Wataru Hirota
Our paper was accepted to the ACL 2026 Industry Track as an oral presentation. Aggregate vs. Personalized Judges in Business Idea Evaluation: Evidence from Expert Disagreement. arXiv.
I will serve as an organizer for the organized session OS-37 “Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs” at the 40th Annual Conference of JSAI (JSAI2026), to be held in June 2026. The session is co-organized with Prof. Kouji Kozaki (Osaka Electro-Communication University), Prof. Takeshi Morita (Aoyama Gakuin University), and Shigeri Kurokawa (KDDI Research). We look forward to your submissions and participation.
I am attending the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026), held in Nagasaki, March 2026. I also co-authored a blog post introducing the five research papers our team at Stockmark is presenting at the conference: Natural Language Processing Supporting Seeds-Needs Matching.
AndTech has published Materials Informatics & AI: A Collection of Real-World Material Development Case Studies for Immediate Practical Use and the Future of MI. I contributed to the review of Section 7.3, “Development of Generative AI Technology for Improving Accuracy and Efficiency in New Business Creation.”
I will attend the Japan Marketing Association’s Multi-City Conference in Osaka on February 28, 2026. Looking forward to discussions with attendees on site.
I will be speaking at a seminar hosted by Stockmark Inc.: “Why Can’t RAG Find That ‘Tacit Knowledge’? Formalizing Knowledge by Connecting Figures and Context with VLM × Knowledge Graph”. URL
(In Japanese) I wrote an article titled “Is LLM-based Public Opinion Polling Possible? (LLM世論調査は可能なのか?)” discussing the possibilities and current state of LLM-based simulation.
I will serve as an organizer for the Mirai NLP Workshop (in Japanese), to be held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026) (in Japanese) in March 2026. I will mainly be in charge of the Shared Task. Details and registration are available here (in Japanese).
The Bibbidi open innovation platform—where I contributed to building the knowledge-graph data— was featured on AIST’s website (in Japanese). An exhibition at CEATEC 2025 @ Makuhari Messe is also planned.
At the AgentScen workshop at IJCAI 2025 in Montréal, we hosted the Product Business Idea Generation (PBIG) Shared Task.