Welcome! Here at Lee Laboratory of Nagoya Institute of Technology, we focus on human-to-human and human-to-machine communication through speech and language, and are conducting research on speech recognition, spoken dialogue systems, natural language processing, speech-based interaction, and avatar communication. Our goal is to advance technologies related to spoken language processing and to realize highly sophisticated, voice- and language-driven man–machine interfaces that are truly natural and user-friendly for everyone.
Our research topic involves:
Lee Lab is running in collaboration with Sako laboratory. We also have a cooperative relationship with Tokuda, Nankaku and Hashimoto Laboratory.
Professor
LEE Akinobu was born in Kyoto, Japan, on December 19, 1972. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in information science, and the Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively. He worked on Nara Institute of Science and Technology as an assistance professor from 2000-2005. Currently he is a professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include speech recognition, spoken language understanding, and spoken dialogue system. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, JSAI, IPSJ and the Acoustical Society of Japan.
He is also a researcher who loves coding and has been involved in open-source activities for over 25 years. Below is a list of open-source software and CG avatars for which he serves as the lead developer:
Ryota Tanaka (M2)’s paper has been published at Computer Speech & Language jounal.
Ryota Tanaka, Akihide Ozeki, Shugo Kato, Akinobu Lee, “Context and Knowledge Aware Dialogue System and System Combination for Grounded Response Generation” In Proc. Computer Speech & Language Journal, vol. 62, July 2020. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230820300036
A paper entitled “Speaker Aware BERT for Multi-Party Dialogue Selection” by Tatsuya Nishiyama has been accepted for poster presentation at AAAI2020/DSTC8, which will be held on New York on February 8, 2020.
