Hitomi Yanaka
Hitomi Yanaka (D.Eng.)
Title
Team Director

Members

  • Team director
    Hitomi Yanaka
  • JSPS PD Researcher
    Masaya Taniguchi
  • Postdoctoral researcher
    Adam Nohejl
  • Visiting scientist
    Takuto Asakura
  • Visiting scientist
    Namgi Han
  • Visiting scientist
    Masaru Isonuma
  • Visiting scientist
    Yusuke Sakai
  • Visiting scientist
    Hiroyuki Katsura
  • Visiting scientist
    Sho Takase
  • Visiting scientist
    Amane Watahiki
  • Student trainee
    Taisei Yamamoto
  • Student trainee
    Gouki Minegishi
  • Student trainee
    Yosuke Mikami
  • Student trainee
    Daiki Matsuoka
  • Student trainee
    Koki Ryu
  • Student trainee
    Anirudh Kondapally
  • Student trainee
    Pacharapon Arpanantikul
  • Student trainee
    Ruixuan Tu
  • Part-time worker I
    Ryoma Kumon
  • Part-time worker I
    Tomoki Doi
  • Part-time worker I
    Ryo Yoshida

Introduction

Humans perform various inference from given information and make decisions in everyday life. Recently, large language model research using massive data and deep learning has accelerated, and interactive decision-making support using AI has become a reality. However, it is challenging to explain how current AI understands input meaning and performs inference. Toward truly reliable AI, it is necessary to solve the problems of explainable AI from multifaceted perspectives. Based on interdisciplinary approaches of the humanities and sciences, our team aims to elucidate the meaning acquisition and inference processes of AI and realize explainable AI that provide explanations that support humans.

Main Research Field
Informatics
Research Field
Complex Systems / Humanities / Intelligent Informatics
Research Subjects
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Inference
Explainability
Interpretability
RIKEN Website URL
https://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/phys/xai/index.html
Poster(s)

Research Achievements

List of Achievements

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posted on April 18, 2026 00:34Information
17 papers were accepted at ACL 2026
posted on March 9, 2026 14:07InterviewInformation
[Published]Close-up RIKEN(RIKEN Web, March 9, 2026)
posted on February 20, 2026 18:21InformationAward
Winner of the Grand Prize in the Technical Book Category of the IT Engineer Book Awards (February 19, 2026, Shoeisha)
posted on February 3, 2026 11:14Information
34 papers have been accepted at ICLR 2026
posted on January 16, 2026 14:59Information
Nominated for the Top 3 in the Technical Book Category of the IT Engineer Book Award (January 15, 2026, Shoeisha)
posted on January 15, 2026 11:44Information
7 papers were accepted at EACL 2026
posted on November 14, 2025 13:05Information
Five Papers Accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025
posted on November 7, 2025 18:55Information
Nominated for “IT Engineers’ Book Awards 2026” (November 7, 2025, Shoeisha)
posted on September 26, 2025 16:52Information
6 papers were accepted at EMNLP 2025
posted on September 25, 2025 18:29InformationAward
YANS2025 Award
posted on July 25, 2025 15:35Information
Five Papers Accepted to Workshops Co-located with ACL 2025 ( BioNLP, GeBNLP, CoNLL, SRW)