
    言語処理学会, 評議員, 学協会
  • 2016年 - 2016年
    Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge (CLSA@CICLing 2016), Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • 2015年 - 2015年
    LTC, Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2015) Program Chair, Organizer, 学協会
  • 2013年07月 - 2014年07月
    International Conference of Semantic Computing (ICSC), Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2013年04月 - 2014年03月
    言語処理学会, 第20回全国年次大会実行委員, 学協会
  • 2014年 - 2014年
    WISDOM 2014, Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2012年01月 - 2014年01月
    AISB/IA-CAP, Program Committee, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 2013年
    言語処理学会, 全国大会のプログラム委員, 学協会
  • 2012年04月 - 2012年07月
    情報処理学会, 第207回自然言語処理研究会の実行委員, 学協会
  • 2012年06月 - 2012年06月
    人工知能学会, 国際セッションのオルガナイザー, 学協会
  • 2012年 - 2012年
    AISB/IACAP, LaCATODA'12シンポジウムのオルガナイザー, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 2012年
    ACM, Transactions on Asian Language Information Processingの査読委員, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 2011年
    AISB, AISB'11の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2011年 - 2011年
    AI, AI'11の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2009年 - 2011年
    情報処理学会, 自然言語処理研究運営委員, 学協会
  • 2010年 - 2010年
    AISB/IACAP, LaCATODA'10シンポジウムのオルガナイザー, 学協会
  • 2010年 - 2010年
    ENGAGE, ENGAGE 2010の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2009年 - 2009年
    PACLING, PACLING 2009のLocal organizer, 学協会
  • 2009年 - 2009年
    LTC, LTC'09の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2009年 - 2009年
    AI, AI'09の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2009年 - 2009年
    電子情報通信学会, 英文誌Dの査読委員, 学協会
  • 2008年 - 2008年
    AI, AI 2008の査読委員
  • 2008年 - 2008年
    SMC, SMC'08の査読委員, 学協会
  • 2008年 - 2008年
    Springer, Springer社の著書案の査読委員, 学協会
  • Cambride Core Experimental Results, Program Committee Member, 学協会
  • Information Processing Society of Japan, Student Member, 学協会
  • The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Student Member, 学協会
  • Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Student Member, 学協会
  • Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Student Member, 学協会
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Student Member, 学協会

■研究活動情報

受賞

  • 2023年04月, LTC 2023 国際会議, Best Paper Award               
    Sentiment Analysis of Polish Online News Covering Controversial Topics - Comparison Between Lexicon and Statistical Approaches
    Joanna Szwoch;Mateusz Staszkow;Rafal Rzepka;Kenji Araki
  • 2021年12月, ことば工学研究会, 優秀賞               
    論文の構造とタイトルを独立して考慮した医学論文検索モデルの提案
    吉井 瑞貴、竹下 昌宏、ジェプカ・ラファウ、荒木 健治
  • 2021年11月, 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部, 若手優秀論文発表賞               
    BM25Tを用いたオンライン上の医療ニュース記事の根拠論文候補抽出
    吉井 瑞貴, 竹下 昌志, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治
  • 2020年, WI2, 萌芽研究賞               
    Mapping arguments to key point: Match Scoring of arguments using sentence embedding and MoverScore without labelled data
    白藤大幹,Rafal Rzepka,荒木健治
  • 2020年, WI2, 萌芽研究賞               
    Unsupervised summarization of arguments toward key point generation with Sentence-BERT-based method
    白藤大幹;Rafal Rzepka;荒木健治
  • 2019年, BICA, Outstanding Research Award               
    "Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs - Preliminary Analysis"
    Jagna Nieuważny;Fumito Masui;Michal Ptaszynski;Kenji Araki;Rafal Rzepka;Karol Nowakowski
  • 2019年, BICA, Best Innovative Work Award               
    "Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs - Preliminary Analysis"
    Jagna Nieuważny, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki, Rafal Rzepka, Karol Nowakowski
  • 2015年, "Emotions, Decisions, Opinions" EDO 2015, Best Paper Award               
    Exploiting Wikipedia-based Information-rich Taxonomy for Extracting Location and Creator Related Information for ConceptNet Expansion
  • 2011年, Pacific Association For Computational Linguistics, Best Paper Award               
    Introducing Grammatically Aware Regular Expressions
  • 2010年, 日本知能情報ファジイ学会, 奨励賞               
    Teaching a Humanoid Robot through Physical Feedback: So Easy Even a Five Year Old Could Use It
  • 2008年, Second International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Affective Systems, Best Paper Award               
    Disentangling emotions from the Web. Internet in the service of affect analysis
  • 2002年10月, IEEE Hokkaido Chapter, ベストペーパー賞               
    Prediction of the User’s Reply Using Emotional Information Retrieved from Internet Resources
    日本国
  • 1996年, Japanese Ministry of Education Scolarship               
    1996, 1999

論文

  • Speciesism in natural language processing research
    Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka
    AI and Ethics, 2024年11月27日
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Processing of Emotions, Decisions, and Opinions
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka
    Applied Sciences, 2024年07月06日
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • The Limits of Words: Expanding a Word-Based Emotion Analysis System with Multiple Emotion Dictionaries and the Automatic Extraction of Emotive Expressions
    Lu Wang, Sho Isomura, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Fumito Masui
    Applied Sciences, 2024年05月23日
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Limitations of Large Language Models in Propaganda Detection Task
    Joanna Szwoch, Mateusz Staszkow, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Applied Sciences, 2024年05月20日
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • 「レクチャーシリーズ:AI と社会と人間~ぶつかる・なじむ・とけこむ~」〔第6 回〕AI 用の「ぶつからない常識」研究のこれから —普遍意味原素から現実世界の大規模シミュレーションまで—」
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    人工知能, 38, 6, 943, 953, 日本人工知能学会, 2023年12月, [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    日本語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Personality Types and Traits—Examining and Leveraging the Relationship between Different Personality Models for Mutual Prediction
    Dušan Radisavljević, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Applied Sciences, 13, 7, 4506, 4506, MDPI AG, 2023年04月02日
    研究論文(学術雑誌), The popularity of social media services has led to an increase of personality-relevant data in online spaces. While the majority of people who use these services tend to express their personality through measures offered by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), another personality model known as the Big Five has been a dominant paradigm in academic works that deal with personality research. In this paper, we seek to bridge the gap between the MBTI, Big Five and another personality model known as the Enneagram of Personality, with the goal of increasing the amount of resources for the Big Five model. We further explore the relationship that was previously reported between the MBTI types and certain Big Five traits as well as test for the presence of a similar relationship between Enneagram and Big Five measures. We propose a new method relying on psycholingusitc features selected based on their relationship with the MBTI model. This approach showed the best performance through our experiments and led to an increase of up to 3% in automatic personality recognition for Big Five traits on the per-trait level. Our detailed experimentation offers further insight into the nature of personality and into how well it translates between different personality models.
  • Utilizing BERT with Auxiliary Sentences Generation to Improve Accuracy of Japanese Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task               
    Yiyang Zhang, Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    In the proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 348, 352, 2023年04月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Sentiment Analysis of Polish Online News Covering Controversial Topics – Comparison Between Lexicon and Statistical Approaches               
    Joanna Szwoch, Mateusz Staszkow, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    In the proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 277, 281, 2023年04月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Improving Performance of Affect Analysis System by Expanding Affect Lexicon               
    Lu Wang, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Fumito Masui
    In the proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 314, 319, 2023年04月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Utilizing Wikipedia for Retrieving Synonyms of Trade Security-related Technical Terms               
    Rafal Rzepka, Shinji Muraji, Akihiko Obayashi
    In the proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 250, 254, 2023年04月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Parameter-efficient feature-based transfer for paraphrase identification
    Xiaodong Liu, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Natural Language Engineering, 1, 31, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022年12月19日
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Abstract

    There are many types of approaches for Paraphrase Identification (PI), an NLP task of determining whether a sentence pair has equivalent semantics. Traditional approaches mainly consist of unsupervised learning and feature engineering, which are computationally inexpensive. However, their task performance is moderate nowadays. To seek a method that can preserve the low computational costs of traditional approaches but yield better task performance, we take an investigation into neural network-based transfer learning approaches. We discover that by improving the usage of parameters efficiently for feature-based transfer, our research goal can be accomplished. Regarding the improvement, we propose a pre-trained task-specific architecture. The fixed parameters of the pre-trained architecture can be shared by multiple classifiers with small additional parameters. As a result, the computational cost left involving parameter update is only generated from classifier-tuning: the features output from the architecture combined with lexical overlap features are fed into a single classifier for tuning. Furthermore, the pre-trained task-specific architecture can be applied to natural language inference and semantic textual similarity tasks as well. Such technical novelty leads to slight consumption of computational and memory resources for each task and is also conducive to power-efficient continual learning. The experimental results show that our proposed method is competitive with adapter-BERT (a parameter-efficient fine-tuning approach) over some tasks while consuming only 16% trainable parameters and saving 69-96% time for parameter update.
  • Using Convolutional Neural Network for improving inference of interrogative sentences in a dialogue system               
    Kei Kawai, Rafal Rzepka, Tatsuki Nemoto
    IEEE Proceedings of ACII 2022 Workshops, The Eighth Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2022), 2022年10月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Speciesist Language and Nonhuman Animal Bias in English Masked Language Models
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2022年09月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Expanding Export Control-related Data for Expert System               
    Akihiko Obayashi, Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 2022年09月, [査読有り], [最終著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Creation of Polish Online News Corpus for Political Polarization Studies               
    Joanna Szwoch, Mateusz Staszkow, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of The First LREC 2022 workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, 86, 90, 2022年06月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Pitfalls of Current AI Helping To Analyze Japanese Tweets               
    Rafal Rzepka
    Book of abstracts of the Practicing Japan – 35 years of Japanese Studies in Poznań and Kraków conference, 2022年03月, [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Comparison of Zero-Shot Ethical Classification With and Without Automatically Generated Consequences               
    Rafał Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Approaches to Ethical Computing Metrics for Measuring AI’s Proficiency and Competency for Ethical Reasoning, 2022年03月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • MIss RoBERTa WiLDe: Metaphor Identification Using Masked Language Model with Wiktionary Lexical Definitions
    Mateusz Babieno, Masashi Takeshita, Dušan Radisavljević, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Applied Sciences, 12, 4, 2081, 2081, {MDPI} {AG}, 2022年02月17日, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence
    Rafal Rzepka
    Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2022年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • In the service of online order: Tackling cyber-bullying with machine learning and affect analysis
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Tatsuaki Matsuba, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02116, abs/2203.02116, 2022年
    英語
  • Text-Based Speaker Identification for Video Game Dialogues
    Radisavljevi?, D., Batalo, B., Rzepka, R., Araki, K.
    Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 296, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2022年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Tell Me What You Read: Automatic Expertise-Based Annotator Assignment for Text Annotation in Expert Domains
    Hiyori Yoshikawa, Tomoya Iwakura, Kimi Kaneko, Hiroaki Yoshida, Yasutaka Kumano, Kazutaka Shimada, Rafal Rzepka, Patrycja Swieczkowska
    the Proceedings fo Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), 1575, 1585, INCOMA Ltd., 2021年09月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Annotated Question and Answer Dataset for Security Export Control               
    Akihiko Obayashi, Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of The 7th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2021) IJCAI 2021 Workshop, CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 2935, 2021年08月, [査読有り], [最終著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Current Language Models Might Not Be Suitable For Reverse Engineering Moral Wisdom of Crowds               
    Rafal Rzepka, Yuki Katsumata, Kenji Araki
    Engineering and Reverse-Engineering Morality Workshop at CogSci 2021, 2021年07月, [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Argument Extraction for Key Point Generation Using MMR-Based Methods
    Daiki Shirafuji, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IEEE Access, 9, 103091, 103109, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE}), 2021年05月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Does change in ethical education influence core moral values? Towards history- and culture-aware morality model with application in automatic moral reasoning
    Jagna Nieuważny, Karol Nowakowski, Michal Ptaszyński, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Cognitive Systems Research, 66, 89, 99, Elsevier BV, 2021年03月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Limits and Challenges of Embedding-based Question Answering in Export Control Expert System
    Rafal Rzepka
    Procedia Computer Science, 192, 2709, 2719, Elsevier BV, 2021年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Find right countenance for your input—Improving automatic emoticon recommendation system with distributed representations
    Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Information Processing & Management, 58, 1, 102414, 102414, Elsevier BV, 2021年01月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Can Existing Methods Debias Languages Other than English? First Attempt to Analyze and Mitigate Japanese Word Embeddings               
    Masashi Takeshita, Yuki Katsumata, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of COLING 2020 Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, 2020年12月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • HEMOS: A novel deep learning-based fine-grained humor detecting method for sentiment analysis of social media
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    Information Processing & Management, 57, 6, 102290, 102290, Elsevier BV, 2020年11月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Topic modelling applied to a second language: A language adaptation and tool evaluation study
    Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, 145, 156, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020年07月03日, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Stepwise Noise Elimination for Better Motivational and Advisory Texts Classification
    Rafal Rzepka
    Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 24, 1, 156, 168, Fuji Technology Press Ltd., 2020年01月20日, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌), There is little research into designing artificial motivational agents. The end-goal of our studies is therefore to create a dialogue system that would motivate users to do their everyday tasks using natural language. In this paper, we present a method of distinguishing texts containing motivational advice from regular texts to sort out noise in training data for our dialogue system. We implemented a novel method of chaining two shallow networks together by utilizing the output results of the first network to determine the input for the second one. We achieved F-score of 0.94 and 0.97 with our proposed method. The contributions of this paper are threefold: first, we successfully identified 14 hand-crafted features that make a text motivational/advisory. Secondly, we were able to create a classifying algorithm that distinguishes motivational/advisory texts from regular ones. Finally, our proposed method can be applied to other text classification tasks.
  • Evaluating Classification Algorithms for Recognizing Figurative Expressions in Japanese Literary Texts
    Rafal Rzepka
    Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2020年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Evaluating Classification Algorithms for Recognizing Figurative Expressions in Japanese Literary Texts
    Babieno, M., Rzepka, R., Araki, K.
    Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1215 CCIS, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2020年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Comparing conceptual metaphor theory-related features using classification algorithms in searching for expressions used figuratively within Japanese texts
    Babieno, M., Rzepka, R., Araki, K., Dybala, P.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12158 LNAI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2020年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Evaluating Classification Algorithms for Recognizing Figurative Expressions in Japanese Literary Texts
    Mateusz Babieno, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2019, 2020年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • How religion and morality correlate in age of society 5.0: Statistical analysis of emotional and moral associations with Buddhist religious terms appearing on Japanese blogs
    Jagna Nieuważny, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Karol Nowakowski
    Cognitive Systems Research, 59, 329, 344, Elsevier BV, 2020年01月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Analysis of Human Thoughts in the Big Data Era: A Case Study of Showerthought Sub-Reddit               
    Siaw-Fong Chung, Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of 10th Conference on Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, 2019年12月, [査読有り], [最終著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Creating Reverse Dictionary of English Idiomatic Expressions by Mapping Word Embeddings to Singular Vectors               
    Xiaodong Liu, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Technical Report of JSAI Special Interest Group for Interactive Information Access and Visualization, 2019年11月
    研究論文(研究会,シンポジウム資料等)
  • Visualising and evaluating the effects of combining active learning with word embedding features               
    Maria Skeppstedt, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Andreas Kerren
    Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019), 2019年10月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Application of a Topic Model Visualisation Tool to a Second Language               
    Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Andreas Kerren, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Book of Abstracts of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, 2019年10月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Towards Interactive Advisory System for Security Export Control               
    Akihiko Obayashi, Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Language Sense on Computer, 2019年08月, [査読有り], [最終著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Comparing Conceptual Metaphor Theory-Related Features in Searching for Figurative Expressions in Japanese Literary Texts               
    Mateusz Babieno, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IJCAI Workshop on Language Sense on Computer, 2019年08月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Convolutional Neural Network For Ranking Advice Quality In Texts For A Motivational Dialogue System               
    Patrycja Swieczkowska, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop, 2019年08月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Debate Outcome Prediction using Automatic Persuasiveness Evaluation and Counterargument Relations               
    Daiki Shirafuji, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IJCAI Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop, 2019年08月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Emoji-Aware Attention-based Bi-directional GRU Network Model for Chinese Sentiment Analysis
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    IJCAI Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop, 11, 18, CEUR-WS.org, 2019年08月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Implicit Knowledge Completion Using Relevance Calculation of Distributed Word Representations               
    Sho Takishita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Bridging The Gap Between Human and Automated Reasoning, 2019年08月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs - Preliminary Analysis
    Jagna Nieuwazny, Michal Ptaszynski, Karol Nowakowski, Fumito Masui, Rafał Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of BICA 2019, 387, 392, Springer, 2019年08月
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Convolutional Neural Network for Chinese Sentiment Analysis Considering Chinese Slang Lexicon and Emoticons
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings The 33th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2E4-OS-9-04, 2E4OS904, 2E4OS904, 一般社団法人 人工知能学会, 2019年06月
    日本語, 研究論文(研究会,シンポジウム資料等), 近年、ソーシャルメディアは私たちの生活に欠かせないものとなっている。インターネットスラングは、日常のオンラインコミュニケーションで使用される非公式の言語であり、感情表現として多く用いられる。同様に、絵文字は、感情のグラフィカル表現の手段としてソーシャルメディアで広く使用されている。したがって、インターネットスラングや絵文字がソーシャルメディアに与える影響を十分に理解することが重要である。本論文では、最も人気のある中国のソーシャルメディアプラットフォームであるWeiboの感情分析のために、中国語インターネットスラングと絵文字を考慮した畳込みニューラルネットワークモデルを提案した。実験結果より、提案手法が感情の極性を予測するための性能を著しく改善したことを確認した。
  • STARS at the NTCIR-14 QA Lab-PoliInfo Classification Task               
    Daiki Shirafuji, Sho Takishita, Patrycja Swieczkowska, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 14th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technology, 2019年06月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Analyzing Motivating Texts for Modelling Human-Like Motivation Techniques in Emotionally Intelligent Dialogue Systems
    Rafal Rzepka
    FOURTH IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE: ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS, ROBOT, VOL 2, 848, 763, 768, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • A Novel Machine Learning-based Sentiment Analysis Method for Chinese Social Media Considering Chinese Slang Lexicon and Emoticons.
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon 2019) co-located with Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019)(AffCon@AAAI), 88, 103, CEUR-WS.org, 2019年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • "Brute-Force Sentence Pattern Extortion from Harmful Messages for Cyberbullying Detection"
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Lempa, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Michal Wroczynski, Gniewosz Leliwa
    Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20, 8, 1075, 1127, Association for Information Systems, 2019年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Machine Learning Approach Considering Chinese Slang Lexicon and Emoticons for Chinese Social Media Sentiment Analysis               
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon 2019), 2019年01月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Language Sense and Communication on Computer.
    Akinori Abe, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski
    Adv. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019, 3081602, 2, 2019年, [招待有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Automatic Extraction of Harmful Sentence Patterns with Application in Cyberbullying Detection               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, 349, 363, 2018年11月, [査読有り], [招待有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Preliminary Statistical Analysis of Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms               
    Jagna Nieuwazny, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Karol Nowakowski
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2018), 2018年10月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Emoticon-Aware Recurrent Neural Network Model for Chinese Sentiment Analysis
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2018), 161, 166, IEEE, 2018年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Analyzing motivating texts for modeling human-like motivation techniques in emotionally intelligent dialogue systems               
    Patrycja Swieczkowska, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA2018), 355, 360, 2018年08月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Conversational Control Interface to Facilitate Situational Understanding in a City Surveillance Setting               
    Daniel Harborne, Dave Braines, Alun Preece, Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2018) IJCAI-ECAI 2018 Workshop, 59, 66, 2018年07月, [査読有り], [最終著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • From Words to Emoticons: Deep Emotion Recognition in Text and Its Wider Implications
    Rafal Rzepka, Mitsuru Takizawa, Jordi Vallverdu, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, 9, 1, 10, 26, 2018年03月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper summarizes several lexical methods for more comprehensive affect recognition in text using an example of typed utterances. We introduce a set of algorithms that are capable of recognizing emotions of user’s statements in order to achieve more effective and smoother human-machine conversation. Aspects often neglected by existing systems working with Japanese language, e.g. compound sentences, double negation sentences, modifiers as adverbs and emoticons were combined and their higher effectiveness in recognizing affect in more complicated sentences was confirmed through evaluation experiments. The results are introduced together with separate analysis of emoticons’ influence on emotional load. We also discuss importance of predicting human emotions not only in the field of human-computer interaction but also its meaning for developing ethical chatbots.
  • Importance of Contextual Knowledge in Artificial Moral Agents Development               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AAAI 2018 Spring Symposium on AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents, 61, 68, 2018年03月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Teaching Words in Context: Code-Switching Method for English and Japanese Vocabulary Acquisition Systems
    Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10930, 332, 345, Springer Verlag, 2018年, [査読有り], [招待有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), One of the essential parts of second language curriculum is teaching vocabulary. Until now many existing techniques tried to facilitate word acquisition, but one method which has been paid less attention to is code-switching. In this paper, we present an experimental system for computer assisted vocabulary learning in context using a code-switching based method, focusing on teaching Japanese vocabulary to foreign language learners. First, we briefly introduce our Co-MIX method for vocabulary teaching systems using code-switching phenomenon to support vocabulary acquisition. Next, we show how we utilize incidental learning technique with graded readers to facilitate vocabulary learning. We present the systems architecture, underlying technologies and the initial evaluation of the system’s performance by using semantic differential scale. Finally, we discuss the evaluation results and compare them with our English vocabulary teaching system.
  • Exploiting wikipedia-based information-rich taxonomy for extracting location, creator and membership related information for conceptnet expansion
    Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10930, 262, 274, Springer Verlag, 2018年, [査読有り], [招待有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we present a method for extracting IsA assertions (hyponymy relations), AtLocation assertions (informing of the location of an object or place), LocatedNear assertions (informing of neighboring locations), CreatedBy assertions (informing of the creator of an object) and MemberOf assertions (informing of group membership) automatically from Japanese Wikipedia XML dump files. We use the Hyponymy extraction tool v1.0, which analyses definition, category and hierarchy structures of Wikipedia articles to extract IsA assertions and produce information-rich taxonomy. From this taxonomy we extract additional information, in this case AtLocation, LocatedNear, CreatedBy and MemberOf types of assertions, using our original method. The presented experiments prove that both methods produce satisfactory results: we were able to acquire 5,866,680 IsA assertions with 96.0% reliability, 131,760 AtLocation assertion pairs with 93.5% reliability, 6,217 LocatedNear assertion pairs with 98.5% reliability, 270,230 CreatedBy assertion pairs with 78.5% reliability and 21,053 MemberOf assertions with 87.0% reliability. Our method surpassed the baseline system in terms of both precision and the number of acquired assertions.
  • The temporal singularity: time-accelerated simulated civilizations and their implications
    Rafal Rzepka
    Artificial General Intelligence. International Conference, AGI. Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 10999), 2018年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Preface
    Ikl{\'e}, M., Franz, A., Rzepka, R., Goertzel, B.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10999 LNAI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2018年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • A method for detecting harmful entries on informal school websites using morphosemantic patterns
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yoko Nakajima, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 21, 7, 1189, 1201, Fuji Technology Press, 2017年11月01日, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents a novel method of analyzing morphosemantic patterns in language to the detect cyberbullying, or frequently appearing harmful messages and entries that aim to humiliate other users. The morphosemantic patterns represent a novel concept, with the assumption that analyzed elements can be perceived as a combination of morphological information, such as parts of speech, and semantic information, such as semantic roles, categories, etc. The patterns are further automatically extracted from the data containing harmful entries (cyberbullying) and non-harmful entries found on the informal websites of Japanese high schools. These website data were prepared and standardized by the Human Rights Center in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The patterns extracted in this way are further applied to a document classification task using the provided data in 10-fold crossvalidation. The results indicate that morphosemantic sentence representation can be considered useful in the task of detecting the deceptive and provocative language used in cyberbullying.
  • Be More Eloquent, Professor ELIZA – Comparison of Utterance Generation Methods for Artificial Second Language Tutor               
    Taku Nakamura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kentaro Inui
    Proceedings of Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2017), 2017年08月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Asystent - a Prototype of a Motivating Electronic Assistant               
    Patrycja Swieczkowska, Jolanta Bachan, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2017), 2017年08月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Conscious vs. Unaware Evaluation - Using Collective Intelligence for an Automatic Evaluation of Acts               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    2nd international workshop on evaluating general-purpose AI (EGPAI2017), 2017年08月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Prototyping A Virtual Reality Game for Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition and Story Understanding               
    Rafal Rzepka, Joelle Vitzikam, Nicolas Flasque, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Language Sense on Computers IJCAI 2016 Workshop, 35, 40, 2017年08月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語
  • Natural Language Processing for Predicting Everyday Behavior with and without Time and Duration Information               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Symposium on Forecasting 2017, 2017年06月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • ML-Ask: Open Source Affect Analysis Software for Textual Input in Japanese
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Fumito Masui
    Journal of Open Research Software, 1, 16, 16, 2017年05月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), We present ML-Ask – the first Open Source Affect Analysis system for textual input in Japanese. ML-Ask analyses the contents of an input (e.g., a sentence) and annotates it with information regarding the contained general emotive expressions, specific emotional words, valence-activation dimensions of overall expressed affect, and particular emotion types expressed with their respective expressions. ML-Ask also incorporates the Contextual Valence Shifters model for handling negation in sentences to deal with grammatically expressible shifts in the conveyed valence. The system, designed to work mainly under Linux and MacOS, can be used for research on, or applying the techniques of Affect Analysis within the framework Japanese language. It can also be used as an experimental baseline for specific research in Affect Analysis, and as a practical tool for written contents annotation.
  • 顔文字推薦技術の研究動向
    Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski
    人工知能学会誌, 32, 3, 356, 363, 2017年05月, [招待有り]
    日本語, 研究論文(その他学術会議資料等)
  • 複数の世界をつなぐ顔 ─ 現代における絵記号の意味と可能性
    Rafal Rzepka, Noriyuki Okumura, Michal Ptaszynski
    人工知能学会誌, 32, 3, 350, 355, 2017年05月, [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    日本語, 研究論文(その他学術会議資料等)
  • 工学的・心理学的側面から見た顔文字の分析に関する研究動向
    Noriyuki Okumura, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka
    人工知能学会誌, 32, 3, 342, 349, 2017年05月, [招待有り], [最終著者]
    日本語, 研究論文(その他学術会議資料等)
  • 顔文字の現象および研究の概観 ─記号の遊びが科学されるようになった道─
    Michal Ptaszynski, Noriyuki Okumura, Rafal Rzepka
    人工知能学会誌, 32, 3, 333, 341, 2017年05月, [招待有り], [最終著者]
    日本語, 研究論文(その他学術会議資料等)
  • Subjective? Emotional? Emotive?: Language Combinatorics based Automatic Detection of Emotionally Loaded Sentences
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Linguistics and Literature Studies, 5, 1, 36, 50, 2017年01月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), In this paper presents our research in automatic detection of emotionally loaded, or emotive sentences. We define the problem from a linguistic point of view assuming that emotive sentences stand out both lexically and grammatically. To verify this assumption we prepare a text classification experiment. In the experiment we apply language combinatorics approach to automatically extract emotive patterns from training sentences. the applied approach allows automatic extraction of not only widely used unigrams (tokens), or n-grams, but also more sophisticated patterns with disjointed elements. The results of experiments are explained with the use of means such as standard Precision, Recall and balanced F-score. The algorithm also provides a refined list of most frequent sophisticated patterns typical for both emotive and non-emotive context. The method reached results comparable to the state of the art, while the fact that it is fully automatic makes it more efficient and language independent.
  • What People Say? – Web-based Casuistry for Artificial Morality Experiments
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Everitt T., Goertzel B., Potapov A. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10414, 10414, 178, 187, Springer Verlag, 2017年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), It can be said that none of yet proposed methods for achieving artificial ethical reasoning is realistic, i.e. working outside very limited environments and scenarios. Whichever method one chooses, it will not work in various real world situations because it would be very cost-inefficient to provide ethical knowledge for every possible situation. We believe that an autonomous moral agent should utilize existing resources to make a decision or leave it to humans. Inverse reinforcement learning has gathered interest as a possible solution to acquiring knowledge of human values. However, there are two basic difficulties with using a human expert as the source of exemplary behavior. First derives from the fact that it is rather questionable if one person or a few people (even qualified ethicists) can be trusted as safe role models. We propose an approach which requires referring the maximal number of (currently avail-able) possible similar situations to be analyzed, and a majority decision-based “common sense” model is used. The second problem lies in human beings’ difficulties with living up to their words, surrendering to primal urges and cognitive biases, and in consequence, breaking moral rules. Our proposed solution is to use not behaviors but humans’ declared reactions to acts of others in order to help a machine determine what is positive and what is negative feedback. In this paper we discuss how the third person’s opinion could be utilized via means of machine reading and affect recognition to model a safe moral agent and discuss how universal values might be discovered. We also present a simple web-mining system that achieved 85% agreement in moral judgement with human subjects.
  • Towards joking, humor sense equipped and emotion aware conversational systems
    Pawel Dybala, Motoki Yatsu, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 483, 657, 669, Springer Verlag, 2017年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper, we present our progress so far in realization of project aimed to create a complex, modular humor-equipped conversational system. By complex, we mean that it should be able to: (1) detect users’ emotions, (2) detect users’ humorous behaviors and react to them properly, (3) generate humor according to users’ emotive states and (4) learn each user’s individual sense of humor. The research is conducted in Japanese. We chose puns as a relatively computable genre of humor. We describe a general outline of our system, as well as its four modules: humor detection module, emotion recognition module, response generator module and individualisation module. We present the algorithm of systems used in each module, along with some evaluation results.
  • Automatic Evaluation of Commonsense Knowledge for Refining Japanese ConceptNet               
    Seiya Shudo, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceeding of 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR 2016), 105, 112, 2016年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Exploiting Wikipedia-based Information-rich Taxonomy for Extracting Location and Creator Related Information for ConceptNet Expansion               
    Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 7th Language and Technology Conference - LTC 2015, 383, 387, 2016年11月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Prototyping Radiobots - Automatic Radio Talks Generator Considering Live Feedback from Listeners               
    Rafal Rzepka, Yasutomo Kimura, Yoshihito Tsuji, Keiichi Takamaru
    Proceedings of Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents Collocated with IVA2016, 2016年09月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Extracting location and creator-related information from Wikipedia-based information-rich taxonomy for ConceptNet expansion
    Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, 108, 7, 125, 131, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Our research goal is to generate new assertions suitable for introduction to the Japanese part of the ConceptNet common sense knowledge ontology. In this paper we present a method for extracting IsA assertions (hyponymy relations), AtLocation assertions (informing of the location of an object or place), LocatedNear assertions (informing of neighboring locations) and CreatedBy assertions (informing of the creator of an object) automatically from Japanese Wikipedia XML dump files. We use the Hyponymy extraction tool v1.0, which analyzes definition, category and hierarchy structures of Wikipedia articles to extract IsA assertions and produce an information-rich taxonomy. From this taxonomy we extract additional information, in this case AtLocation, LocatedNear and CreatedBy types of assertions, using our original method. The presented experiments prove that we achieved our research goal on a large scale: both methods produce satisfactory results, and we were able to acquire 5,866,680 IsA assertions with 96.0% reliability, 131,760 AtLocation assertion pairs with 93.5% reliability, 6217 LocatedNear assertion pairs with 98.5% reliability and 270,230 CreatedBy assertion pairs with 78.5% reliability. Our method surpassed the baseline system in terms of both precision and the number of acquired assertions. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • Expansion of medical vocabularies using distributional semantics on Japanese patient blogs
    Magnus Ahltorp, Maria Skeppstedt, Shiho Kitajima, Aron Henriksson, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS, 7, 58, BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2016年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Background: Research on medical vocabulary expansion from large corpora has primarily been conducted using text written in English or similar languages, due to a limited availability of large biomedical corpora in most languages. Medical vocabularies are, however, essential also for text mining from corpora written in other languages than English and belonging to a variety of medical genres. The aim of this study was therefore to evaluate medical vocabulary expansion using a corpus very different from those previously used, in terms of grammar and orthographics, as well as in terms of text genre. This was carried out by applying a method based on distributional semantics to the task of extracting medical vocabulary terms from a large corpus of Japanese patient blogs.
    Methods: Distributional properties of terms were modelled with random indexing, followed by agglomerative hierarchical clustering of 3x100 seed terms from existing vocabularies, belonging to three semantic categories: Medical Finding, Pharmaceutical Drug and Body Part. By automatically extracting unknown terms close to the centroids of the created clusters, candidates for new terms to include in the vocabulary were suggested. The method was evaluated for its ability to retrieve the remaining n terms in existing medical vocabularies.
    Results: Removing case particles and using a context window size of 1 + 1 was a successful strategy for Medical Finding and Pharmaceutical Drug, while retaining case particles and using a window size of 8 + 8 was better for Body Part. For a 10n long candidate list, the use of different cluster sizes affected the result for Pharmaceutical Drug, while the effect was only marginal for the other two categories. For a list of top n candidates for Body Part, however, clusters with a size of up to two terms were slightly more useful than larger clusters. For Pharmaceutical Drug, the best settings resulted in a recall of 25 % for a candidate list of top n terms and a recall of 68 % for top 10n. For a candidate list of top 10n candidates, the second best results were obtained for Medical Finding: a recall of 58 %, compared to 46 % for Body Part. Only taking the top n candidates into account, however, resulted in a recall of 23 % for Body Part, compared to 16 % for Medical Finding.
    Conclusions: Different settings for corpus pre-processing, window sizes and cluster sizes were suitable for different semantic categories and for different lengths of candidate lists, showing the need to adapt parameters, not only to the language and text genre used, but also to the semantic category for which the vocabulary is to be expanded. The results show, however, that the investigated choices for pre-processing and parameter settings were successful, and that a Japanese blog corpus, which in many ways differs from those used in previous studies, can be a useful resource for medical vocabulary expansion.
  • Detecting Cyberbullying with Morphosemantic Patterns               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yoko Nakajima, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Joint 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 17th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS-ISIS 2016), 248, 255, 2016年08月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Emotion Prediction System for Japanese Language Considering Compound Sentences, Double Negatives and Adverbs               
    Rafal Rzepka, Mitsuru Takizawa, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Language Sense on Computers IJCAI 2016 Workshop, 73, 79, 2016年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Recognizing and Converting Cockney Rhyming Slang for Cyberbullying And Crime Detection
    Radoslaw Komuda, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Language Sense on Computers IJCAI 2016 Workshop, 67, 72, 2016年07月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Praiseworthy Acts Recognition Using Web-based Knowledge and Semantic Categories               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kohei Matsumoto, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2016) co-located with 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016), CEUR 1619, 41, 47, 2016年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Avoiding Green and Colorless Ideas - Text-based Color-Related Knowledge Acquisition for Better Image Understanding               
    Rafal Rzepka, Keita Mitsuhashi, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition AIC 2016 (CEUR vol. 1895), 2016年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A System for English Vocabulary Acquisition based on Code-Switching
    Michal Mazur, Krzysztof Karolczak, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 14, 3, 52, 75, IGI Global, 2016年07月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Vocabulary plays an important part in second language learning and there are many existing techniques to facilitate word acquisition. One of these methods is code-switching, or mixing the vocabulary of two languages in one sentence. In this paper the authors propose an experimental system for computer-assisted English vocabulary learning in context using a code-switching based approach for Japanese learners. First they introduce the CO-MIX system, an English vocabulary teaching system that uses code-switching for vocabulary acquisition. Next, they show how they utilize incidental learning techniques with graded readers to increase language proficiency. The authors present the system architecture, underlying technologies, and evaluate the system's performance through user interaction with both a baseline and the proposed system by using a semantic differential scale. They also perform separate factor analysis of participants' attitudes for both systems, an analysis of users' mistakes and compare users' language tests scores. Finally, the authors discuss the evaluation results and further development of this technology.
  • Sustainable cyberbullying detection with category-maximized relevance of harmful phrases and double-filtered automatic optimization
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Taisei Nitta, Suzuha Hatakeyama, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 8, 15, 30, Elsevier B.V., 2016年05月01日, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), We developed a supporting solution for “cyberbullying” prevention based on recent discoveries in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. Cyberbullying, defined as using the Internet to humiliate and slander other people has become a serious problem. In Japan members of the Parent–Teacher Association manually perform Web monitoring to stop cyberbullying activities. Unfortunately, reading through the whole Web manually is an impossible task. Although the complexity of cyberbullying makes it a problem unsolvable solely with the help of technology, we found that technology could make cyberbullying prevention more efficient. We developed a novel method of automatic detection of cyberbullying entries on the Internet. In the method we use seed words from three categories to calculate a semantic orientation score and then maximize the relevance of categories. The proposed method outperformed baseline settings in both laboratory and real world conditions. The developed system was deployed and tested in practice. After a year of testing we noticed a greater than 30 percent-point-drop in its performance. We hypothesize on the reasons for the drop. To regain the lost performance and retain it in the future we propose additional improvements including automatic acquisition and filtering of seed words. Experimentally selected optimal improvements regained much of the lost performance.
  • Global Brain That Makes You Think Twice               
    Rafal Rzepka, Michal Mazur, Austin Clapp, Kenji Araki
    AAAI Spring Symposium on Well-Being Computing: AI Meets Health and Happiness Science, 403, 410, 2016年03月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Moral Judgment System using Evaluation Expressions
    Rafal Rzepka
    Transactions of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, 2016年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Simile or Not Simile? Automatic Detection of Metonymic Relations in Japanese Literal Comparisons
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: CHALLENGES FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS, 9561, 277, 289, SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG, 2016年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we propose a method of automatic distinction between two types of formally identical expressions in Japanese: similes and " metonymical comparisosn", i. e. literal comparisons that include metonymic relations between elements. Expression like "kujira no you na chiisai me" can be translated into English as "eyes small as whale's", while in Japanese, due to the lack of possessive case, it can be misunderstood as "eyes small as a whale". The reason behind this is the presence of metonymic relation between components of such expressions. In the abovegiven example the word "whale" is a metonymy and represents "whale's eye". This is naturally understandable for humans, although formally difficult to detect by automatic algorithms, as both types of expressions (similes and metonymical comparisons) realize the same template. In this work we present a system able to distinguish between these two types of expressions. The system takes a Japanese expression as input and uses the Internet to check possessive relations between its elements. We propose a method of calculating a score based on co-occurrence of source and target pairs in Google (e. g. "whale's eye"). Evaluation experiment showed that the system distinguishes between similes and metonimical comparisons with the accuracy of 74 %. We discuss the results and give some ideas for the future.
  • Rule-based Approach to Extracting Location, Creator and Membership-related Information from Wikipedia-based Information-rich Taxonomy for ConceptNet Expansion               
    Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Marek Krawczyk
    Proceedings of Language Sense on Computers IJCAI 2016 Workshop, 29, 35, 2016年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Extracting Patterns of Harmful Expressions for Cyberbullying Detection               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 7th Language and Technology Conference - LTC 2015, 370, 375, 2015年11月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Applying Code-Switching Method for E-Learning in English and Japanese Vocabulary Acquisition Systems               
    Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 7th Language and Technology Conference - LTC 2015, 487, 491, 2015年11月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Brute Force Works Best Against Bullying
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IJCAI 2015 Workshop on INTELLIGENT PERSONALIZATION (IP'2015), CEUR-WS.org, 2015年07月, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Haiku Generator That Reads Blogs and Illustrates Them with Sounds and Images               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), 2496, 2502, 2015年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Automatic Narrative Humor Recognition Method Using Machine Learning and Semantic Similarity Based Punchline Detection               
    Rafal Rzepka, Yusuke Amaya, Motoki Yatsu, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of IJCAI 2015 International Workshop on Chance Discovery, Data Synthesis and Data Market, 25, 31, 2015年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Toward Artificial Ethical Learners That Could Also Teach You How to Be a Moral Man               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of IJCAI 2015 Workshop on Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition and Applications (Cognitum 2015), 2015年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Replacing Sensors with Text Occurrences for Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition               
    Rafal Rzepka, Marek Krawczyk, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of IJCAI 2015 Workshop on Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition and Applications (Cognitum 2015), 2015年06月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Language-Centered World Simulator for Testing Various Approaches to Machine Consciousness               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC 2015) Conference, 210, 210, 2015年06月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Conscienceness – the correlation between Machine Ethics and Machine Consciousness               
    Radoslaw Komuda, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC 2015) Conference, 208, 208, 2015年06月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Semantic analysis of bloggers experiences as a knowledge source of average human morality
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology, 73, 95, IGI Global, 2015年05月31日, [査読有り], [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 論文集(書籍)内論文, This chapter introduces an approach and methods for creating a system that refers to human experiences and thoughts about these experiences in order to ethically evaluate other parties', and in a long run, its own actions. It is shown how applying text mining techniques can enrich machine's knowledge about the real world and how this knowledge could be helpful in the difficult realm of moral relativity. Possibilities of simulating empathy and applying proposed methods to various approaches are introduced together with discussion on the possibility of applying growing knowledge base to artificial agents for particular purposes, from simple housework robots to moral advisors, which could refer to millions of different experiences had by people in various cultures. The experimental results show efficiency improvements when compared to previous research and also discuss the problems with fair evaluation of moral and immoral acts.
  • Multi-Emotion Estimation in Narratives from Crowdsourced Annotations
    Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2015年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Aligning plot synopses to videos for story-based retrieval
    Rafal Rzepka
    International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2015年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Automatic Extraction of Harmful Sentence Patterns with Application in Cyberbullying Detection.
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics - 7th Language and Technology Conference(LTC), 349, 362, Springer, 2015年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • ELIZA fifty years later: An automatic therapist using bottom-up and top-down approaches
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 74, 257, 272, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015年, [査読有り], [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Our methods for realizing a moral artificial agent assume that the wisdom of crowds can equip a machine with the enormous number of experiences that are the source of its ethical reasoning. Every second, people with different cultural, religious or social backgrounds share their personal experiences about multitudes of human acts. We propose that a machine therapist capable of analyzing thousands of such cases should be more convincing and effective talking to a patient, instead of analyzing single keywords. In this chapter, we introduce this vision and several techniques already implemented in an algorithm for generating empathic machine reactions based on emotional and social consequences. We show the roles that Bentham’s Felicific Calculus, Kohlberg’s Theory of Stages of Moral Development and McDougall’s classification of instincts play in the agent’s knowledge acquisition, and we describe the accuracy of already working parts. Modules and lexicons of phrases based on these theories enable a medical machine to gather information on how patients typically feel when certain events happen, and what could happen before and after actions. Such empathy is important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills by imitation. We also discuss why this bottom-up approach should be accompanied by a top-down utility calculation to ensure the best outcome for a particular user, and what ethical dilemmas an advanced artificial therapist could cause.
  • Populating ConceptNet knowledge base with Information Acquired from Japanese Wikipedia
    Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC 2015): BIG DATA ANALYTICS FOR HUMAN-CENTRIC SYSTEMS, 2985, 2989, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2015年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents a method of acquiring IsA assertions (hyponymy relations), AtLocation assertions (informing of location of objects) and LocatedNear assertions (informing of neighboring locations) automatically from Japanese Wikipedia XML dump files. To extract IsA assertions, we use the Hyponymy extraction tool v1.0, which analyses definition, category and hierarchy structures of Wikipedia articles. The tool also produces information-rich taxonomy from which, using our original method, we can extract additional information, in this case AtLocation and LocatedNear type of assertions. Experiments showed that both methods produce positive results: we were able to acquire 5,866,680 IsA assertions with 99.0% reliability, 131,760 AtLocation assertion pairs with 93.0% reliability and 6,217 LocatedNear assertion pairs with 99.0% reliability. Our method exceeded the baseline system considering both precision and the number of acquired assertions.
  • Comparison of Emoticon Recommendation Methods to Improve Computer-Mediated Communication
    Rafal Rzepka
    STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ADHOCRACY, ENTROPY, AND THE 1 % EFFECT, 23, 39, 2015年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • 闘病ブログに出現する(薬剤名,対象,効果)で表現される薬剤服用情報の抽出
    北嶋志保, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治
    知能と情報(日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌), 27, 1, 512, 526, 2015年01月, [査読有り]
    日本語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • HokuMed in NTCIR-11 MedNLP-2: Automatic Extraction of Medical Complaints from Japanese Health Records Using Machine Learning and Rule-based Methods
    Magnus Ahltorp, Hideyuki Tanushi, Shiho Kitajima, Maria Skeppstedt, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference, 158, 162, National Institute of Informatics (NII), 2014年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Using Time Periods Comparison for Eliminating Chronological Discrepancies between Question and Answer Candidates at QALab NTCIR11 Task
    Yasutomo Kimura, Fumitoshi Ashihara, Arnaud Jordan, Keiichi Takamaru, Yuzu Uchida, Hokuto Ototake, Hideyuki Shibuki, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Fumito Masui, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference, 550, 555, National Institute of Informatics (NII), 2014年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Medical vocabulary mining using distributional semantics on Japanese patient blogs               
    Magnus Ahltorp, Maria Skeppstedt, Shiho Kitajima, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2014), 69, 73, 2014年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Blog Snippets Based Drug Effects Extraction System Using Lexical and Grammatical Restrictions
    Rafal Rzepka
    International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM), 5, 2, 1, 17, 2014年09月, [査読有り], [招待有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Emoticon Recommendation System to Richen Your Online Communication
    Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, 5, 1, 14, 33, IGI Global, 2014年06月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), Japanese emoticons are widely used to express users' feelings and intentions in social media, blogs and instant messages. Japanese smartphone keypads have a feature that shows a list of emoticons, enabling users to insert emoticons simply by touching them. However, this list of emoticons contains more than 200, which is difficult to choose from, so a method to reorder the list and recommend appropriate emoticons to users is necessary. This paper proposes an emoticon recommendation method based on the emotive statements of users and their past selections of emoticons. The system is comprised of an affect analysis system and an original emoticon database: a table of 59 emoticons numerically categorized by 10 emotion types. The authors' experiments showed that 73.0% of chosen emoticons were among the top five recommended by the system, which is an improvement of 43.5% over the method used in current smartphones, which is based only on users' past emoticon selections.
  • Matching Word-Order Variations and Sorting Results for the iEPG Data Search
    Rafal Rzepka
    International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM), 5, 1, 52, 64, 2014年06月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • 人間レベルの汎用人工知能の実現に向けた展望(<特集>汎用人工知能(AGI)への招待)
    アダムズ サム S, アレル イタマール, バッハ ヨシャ, クープ ロバート, ファーラン ロッド, ゲーツェル ベン, シノダ コウスケ, ホール ジョシュ ストアズ, イチセ リュウタロウ, サムソノヴィッチ アレクセイ, テラオ アツシ, ショイツ マティアス, フナコシ コウタロウ, シュレジンガー マシュー, マツシマ ヒロヤス, シャピロ スチュアート, ヤマカワ ヒロシ, ソワ ジョン, 篠田 孝祐, 市瀬 龍太郎, ジェプカ ラファウ, 寺尾 敦, 船越 孝太郎, 松島 裕康, 山川 宏
    人工知能, 29, 3, 241, 257, 人工知能学会 ; 2014-, 2014年05月, [招待有り]
    日本語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), 本論文では人間レベルの汎用人工知能(Artificial General Intelligence:以下AGI)の実現に向けたロードマップの概要を述べる.AGI一般に関する議論から始め,実現への現実的な目標および特性と必要条件に関して基本的な定義を行い,AGIが備えるべき能力の起点となる展望(全体図)を示す.具体的には,発達心理学からAGIの主要テーマを導出し,数学的・生理学的・情報処理的観点から実装に必要な知見を得る.AGIの性能評価に適したタスクと環境を同定し,AGIの全体図上のロードマップを構成するマイルストーンとして七つのシナリオを示すことで,さらなるAGI研究や連携の方向性を提示する.
  • Task-Oriented Consciousness – Will My Robot Feel More Happiness and Freedom Than Me?               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Anniversary “Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference,(TSC2014), 2014年04月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Experience of Crowds as a Guarantee for Safe Artificial Self               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Tech. Reports from AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems & Self-Improvement, 40, 44, 2014年03月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Automatically annotating a five-billion-word corpus of Japanese blogs for sentiment and affect analysis
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    Computer Speech and Language, 28, 1, 38, 55, 2014年
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents our research on automatic annotation of a five-billion-word corpus of Japanese blogs with information on affect and sentiment. We first perform a study in emotion blog corpora to discover that there has been no large scale emotion corpus available for the Japanese language. We choose the largest blog corpus for the language and annotate it with the use of two systems for affect analysis: ML-Ask for word- and sentence-level affect analysis and CAO for detailed analysis of emoticons. The annotated information includes affective features like sentence subjectivity (emotive/non-emotive) or emotion classes (joy, sadness, etc.), useful in affect analysis. The annotations are also generalized on a two-dimensional model of affect to obtain information on sentence valence (positive/negative), useful in sentiment analysis. The annotations are evaluated in several ways. Firstly, on a test set of a thousand sentences extracted randomly and evaluated by over forty respondents. Secondly, the statistics of annotations are compared to other existing emotion blog corpora. Finally, the corpus is applied in several tasks, such as generation of emotion object ontology or retrieval of emotional and moral consequences of actions. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
  • Annotating Japanese Blogs with Syntactic and Affective Information.
    Michal Ptaszynski, Yoshio Momouchi, Jacek Maciejewski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Mining User Generated Content, 189, 221, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2014年
  • Emotive or Non-emotive: That is The Question.
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis(WASSA@ACL), 59, 65, The Association for Computer Linguistics, 2014年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Survey on Large Scale Corpora and Emotion Corpora
    Ptaszynski Michal, Rzepka Rafal, Oyama Satoshi, Kurihara Masahito, Araki Kenji
    Information and Media Technologies, 9, 4, 429, 445, Information and Media Technologies Editorial Board, 2014年
    英語, In this paper we present a survey on natural language corpora, with particular focus on corpora of large scale and those applicable to sentiment analysis. Natural language corpora are crucial for training various Software Engineering applications, from part-of-speech taggers and dependency parsers to dialog systems or sentiment analysis software. We compare several natural language corpora created for different languages, analyze their distinctive features and the amount of additional annotations provided by the developers of those corpora.
  • A survey on large scale corpora and emotion corpora
    Ptaszynski, M., Rzepka, R., Oyama, S., Kurihara, M., Araki, K.
    Computer Software, 31, 2, 2.151-2.167 (J-STAGE), 2014年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Detecting emotive sentences with pattern-based language modelling
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    KNOWLEDGE-BASED AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATION & ENGINEERING SYSTEMS 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, KES-2014, 35, 484, 493, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2014年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents our research in detection of emotive (emotionally loaded) sentences. The task is defined as a text classification problem with an assumption that emotive sentences stand out both lexically and grammatically. The assumption is verified experimentally. The experiment is based on n-grams as well as more sophisticated patterns with disjointed elements. To deal with the sophisticated patterns a novel language modelling algorithm based on the idea of language combinatorics is applied. The results of experiments are explained with the standard means of Precision, Recall and balanced F-score. The algorithm also provides a refined list of most frequent sophisticated patterns typical for both emotive and non-emotive context. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
  • Detecting false metaphors in Japanese               
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    Proceedings of the 6th Language & Technology Conference (LTC’13), 127, 131, 2013年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Analysis of Conceptualization Patterns across Groups of People
    Fumiko Kano Gluckstad, Tue Helau, Mikkel N. Schmid, Morten Motup, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 2013 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2013), 349, 354, 2013年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Detecting Cyberbullying Entries on Informal School Websites Based on Category Relevance Maximization
    Taisei Nitta, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), 579, 586, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing / ACL, 2013年10月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Extraction of Drug Information Using Clue Words from Japanese Blogs               
    Shiho Kitajima, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2013 (PACLING 2013), 2013年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Applying the Stop List and Part of Speech Analysis to Processing the IEPG Search Query               
    Denis Kiselev, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2013 (PACLING 2013), 2013年09月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Semantic Clues for Novel Metaphor Generator               
    Rafal Rzepka, Pawel Dybala, Koichi Sayama, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop of Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, 2013年08月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Open Source Affect Analysis System with Extensions
    Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human-Agent InteractionI (iHAI 2013), 2013年08月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Cyberbullying Detection Based on Category Relevance Maximization               
    Taisei Nitta, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    20th International Conference on Language Processing and Intelligent Information Systems, 2013年06月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Automatic detection of cyberbullying with the use of Natural Language Processing methods
    Michal Ptaszynski, Taisei Nitta, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    A open lecture presented on the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, 2013年06月, [査読有り]
    英語
  • Towards computational fronesis: Verifying contextual appropriateness of emotions
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 11, 2, 16, 47, 2013年04月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents research in Contextual Affect Analysis (CAA) for the need of future application in intelligent agents, such as conversational agents or artificial tutors. The authors propose a new term, Computational Fronesis (CF), to embrace the tasks included in CAA applied to development of conversational agents such as artificial tutors. In tutor-student discourse it is crucial that the artificial tutor was able not only to detect user/student emotions, but also to verify toward whom they were directed and whether they were appropriate for the context of the conversation. Therefore, as the first task in CF the authors focus on verification of contextual appropriateness of emotions. They performed some of the first experiments in this task for the Japanese language and discuss future directions in development and implications of Computational Fronesis.Copyright © 2013, IGI Global.
  • Limiting Context by Using the Web to Minimize Conceptual Jump Size
    Rafal Rzepka, Koichi Muramoto, Kenji Araki
    ALGORITHMIC PROBABILITY AND FRIENDS: BAYESIAN PREDICTION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 7070, 318, 326, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2013年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we introduce our ideas on how experiences from real situations could be processed to decrease what Solomonoff called "Conceptual Jump Size". We introduce applications based on common-sense knowledge showing that vast corpora are able to automatically confirm the validity of the output, and also replace a "trainer", which could lead to decreasing human influence and speeding up the process of finding solutions not provided by such a "trainer" or by real world descriptions. Following this idea, we also suggest a shift toward combining natural languages with programming languages to smoothen transitions between layers of Solomonoff's "Concept net" leading from primitive concepts to a problem solution.
  • Performance Improvement of Drug Effects Extraction System from Japanese Blogs
    Shiho Kitajima, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    2013 IEEE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (ICSC 2013), 383, 386, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2013年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Information disclosed to the public by patients is very important for people who are suffering from same illness because such information can be a source of knowledge and encouragement. Our aim is to make a system that extracts, organizes and visually represents information from patients' blogs. As the first step, the purpose of this paper is to extract descriptions of the effects caused by taking drugs as a triplet of expressions - drug name, object of change, and its effect - from illness survival blogs. However, conventional extraction methods are not suitable since these blogs are written in free natural language. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to extract the triplets using specific clue words and parsing the results. An evaluation experiment confirmed that medication usage information can be extracted with high accuracy using our proposed method, in comparison to existing methods. Moreover, recall was improved by combining our proposed method and a baseline system.
  • Improving search query matching for electronic TV program guide data extraction
    Denis Kiselev, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2013, 146, 149, IEEE, 2013年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper describes a system for searching the Web-based Japanese TV program guide. The system features using morphological parsing and part-of-speech analysis to locate words with nominal and attributive semantic features in the query. Such words are matched mandatorily when searching the TV program guide text, while other words are matched optionally. Moreover, certain words and morphemes are removed from the query as they are considered to have little semantic value. The system checks every query against a stop list of such words and morphemes. Other processing methods, e.g. reversing the search phrase word order and allowing zero or more words between the search target words, are also utilized. The present paper uses TV guide search examples to demonstrate how the proposed method can improve Japanese TV program data search results. The paper also contains a few ideas about ways the method could be used for other languages. © 2013 IEEE.
  • Emoticon Recommendation for Japanese Computer-Mediated Communication
    Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    2013 IEEE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (ICSC 2013), 25, 31, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2013年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper describes the development of an emoticon recommendation system based on emoticons numerically categorized by emotion. The emoticon recommendation system aims to help users express their feelings in computer-mediated communication by recommending emoticons appropriate to user input. In order to develop this system, the original emoticon database, a table of emoticons with the points expressed from each of 10 distinctive emotions, was developed. An evaluation experiment showed that 71.3% of user-selected emoticons were among the top 10 emoticons recommended by the proposed system. Moreover, we compared the proposed system to the current system used in iPhone by adopting a semantic differential (SD) scale of 1-7. The results showed that the proposed system scored higher than the current system by 1.05 points in ease of choice, 0.55 points in accuracy, and 0.55 points in specificity. We plan to make our proposed method open source, so that any developer can build in their own interfaces and enhance their own input methods using these emoticon recommendation systems.
  • Possible usage of sentiment analysis for calculating vectors of felific calculus
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2013, 967, 970, IEEE Computer Society, 2013年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we introduce an algorithm for affective reasoning based on Bent ham's Felific Calculus known also as the hedonic calculus. Knowledge recquired for the task is retrived from a blog corpus by means of sentiment analysis on sentences containing an action or state input. This approach allows a machine to gather information on how usually other people feel when something happens, why people did it and what could happen after the act. Such knowledge is important for understanding actions of others, and for acquiring emphatic skills by a machine. In addition to emotion categorization of Nakamura, we introduce two lexicons based on McDougall's instinct classification and Kohlbergian stages of moral development, then show some basic efficiency of the retrieved knowledge. © 2013 IEEE.
  • Emoticon recommendation system for effective communication
    Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013, 1460, 1461, Association for Computing Machinery, 2013年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), The existence of social media has made computermediated communication more widespread among users around the world. This paper describes the development of an emoticon recommendation system that allows users to express their feelings with their input. In order to develop this system, an innovative emoticon database consisting of a table of emoticons with points expressed from each of 10 distinctive emotions was constructed. An evaluation experiment showed that 71.3% of user-selected emoticons were among the top 10 emoticons recommended by the proposed system. Copyright 2013 ACM.
  • Society as a life teacher - Automatic recognition of instincts underneath human actions by using blog corpus
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8238, 370, 376, Springer, 2013年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we introduce a method for generating a set of possible reasons of an action needed by an AI program for reasoning about human behavior. We achieve this goal by using web-mining and lexicons of keywords reflecting 14 instincts categories developed by psychologist William McDougall. We describe our system, the experiment and analyze its results of 78% of correct retrievals. The paper is also meant to be a message to social scientists who might be interested in testing their theories on constantly growing group of Internet users. © 2013 Springer International Publishing.
  • Affect analysis in context of characters in narratives
    Michal Ptaszynski, Hiroaki Dokoshi, Satoshi Oyama, Rafal Rzepka, Masahito Kurihara, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 40, 1, 168, 176, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2013年01月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents our research in text-based affect analysis (AA) of narratives. AA represents a task of estimating or recognizing emotions elicited by a certain semiotic modality. In text-based AA the modality in focus is the textual representation of language. In this research we study particularly one type of language realization, namely narratives (e.g., stories, fairy tales, etc.). Affect analysis within the context of narratives is a challenging task because narratives are created of different kinds of sentences (descriptions, dialogs, etc.). Moreover, different characters become subjects of different emotional expressions in different parts of narratives. In this research we address the problem of person/character related affect recognition in narratives. We propose a method for emotion subject extraction from a sentence based on analysis of anaphoric expressions and compare two methods for affect analysis. We evaluate the system and discuss its possible future improvements. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Dynamics of stainless steel turning: Analysis by flicker-noise spectroscopy
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2013年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • A socio-cognitive model of trust using argumentation theory
    Rafal Rzepka
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2013年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • NLP Oriented Japanese Pun Classification
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING (IALP 2012), 33, 36, IEEE, 2012年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we describe a phonetic classification of Japanese puns (dajare). Basing on real life examples gathered from available sources (books, Internet), we divided Japanese puns into 12 groups with numerous subgroups, according to phonetic changes that occur within them. This classification was prepared for the NLP purpose, i.e. to be used in humor processing. Its usefulness was shown in a research project, aimed at constructing a humor-equipped conversational system for Japanese.
  • Data filtering in humor generation: Comparative analysis of hit rate and co-occurrence rankings as a method to choose usable pun candidates
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2587, 2590, ACM, 2012年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we propose a method of filtering excessive amount of textual data acquired from the Internet. In our research on pun generation in Japanese we experienced problems with extensively long data processing time, caused by the amount of phonetic candidates generated (i.e. phrases that can be used to generate actual puns) by our system. Simple, naive approach in which we take into considerations only phrases with the highest occurrence in the Internet, can effect in deletion of those candidates that are actually usable. Thus, we propose a data filtering method in which we compare two Internet-based rankings: a co-occurrence ranking and a hit rate ranking, and select only candidates which occupy the same or similar positions in these rankings. In this work we analyze the effects of such data reduction, considering 1 cases: when the candidates are on exactly the same positions in both rankings, and when their positions differ by 1, 2, 3 and 4. The analysis is conducted on data acquired by comparing pun candidates generated by the system (and filtered with our method) with phrases that were actually used in puns created by humans. The results show that the proposed method can be used to filter excessive amounts of textual data acquired from the Internet. © 2012 ACM.
  • Japanese Puns Are Not Necessarily Jokes.
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    Artificial Intelligence of Humor, Papers from the 2012 AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 2-4, 2012, AAAI, 2012年, [査読有り]
  • RhetorEthics, or - On implementing an aristotelian approach to machine ethics               
    Radoslaw Komuda, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 22, 24, 2012年
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), We begin this paper with revisiting the differences between descriptive and normative approach to ethics and argue about the usefulness of the latter for the filed of Machine Ethics. We continue this reasoning and present our insights on previous trends in this field and highlight the need for a change in the approach. We justify that experimental approach to Machine Ethics by introducing a moral reasoning system based on Aristotelian identification of civic rhetoric. And present it as a step forward in the Machine Ethics research bypassing theoretical disputes between specialists. We finish this paper with the introduction to the CAMILLA project for adjusting our web-crawling agent and creating an Aristotelian explicit moral agent.
  • A domain analytic method in modular-designed dialogue system: Application to a system for Japanese               
    Motoki Yatsu, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 25, 30, 2012年
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper, we propose implicit and explicit utterance generation models and a dialogue system in which such models are implemented. Modularization of classifiers enables the agent to annotate input utterance with tags of multiple features including types of sentences and mood expressions. In the implicit model, the features extracted from the input sentences define an agent's internal state. A relativity vector to each domain is sustainably computed based on similarity in Japanese WordNet ontology and the system's internal state. The explicit answers are generated if the input text is classified as Question-Answering domain based on the tags given by classifier modules. In other cases of classification, the system generates open-domain utterances. We will discuss the result of experiments intended to show characteristics of both domain detection methods.
  • Chatterbots with occupation - Between non task and task oriented conversational agents               
    Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 61, 66, 2012年
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Chatterbots are computer systems specialized in simulating intelligent conversation. Dialog systems are often classified as task and non-task oriented: one focusing on the completion of particular tasks, and the other representing the less formal aspects of interaction with an system, such as free talking. In our research we aim to create a performing conversational system that would act as a language tutor. Performing such function means not only passing knowledge, but also assisting students in developing a variety of other attributes, as well as creating a necessary teacher - student bond. In this paper we would like to present an idea of a conversational system that would perform both tasks, reaching beyond the boundaries of existing dialog systems classification. First, we discuss the aspects of currently used chatterbot systems with a certain purpose. Then we address the existing problems of maintaining conversation with users and reacting to their emotional states in tutoring systems. We also present the current work on our tutoring system as an example of chatterbot with occupation. Finally we discuss the potential applications of such chatterbots for education and other fields.
  • Augmenting interaction: Collecting common sense through AR objects               
    Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 15, 21, 2012年
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Augmented Reality applications are becoming more popular with the continued miniaturization of technology. With the increasing use of smart phones, which often provide increased processing power, enhanced and open software platforms, Augmented Reality has become instrumental in the way we perceive our surroundings and the information that it carries. It is now possible to implement an Augmented Reality system without carrying bulky and expensive equipment. Currently, there are many systems that implement some form of Augmented Reality to provide a specialized interaction to users. However, those systems usually employ expensive, immobile components with highly specialized interfaces. In this paper we present a novel approach for building interactive interfaces using Augmented Reality. UIAR (User Interface through Augmented Reality) is an augmented reality framework that allows for the ubiquitous creation and dissemination of interactive user interfaces and augmented reality objects. Here we present the novel interaction schemes of UIAR alongside the implementation of the framework's intended purpose - collecting common sense through AR objects.
  • The gauging of two-dimensional bosonic sigma models on world-sheets with defects
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2012年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Science of emoticons: Research framework and state of the art in analysis of kaomoji-type emoticons
    Michal Ptaszynski, Jacek Maciejewski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    Speech, Image, and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction: Multi-Modal Advancements, 234, 260, IGI Global, 2012年, [査読有り], [招待有り]
    英語, 論文集(書籍)内論文, Emoticons are string of symbols representing body language in text-based communication. For a long time they have been considered as unnatural language entities. This chapter argues that, in over 40-year-long history of text-based communication, emoticons have gained a status of an indispensable means of support for text-based messages. This makes them fully a part of Natural Language Processing. The fact the emoticons have been considered as unnatural language expressions has two causes. Firstly, emoticons represent body language, which by definition is nonverbal. Secondly, there has been a lack of sufficient methods for the analysis of emoticons. Emoticons represent a multimodal (bimodal in particular) type of information. Although they are embedded in lexical form, they convey non-linguistic information. To prove this argument the authors propose that the analysis of emoticons was based on a theory designed for the analysis of body language. In particular, the authors apply the theory of kinesics to develop a state of the art system for extraction and analysis of kaomoji, Japanese emoticons. The system performance is verified in comparison with other emoticon analysis systems. Experiments showed that the presented approach provides nearly ideal results in different aspects of emoticon analysis, thus proving that emoticons possess features of multimodal expressions. © 2012, IGI Global.
  • YACIS: A five-billion-word corpus of Japanese Blogs fully annotated with syntactic and affective information
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 40, 49, 2012年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents YACIS, a new fully annotated large scale corpus of Japanese language. The corpus is based on blog entries from Ameba blog service. The original structure (blog post and comments) is preserved, thanks to which semantic relations between posts and comments are maintained. The corpus is annotated with syntactic (POS, dependency parsing, etc.) and affective (emotive expressions, emoticons, valence, etc.) information. The annotations are evaluated in a survey on over forty respondents. The corpus is also compared to other existing corpora, both large scale and emotion related.
  • Emotion valence shifts in humorous metaphor misunderstandings generation
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Kohichi Sayama
    AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialogue Agents, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012, 50, 54, 2012年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In our previous work we proposed an idea of a system able to generate humorous metaphor misunderstanding during conversations with users, employing the mechanism of salience imbalance. However, according to existing research in the field of cognitive science, lexical salience imbalance might not be enough to constitute humorous metaphors. Another important factor in this process can be emotive salience imbalance, i.e. emotional shifts, which occur within metaphorical expressions. In this paper we propose how to employ this mechanism in our system, by implementing an emotion from text detector.
  • Automatically Annotating A Five-Billion-Word Corpus of Japanese Blogs for Affect and Sentiment Analysis.
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop in Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis(WASSA@ACL), 89, 98, The Association for Computer Linguistics, 2012年
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Language of Emotions for Simulating Moral Imagination               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 6th Confetence of Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2012), 67, 67, 2012年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語
  • Evaluation of utterances based on causal knowledge retrieved from blogs
    Motoyasu Fujita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ASC 2011, 294, 299, 2011年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper, we describe the effectiveness of utterance generation using causal knowledge for a dialogue system. Recently, there has been a variety of research on non-task-oriented dialogue systems
    however, an effective approach has not yet been developed. One of the most important reasons for this is that non-task-oriented dialogue systems lack common sense knowledge, which is not in their databases. As the first step towards solving this problem, we concentrated on causal knowledge containing reasons and effects, which can provide unwritten meanings for utterance understanding and generating modules. In this paper we investigated how an utterance generated with knowledge related to user input can improve an existing conversational system. Experiment results show that utterance generation using causal knowledge can improve a conversational system.
  • A Modules-Based, Task-Navigational Dialogue System               
    Motoki Yatsu, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of PACLING 2011, 46, 2011年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Introducing Grammatically Aware Regular Expression               
    Tyson Roberts, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of PACLING 2011, 48, 2011年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • UIAR Common Sense: an augmented reality framework for creating games to collect common sense from users
    Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 27, 274, 280, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Augmented Reality (AR) applications have become widespread with the continued miniaturization of technology. With the increasing use of smart phones, which often provide increased processing power, enhanced and open software platforms, Augmented Reality has become instrumental in the way we perceive our surroundings and the information that it carries. Augmented Reality has also become a welcome visualization tool for many fields, not restricted to Human-Computer Interaction. In this paper we present a novel approach for building interactive interfaces using Augmented Reality and we give an example how one can use our framework for creating games to collect common sense knowledge from users. We present a software framework for ubiquitous Augmented Reality enhancement for human-computer interaction called UIAR (User Interface through AR). Our framework improves on four areas in Augmented Reality development that we currently see lacking. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of PACLING Organizing Committee.
  • Proposal for a Conversational English Tutoring System that Encourages User Engagement               
    Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education : Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ICCE2011), 10, 12, 2011年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Generality evaluation of automatically generated knowledge for the Japanese ConceptNet
    Rafal Rzepka, Koichi Muramoto, Kenji Araki
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7106, 648, 657, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2011年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we introduce three methods for automatic generality evaluation of commonsense statements candidates generated for Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS), which is the basis of Concept Net, a commonsense knowledge base. By using sister terms from Japanese Word Net, our system generates new statements which are automatically evaluated by using WWW co-occurrences and hit number retrieved by a Web search engine. These values are used in three generality judgment methods we propose. Evaluation experiments show that the best of them was "exact match ratio" which achieved accuracy of 62.6% when evaluating general sentences and "co-occurrences in snippets" method scored highest with 48.6% when judging unnatural phrases. Compared to the data without noise elimination, the "exact match ratio" achieved 38.2 points increase in accuracy.
  • Just Keep Tweeting, Dear: Web-Mining Methods for Helping a Social Robot Understand User Needs.
    Keisuke Takagi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration, Papers from the 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-11-05, Stanford, California, USA, March 21-23, 2011, 60, 65, AAAI, 2011年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Vaccines and Vaccine Adjuvants as Biological Response Modifiers
    Rafal Rzepka
    Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2011年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Affine su(2) fusion rules from gerbe 2-isomorphisms
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2011年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Language Combinatorics: A Sentence Pattern Extraction Architecture Based on Combinatorial Explosion
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Yoshio Momouchi
    International Journal of Computational Linguistics, 2, 1, 24, 36, Computer Science Journals, 2011年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), A "sentence pattern" in modern Natural Language Processing is often considered as asubsequent string of words (n-grams). However, in many branches of linguistics, like Pragmaticsor Corpus Linguistics, it has been noticed that simple n-gram patterns are not sufficient to revealthe whole sophistication of grammar patterns. We present a language independent architecturefor extracting from sentences more sophisticated patterns than n-grams. In this architecture a"sentence pattern" is considered as n-element ordered combination of sentence elements.Experiments showed that the method extracts significantly more frequent patterns than the usualn-gram approach.
  • WWW活用による語の比喩的素描手法
    桝井 文人, ジェプカ ラファウ, 木村 泰知, 福本 淳一, 荒木 建治
    知能と情報 : 日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌 : journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 22, 6, 707, 719, 日本知能情報ファジィ学会 = Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 2010年12月15日, [査読有り]
    日本語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), 論文では,クエリ語に対して説明文や定義文を回答する代わりに,WWWから収集した断片知識を使って比喩的に素描する手法を提案する.提案手法は,直喩表現を生成する指標パターンを利用して,WWWから大量の名詞句の関係を収集する.そしてこれらの情報に基づいて,デスクリプタと呼ばれる,クエリ語を描写する断片知識を獲得する.各デスクリプタの一般性と局所性を考慮してその記述力を推定し,これに基づいてランキングして視覚化する.さらに,比喩的関係が持つ性質と複数の定型パターンによる知識獲得技術を組み合わせることによって,獲得したデスクリプタ集合を上位語,属性語に分類する.ユーザは視覚化された比喩的素描を見ることによって,連想的にクエリ語の意味を把握できる.提案手法の有効性を検証するために,実装システムMurasakiを構築し,いくつかの評価実験を実施した.その結果,基本性能については,bag of wordsを用いるよりもかなり有効であることを確認した.また,検索サイトにおける注目キーワードに対する応答性能では,汎用辞書の性能を大きく上回り(60%の適合率),新語や固有名詞に対して非常に有効であることがわかった他,ランキング性能(74%のMRR)や分類性能(63%の成功率)についても有効性が確認できた.さらに,獲得するデスクリプタの網羅性を安定させれば,比喩的素描によってWikipediaに近い効果が得られる可能性(81%のヒット率)を持つこともわかった.この結果は,我々が提案する比喩的素描による表現手法が,説明文や定義文の代わりに機能する可能性を示したとともに,既存の汎用辞書には対応できない新語や固有名詞に対しても有効であることを示している.
  • EVALUATING SUBJECTIVE ASPECTS OF HCI ON AN EXAMPLE OF A NON-TASK ORIENTED CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS, 19, 6, 819, 856, WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, 2010年12月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), The evaluation of subjective aspects of HCI, such as human-likeness, likeability or users' emotions towards computers is still quite a neglected issue, especially in the field of non-task oriented conversational systems (chatterbots). In this paper we try to bridge this gap by proposing a new methodology of evaluation. The methods presented were tested in our research on humor-equipped chatterbots. We describe them in details, discuss their drawbacks and usability. In one of the presented methods we used an emotiveness analysis system, which itself can be considered an AI tool, as it was used to detect users' emotions towards conversational systems, and to perform their automatic evaluation. We also propose some methods that we have not used yet, which, however, seem applicable in this field, such as brain scanning techniques. Finally, we give some ideas that should be addressed in the future.
  • An automatic evaluation method for conversational agents based on Affect-as-Information Theory (特集 感情)
    Ptaszynski Michal, Dybala Pawel, Rzepka Rafal, Araki Kenji
    知能と情報 : 日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌 : journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 22, 1, 73, 89, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics = 日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 2010年02月15日, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents a method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. The method consists of several steps. First, an affect analysis system is used to detect users' general emotional engagement in the conversation and classify their specific emotional states. Next, we interpret this data with the use of reasoning based on Affect-as-Information Theory to obtain information about users' general attitudes to the conversational agent and its performance. The affect analysis system was also enhanced with a procedure for analysis of Contextual Valence Shifters to help determine the semantic orientation of emotive expressions. The method is used as a background procedure during users' conversations with two Japanese-speaking conversational agents. To verify the usability of the method, the users' attitudes to the conversational agents determined automatically during the conversations were compared to the results of a questionnaire taken after the conversations. The results provided by the system revealed similar tendencies to the questionnaire. Therefore we can say that the method is applicable as a means of evaluation for Japanese-speaking conversational agents.
  • Contextual affect analysis: A system for verification of emotion appropriateness supported with Contextual Valence Shifters
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Biometrics, 2, 2, 134, 154, 2010年02月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents a novel method for estimating speaker's affective states based on two contextual features: valence shifters and appropriateness. Firstly, a system for affect analysis is used to recognise specific types of emotions. We improve the baseline system with the analysis of Contextual Valence Shifters (CVS), which determine the semantic orientation of emotive expressions. Secondly, a web mining technique is used to verify the appropriateness of the recognised emotions for the particular context. Verification of contextual appropriateness of emotions is the next step towards implementation of Emotional Intelligence Framework in machines. The proposed method is evaluated using two conversational agents. Copyright © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
  • Machine Moral Development: Moral Reasoning Agent Based on Wisdom of Web-Crowd and Emotions
    Radoslaw Komuda, Michal Ptaszynski, Yoshio Momouchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Arak
    International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, 1, 3, 155, 163, DLINE, 2010年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), We begin this paper by putting forward the topic of human conscience as a metaphysical experience. We present our ongoing research on moral reasoning categories and make first attempts to verify their usefulness in creating an agent with a dynamic algorithm for moral reasoning. Our approach assumes creating such an agent basing on two factors, the idea of wisdom of web-crowd and emotion-buttressed reasoning. We present a novel approach to the idea of ethics. Instead of the usual non-cognitive one we propose a model with computational structure and discuss applicability of this approach. Finally, we present some of the first results of a preliminary experiment performed to prove our approach.
  • In the Service of Online order: Tackling Cyber-bullying with Machine Learning and Affect Analysis
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Tatsuaki Matsuba, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi
    International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, 1, 3, 135, 163, DLINE, 2010年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), One of the burning problems lately in Japan has been cyber-bullying, or slandering and bullying people online. The problem has been especially noticed on unofficial Web sites of Japanese schools. Volunteers consisting of school personnel and PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) members have started Online Patrol to spot malicious contents within Web forums and blogs. In practise, Online Patrol assumes reading through the whole Web contents, which is a task difficult to perform manually. With this paper we introduce a research intended to help PTA members perform Online Patrol more efficiently. We aim to develop a set of tools that can automatically detect malicious entries and report them to PTA members. First, we collected cyber-bullying data from unofficial school Web sites. Then we performed analysis of this data in two ways. Firstly, we analysed the entries with a multifaceted affect analysis system in order to find distinctive features for cyber-bullying and apply them to a machine learning classifier. Secondly, we applied a SVM based machine learning method to train a classifier for detection of cyber-bullying. The system was able to classify cyber-bullying entries with 88.2% of balanced F-score.
  • When Your Users Are Not Serious Using Web-based Associations, Affect and Humor for Generating Appropriate Utterances for Inappropriate Input
    Rafal Rzepka, Shinsuke Higuchi, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Kenji Araki
    人工知能学会論文誌, 25, 1, 114, 121, 人工知能学会, 2010年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), In this paper we propose a method for generating simple but semantically correct replies to user inputs which are not related to a given task of a task-oriented information kiosk or any other natural language interface placed in a public place. We describe our method for retrieving meaningful associations from the Web and adding modality based on chatlog data. After showing the results of the evaluation experiments, we introduce an implementation of an affect analysis algorithm and pun generator to increase users' satisfaction level.
  • Forgetful and emotional: recent progress in development of dynamic memory management system for conversational agents
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Symposium, 32, 38, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Thinking of the ways to improve naturalness and adequacy of utterances in conversational agents, the authors propose a dynamic database management system. The system borrows some features of the forgetting mechanisms in humans. The core of the system, forgetting and recalling algorithms, depend on the frequency of usage of context units and their emotive values derived from evaluative reasoning about both sides of interaction - the agent and the user.
  • Chain of Events: Multi-stage Approach to Humor and Emotions in HCI
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Symposium, 53, 58, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Humor and emotions are strongly related to each other. Both these topics are recently gaining more and more attention from HCI researchers. Some of existing research projects employ humor generating engines in conversational systems, in order to improve their interaction with humans. Evaluation of such joking systems is often related to users' emotions, i.e. their feelings towards the systems during and after the interaction. However, in human-human interaction, humor is usually a reaction to particular emotional states, and can be even used intentionally, to change interlocutor's emotions (e.g. sadness into joy). Thus, also in HCI it is important to broaden our view and take into consideration not only emotions that follow the humorous act, but also those that precede it. In this paper we propose to distinguish between what we call a "two-stage" approach, in which emotions are seen only as a reaction to humor, and a "multi-stage" approach, in which we consider emotions and humor as an interchanging chain of events, occurring one after another. The multi-stage approach is illustrated with an actual example - our joking conversational system, which 1) analyses users' emotions during the interaction, 2) uses humor as a reaction to users' particular emotional states, and 3) analyses their reactions to it. We briefly present the results of its evaluation experiments, and finally propose an idea of user-adapting humor sense model, in which the humor-emotion chain can be extended even further.
  • Computer System That Likes Chess               
    Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Symposium, 42, 44, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • An idea of a web-crowd based moral reasoning agent
    Radoslaw Komuda, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Symposium, 17, 19, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we firstly discuss some of the presumptions about human conscience. By a detailed guidance throughout our ongoing research on morality judgment categories we make an attempt to summarize it and its usefulness for creating an explicit moral reasoning agent with system based on the wisdom of the web-crowd. With special remarks on giving it a mathematically calculative structure and chances created by this approach alteration.
  • Machine learning and affect analysis against cyber-bullying               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Tatsuaki Matsuba, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Symposium, 7, 16, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Automatic Haiku Generation Using Web search and Japanese Weblogs as Input               
    Takuya Emori, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2010), 30, 32, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Multi-Input Approach for a System for Semantically Relevant Art Creation               
    Tyson Roberts, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2010), 38, 39, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Acquisition of Japanese Word Descriptions from World Wide Web               
    Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Yasutomo Kimura, Junichi Fukumoto, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2010), 153, 158, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Ubiquitous User Interfaces Framework Using Augmented Reality as a Platform               
    Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2010), 187, 191, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Co-Mix Project: Towards Artificial Tutors Using Code Mixing as Foreign Language Teaching Method               
    Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Science and Technology (IWMST 2010), 196, 201, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Social Factors in Kohlberg's Theory of Stages of Moral Development - the Utility of (Web) Crowd Wisdom for Machine Ethics Research               
    Radoslaw Komuda, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Applied Ethics, 34, 34, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Multi-humoroid: joking system that reacts with humor to humans' bad moods.
    Pawel Dybala,Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010, Volume 1-3, 1433, 1434, IFAAMAS, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Japanese Natural Language Toolset Implementation for ConceptNet.
    Tyson Michael Roberts, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Commonsense Knowledge, Papers from the 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 11-13, 2010, 88, 89, AAAI, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • CAO: A Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System
    Michal Ptaszynski, Jacek Maciejewski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificail Intelligence (AAAI-10), 1026, 1032, ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2010年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents CAO, a system for affect analysis of emoticons. Emoticons are strings of symbols widely used in text-based online communication to convey emotions. It extracts emoticons from input and determines specific emotions they express. Firstly, by matching the extracted emoticons to a raw emoticon database, containing over ten thousand emoticon samples extracted from the Web and annotated automatically. The emoticons for which emotion types could not be determined using only this database, are automatically divided into semantic areas representing "mouths" or "eyes", based on the theory of kinesics. The areas are automatically annotated according to their co-occurrence in the database. The annotation is firstly based on the eye-mouth-eye triplet, and if no such triplet is found, all semantic areas are estimated separately. This provides the system coverage exceeding 3 million possibilities. The evaluation, performed on both training and test sets, confirmed the system's capability to sufficiently detect and extract any emoticon, analyze its semantic structure and estimate the potential emotion types expressed. The system achieved nearly ideal scores, outperforming existing emoticon analysis systems.
  • CAO: A Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System Based on Theory of Kinesics
    Michal Ptaszynski, Jacek Maciejewski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING, 1, 1, 46, 59, IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2010年01月, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper presents CAO, a system for affect analysis of emoticons in Japanese online communication. Emoticons are strings of symbols widely used in text-based online communication to convey user emotions. The presented system extracts emoticons from input and determines the specific emotion types they express with a three-step procedure. First, it matches the extracted emoticons to a predetermined raw emoticon database. The database contains over 10,000 emoticon samples extracted from the Web and annotated automatically. The emoticons for which emotion types could not be determined using only this database, are automatically divided into semantic areas representing "mouths" or "eyes," based on the idea of kinemes from the theory of kinesics. The areas are automatically annotated according to their co-occurrence in the database. The annotation is first based on the eye-mouth-eye triplet, and if no such triplet is found, all semantic areas are estimated separately. This provides hints about potential groups of expressed emotions, giving the system coverage exceeding 3 million possibilities. The evaluation, performed on both training and test sets, confirmed the system's capability to sufficiently detect and extract any emoticon, analyze its semantic structure, and estimate the potential emotion types expressed. The system achieved nearly ideal scores, outperforming existing emoticon analysis systems.
  • Multiagent system for joke generation: Humor and emotions combined in human-agent conversation
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Jacek Maciejewski, Mizuki Takahashi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS, 2, 1, 31, 48, IOS PRESS, 2010年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), In this paper we present an innovative work on a multiagent joking conversational system. In our research so far we have shown that implementing humor into a chatterbot can visibly improve its performance. The results presented in this paper are the outcome of the next step of our work. They show that a multiagent system, combining a conversational agent, a pun generator and an emotiveness analysis engine, works reasonably well in interactions with users. In the setup used in this research, the emotiveness analysis agent analyses users' utterances and decides whether it is appropriate to tell a pun. Depending on the results of this analysis, the agent chooses either the pun generator, if the decision is that a joke should be told, or the non-humor-equipped agent when the decision is different. Two evaluation experiments were conducted: user (first person) focused and automatic (emotiveness-analysis-based). In both, we compared the performance of the multiagent joking system and a baseline (non-humorous) conversation agent. The results show that in both cases the humor-equipped engine was evaluated as better than the baseline agent. The results are discussed and some ideas for the future are given.
  • Quantitative features of multifractal subtleties in time series
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2010年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Global gauge anomalies in two-dimensional bosonic sigma models
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2010年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • An Automatic Evaluation Method for Conversational Agents Based on Affect-as-Information Theory               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    知能と情報(日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌)特集 感情, 2, 2, 134, 155, 2010年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Towards Socialized Machines: Emotions and Sense of Humour in Conversational Agents               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuhi, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, 9, 2010年, [査読有り]
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  • Extending the Chain: Humor and Emotions in Human Computer Interaction
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, 1, 3, 116, 125, DLINE, 2010年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), The issues of humor and emotions are strongly related to each other. Their role is recently being appreciated by HCI researchers, and numerous scientific ventures are launched to investigate this subject from various perspectives. Among others, research projects exist focusing on implementing humor generators into conversational systems, in order to facilitate their interaction with humans. In such research, evaluation experiments are often focused, if not limited to, examining users' emotive reactions towards systems (both during and after the interactions). However, in HHI (Human- Human Interaction),humor is often used, be it intentionally or subconsciously, in reaction to interlocutor's emotions, in order to change them from negative to positive, as, for instance, anxiety into joy, or at least reduce the degree of negativity. This was showed in numerous research, mostly in the field of psychology. Thus, it can be said that in HHI, both emotions preceding and following humorous acts are taken into consideration, while most research in HCI focus only on the latter, thus representing what we call a "twostage approach" to humor and emotions. In this paper we first describe current state of the art in the field of research on humor and emotions, propose to distinguish two types of approach to relation between these two issues, next we compare existing research on this matter in HHI (psychology) and HCI, and describe our research progress. In our project, launched to construct a humor-equipped conversational system, we developed a system, which 1) analyses users' emotions during the interaction, 2) uses humor as a reaction to users' particular emotional states, and 3) analyses their reactions to it. Thus, the system represents what we defined as a "multi-stage approach" to humor and emotions, taking into consideration users' emotive states both before and after humorous stimuli. We present the results of experiments conducted to evaluate our system's performance, and propose an idea of a user-adapting humor sense model, in which the humor-emotion chain can be extended even further.
  • 感情処理研究におけるコンテクストの考慮の必要性をめぐって
    プタシンスキ ミハウ, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会 ファジィ システム シンポジウム 講演論文集, 26, 212, 212, 日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 2010年
    日本語, 人工知能における感情の研究は盛んになっている.しかし,多くの研究において感情のコンテクストは考慮されていない.本稿では感情認知において,感情のコンテクストを考慮しない手法は不完全であることを示し,それらの手法では現実的なアプリケーションを開発することは難しいと論ずる.そのための論理的基礎を述べ,感情処理研究におけるコンテクストの重要性を記述している.さらにコンテクストを考慮する新しいアプローチを提案し,そのアプローチを用いた手法及び実験を紹介する.最後には感情処理研究においてコンテクスト応用の今後の展望について述べる.
  • When Your Users Are Not Serious:Using Web-based Associations, Affect and Humor for Generating Appropriate Utterances for Inappropriate Input
    Rzepka Rafal, Higuchi Shinsuke, Ptaszynski Michal, Dybala Pawel, Araki Kenji
    Information and Media Technologies, 5, 1, 216, 223, Information and Media Technologies 編集運営会議, 2010年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), In this paper we propose a method for generating simple but semantically correct replies to user inputs which are not related to a given task of a task-oriented information kiosk or any other natural language interface placed in a public place. We describe our method for retrieving meaningful associations from the Web and adding modality based on chatlog data. After showing the results of the evaluation experiments, we introduce an implementation of an affect analysis algorithm and pun generator to increase users' satisfaction level.
  • Serious processing for frivolous purpose - A chatbot using web-mining supported affect analysis and pun generation
    Rafal Rzepka, Wenhan Shi, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi, Kenji Araki
    International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI, 487, 488, 2009年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), By our1 demonstration we want to introduce our achievements in combining different purpose algorithms to build a chatbot which is able to keep a conversation on any topic. It uses snippets of Internet search results to stay within a context, Nakamura's Emotion Dictionary to detect an emotional load existence and categorization of a textual utterance and a causal consequences retrieval algorithm when emotive features are not found. It is also able to detect a possibility to make a pun by analyzing the input sentence and create one if timing is adequate.
  • Humorized Computational Intelligence towards User-Adapted Systems with a Sense of Humor
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 5484, 452, 461, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2009年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper investigate, the role of humor in non-task oriented (topic restriction free) human-computer dialogue, as well as the correlation between humor and emotions elicited by it in users. A joke-telling conversational system, constructed for the needs of this research, was evaluated by the users as better and more human-like than a baseline system without humor. Automatic emotive evaluation with the usage of an emotiveness analysis system showed that the system with humor elicited more emotions than the other one, and most of them (almost 80%) were positive. This shows that the presence of humor makes computers easier to familiarize with and simply makes users feel better. Therefore, humor should be taken into consideration in research On user-friendly applications, as it enhances the interaction between user and system. The results are discussed and Our concept of a user-adapted humor-equipped system is presented.
  • Artificial Self Based on Collective Mind - Using Common Sense and Emotions Web-Mining for Ethically Correct Behaviors               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness TCS 2009 - Investigating Inner Experience Brain, Mind and Technology, 75, 2009年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Shifting Valence Helps Verify Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-09), 19, 21, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Subjective, But Not Worthless - Non-linguistic Feature of Chatterbot Evaluations               
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems (KRPDS 2009), 87, 92, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Conscience of Blogs: Verifying Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions Basing on Blog Contents
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Arak
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2009), 1, 6, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents a method for estimating contextual appropriateness of speaker's emotions. The method is using an affect analysis system to estimate the speaker's emotions and a Web mining technique gathering from the Internet associations about emotional common-sense. The baseline of the Web mining technique, using all of the Web, is improved by restricting the query field to the contents of blogs as containing more evaluative information. A conversational agent equipped with this system could choose an appropriate conversational procedure. The proposed method is evaluated using two conversational agents. The use of blog contents improved the method in the aspect of quality as well as time of processing.
  • Getting closer to human level - human-likeness and its relation to humor in non-task oriented dialogue systems
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2009), 7, 14, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), Human-likeness of dialogue systems is an important, albeit neglected issue. In this paper, basing on evaluation experiments of humor-equipped chatterbot, we propose a method of measuring the distance between humans and systems and relation between human-likeness and humor. The results show that the presence of humor can enhance the performance of dialogue systems. A humor-equipped chatterbot was evaluated as more human like and generally better than one without humor, by both first and third person evaluators. The implications of this fact and novelty of evaluation method are discussed, and some ideas for the future are given.
  • Teaching a Humanoid Robot through Physical Feedback: So Easy Even a Five Year Old Could Use It               
    Dai Hasegawa, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 19th Intelligent System Symposium (FAN2009) and the 1st International Workshop on Aware Computing (IWAC2009), 26, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Determining the Output of Dependency Parser by Extending Grammar Rules with Weights               
    Jacek Maciejewski, Rafał Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of PACLING 2009, 121, 124, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Crossing Word Borders - Towards Phrasal Pun Generation Engine               
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of PACLING 2009, 242, 247, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Affecting Corpora:Experiments with Automatic Affect Annotation System ? A Case Study of the 2channel Forum ?
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of PACLING 2009, 223, 226, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Activating humans with humor - A dialogue system that users want to interact with
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E92-D, 12, 2394, 2401, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication, Engineers, IEICE, 2009年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), The topic of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been gathering more and more scientific attention of late. A very important, but often undervalued area in this field is human engagement. That is, a person's commitment to take part in and continue the interaction. In this paper we describe work on a humor-equipped casual conversational system (chatterbot) and investigate the effect of humor on a user's engagement in the conversation. A group of users was made to converse with two systems: one with and one without humor. The chat logs were then analyzed using an emotive analysis system to check user reactions and attitudes towards each system. Results were projected on Russell's two-dimensional emotiveness space to evaluate the positivity/negativity and activation/deactivation of these emotions. This analysis indicated emotions elicited by the humorequipped system were more positively active and less negatively active than by the system without humor. The implications of results and relation between them and user engagement in the conversation are discussed. We also propose a distinction between positive and negative engagement. Copyright © 2009 The Institute of Electronics.
  • Automatically Choosing Appropriate Gestures for Jokes.
    Dai Hasegawa, Jonas Sjöbergh, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Fifth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, AIIDE 2009, October 14-16, 2009, Stanford, California, USA, The AAAI Press, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Method for Acquiring Body Movement Verbs for a Humanoid Robot through Physical Interaction with Humans.
    Dai Hasegawa, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Fifth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, AIIDE 2009, October 14-16, 2009, Stanford, California, USA, The AAAI Press, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Bacteria Lingualis in The Knowledge Soup - A Webcrawler with Affect Recognizer for Acquiring Artificial Empathy.
    Rafal Rzepka, Radoslaw Komuda, Kenji Araki
    Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Papers from the 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 5-7, 2009, 123, AAAI, 2009年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Pragmatic Approach to Implementation of Emotional Intelligence in Machines.
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Papers from the 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 5-7, 2009, FS-09-01, 101, 102, AAAI, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), By this paper we would like to open a discussion on the need of Emotional Intelligence as a feature in machines interacting with humans. However, we restrain from making a statement about the need of emotional experience in machines. We argue that providing machines computable means for processing emotions is a practical need requiring implementation of a set of abilities included in the Emotional Intelligence Framework. We introduce our methods and present the results of some of the first experiments we performed in this matter. Copyright © 2009, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved.
  • Connectives Acquisition in a Humanoid Robot Based on an Inductive Learning Language Acquisition Model
    Hasegawa Dai, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Humanoid Robots, 65, 82, I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2009年, [査読有り]
    論文集(書籍)内論文
  • A System for Affect Analysis of Utterances in Japanese Supported with Web Mining
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, DYBALA Pawel, SHI Wenhan, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji
    知能と情報(日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌)特集「感性検索」, 21, 2, 30, 49, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 2009年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), We propose a method for affect analysis of textual input in Japanese supported with Web mining. The method is based on a pragmatic reasoning that emotional states of a speaker are conveyed by emotional expressions used in emotive utterances. It means that if an emotive expression is used in a sentence in a context described as emotive, the emotion conveyed in the text is revealed by the used emotive expression. The system ML-Ask (Emotive Elements / Expressions Analysis System) is constructed on the basis of this idea. An evaluation of the system is performed in which two evaluation methods are compared. To choose the most objective evaluation method we compare the most popular method in the field and a method proposed by us. The proposed evaluation method was shown to be more objective and revealed the strong and weak points of the system in detail. In the evaluation experiment ML-Ask reached human level in recognizing the general emotiveness of an utterance (0.83 balanced F-score) and 63% of human level in recognizing the specific types of emotions. We support the system with a Web mining technique to improve the performance of emotional state types extraction. In the Web mining technique emotive associations are extracted from the Web using co-occurrences of emotive expressions with morphemes of causality. The Web mining technique improved the performance of the emotional states types extraction to 85% of human performance.
  • Humoroids - Coversational Agents That Induce Positive Emotions with Humor
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AAMAS 2009), 1171, 1172, IFAAMAS, 2009年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Towards Context Aware Emotional Intelligence in Machines: Computing Contextual Appropriateness of Affective States
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    21ST INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IJCAI-09), PROCEEDINGS, 1469, 1474, IJCAI-INT JOINT CONF ARTIF INTELL, 2009年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents a novel approach to the estimation of user's affective states in Human-Computer Interaction. Most of the present approaches divide emotions strictly between positive or negative. However, recent discoveries in the field of Emotional Intelligence show that emotions should be rather perceived as context-sensitive engagements with the world. This leads to a need to specify whether the emotions conveyed in a conversation are appropriate for a situation they are expressed in. In the proposed method we use a system for affect analysis on textual input to recognize users emotions and a Web mining technique to verify the contextual appropriateness of those emotions. On this basis a conversational agent can choose to either sympathize with the user or help them manage their emotions. Finally, the results of evaluation of the proposed method with two different conversational agents are discussed, and perspectives for further development of the method are proposed.
  • Are Body Movements Really Important for Joke Systems? Comparing Different Styles of Joke Performance
    Dai Hasegawa, Jonas Sjobergh, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM'08), 8, 13, 2008年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations
    Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 382, 390, 2008年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Straight Thinking Straight From The Net - On The Web-Based Intelligent Talking Toy Development
    Rafal Rzepka, Shinsuke Higuchi, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki
    The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC'08), 2171, 2175, IEEE, 2008年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper introduces an early stage of a smart toy development project which combines several techniques to achieve a level of conversational skills and knowledge higher than currently available robots for children. We describe our ideas and achievements for three modules which we treat as the most important - topic unlimited talking engine, emotions recognizer and the moral behavior analyzer. We will also mention our novel evaluation method for freely speaking agents and possibilities of adding another module - an automatic joke generator.
  • Disentangling emotions from the Web Internet in the service of affect analysis               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Affective Systems,, 51, 56, 2008年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Affect-as-Information Approach to a Sentiment Analysis Based Evaluation of Conversational Agents
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MODELLING CONTROL & AUTOMATION, VOLS 1 AND 2, 901, 906, IEEE, 2008年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this paper we propose a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. The method is based on analyzing the user's affect conveyed in utterances. From analyzing: the user's general emotional engagement in the conversation and the emotion types conveyed by the user in the conversation, a simple psychological reasoning is derived about the user's sentiment about the agent's performance. The evaluation experiment on two Japanese-speaking conversational agents showed the same tendencies in the results returned by the system constructed on the proposed method and the user's opinion about the two agents checked in the afterward survey. Thus the method can be used for evaluation of Japanese-speaking conversational agents.
  • Affect as Information about Users’ Attitudes to Conversational Agents
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2008, 495, 500, 2008年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper presents a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. In the method, information about users' attitudes and sentiments to conversational agents and their performance are achieved by analyzing their general emotional engagement in the conversation and specific affective states, and interpreting them using psychological reasoning of Affect-as-Information. In the evaluation experiment the users' attitudes to two Japanesespeaking conversational agents were checked simultaneously in a survey and using a system constructed on the proposed method. The results returned by the system revealed similar tendencies as the survey. Therefore the method is applicable as a mean of evaluation for Japanese-speaking conversational agents. © 2008 IEEE.
  • How to find love in the Internet? Applying Web mining to affect recognition from textual input               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Wenhan Shi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the 2008 Empirical Methods for Asian Languages Processing Workshop (EMALP'08) at The Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'08), 67, 79, 2008年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Bundle Gerbes for Orientifold Sigma Models
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2008年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Gerbe-holonomy for surfaces with defect networks
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2008年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Stages of Ethical Development in Artificial General Intelligence Systems
    Rafal Rzepka
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Humor Prevails! Implementing a Joke Generator into a Conversational System
    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 5360, 214, 225, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2008年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper contains the results of evaluation experiments conducted to investigate if implementation of a pun generator into a non-task oriented talking system improves the latter's performance. We constructed a simple joking conversational system and conducted one user evaluation experiment and two third person evaluation experiments. The results showed that humor does have a positive influence on the dialogue between humans and computers. The implications of this fact and problems that occurred during the research arc discussed. We also propose how they can be solved in the future.
  • Toward Automatic Support For Japanese Lay Judge System - Processing Precedent Factors For Sentencing Trends Discovery               
    Rafal Rzepka, Masafumi Matsuhara, Yasutomo Kimura, Keiichi Takamaru, Hideyuki Shibuki, Koji Murakami
    Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, 2008年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Proposal of Precedents Processing System for Supporting Japanese Lay Judges
    Rafal Rzepka
    Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Universal Communication, 2008年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • How We Did How, What and Why ? HOMIO’s Participation in QAC4 of NTCIR-6               
    Yasutomo Kimura, Kenji Ishida, Hirotaka Imaoka, Fumito Masui, Keisuke Kameyama, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting, 483, 486, 2007年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Consciousness of crowds - The internet as knowledge source of human conscious behavior and machine self-understanding               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report, FS-07-01, 127, 128, 2007年
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This position paper introduces our approach to the artificial consciousness problem, approach which we developed during our experiments with automatic common sense retrieval and affective computing for opendomain talking systems. The data about the common behaviors and usual feelings is taken from the Internet, not from a particular programmer or user. Behavior patterns are retrieved based on Schankian scripts, usual emotional consequences of particular actions are calculated for every possible outcome, and the most positive action is chosen to be performed after a confirmation. The system is not only learning the conscious behavior, it can also "know" what it is or not capable of by using simple text-mining. Copyright © 2007, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
  • Non-commutative Weitzenboeck geometry, gerbe modules, and WZW branes
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2007年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • WZW orientifolds and finite group cohomology
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2007年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Evaluation of connectives acquisition in a humanoid robot using direct physical feedback
    Rafal Rzepka
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4830 LNAI, 664, 668, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2007年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Common Sense from the Web? Naturalness of Everyday Knowledge Retrieved from WWW
    Rafal Rzepka
    Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 10, 6, 868, 875, Fuji Technology Press Ltd., 2006年11月20日, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(学術雑誌), This paper is to suggest opportunities for advanced systems hiding in the millions of WWW pages. While usually the Internet is used for achieving knowledge for humans, we present opposite approach where a machine retrieves usual knowledge about humans, their common behaviors and feelings. We claim that in long run such capability will be necessary for every machine interacting with a human user. We will concentrate on our theories and illustrate them with the results of web-mining experiment.
  • What About Tests In Smart Environments? On Possible Problems With Common Sense In Ambient Intelligence               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of 2nd IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence, 92, 96, 2006年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Brane Bulk Couplings and Condensation from REA Fusion
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2006年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Commonsense Retrieval as an Aid for Easier Conversation-based Language Acquisition               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition, 2005年07月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Naturalness of an Utterance Based on the Automatically Retrieved Commonsense
    Rafal Rzepka, Yali Ge, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of IJCAI 2005 - Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, paper 490, 1696, 1697, IJCAI-INT JOINT CONF ARTIF INTELL, 2005年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), In this research we investigated user's behavior while facing a system coping with common knowledge about keywords and compared it with not only classic word-spotting method but also with random text-mining. We show how even a simple implementation of our idea can enrich the conversation and increase the naturalness of computer's utterances. Our results show that even very commonsensical utterances are more natural than classic approaches and also methods we developed to make a conversation more interesting. For arousing opinion exchange during the session, we will also briefly introduce our idea of combining latest NLP achievements into one holistic system where the main engine we want to base on commonsense processing and affective computing.
  • Automatic scripts retrieval and its possibilities for social sciences support applications
    Yali Ge, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Proceedings, 51, 58, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2005年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper introduces our method for automatic Schankian-like scripts retrieval from the Internet resources and its preliminary results which might be interesting for Social Sciences researchers. We describe the first module of our system, which is supposed to automatically retrieve commonsensical knowledge from the Web resources by using web-mining techniques. It retrieves minimal "object - action - action" scripts which show humans' common activities changing due the origin of a webpage author. Such data can be used in fields of economics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, sociology or in language education. By this paper we would like to make NLP researchers notice the potential of commonsense retrieval and encourage them to consider creating such tools for their languages.
  • What Statistics Could Do for Ethics? - The Idea of Common Sense Processing Based Safety Valve               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Machine Ethics, Papers from AAAI Fall Symposium, Technical Report FS-05-06, 85, 87, 2005年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Support for Internet-Based Commonsense Processing - Causal Knowledge Discovery Using Japanese “If” Forms
    Yali Ge, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of KES'2005 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Springer-Verlag LNAI, 3682, 950, 956, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2005年, [査読有り]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス), This paper introduces our method for causal knowledge retrieval from the Internet resources, its results and evaluation of using it in utterance creation process. Our system automatically retrieves common-sensical knowledge from the Web resources by using simple web-mining and information extraction techniques. For retrieving causal knowledge the system uses three of specific several Japanese "if" forms. From the results we can conclude that Japanese web pages indexed by a common search engine spiders are enough to discover common causal relationships and this knowledge can be used for making Human-Computer Interfaces sound more natural and interesting than while using classic methods.
  • Three Systems and One Verifier - HOKUM's Participation in QAC3 of NTCIR -               
    Yasutomo Kimura, Kenji Ishida, Hirotaka Imaoka, Fumito Masui, Marcin Skowron, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting, 402, 408, 2005年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Twisted WZW Branes from Twisted REA's
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2005年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Automatic Scripts Retrieval and Its Possibilities for Soft Science Support Applications               
    Yali Ge, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Intelligent Information Systems 2005 - New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference Proceedings, 3682, 2005, 950, 956, 2005年, [査読有り]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Quantum Matrix Models for Simple Current Orbifolds
    Rafal Rzepka
    ArXiv, 2004年
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Toward Fully Automatic Categorization for Commonsense Processing               
    Rafal Rzepka, Toshihiko Itoh, Kenji Araki
    Proceedings of the Language Sense on Computer 2004 - Part of the Eight Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40, 46, 2004年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
  • Ideas for the Web-Based Affective Processing
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2, 3, 50, 57, INT INST INFORMATICS & SYSTEMICS, 2004年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(学術雑誌), As most of us subconsciously feel, it is a great difficulty to create a program which could imitate human's way of thinking. Recently the importance of the relation between expressions "feel", "create" and "way of thinking" used in the previous sentence is being noticed, what gave birth to so called "affective computing". During our experiments within GENTA project, we have observed useful connotations between the common sense information and the emotional information which could be retrieved automatically from the Internet resources. Those observations seem promising for the language and knowledge acquisition and suggested us to investigate the subject, and also to develop some ideas, which could be useful to the researchers in various AI fields. We describe GENTA-related sub-projects and their preliminary experiments.
  • Emotional Information Retrieval for a Dialogue Agent
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Koji Tochinai
    An International Journal of Computing and Informatics Informatica, 27, 2, 205, 212, 2003年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(学術雑誌), Rzepka, R., Araki, K., Tochinai, K.: "Emotional Information Retrieval for a Dialogue Agent" in "Perception and Emotions Based Reasoning" - Special Issue of "Informatica" - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Volume 27, Number 2: 205-212 (2003)*
  • Bacterium lingualis - The web-based commonsensical knowledge discovery method
    Rafal Rzepka
    Discovery Science, Proceedings, 2843, 460, 467, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2003年, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    研究論文(学術雑誌)
  • Is It Out There? The Perspectives of Emotional Information Retrieval from the Internet Resources               
    Rzepka Rafal, Kenji Araki, Koji Tochinai
    Proceedings of the IASTED Artificial Intelligence and Applications Conference, 22, 27, 2002年09月, [査読有り], [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)

その他活動・業績

  • DanStoデータセットを用いた大規模言語モデルの否定理解の性能評価               
    阿部有紗, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 2024度人工知能学会全国大会, 2024年06月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 常識知識グラフによる知識拡張プロンプトの有効性               
    岡田憩, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 2024度人工知能学会全国大会, 2024年06月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • ヒューリスティックと遺伝的アルゴリズムを用いた自動プロンプトチューニング手法               
    進藤稜真, ジェプカラファウ, 竹下昌志, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024), P9-8, 2024年03月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 日本語徳倫理データセットの開発に向けて:英語データセットの翻訳と日本語データセットの比較               
    竹下昌志, 連慎治, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024), P3-26, 2024年03月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • DanSto - Japanese Dataset of Short Stories for Evaluating Context Understanding               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kacper Dudzic, Arisa Abe, Kenji Araki, Technical Report of JSAI Special Interest Group for Artificial General Intelligence, SIG-AGI-026-06, 2024年03月, [筆頭著者, 責任著者]
    英語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • 質問応答データセットによる種差別バイアスの測定に向かって               
    竹下昌志, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 人工知能学会 第26回汎用人工知能研究会, 2024年03月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • Influence of Person’s Names on Large Language Model Recommendations in Daily-Life Scenarios               
    Huizhong Ji, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Technical Reports of the Language And Understanding Symposia Series, 2023, 13, 11, 20, 2023年12月
    英語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • Web-Based Five Senses Input Simulation Twenty Years Later - in the Era of LLMs               
    Rafal Rzepka, Don Divin Anemeta, Kenji Araki, Technical Report of JSAI Special Interest Group for Artificial General Intelligence, SIG-AGI-025-07, 2023年11月, [筆頭著者, 責任著者]
    英語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • Linguistic analysis in diagnosing dementia and depression
    Mariusz Ziółko, Mariusz Ziółko, Napoleon Waszkiewicz, Wojciech Datka, Karolina Kozłowska, Michał Kucharski, Bartosz Ziółko, Rafał Rzepka, Karol Kamiński, JMIR Preprints, 2023年05月24日
    BACKGROUND

    Neurodegenerative and mental disorders significantly affect the manner of speaking, syntax, semantics and specific habits of word choice. Linguistic analysis can detect these disorders.

    OBJECTIVE

    The aim of this study was to examine whether speech analysis can be useful for screening test in neurology and psychiatry, due to the limited number of techniques supporting medical diagnostics in these fields. There is a need for a fast, low-cost method for analysing speech samples provided over the phone or as transcripts over the Internet.

    METHODS

    Comparing lemma frequencies in the control group recordings with lemma frequencies in speech of people diagnosed with dementia or depression allowed us to select lemmas that appear too rarely or too frequently in the speech of people affected by disorders. Moreover, the ratio of the number of lemmas to the number of words is a very good indicator of dementia.

    RESULTS

    For neurodegenerative and mental disorders, linguistic analysis frequently results in a more effective diagnosis than analysis of acoustic features. Linguistic changes are easily detectable in dementia, and less noticeable in depressions. By comparing features of speech samples, it was possible to create a classifier which distinguishes one group from the other. We used linguistic analysis to build a system for providing screening tests. Two methods were used to diagnose dementia. The first method is based on the observation that statements made by people with dementia have lower vocabulary variations. The percentage of lemmas (in relation to the number of words) makes it possible to detect dementia states. The second diagnostic method is based on lemma probabilities. This method was also used in depression screening tests.

    CONCLUSIONS

    By knowing features of speech samples recorded by the subjects and the control group, it is possible to create a classifier which distinguishes one group of recordings from the other. Linguistic changes are easily detectable in dementia, and less noticeable in depression.

    CLINICALTRIAL

    Trial Registration CT03197363; https://clinicaltrials.gov

    , JMIR Publications Inc., 英語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • 日本語知識グラフを用いた質問応答システムの構築とグラフサイズの影響の検証               
    矢野一樹, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木健治, 情報処理学会 第255回自然言語処理研究会 NLC, 2023年03月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • JCommonsenseMorality: 常識道徳の理解度評価用日本語データセット               
    竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会 第29回年次大会 発表論文集, D2-1, 2023年03月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • 補助文自動生成を用いたBERTによる日本語アスペクトベース感情分析におけるアスペクトカテゴリ検出の精度向上               
    張懿陽, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会 第29回年次大会 発表論文集, A3-2, 2023年03月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • BERTモデルと補助文自動生成に基づいた日本語アスペクトベース感情分析の精度向上               
    張 懿陽, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-C302-3, 2022年12月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • Large Language Models - Sophisticated Autocomplete Tools or a Big Step Towards AGI?               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ, 第22回汎用人工知能研究会ワークショップ「AGI研究第3の波 」, 2022年11月, [招待有り]
    日本語, その他
  • 辞書型感情分析システムの網羅性問題を解決するためのゼロショットテキスト分類モデルの導入とその精度検証               
    池野 奏介, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 令和4年度 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会, 2022年10月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • NLPモデルの性能の再現可能な測定に向けて:再現性の時間軸モデルと日本のNLP研究の再現性の簡易的調査
    竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会 第28回年次大会 発表論文集, A2-2, 28th, 2022年03月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 文脈による危険度変化の予測のためのデータセット構築
    勝又友輝, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会 第28回年次大会 発表論文集, PH3-2, 28th, 2022年03月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 日本語Wikipediaからの属性値抽出タスクにおけるクエリの有効性検証
    坂田将樹, 中山功太, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 関根聡, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会 第28回年次大会 発表論文集, PH4-6, 28th, 2022年03月
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 議論データ抽出における意見とKey Pointのスタンス分類を考慮したMatch Scoringの評価               
    桝田大貴, 白藤大幹, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 第12回言語獲得と理解研究会報告, 2022年01月
    記事・総説・解説・論説等(大学・研究所紀要)
  • 論文の構造とタイトルを独立して考慮した医学論文検索モデルの提案
    吉井 瑞貴, 竹下 昌宏, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE, 67th, 2021年11月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 議論データ抽出におけるArgumentとKey Pointのスタンス分類からMatch Scoringまでの自動化に向けて               
    桝田 大貴, 白藤 大幹, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 2021年11月
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • BM25Tを用いたオンライン上の医療ニュース記事の根拠論文候補抽出
    吉井 瑞貴, 竹下 昌志, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 令和3年度 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会, 2021, 2021年11月
    日本語, 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • Wikipedia記事の構造化における関連知識を含む質問の有効性検証               
    坂田将樹, Rafal Rzepka, 荒木健治, YANS 2021, 2021年08月
    機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
  • 英語の言語モデルに内在する種差別的バイアスの分析
    竹下 昌志, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 言語処理学会第27回年次大会発表論文集, 27th, 2021年03月
    日本語
  • Cost-Friendly Feature-based Approach for Paraphrase Identification               
    Xiaodong Liu, Rzepka Rafal, Araki Kenji, 音声言語および自然言語処理シンポジウム, 2020年12月
  • 日本語の単語埋め込みにおける文字種による性別バイアスの相違の分析及び緩和の試み
    竹下 昌志, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 令和2年度 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会, 2020, 2020年11月
  • Mapping arguments to key point: Match Scoring of arguments using sentence embedding and MoverScore without labelled data               
    白藤大幹, Rafal Rzepka, 荒木健治, ARG Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会第16回研究会予稿集, 2020年10月
  • Unsupervised summarization of arguments toward key point generation with Sentence-BERT-based method               
    白藤大幹, Rafal Rzepka, 荒木健治, ARG Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会第16回研究会予稿集, 2020年10月
  • Language Model-based Context Augmentation for World Knowledge Bases               
    Rafal Rzepka, Sho Takishita, Kenji Araki, Proceedings The 34th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2020年06月, [筆頭著者]
  • Bacteria Lingualis on BERToids - Concept Expansion for Cognitive Architectures               
    Rafal Rzepka, Sho Takishita, Kenji Araki, Technical Report of JSAI Special Interest Group for Artificial General Intelligence, SIG-AGI-014-10, 2020年02月, [筆頭著者]
  • コーパス作成における専門性を考慮した作業者割当ての提案と化学分野での評価               
    吉川和, 金子貴美, 岩倉友哉, 吉田宏章, 熊野康孝, 嶋田和孝, Rafal Rzepka, Patrycja Swieczkowska, 言語処理学会 第25回年次大会 発表論文集, B4-3, 2019年03月
  • 単語の分散表現を用いた日本語イベント連鎖の自動構築               
    瀧下祥, Rafal Rzepka, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会第25回年次大会(NLP2019), 2019年03月
    日本語
  • Unicorn Story Generation and Limits of Words ― On Perspectives of Automatic Tacit Knowledge Addition               
    Rafal Rzepka, Sho Takishita, Kenji Araki, Technical Report of JSAI Special Interest Group for Artificial General Intelligence, SIG-AGI, 2019年03月, [筆頭著者]
    英語
  • Retrieving Metaphorical Sentences from Japanese Literature Using Standard Text Classification Methods               
    Mateusz Babieno, Sho Takishita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE, 2018年10月
    英語
  • 機微技術の判定支援のための対話型システムに向けて               
    大林明彦, ジェプカ ラファウ, 産学連携学会 第16回大会, 2018年06月, [最終著者]
    日本語
  • Preliminary Analysis of Weibo Emojis for Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Social Media               
    Da Li, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Proceedings The 32th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1J3, 04, 2018年06月
    英語
  • First Trials with Culture-Dependent Moral Commonsense Acquisition               
    Rafal Rzepka, Li Da, Kenji Araki, Proceedings The 32th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1F2-OS, 5a-05, 2018年06月, [筆頭著者]
    英語
  • 共起頻度と意味的特徴を用いた五感に関する知識の一般性評価手法               
    三橋 奎太, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ARG Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会第11回研究会予稿集, 85, 90, 2017年12月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Affect-as-Information Approach to a Sentiment Analysis Based Evaluation of Conversational Agents
    Ptaszynski, Michal, Dybala, Pawel, Higuchi, Shinsuke, Rzepka, Rafal, Araki, Kenji, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies & Internet Commerce (IAWTIC'08), 901, 906, 2017年01月16日
    英語
  • 書籍レビューテキストから生成した評価軸とトピックモデルを用いたハイブリット推薦手法の有効性               
    北原 將平, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 情報処理学会第164回データベースシステム研究会予稿集, 2017-DBS-164, 4, 1, 6, 2017年01月
    日本語
  • Influence of Emoticons and Adverbs on Affective Perception of Japanese Texts               
    Rafal Rzepka, Urszula Jagla, Pawel Dybala, Kenji Araki, 第30回人工知能学会全国大会, 1K4-3H4-OS-17b-3, 2016年06月, [筆頭著者]
    英語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • ユーザの顔文字選択のプロセスからみた顔文字推薦手法の検討               
    卜部 有記, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 第30回人工知能学会全国大会, 3H3-OS-17a-2,, 17a-2, 2016年06月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • レビューテキストを対象としたハイブリッド型推薦手法における トピックモデルの有効性について               
    北原將平, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 第30回人工知能学会全国大会, 1K4-OS-06a-4in1, 2016年06月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • より優れたモラル推論システムのための文章中の犯罪検出
    KOMUDA Radoslaw, PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 33rd, 2016年
  • 語彙チャンクの出現頻度情報に基づく 判決文の類似性判定を用いた量刑推定システムの有効性について
    田中 匡, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-B502-1, 1, 6, 2015年12月
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 意味的カテゴリ及び感情表現を用いた褒めるべき行為の判定
    松本 康平, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-B502-3,, 17, 26, 2015年12月
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 書籍の季節推定手法における季語の有効性 (ことば工学研究会(第49回)物語、その周辺)
    伝住 颯夏, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 49, 37, 42, 2015年09月25日
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語
  • 書籍の季節推定手法における季語の有効性               
    伝住 颯夏, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-B501, 36, 41, 2015年09月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Radiobots型対話システムの提案               
    木村 泰知, ジェプカ ラファウ, 高丸 圭一, JSAI2015, 2L4-OS-07a-2, 2015年05月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Extracting ConceptNet Knowledge Triplets from Japanese Wikipedia               
    Krawczyk Marek, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会第21回年次大会予稿集, 1052, 1055, 2015年03月
    英語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 季語を用いた作品季節推定システムの評価               
    Satsuna Denzumi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会第21回年次大会予稿集, 36, 39, 2015年03月
    日本語, 研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 3指を用いたタッチパネル入力の評価と考察について (マルチメディア・仮想環境基礎)
    井上 育美, 棟方 渚, Rzepka Rafal, 荒木 健治, 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 = IEICE technical report : 信学技報, 114, 73, 63, 70, 2014年06月06日
    近年スマートフォンの普及に伴い,携帯端末の文字入力はタッチパネル上に表示されるソフトキーボードが主流となりつつある.しかし,その精度や速度,打ちやすさなどは改善の余地がある.その要因の一つとして,現在の入力手法の多くが主に1指を用いて特定の狭い入力領域をタップすることにあると考えられる.そこで,3指の認識と各指の圧力を用いたタップおよびフリック入力を用いる実験環境を構築し,精度を向上させることを目的としたユーザ評価を試みた.具体的には各指の動作に仮名文字を割り当てるマッピングを行うため,ユーザの打ちやすい指の動きについて検証を行った.本稿では,被験者実験により3指の認識精度と各指の組み合わせによる正答率の評価,使用感アンケートによる印象調査およびそれらの相関について考察を述べる., 一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 日本語
  • 3指を用いたタッチパネル入力の評価と考察につい
    井上 育美, 棟方 渚, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 情報処理学会エンタティンメントコンピューティング研究会資料, 2014-EC-32, 1, 6, 2014年06月
    日本語
  • 第6回汎用人工知能国際会議(2013)参加報告(<特集>汎用人工知能(AGI)への招待)
    荒川 直哉, ジェプカ ラファウ, Naoya Arakawa, Rafal Rzepka, 北海道大学, Hokkaido University, 人工知能 = journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 29, 3, 239, 240, 2014年05月01日
    日本語
  • テキストメッセージの感情及びユーザの選択履歴に対応した顔文字推薦手法の提案とスマートフォンに実装した際のユーザビリティ評価
    卜部有記, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会第20回年次大会(NLP2014)講演論文集, 2014年03月
    日本語
  • 感情および非感情文型パターンの自動抽出
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, MASUI Fumito, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web), 20th, 2014年
  • 副詞の影響度を考慮した感情推定 (ことば工学研究会(第44回)「ことば」による印象、表象の生成)
    滝澤 満, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 44, 13, 18, 2013年11月29日
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語
  • ユーザの履歴選択と文の感情に基づいた顔文字推薦手法
    卜部 有記, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 29, 768, 773, 2013年09月09日
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • 重文および否定形を考慮した感情認識システムの改善
    滝澤 満, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 29, 774, 777, 2013年09月09日
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • Straight thinking straight from the net - on the web-based intelligent talking toy development
    Rzepka, Rafal, Higuchi, Shinsuke, Ptaszynski, Michal, Araki, Kenji, 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), 2172, 2176, 2013年08月
    英語
  • A-dur : Action Duration Calculation System (ことば工学研究会(第43回)表現)
    KRAWCZYK Marek, URABE Yuki, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 43, 47, 54, 2013年07月26日
    In this paper, we present A-dur, a tool for calculating duration of actions expressed in Japaneselanguage. A-dur was created in order to be implemented into emotional and social consequences textmining system. However it potentially can be used as a stand-alone time distance calculation solution.It utilizes an extendable temporal expression rules database handcrafted to the system's specifications.We also present the results of our preliminary experiments estimating the database accuracy., ことば工学事務局, 英語
  • Web-Based Five Senses Input Simulation : Ten Years Later (ことば工学研究会(第43回)表現)
    Rzepka Rafal, Araki Kenji, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 43, 25, 33, 2013年07月26日
    A decade has passed from our paper in which we questionthe sensors technology not being ready to give a machine the five senseswith the recognition level close to human's and, as we expected, sensingdevices are still not sufficient to become a base for the world knowledgebased reasoning. Although we did not developed the proposed systemany further because of limited access to Internet data, the need for machineexperience is now even more urgent than before. Existing worldknowledge retrieval systems tend more and more to concentrate on nameentityinformation ignoring very basic world knowledge which is still oneof the most difficult obstacles on the path for reasoning about everydaysituations. In our paper we will introduce results of our latest trial toautomatize previously proposed theory for enriching machine's capabilityto simulate environmental perception and deepen human behaviorunderstanding., ことば工学事務局, 英語
  • 単語間類似度を用いた物語ユーモア認識手法の性能評価 (ことば工学研究会(第43回)表現)
    天谷 祐介, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 43, 63, 69, 2013年07月26日
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語
  • 闘病ブログを対象とした薬剤服用情報抽出手法の医療対象用語辞書を用いた改善
    北嶋志保, RZEPKA Rafal, 荒木健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 43rd, 19, 23, 2013年07月26日
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語
  • カテゴリ別関連度最大化手法に基づく学校非公式サイトの有害書込み検出
    新田大征, 桝井文人, PTASZYNSKI Michal, 木村泰知, RZEPKA Rafal, 荒木健治, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 27th, ROMBUNNO.203-9IN, 4, 2013年
    人工知能学会, 日本語
  • IOS-02 Alan Turing Year Special Session on AI Research That Can Change the World(Organized Sessions in the 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,The 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Art
    ラファウ ジェプカ, 阿部 明典, 人工知能学会誌, 27, 6, 673, 673, 2012年11月01日, [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    社団法人人工知能学会, 日本語
  • テキストの面白さ評価によるユーモアの認識
    天谷 祐介, 荒木 健治, ラファウ ジェプカ, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 28, 233, 238, 2012年09月12日
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • 闘病ブログを対象とした手がかり語を用いた薬剤服用情報の抽出手法
    北嶋 志保, 荒木 健治, ジェプカ ラファウ, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 28, 251, 256, 2012年09月12日
    自然言語で書かれた患者による医療記録を用いて,病状の未来予測を可能とするシステムを構築することは,インフォームド・コンセントの助けとなり非常に有用である.その第一段階として,闘病ブログから薬剤の服用によりおこる効果・変化に関する記述を(薬剤,対象,評価)の三つ組として抽出する手法を提案する.抽出に利用できる医療用の評価表現辞書は存在せず,また,従来の抽出パタンもブログには適していない.そこで,特定の手がかり語を用いて,係り受け関係を考慮した抽出を行う.評価実験により,既存の手法に比べ高い精度で服用に関する情報を抽出できることを確認した., 日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • 汎用的な対話システムにおけるドメイン検出のための複合的手法
    谷津 元樹, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 28, 420, 425, 2012年09月12日
    汎用的な対話能力を有する音声対話システムの実現のため,著者らは明示的,暗黙的なドメイン検出方法を考案し非タスク指向型対話を既定の発話生成手法とする対話システムに対し実装を行なった.明示的なドメイン検出は,1個の入力発話に付与された統語的,意味的な素性に対するラベル (タグ) の組合せに基づき応答発話生成手法を決定する動作である.暗黙的なドメイン検出は,複数ターンの対話において,対話中の入力発話の各タグの組合せ頻度,および入力発話内自立語のWordNet シソーラスにおけるタスクキーワードとの累積意味類似度に基づき,不明瞭であるがタスク達成の意図を持つ使用者に対しタスク指向ドメインの候補を提示する.本稿では,両者の手法を複合した汎用的対話能力によるオープンドメイン対話でのタスク達成支援に対して,その評価実験および考察を述べる., 日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • Polarization of Consequence Expressions for an Automatic Ethical Judgment Based on Moral Stages Theory
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 情報処理学会研究報告. 自然言語処理研究会報告, 2012, 14, 1, 4, 2012年07月19日, [筆頭著者]
    In this paper we introduce a lexicon of words describing positive and negative consequences of human actions based on Kohlbergian theory of stages that people experience when developing moral reasoning. We briefly introduce our algorithm for an automatic ethical judgment and then describe the role of the data and compare an effectiveness of the polarized set alone and when combined with emotional expressions data used for recognizing possible subjective reactions of average Internet users., 一般社団法人情報処理学会, 英語
  • A Survey on Large Scale Web Based Corpora
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, MOMOUCHI Yoshio, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 18th (CD-ROM), ROMBUNNO.B5-1, 2012年03月13日
    英語
  • Annotating Syntactic Information on 5.5 Billion Word Corpus of Japanese Blogs
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, MOMOUCHI Yoshio, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 18th (CD-ROM), ROMBUNNO.B2-4, 2012年03月13日
    英語
  • A Robust Ontology of Emotion Objects
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, MOMOUCHI Yoshio, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 18th (CD-ROM), ROMBUNNO.F3-6, 2012年03月13日
    英語
  • Simplifying Text Processing with Grammatically Aware Regular Expressions
    Rafal Rzepka, Tyson Roberts, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 18th (CD-ROM), ROMBUNNO.P2-35, 2012年03月13日, [筆頭著者]
    英語
  • Annotating Affective Information on 5.5 Billion Word Corpus of Japanese Blogs
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, DYBALA Pawel, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, MOMOUCHI Yoshio, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 18th (CD-ROM), ROMBUNNO.B2-9, 2012年03月13日
    英語
  • Beyond Conventional Recognition: Concept of a Conversational System Utilizing Metaphor Misunderstanding as a Source of Humor
    DYBALA Pawel, PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, SAYAMA Kohichi, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 26th, ROMBUNNO.3P1-IOS-2A-5, 3P1IOS2a5, 2012年
    Although we are still quite far from constructing a human-like conversational system, researchers all over the world keep investigating numerous factors that make conversations between humans. In this work we focus on two such factors: humor and metaphors.Numerous research projects exist in the area of metaphor understanding and generation. We propose a unique approach to this subject, based on an observation that humans can not only properly understand and generate metaphors, but also make fun of their misunderstandings. For instance, an utterance "you have legs like a deer" can be understood as a compliment ("long and graceful"), as well as an insult ("very hairy"). If used properly, such misunderstanding can serve as source of humor in human-computer conversations.Currently we are working on constructing a large scale metaphor conceptual network, in which links between concepts are calculated accordingly to their roles in metaphor understanding. When finished, the network should make it possible for the computer to understand and generate metaphors, and, consequently, also misunderstand (or act as if it misunderstood) them. In this paper we propose a design of a conversational system utilizing these mechanisms. We also consider using emotion-from-text detector to improve aptness of generated misunderstandings., The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 英語
  • Mixing Words and Emotions - New Natural Methods for Artificial Language Tutors
    MAZUR Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 26th, ROMBUNNO.3P2-IOS-2B-1, 2012年
    英語
  • Augmenting Interaction: implementing effective interaction models for AR objects
    DANKOV Svetoslav, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 26th, ROMBUNNO.3P1-IOS-2A-4, 2012年
    英語
  • Web上のデータを用いた比喩を含む説明文の自動収集手法
    近村 亮一, ラファウ ジェプカ, 荒木 健治, ことば工学研究会 : 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会資料, 39, 0, 13, 18, 2011年11月25日
    ことば工学事務局, 日本語
  • HALは遥か?-笑うコンピュータの過去, 現在と将来
    ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 知能と情報 : 日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌 : journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 23, 5, 696, 704, 2011年10月15日, [招待有り], [筆頭著者]
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • Webマイニングを用いた文章中の行為者及び被行為者の感情推定
    堂腰裕明, 小山聡, 栗原正仁, プタシンスキ ミハウ, ラファウ ジェプカ, 荒木健治, 情報処理北海道シンポジウム講演論文集, 2011, 223, 224, 2011年10月01日
    情報処理北海道シンポジウム2011. 2011年10月1日.北見工業大学アトリウム,北見市., 情報処理学会北海道支部, 日本語
  • Webデータを用いた単語に対する比喩的説明文収集手法
    近村 亮一, ラファウ ジェプカ, 荒木 健治, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 27, 112, 115, 2011年09月12日
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • つぶやきロボット : インターネット資源を利用したユーザの要求発見
    高木 慧佑, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 27, 916, 919, 2011年09月12日
    日本知能情報ファジィ学会, 日本語
  • 述語項構造解析による検索対象細分化を用いた自然文検索
    山田 浩之, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告. NLC, 言語理解とコミュニケーション, 110, 400, 59, 64, 2011年01月20日
    本手法では,述語項構造解析を用いて,自然言語文で表現されたクエリに含まれる単語,係り受け関係に対して,項構造によるスコア付与を行い,データベースからの検索を行った.特に,述語項構造解析によって「ガ格」として判別された単語に対して,検索文章中で主となる「検索主体」を定義することによって検索を行う.これにより,単語によるスコアの偏りによる問題が是正できる.述語項構造解析にはSynChaを用い,実験では交通事故の判例,「教えて!goo」のテキストを対象とした.In this paper we describe our system for retrieving texts using predicate argument structure analysis for queries in natural language. A dependency relation included in a query decides a word score, which is retrieved by defining "retrieval subject" that further becomes the main clue for retrieving sentences using a word classified by predicate argument structure analysis tool SynCha as "-ga case". As a result, the problem of biased word score can be corrected. In this research we target judicial precedents of traffic accidents and use "Oshiete! goo" online QA community entries for experiments., 一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 日本語
  • Blog記事からのWeb検索を用いた俳句の自動生成手法における音響及び画像の有効性               
    人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-C001, 31, 36, 2011年
  • 顔文字に関する研究:研究の枠組みのフィールドと提案のレビュー
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, PTASZYNSKI Michal, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, MOMOUCHI Yoshio, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 17th (CD-ROM), 2011年
  • Interactive augmented reality games for knowledge acquisition               
    Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 第4回楽天シンポジウム2011講演論文集, 2011年
  • ブログ記事から抽出したオノマトペの多義性について
    第27回ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集, 2011年
  • 自動生成された常識的知識を表現する文の自然性判定               
    第10回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2011)講演論文集, 2011年
  • Research on Emoticons: Review of the Field and Proposalof Research Framework               
    言語処理学会第17回年次大会(NLP2011)発表論文集, 2011年
  • SPEC - Sentence Pattern Extraction and Analysis Architecture               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, 言語処理学会第17回年次大会(NLP2011)発表論文集, 2011年
  • Machine learning and affect analysis against cyber-bullying
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Tatsuaki Matsuba, Fumito Masui, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents - A Symposium at the AISB 2010 Convention, 7, 16, 2010年12月01日
    Online security has been an important issue for several years. One of the burning online security problems lately in Japan has been online slandering and bullying, which appear on unofficial Web sites. The problem has been becoming especially urgent on unofficial Web sites of Japanese schools. School personnel and members of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) have started Online Patrol to spot Web sites and blogs containing such inappropriate contents. However, countless number of such data makes the job an uphill task. This paper presents a research aiming to develop a systematic approach to Online Patrol by automatically spotting suspicious entries and reporting them to PTA members and therefore help them do their job. We present some of the first results of analysis of the inappropriate data collected from unofficial school Web sites. The analysis is performed firstly with an SVM based machine learning method to detect the inappropriate entries. After analysis of the results we perform another analysis of the data, using an affect analysis system to find out how the machine learning model could be improved.
  • 複数の対話システムからの応答候補文を用いた最適応答文選択手法の性能評価               
    情報処理学会研究報告, 2010-NL-195(10), 1, 7, 2010年
  • 対話システムにおける対話履歴要約の有効性について               
    福田 彩子, 荒木 健治, ジェプカ ラファウ, 情報処理学会研究報告, 2010-NL-195(11), 1, 6, 2010年, [最終著者]
  • PUNDA Numbears: Proposal of Goroawase Generating System for Japanese               
    言語処理学会第16回年次大会(NLP2010)発表論文集, 345, 348, 2010年
  • Web検索と単語n-gramモデルによる対話処理手法における補佐システムの有効性               
    人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-B001, 17, 23, 2010年
  • WordNet及びWeb検索による常識的知識ベースのための文生成手法               
    村本晃一, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-B001, 1, 7, 2010年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • On the Need of Context Processing in Affective Computing               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Proceedings of the 26th Fuzzy System Symposium (FSS2010), 920, 924, 2010年
  • Webデータを用いた比喩的説明文生成の研究               
    近村 亮一, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 平成22年度電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演予稿集, 2010年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Towards Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System (^o^)               
    Michal Ptaszynski Pawel, Dybala Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会第16回年次大会(NLP2010)発表論文集, 2010年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Web検索と単語n-gramモデルを用いた文生成手法の性能評価               
    高橋瑞希, Rafal Rzepka, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会第16回年次大会(NLP2010)発表論文集, 2010年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • ヒューマノイドロボットにおける身体操作を表現するための二項動詞の獲得
    長谷川大, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木健治, 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集, 15th, 509, 511, 2009年03月02日
    日本語
  • 対話文生成のためのWebを用いた話題語の抽出               
    下川尚亮, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 情報処理学会研究報告, 2009-NL-189, 121, 126, 2009年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • 非タスク指向型対話システムにおける非同期並列的相互作用による言語獲得手法の提案               
    若原 基, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 電子情報通信学会 第二種研究会資料, WI2-2009-28-45, 53, 54, 2009年
  • 非同期型チャットアプリケーションに対応した雑談システムの構築と評価               
    若原 基, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会資料, SIG-LSE-A902, 19, 26, 2009年
  • 対話システムのための因果関係知識を含む文からの関連語抽出               
    藤田 基靖, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木健治, 情報処理北海道シンポジウム 2009講演論文集, 2009年
  • 単語n-gramモデルを用いた文生成手法の改善案               
    高橋 瑞希, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木健治, 平成21年度 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集, 2009年
  • 複数文からなる質問を想定した交通事故判例検索の検討               
    山田浩之, 木村泰知, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治, 情報処理北海道シンポジウム 2009講演論文集, 2009年
  • The First Challenge to Discover Morality Level In Text Utterances by Using Web Resources
    ジェプカ ラファウ, 桝井 文人, 荒木 健治, 2009年度人工知能学会全国大会(第23回)論文集(CD-ROM), 23, 1, 4, 2009年, [筆頭著者]
    人工知能学会, 英語
  • ヒューマノイドロボットにおける二項動詞獲得手法の性能評価
    長谷川 大, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 2009度人工知能学会全国大会(第23回), 23, 1, 3, 2009年, [査読有り]
    人工知能学会, 日本語
  • When Should Computers Joke? - Concept of Emotiveness Analysis Based Timing Algorithm for Humor-Equipped Conversational Systems               
    Pawel Dybala Michal, Ptaszynski Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会第15回年次大会(NLP2009)発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2009年
    研究発表ペーパー・要旨(全国大会,その他学術会議)
  • Contextual Valence Shifters Supporting Affect Analysis of Utterances in Japanese
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 言語処理学会第15回年次大会(NLP2009)発表論文集(CD-ROM), 825, 828, 2009年
  • Web上のテキストデータを用いた非タスク指向型対話システムのための係り受け解析による連想メカニズムの構築               
    若原 基, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 電子情報通信学会 情報・システムソサイエティ総合大会特別号, 2009年
  • 英語およびブルガリア語におけるコモンセンス表現収集のための文脈的アプローチの応用(マイニング・知識獲得・固有表現)
    ダンコヴ スヴェトスラヴ, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 情報処理学会研究報告. 自然言語処理研究会報告, 2008, 113, 105, 111, 2008年11月19日
    本稿では,Web上のテキストデータからコモンセンス表現を収集する手法を提案する.我々は表現の候補を識別するために,一般性発見ルール及び文脈手掛かりを使用する手法を開発している.一般性発見ルールとは,常識的知識の出現しやすい文法上のパターンとしてあらかじめ定められたルールである.文脈手掛かりは文法的なものと意味論的なものとを含む.文法的手掛かりはコモンセンス表現の周辺に共通して存在する様々な文法構造として表現され,意味論的手掛かりはコモンセンス表現内の構成要素間の関係として表現される.意味論的関係を取り出すためにWordNetを利用している.我々は,WordNetによる意味論的手掛かりの有効性の評価,及び英語・ブルガリア語を用いてシステムの汎用性の性能評価を行った., 一般社団法人情報処理学会, 英語
  • E-041 裁判員支援に向けた類似判例に基づく量刑可視化システムの提案(自然言語・音声・音楽,一般論文)
    高丸 圭一, 渋木 英潔, 木村 泰知, 松原 雅文, / 村上 浩司, 村上 浩司, 情報科学技術フォーラム講演論文集, 7, 2, 233, 234, 2008年08月20日
    第7回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2008). 2008年9月2日~4日.慶應義塾大学 湘南藤沢キャンパス,藤沢市, FIT(電子情報通信学会・情報処理学会)運営委員会, 日本語
  • E-042 裁判員支援に向けた新聞記事を対象とした刑事事件の性質に基づく量刑推定手法の提案(自然言語・音声・音楽,一般論文)
    松原 雅文, 木村 泰知, 渋木 英潔, 高丸 圭一, ジェプカ ラファウ, 村上 浩司, 情報科学技術フォーラム講演論文集, 7, 2, 235, 236, 2008年08月20日
    第7回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2008). 2008年9月2日~4日.慶應義塾大学 湘南藤沢キャンパス,藤沢市., FIT(電子情報通信学会・情報処理学会)運営委員会, 日本語
  • E-043 裁判員支援に向けた量刑推定に適した判例タグの構築(自然言語・音声・音楽,一般論文)
    木村 泰知, 渋木 英潔, 高丸 圭一, 松原 雅文, ジェプカ ラファウ, 村上 浩司, 情報科学技術フォーラム講演論文集, 7, 2, 237, 238, 2008年08月20日
    第7回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2008). 2008年9月2日~4日.慶應義塾大学 湘南藤沢キャンパス,藤沢市., FIT(電子情報通信学会・情報処理学会)運営委員会, 日本語
  • 感情表現要素認識とウェブマイニングを用いたユーザ発話感情の推測
    施 文翰, プタシンスキ ミハウ, ジェプカ, ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, TL-2008-49, 353, 31, 34, 2008年
    現代社会の電子化が進みつつある.そうした環境とのより自然なコミュニケーションを可能にするためには,人間の感情を理解できる感情認知・推測システムが必要である.本稿ではユーザが自分の感情を表現するために発話文中に使用した感情表現要素の認識と,その文とウェブ上のデータの因果関係との分析を用いてユーザの発話文の感情を推測するシステムの作成を行ったIn the last few years there has been a rapid development in computerisation. Human lives depend on computers more and more by the day. To make the communication with the machines more natural for an average user, one of the crucial issues is to develop in machines applications and interfaces for understanding human emotions. In this paper we propose a system for affect analysis of textual utterances in Japanese. The emotional states are determined on the basis of appearance of emotive elements and emotive expressions in the utterances as well as Web mining technique in which emotional associations are extracted from the Web using causality features., 一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 日本語
  • 新聞記事を対象とした刑事事件の性質と量刑との関連性の可視化
    松原 雅文, 木村 泰知, 渋木 英潔, 高丸 圭一, RZEPKA Rafal, 村上 浩司, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集, 8, 0, 406, 406, 2008年
    裁判員制度に向けて、刑事事件の特徴と量刑の対応付けを行い、その関連性の可視化を行うことで、量刑判断の指標を提示するシステムの構築を目指す。本発表では、98年から99年の毎日新聞の記事を対象とする。, 一般社団法人 人工知能学会, 日本語
  • 複数対話システムの応答候補からの最適な応答の選択手法               
    今井 健太, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 平成20年度 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集, 2008年
  • ウェブ上の因果関係を用いたユーザ入力文からの感情情報の推測               
    施,文翰, ジェプカ ラファウ, 荒木 健治, 第7回情報技術フォーラム(FIT2008)講演論文集, 2008年
  • Double Standpoint Evaluation Method for Affect Analysis System
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, DYBALA Pawel, RZEPKA Rafal, 人工知能学会第22回全国大会(JSAI2008)講演論文集, 22, 1, 4, 2008年
    人工知能学会, 英語
  • Commonsense and context: a novel approach for automatic extraction of generic statement               
    人工知能学会第22回全国大会(JSAI2008)講演論文集, 2008年
  • Webを利用した連想単語及びモダリティ表現による雑談システム               
    言語処理学会第14回年次大会(NLP2008)発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2008年
  • Effective Analysis of Emotiveness in Utterances based on Features of Lexical and Non-Lexical Layer of Speech
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, 言語処理学会第14回年次大会(NLP2008)発表論文集(CD-ROM), 171, 174, 2008年
  • Dajare Generating Support Tool - Towards Applicable Linguistic Humor Processing               
    言語処理学会第14回年次大会(NLP2008)発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2008年
  • 自動的ジョーク生成のための発話における感情の語い解析
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, DYBALA Pawel, SHI Wen Han, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 映像情報メディア学会技術報告, 31, 47(ME2007 195-214), 2007年
  • 回想や忘却に基づくダイナミックメモリ管理システム
    PTASZYNSKI Michal, SAYAMA Koichi, RZEPKA Rafal, ARAKI Kenji, 電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2007, 2007年
  • Perspectives for the Historical Information Retrieval with Digitized Japanese Classical Manuscripts
    Raghavacharya Hari, Rzepka Rafal, Araki Kenji, 人工知能学会第20回全国大会(JSAI2006)(CD-ROM), 20, 1, 4, 2006年
    人工知能学会, 英語
  • Towards Systems Using WWW to Presume What Could and Would Have Happened               
    人工知能学会第20回全国大会(JSAI2006)(CD-ROM), 2006年
  • Automatic First Utterance Creation Based on the Strongest Association Retrieved from WWW
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 1B1-08, 2005年, [筆頭著者]
  • Turing Test During Olympics and Minsky's Anger - Some Pros and Cons of Dialog Systems Competition               
    言語処理学会第11回年次大会(NLP2005)ワークショップ「評価型ワークショップを考える」, 2005年
  • ウェブマイニングの時代におけるプラン及びスクリプトのコンセプト実現の再考察
    ジェプカ・ラファウ, 伊藤 敏彦, 荒木 健治, 情報処理学会研究報告自然言語処理(NL), 2004, 73, 11, 18, 2004年07月15日
    本稿では、以前に技術的に実現が不可能であったスクリプトやプランなどの再使用に関するアイディアを提案する。我々はゴールを達成するために利用されるプランの構築を支援できるSchankのスクリプトを再考し、古典的な認知科学的なコンセプトの作者と違い、現在の強力なコンピュータ、および数テラバイトのデータを使用することにより、ドメインを制限しない常識知識の処理を可能にしたい。60年代から多くのプロジェクトが、主に手動入力の壁にぶつかり、諦めざるを得なかったが、我々はWWW資源から常識的なデータを抽出し、統合した常識処理システムを構築することを計画している。本稿では、予備実験の結果に基づいて開発された手法の理論的な面について述べる。In this paper we introduce some ideas for reusing cognitive science concepts which realizing before was impossible due to the technical limits. We concentrate on the Schankian scripts which could help to build plans as the basic method for achieving goals. In contradistinction to the authors of classic cognitivistic ideas, we can currently use powerful computers and terabytes of data which could help to make their concepts usable in not restricted domains for any kind of application using commonsense knowledge. Many useful projects were abandoned because of difficulties due to the manual input of big sets of data. We plan to build a commonsense processing systems which retrieves commonsensical data from the WWW resources. This paper introduces the theoretical side of our research with some results of preliminary tests., 情報処理学会, 英語
  • Five Senses Input Simulation Based on Web Resources               
    人工知能学会研究会資料, SIG-LSE-A301, 65, 73, 2004年
  • Automatic General Personality Generation Based on WWW (WWWに基づいたジェネラール パーソナリティー自動生成)
    ジェプカラファウ, 第18回人工知能学会全国大会, 金沢, 2004, 2004年
  • Does the Commonsense Depend on Culture? Results of Simple Scripts Retrieval from WWW               
    平成16年度電気・情報関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集(IEEEオーガナイズドセッション), 2004年
  • Prediction of the User's Reply Using Emotional Information Retrieved from Internet Resources
    RZEPKA R., 平成14年度電気関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集, 229, 230, 2002年
    IEEE Sapporo Section
  • Common Belief Retrieval for Talking Agent Based on Primitive WWW Search
    Rzepka Rafal, Araki Kenji, Tochinai Koji, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集, 16, 1, 3, 2002年
    人工知能学会, 英語
  • Basic Idea of General Relief Retrieving Agent “GENTA”
    RZEPKA R., 平成13年度電気関係学会北海道支部連合大会講演論文集, 414, 415, 2001年, [筆頭著者]
    IEEE Sapporo Section

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  • 〔主要な業績〕Obtaining hints to understand language model-based moral decision making by generating consequences of acts
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
    Elsevier, 2024年02月, 9780443159916, 英語, 学術書, [査読有り], [共著]
  • Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Annotations. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP)               
    2022年08月, [共編者(共編著者)]
  • The 7th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2021) - CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 2935               
    Rafal Rzepka, Jordi Vallverdú, Andre Wlodarczyk, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, 編集長
    2021年08月, [編者(編著者)]
  • Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing               
    Yasufumi Takama, Naohiro Matsumura, Katsutoshi Yada, Mitsunori Matsushita, Daisuke Katagami, Akinori Abe, Hisashi Kashima, Toshihiro Hiraoka, Takahiro Uchiya, Rafal Rzepka
    Springer, 2021年06月, 9783030964504, [共編者(共編著者)]
  • Joint Proceedings of the Workshops on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2019) and on Bridging the Gap Between Human and Automated Reasoning (BtG 2019) CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 2935               
    Ulrich Furbach, Steffen Hoelldobler, Marco Ragni, Rafal Rzepka, Claudia Schon, Jordi Vallverdu, Andre Wlodarczyk, Guest Editor
    2019年08月, [共編者(共編著者)]
  • Proceedings of the Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop co-located with the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018)               
    Rafal Rzepka, Jordi Vallverdú, Andre Wlodarczyk, International
    CEUR-WS, 2018年09月, [共編者(共編著者)]
  • Artificial General Intelligence - 11th International Conference, AGI 2018               
    Matthew Iklé, Arthur Franz, Rafal Rzepka, Ben Goertzel, International
    Springer, 2018年08月, [共編者(共編著者)]
  • 〔主要な業績〕心を交わす人工知能: 言語・感情・倫理・ユーモア・常識               
    ジェプカ ラファウ, 常識,機械倫理
    森北出版, 2016年06月, [共著]
  • 〔主要な業績〕Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Semantic Analysis of Bloggers Experiences as a Knowledge Source of Average Human Morality
    IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, 2015年05月, [分担執筆]
  • 〔主要な業績〕Machine Medical Ethics (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering Series)               
    Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, ELIZA Fifty Years Later: An Automatic Therapist Using Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches
    Springer International Publishing, 2014年09月, 9783319081076, 15, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-08108-3_16, 英語, 学術書, Our methods for realizing a moral artificial agent assume that the wisdom of crowds can equip a machine with the enormous number of experiences that are the source of its ethical reasoning. Every second, people with different cultural, religious or social backgrounds share their personal experiences about multitudes of human acts. We propose that a machine therapist capable of analyzing thousands of such cases should be more convincing and effective talking to a patient, instead of analyzing single keywords. In this chapter, we introduce this vision and several techniques already implemented in an algorithm for generating empathic machine reactions based on emotional and social consequences. We show the roles that Bentham’s Felicific Calculus, Kohlberg’s Theory of Stages of Moral Development and McDougall’s classification of instincts play in the agent’s knowledge acquisition, and we describe the accuracy of already working parts. Modules and lexicons of phrases based on these theories enable a medical machine to gather information on how patients typically feel when certain events happen, and what could happen before and after actions. Such empathy is important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills by imitation. We also discuss why this bottom-up approach should be accompanied by a top-down utility calculation to ensure the best outcome for a particular user, and what ethical dilemmas an advanced artificial therapist could cause., [分担執筆]
  • Speech, Image and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction: Multi-Modal Advancements
    Uma Shanker Tiwary, Uma Shanker Tiwary, Tanveer J. Siddiqui
    IGI Global, 2012年04月30日, 1466609540, 386

講演・口頭発表等

  • Examples of NLP applications in detecting immoral behavior in Japanese               
    Rafal Rzepka
    The Fifth Conference on Information theories and information analysis in forensics, criminology, law and security sciences, 2023年06月02日, ポーランド語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • 人工知能の基礎知識               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    札幌まちづくり「おしゃべりサロン」, 2023年03月06日, 日本語, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]
  • 人工知能と未来を考える               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    苫小牧市科学センター「サイエンス・カフェ」, 2023年01月21日, 日本語, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]
  • 人工知能と倫理               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    苫小牧市科学センター「サイエンス・カフェ」, 2023年01月21日, 日本語, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]
  • Large Language Models - Sophisticated Autocomplete Tools or a Big Step Towards AGI?               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    第22回汎用人工知能研究会, 2022年11月22日, 日本語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • Mind the Gap - Thinking About Meaning in the Context of Ethical AGI.               
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    Invited Lecture at Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, 2022年09月14日, 英語, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
  • Invited Talk - Humanizing Machines by Simulating Empathy and Understanding Human Needs               
    Rafal Rzepka
    IJCAI Humanizing AI Workshop, 2019年08月12日, 英語, 口頭発表(基調)
    [招待講演]
  • 招待講演:「AI と未来を創る~AI の過去と可能性~」               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Tomakomai Science Center, 2019年06月29日, 日本語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • Invited Talk - "AI Ethics for Developers, Users and Legislators - Problems and Solutions"               
    Rafal Rzepka
    Nitobe School Leaders Meeting, 2019年06月15日, 英語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • Invited lecture - Common Sense Morality for Machines - Are Our Shared Experiences the Only Solution for Safe Artificial Intelligence?               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Morality mod Science Seminar, 2018年09月21日, 日本語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • Invited Talk - Wisdom of Crowds as The Source of The Human Moral Sense for Artificial Intelligence               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    National Information Academy Seminar, 2018年08月02日, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • From Signals, through Words, to Safe Behavior - Value Alignment by Human Experience Analysis               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Invited Talk at the 8th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA’17), 2017年09月28日, 英語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演], [国際会議]
  • Automatic Text Analysis and Generation - Less and More Serious Applications               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Invited Talk at Jagiellonian University, 2015年12月, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演]
  • Invited Talk - Pros and Cons of Borrowing Morality from P2P Civilization               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    AAAI Spring Symposium, 2014年03月27日, 英語, 口頭発表(招待・特別)
    [招待講演], [国際会議]
  • "Artificial Common Sense in a Pill"               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Invited Lecture at Copernicus University, 2011年05月, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]
  • "Japanese machines know what you feel - about interdisciplinary approach to AI"               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Invited Talk at Adam Mickiewicz University, 2010年02月, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]
  • "Why does my robot read your blog - about new perspectives for AI in the Internet era"               
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    Invited Talk at Szczecin Institute of Technology, 2010年02月, 公開講演,セミナー,チュートリアル,講習,講義等
    [招待講演]

担当経験のある科目_授業

  • マイクロプロセッサー(実験)               
    北海道大学
  • 論理回路               
    北海道工業大学
  • 自然言語処理(講義)               
    北海学園大学
  • 人工知能               
    旭川工業高等専門学校,釧路工業高等専門学校,函館工業高等専門学校,苫小牧工業高等専門学校
  • 自然言語処理(実験+演習)               
    北海道大学

所属学協会

  • Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)               
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence               
  • 日本認知科学学会               
  • 人工知能学会               
  • Japanese Cognitive Science Society               
  • Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence               

Works(作品等)

  • JCommonsenseMorality: 常識道徳の理解度評価用日本語データセット
    Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 2023年03月, [データベース]
  • Semantic primes prompts in Japanese (approx. 64,000 annotated cognitive knowledge data samples               
    Rafal Rzepka, 2023年, [データベース]
  • ROCStories-jp: approx. 55,000 English stories with alternative endings automatically translated to Japanese               
    Rafal Rzepka, 2023年, [データベース]
  • DanSto (Dangerous Stories) approx. 8,000 five-sentence stories in Japanese based on DanSen dataset               
    Rafal Rzepka, 2023年, [データベース]
  • 輸出管理関連QA dataset               
    Rafal Rzepka, Akihiko Obayashi, 2022年09月, [データベース]
  • 危険度変化の予測のためのデータセットDanSen               
    Rafal Rzepka, Yuki Katsumata, 2022年03月, [データベース]
  • MLAsk: Open Source Affect Analysis Software for Textual Input in Japanese               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Fumito Masui, 2016年09月, [コンピュータソフト]
  • Winogradスキームデータベース               
    Rafal Rzepka, Soichiro Tanaka, Shiho Kitajima, 2015年11月, [データベース]
  • YACIS 日本語ブログコーパス               
    Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, 2012年, [データベース]
  • MuCha - Text Processing Tool using Grammatically Aware Regular Expressions               
    Tyson Roberts, Rafal Rzepka, 2012年01月, [コンピュータソフト]
  • Japanese Natural Language Toolset for MIT ConceptNet               
    Tyson Roberts, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, 2010年10月, [コンピュータソフト]

共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題

  • 技術流出防止のための、人工知能による新規のガイダンスシステムの開発
    科学研究費助成事業
    2023年04月 - 2026年03月
    大林 明彦
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, 研究分担者, 23K11757
  • Semantic Primesに基づく暗黙知データベースの作成及び評価
    科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C)
    2022年04月01日 - 2025年03月31日
    RZEPKA Rafal
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, 22K12160
  • 知識と推論に基づいて言語で説明できるAIシステム               
    CREST
    2020年 - 2025年
    乾 健太郎
    JST, 連携研究者
  • 技術流出防止のための、人工知能による新規の該非判定支援システムの開発
    科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C)
    2020年04月 - 2023年03月
    大林 明彦, RZEPKA Rafal
    During the second year of our project we extended our question-answer database for the conversational expert system for supporting non-expert in deciding if their research or goods for export are require governmental permission. We also created a synonym dataset of chemical substances based on CAS numbers (by hiring a worker with the grant funds) to improve mapping terms in queries to the keywords in our database. This lead to enriching triplets for our knowledge graph which will now contains concepts as "SynonymOf", "HasCAS", "HasDefinition", "AddressHasText" or "IsControlledBy". We experimented with visualizing these concepts to have a better insight into connections among terms used in the Controlled Goods/Technologies Matrix Table. This should improve the process of searching legal texts for answers to the user’s queries. We published our findings from experiments with question answering and presented them during an international conference. It appeared that traditional and modern learning approaches (LDA-Based Ranker, BERT Ranker, SQuAD model-based QA and GPT-2-based Answer Generation) achieved worse results than keyword matching based on the glossary published as an index for the legal text regarding trade security issues. This convinced us to shift the weight from automatic to half-automatic in our approach for searching paragraphs related to user queries. However, there is still a necessity for using similarity calculation in order to deal with terms which are used in queries but are not included in the glossary used for keyword matching.
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, 研究分担者, 20K12556
  • 大規模の逆強化学習ための文脈データを収集するシステムの開発               
    基盤研究(C)
    2017年04月 - 2022年03月
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    科研費, 研究代表者, 競争的資金
  • 文章生成に関する研究               
    2021年 - 2022年
    ジェプカ・ラファウ, 岩倉 友哉, 馬 春鵬
    富士通株式会社, 研究代表者
  • 化学知識ベース作成に向けた化学物質情報抽出技術の研究               
    2019年 - 2020年
    ジェプカ・ラファウ, Patrycja Swieczkowska, 岩倉 友哉, 渡邊 大貴
    富士通研究所, 研究代表者
  • Investigation of Communication Development Stages and Conversational Characteristics for Foreign Language Tutoring Systems               
    若手教員在外研究助成
    2016年 - 2017年
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 研究代表者
  • Methods For an Automatic Generation of MIT ConceptNet Japanese Entries               
    若手研究費(重点配分経費)
    2014年 - 2015年
    Rafal Rzepka
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 研究代表者
  • 世評・感情・倫理を考慮して柔軟に有害表現を検出する技術の開発と学校非公式サイト監視への応用               
    研究費助成金
    2012年04月 - 2014年03月
    桝井 文人
    JSPS, 競争的資金
  • ウェブマイニングによる人間行動の倫理性推論アルゴリズムの構築               
    科学研究費助成金
    2012年04月 - 2014年03月
    ジェプカ ラファウ
    JSPS, 研究代表者, 競争的資金
  • Applying Common Sense Retrieved from the Web to a Housekeeping Robot               
    若手研究費(重点配分経費)
    2010年 - 2012年
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 研究代表者
  • 情報の遷移にダイナミックに追従するインターネット単語帳システムの開発               
    研究費助成金
    2008年04月 - 2011年03月
    桝井 文人
    JSPS, 競争的資金
  • ナノエレクトロニクス分野における常識の自動獲得手法の開発               
    グローバルCOE「知の創出を支える次世代IT基盤拠点」
    2007年 - 2009年
    末岡和久
    JSPS, 連携研究者
  • 常識的知識に基づく対話システムを用いたコミュニケーション能力発達を支援する玩具               
    2005年04月 - 2008年03月
    ジェプカ・ラファウ
    日産財団, 競争的資金

社会貢献活動

  • 人工知能の基礎知識               
    2023年03月06日 - 2023年03月06日
    講師
    サイエンスカフェ
    札幌まちづくり
    「おしゃべりサロン」
  • 人工知能と倫理               
    2023年01月21日 - 2023年01月21日
    講師
    サイエンスカフェ
    苫小牧市科学センター
    「サイエンス・カフェ」
  • 人工知能と未来を考える               
    2023年01月21日 - 2023年01月21日
    講師
    サイエンスカフェ
    苫小牧市科学センター
    「サイエンス・カフェ」
  • AIと未来を創る ~AIの歴史と可能性~               
    2019年06月29日 - 2019年06月29日
    出演
    サイエンスカフェ
    苫小牧科学センター
  • 「親子でケイケン値UP」 ~ポーランドで育って 日本で育てて~               
    2013年11月06日 - 2013年11月06日
    パネリスト
    講演会
    東区PTA連合会
    研修大会

メディア報道

  • 常識的知識や倫理AIで判断               
    2018年11月06日
    北海道新聞
    [新聞・雑誌]
  • 機械に裁判してもらったら               
    2015年09月
    本人以外
    Tygodnik Powszechny
    [新聞・雑誌]
  • The vacuum cleaner that can tweet it can’t fly               
    2014年07月
    本人以外
    北海道大学
    Spotlight on Research
    [会誌・広報誌]