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Japanese (non-Gregorian) calendar has been accepted to <strong>AACL-IJCNLP</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/09/19             </th> <td> The paper on side dffects of knowledge editing has been accepted to <strong>Blackbox NLP</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/07/21             </th> <td> Our paper received a <strong>Best Paper Nomination at AIED 2025</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/06/17             </th> <td> I gave a talk at the <strong>Earth Spieces Project (ESP)</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/05/16             </th> <td> The paper on new rubric for evaluating explanations has been accepted to <strong>ACL</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/04/03             </th> <td> The paper on Annotating Errors in Learners for Feedback has been accepted to <strong>AIED</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/01/23             </th> <td> The paper on Sketch-to-diagram has been accepted to <strong>ICLR</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025/01/22             </th> <td> Two papers were accepted to <strong>NAACL</strong> on (1) consistency-driven rationale evaluation and (2) automated system input categorization scheme. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024/12/05             </th> <td> The paper on commonsense morality has been accepted to <strong>Nature Machine Intelligence</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024/09/20             </th> <td> The paper on Heuristics in Language Model Reasoning has been accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024/07/10             </th> <td> The paper on explanation evaluation has been accepted to <strong>COLM</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024/02/19             </th> <td> The paper on beam search with patience has been accepted to <strong>LREC-COLING</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024/01/16             </th> <td> The paper on Procedural Knowledge Models for Language-based Planning and Re-Planning has been accepted to <strong>ICLR</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/12/03             </th> <td> I gave a talk at BrainLink 2023, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST), South Korea. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/10/08             </th> <td> The paper on Test time augmentation has been accepted to <strong>Findings of EMNLP</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/09/22             </th> <td> The paper on Realtime QA has been accepted to <strong>NeurIPS</strong> Datasets and Benchmarks track. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/08/23             </th> <td> “Empowering Local Open Source LLMs” has been accepted to <strong>NII Shonan Meeting</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/08/07             </th> <td> I gave a talk at CWRU-TOHOKU Joint Workshop. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/05/27             </th> <td> Two papers were accepted to <strong>ACL</strong> on (1) Corpus of Metalinguistic Questions and Answers and (2) Inductive Knowledge Distillation. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/04/05             </th> <td> I gave an online lecture at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/01/23             </th> <td> I gave a talk at AIST AI Research Center, Japan. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023/01/21             </th> <td> Two papers were accepted to <strong>EACL</strong> on (1) Neural Symbolic Reasoning Strategies and (2) Compositionality in Arithmetic Reasoning. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/11/20             </th> <td> Our paper received <strong>AACL SRW 2022 Best Paper Award</strong>

10 <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/10/25             </th> <td> I gave a talk at BrainLink 2022, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST), South Korea. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/10/06             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong> on Twist Decoding. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/09/27             </th> <td> I gave a talk at Knowledge and Information Research Team, AIST AI Research Center, Japan. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/08/23             </th> <td> I gave a talk at University of Tokyo. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/07/01             </th> <td> I joined at Tohoku University NLP lab, Japan.🎋 </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022/04/07             </th> <td> Two papers were accepted to <strong>NAACL</strong> on (1) Bidimensional Leaderboards and (2) Transparent Human Evaluation for Image Captioning. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021/12/08             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>AAAI’22-Workshop on Interactive Machine Learning</strong> on Interactive Learning of Scripts. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021/09/17             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>Findings of EMNLP</strong> on Partially Ordered Scripts Generation. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021/09/01             </th> <td> Our paper is published in <strong>Communications of the ACM</strong>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020/12/02             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>AAAI</strong> on Symbolic and Neural Commonsense Knowledge Graphs. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020/09/15             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong> on Open Domain Procedural Text. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020/04/03             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>ACL</strong> on Uncertain Natural Language Inference. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020/02/11             </th> <td> Our paper, WinoGrande, received <strong>AAAI 2020 Outstanding Paper Award</strong> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020/02/10             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>LREC</strong> on Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Toolkit. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019/12/19             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>ICLR</strong> on Abductive Commonsense Reasoning. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019/11/10             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>AAAI</strong> on WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019/08/13             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong> on WIQA: A dataset for “What if…” reasoning over procedural text. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019/04/27             </th> <td> I successfully defended my thesis. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019/04/20             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>ACL</strong> on Efficient Annotation of Scalar Labels (EASL). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018/08/20             </th> <td> I joined Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).💡 </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018/03/30             </th> <td> I gave a talk at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018/02/22             </th> <td> I gave a video talk at Grammarly Research. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018/02/09             </th> <td>

10 I gave a talk at Amazon Research. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/12/14             </th> <td> I gave a talk at Chiba Institute of Technology (Japan). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/12/12             </th> <td> I gave a talk at NTT Communication Science Laboratories (Japan). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/12/08             </th> <td> I gave a talk at Tohoku University (Japan). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/12/05             </th> <td> I gave a talk at Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/10/18             </th> <td> I gave a presentation at Amazon Graduate Research Symposium. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/09/01             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>IJCNLP</strong> on Grammatical Error Correction with Neural Reinforcement Learning. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/07/01             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>BEA</strong> on Grammatical Error Correction into the Future. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/06/04             </th> <td> Our paper on error-repair dependency parsing received <strong>ACL 2017 Outstanding Paper Award</strong> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/05/22             </th> <td> I started a research internship at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (DeepQA). </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017/03/31             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>ACL</strong> on Error-repair Dependency Parsing for Ungrammatical Texts. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016/11/12             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>AAAI</strong> on Robsut Wrod Reocginiton via semi-Character Recurrent Neural Network. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016/07/29             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong> on Reference-less Evaluation Metrics in Grammatical Error Correction. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016/07/29             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>EMNLP</strong> on Universal Decompositional Semantics. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016/05/24             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>ACL</strong> on Phrase Structure Annotation and Parsing for Learner English. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016/04/05             </th> <td> A paper was accepted to <strong>TACL</strong> on Reassessing the Goals of Grammatical Error Correction. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </body> 

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