YUKI ARASE(LAST UPDATED: 2024/04/01)

CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 Japan
Email: arase.y.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
Web: https://yukiar.github.io/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uoL1Wr0AAAAJ
Pronouns: she/her

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Professor
School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology

June 2024 - Present

Associate Professor
June 2014 - 22024
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
Associate Researcher
Microsoft Research Asia

Apr. 2010 - June 2014

EDUCATIONPh.D., Information ScienceMar. 2010
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
Dissertation: Research on comfortable Web browsing using mobile phones
M.S., Information ScienceMar. 2007
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
B.S., Engineering
School of Engineering, Osaka University

Mar. 2006

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
I mostly publish in the field of natural language processing, which is highly conferencedriven. Top conferences in this field (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL) are generally morecompetitive than most journals, having roughly a 25% acceptance rate per year.
The full list of publications is available at: https://yukiar.github.io/publication.html

Yuki Arase - 1Y. Ogasa, T. Kajiwara, Y. Arase. Controllable Paraphrase Generation for Semantic and Lexical
Similarities, in Proc. of Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), (May 2024, to appear).
2. R. Miyano, T. Kajiwara, Y. Arase. Self-Ensemble of N-best Generation Hypotheses by LexicallyConstrained Decoding, in Proc. of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP 2023), pp. 14653-14661 (Dec. 2023).
3. S. Uchida, Y. Arase, and T. Kajiwara. Profiling English Sentences Based on CEFR Levels, in ITLInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics (2023, in press).
4. Y. Arase, H. Bao, and S. Yokoi. Unbalanced Optimal Transport for Unbalanced WordAlignment, in Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL 2023), pp. 3966–3986 (July 2023).
5. Y. Arase, S. Uchida, and T. Kajiwara. CEFR-based Sentence Difficulty Annotation andAssessment, in Proc. of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP 2022), pp. 6206-6219 (Dec. 2022).
6. H. Huang, T. Kajiwara, and Y. Arase. Definition Modelling for Appropriate Specificity, in Proc.
of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2021), pp.
2499–2509 (Nov. 2021).
7. N. Tiyajamorn, T. Kajiwara, Y. Arase, and M. Onizuka. Language-agnostic Representation from
Multilingual Sentence Encoders for Cross-lingual Similarity Estimation, in Proc. of Conferenceon Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2021), pp. 7764–7774 (Nov.
2021).
8. J. Takayama, T. Kajiwara, and Y. Arase. DIRECT: Direct and Indirect Responses inConversational Text Corpus, in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics:
EMNLP 2021, pp. 1980–1989 (Nov. 2021).
9. Y. Arase and J. Tsujii: Transfer Fine-Tuning of BERT with Phrasal Paraphrases, in Computer
Speech & Language, Vol. 66 (Mar. 2021).
10. Y. Arase and J. Tsujii: Compositional Phrase Alignment and Beyond, in Proc. of Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2020), pp. 1611–1623 (Nov.
2020).
11. S. Ohashi, J. Takayama, T. Kajiwara, C. Chu, Y. Arase. Text Classification with Negative
Supervision, in Proc. of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2020), pp. 351–357 (July 2020).
12. T. Kajiwara, B. Miura, and Y. Arase. Monolingual Transfer Learning via Bilingual Translators forStyle-Sensitive Paraphrase Generation, in Proc. of the AAAI Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (AAAI 2020), pp. 8042-8049, (Feb. 2020).
13. Y. Arase and J. Tsujii. Monolingual Phrase Alignment on Parse Forests, in Proc. of Conferenceon Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017), pp. 1-11 (Sept. 2017).
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INTERNATIONAL PATENTS••

Y. Arase, Y. Zhu, and X. Xie. Identifying Status based on Heterogeneous Sensors, U.S. Patent8718672, 10-18-2012.
Y. Arase and X. Xie. Construction of Photo Trip Patterns based on Geographical Information,
U.S. Patent 8626699, 3-17-2011.

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EXTERNAL SERVICES
Member-At-Large: ACL Executive Committee (2024-2027), Asian Federation of
Natural Language Processing (2022-2024)
Program Chair: IJCNLP-AACL 2023
Publicity and Social Media Chair: ACL 2024
Publication Chair: ACL-IJCNLP 2021(Senior) Area Chair: ACL, EMNLP, ACL Rolling Review, COLING, etc.

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