Rei Minamoto
2026
Detecting Sensitive Personal Information in Japanese Pre-Training Corpora for Large Language Models
Rei Minamoto | Yusuke Oda | Daisuke Kawahara
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Rei Minamoto | Yusuke Oda | Daisuke Kawahara
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Sensitive personal information can appear in large-scale pre-training corpora for large language models (LLMs). Detecting and filtering such information is therefore essential to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and prevent unintended information leakage. However, in contrast to English and other languages, research into sensitive personal information has been limited in the Japanese language. In this study, we focus on sensitive personal data defined as special care-required personal information (SCPI) under Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). We construct an SCPI dataset using LLM-based annotation and train machine learning models to rapidly detect SCPI in text. As a result, our SCPI classifier can effectively identify information related to SCPI. This study is the first to explore SCPI detection in Japanese text corpora, highlighting the challenges of accurate detection.
Constructing a Japanese Verdict Prediction Dataset for Fact-Checking of LLM-Generated Texts
Miwa Masano | Hirokazu Kiyomaru | Atsushi Keyaki | Kaito Horio | Rei Minamoto | Ribeka Keyaki | Kouta Nakayama | Hideyuki Tachibana | Daisuke Kawahara
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Miwa Masano | Hirokazu Kiyomaru | Atsushi Keyaki | Kaito Horio | Rei Minamoto | Ribeka Keyaki | Kouta Nakayama | Hideyuki Tachibana | Daisuke Kawahara
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
The development of fact-checking systems for verifying the factuality of text generated by large language models (LLMs) has been advancing.In the verdict prediction step of such systems, the system determines whether claims in the generated text are supported by retrieved evidence, formulated as a natural language inference (NLI) task.This study extends the label set for verdict prediction to capture claim-evidence relationships that humans would commonly interpret as supported or refuted, even in the absence of strict logical entailment or contradiction.It also constructs a Japanese dataset comprising 28,147 instances from two sources based on this extended label set.We analyze the causes of annotation disagreement and find that ambiguity in the boundary of acceptable inference, interpretive characteristics of negative cases, and incomplete information in the evidence affect annotation variability.Using this dataset, we evaluate the performance of prompt-based verdict prediction methods and show that prompts that explicitly elicit chain-of-thought reasoning improve F1 by 4 percentage points compared to baseline.