Kota Yamaguchi
Author directory2026
From Anonymous Speaker Seeds to Consistent Characters: Zero-Shot Manga Speaker Attribution
Yanhao Chen | Wataru Shimoda | Kota Yamaguchi | Hideki Nakayama
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yanhao Chen | Wataru Shimoda | Kota Yamaguchi | Hideki Nakayama
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Identifying the speaker of each dialogue instance is a key step in manga understanding, supporting applications such as translation, summarization, and voice generation. In zero-shot settings, the task is challenging because each new manga title introduces an unseen cast and provides no speaker annotations, predefined character identities, or per-title model adaptation. Existing methods, including iterative multimodal fusion, still organize speaker reasoning around manga-specific visual evidence such as characters’ appearance and local text-character relationships. However, such evidence is highly variable in manga, where speakers may be off-panel, character appearance changes across poses and styles, and local visual relations can be misleading. We propose Speaker-Seeded Identity Consolidation (SSIC), which reframes zero-shot manga speaker attribution as book-level identity consolidation driven by recurring dialogue consistency rather than local visual-region propagation. SSIC induces local anonymous speaker hypotheses from ordered dialogue context, aligns them into cross-window speaker seeds, constructs a global speaker identity registry, and performs registry-constrained attribution. In the main controlled evaluation on Manga109Dialog, SSIC achieves 74.62% speaker attribution accuracy, improving over iterative multimodal fusion by 7.02 points. The gains are largest on hard cases where local text-character relationships are unreliable, and ablations confirm that cross-window speaker seeds are central to registry construction.
2016
Recognizing Open-Vocabulary Relations between Objects in Images
Masayasu Muraoka | Sumit Maharjan | Masaki Saito | Kota Yamaguchi | Naoaki Okazaki | Takayuki Okatani | Kentaro Inui
Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: Oral Papers
Masayasu Muraoka | Sumit Maharjan | Masaki Saito | Kota Yamaguchi | Naoaki Okazaki | Takayuki Okatani | Kentaro Inui
Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: Oral Papers
2012
Detecting Visual Text
Jesse Dodge | Amit Goyal | Xufeng Han | Alyssa Mensch | Margaret Mitchell | Karl Stratos | Kota Yamaguchi | Yejin Choi | Hal Daumé III | Alex Berg | Tamara Berg
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Jesse Dodge | Amit Goyal | Xufeng Han | Alyssa Mensch | Margaret Mitchell | Karl Stratos | Kota Yamaguchi | Yejin Choi | Hal Daumé III | Alex Berg | Tamara Berg
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections
Margaret Mitchell | Jesse Dodge | Amit Goyal | Kota Yamaguchi | Karl Stratos | Xufeng Han | Alyssa Mensch | Alex Berg | Tamara Berg | Hal Daumé III
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Margaret Mitchell | Jesse Dodge | Amit Goyal | Kota Yamaguchi | Karl Stratos | Xufeng Han | Alyssa Mensch | Alex Berg | Tamara Berg | Hal Daumé III
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics