Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

• Subspace Representation for Natural Language Processing. Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, 2022.03 (Advisor: Kazuhiro Fukui) [Thesis paper]

Journals

• The Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation
  Pedro Henrique Vaz Valois, Lincon S. Souza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Kazuhiro Fukui
  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.
  Presented at the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025.
• A Video Representation Based on Slow Feature Analysis for Action Recognition
  Suzana Rita Alves Beleza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Lincon S. Souza, Kazuhiro Fukui
  Machine Learning with Applications, 2023.
• Text classification based on the word subspace representation
  Erica K. Shimomoto, François Portet, Kazuhiro Fukui
  Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2021.
  [pdf] (This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the Journal of Pattern Analysis and Applications. The final authenticated version is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10044-021-00960-6).

International Conferences

• Best-Worst Scaling of Hype in Biomedical Research: Building an Intensity Lexicon of Promotional Adjectives
  Neil Millar, Dipesh Satav, Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto, Ryosuke L. Ohniwa
  Accepted at 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2026).
• Hype or not? Formalizing Automatic Promotional Language Detection in Biomedical Research
  Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto, Dipesh Satav, Neil Millar
  In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026.
  [Preprint]
• Multilingual Definition Modeling
  Edison Marrese-Taylor, Erica K. Shimomoto, Alfredo Solano, Enrique Reid
  In Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.
  [Preprint]
• Automating the Detection of Promotional Language (‘Hype’) in Biomedical Research: A Pilot Study
  Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto, Neil Millar
  International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, 2025.
• Introducing Spatial Information and a Novel Evaluation Scheme for Open-Domain Live Commentary Generation
  Erica K. Shimomoto*, Edison Marrese-Taylor*, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura and Yusuke Miyao
  * Authors contributed equally to this work.
  In Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024.
• An empirical study of Definition Modeling with LLMs for the main languages of Latin America
  Erica K. Shimomoto*, Edison Marrese-Taylor*, Enrique Reid
  * Authors contributed equally to this work.
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference: LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research Workshop, 2024.
  [Slides]
• Framework for Measuring the Similarity of Visual and Semantic Structures in Sign Languages
  Matheus Silva de Lima, Ryota Sato, Erica K. Shimomoto, Suzana Rita Alves Beleza, Nobuko Kato and Kazuhiro Fukui
  In Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision - IW-FCV, 2024.
• Sign language recognition based on subspace representations in the spatio-temporal frequency domain
  Ryota Sato, Suzana Rita Alves Beleza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Matheus Silva de Lima, Nobuko Kato, Kazuhiro Fukui
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, 2024.
• Towards Parameter-Efficient Integration of Pre-Trained Language Models In Temporal Video Grounding
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hideki Nakayama, and Yusuke Miyao
  In Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.
  [Preprint][Slides][Video][Code]
• A Subspace-Based Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Representations in Image-Text Retrieval
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi, and Yusuke Miyao
  In Proceedings of The Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structures Workshop, December, 2022. [Slides]
• News2meme: An Automatic Content Generator from News Based on Word Subspaces from Text and Image
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Lincon S Souza, Bernardo B. Gatto, Kazuhiro Fukui
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Vision Applications 2019, Tokyo, Japan, May, 2019.
  [code]
• Text Classification based on Word Subspace with Term-Frequency
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Lincon S. Souza, Bernardo B. Gatto, Kazuhiro Fukui
  In Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July, 2018.
  [Preprint]
• A faster face detection method combining Bayesian and Haar Cascade Classifiers
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Almir Kimura, Ruan Belem
  In Proceedings of the 2015 CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, Santiago, Chile, October, 2015.
  [pdf]

Domestic Conferences (Japan)

• Assessing LVLM alignment for the Evaluation of Automatic Video Commentary Generation
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura, and Yusuke Miyao
  In 言語処理学会 第32回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2026.
• Hype Intensity Lexicon in Biomedical Research
  Dipesh Satav, Neil Millar, Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto, Ryosuke L. Ohniwa
  In 言語処理学会 第32回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2026.
• Sign-to-text matching space for new sign selection
  Matheus Silva de Lima, Pedro H. V. Valois, Erica K. Shimomoto, Nobuko Kato, Kazuhiro Fukui
  In PRMU2025, vol. 124, no. 445, pp. 53-57, March, 2025.
• Data Augmentation for Open-Domain Live Commentary Generation
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura, and Yusuke Miyao
  In 言語処理学会 第31回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2025.
• Towards Automated Detection of Hype in Biomedical Research
  Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto and Neil Millar
  In 言語処理学会 第31回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2025.
• Zero-shot Definition Modelling for Portuguese
  Edison Marrese-Taylor, Erica K. Shimomoto, Erique Reid
  In 言語処理学会 第30回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2024.
• Sign language recognition based on subspace representations in the spatio-temporal frequency domain
  Ryota Sato, Suzana Rita Alves Beleza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Matheus Silva de Lima, Nobuko Kato, Kazuhiro Fukui In PRMU2024 講演論文, vol.123, no.409, pp.19-24, March, 2024.
• Subspace representation for text classification with limited training data
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi, and Yusuke Miyao
  In 言語処理学会 第29回年次大会 発表論文集, March, 2023.

Pre-prints

• Hype or not? Formalizing Automatic Promotional Language Detection in Biomedical Research
  Bojan Batalo, Erica K. Shimomoto, Neil Millar
  arXiv, 2025.
• Multilingual Definition Modeling
  Edison Marrese-Taylor, Erica K. Shimomoto, Alfredo Solano, Enrique Reid
  arXiv, 2025.
• Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation
  Pedro H. V. Valois, Lincon S. Souza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Kazuhiro Fukui
  arXiv, 2024.
• Towards Parameter-Efficient Integration of Pre-Trained Language Models In Temporal Video Grounding
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hideki Nakayama, and Yusuke Miyao
  arXiv, 2023.
• Text Classification based on Word Subspace with Term-Frequency
  Erica K. Shimomoto, Lincon S. Souza, Bernardo B. Gatto, Kazuhiro Fukui
  arXiv, 2018.