Aggregate vs. Personalized Judges in Business Idea Evaluation: Evidence from Expert Disagreement
Wataru Hirota, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma, Kosuke Takahashi, Takahiro Omi, Kosuke Arima, Takuto Asakura, Chung-Chi Chen, Tatsuya Ishigaki
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Industry Track). 2026
Exploring the design of multi-agent llm dialogues for research ideation
Keisuke Ueda, Wataru Hirota, Kosuke Takahashi, Takahiro Omi, Kosuke Arima, Tatsuya Ishigaki
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 2025
Overview of PBIG Shared Task at AgentScen 2025: Product Business Idea Generation from Patents
Wataru Hirota, Chung-Chi Chen, Tomoko Ohkuma, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tatsuya Ishigaki
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning. 2025
Machop: an end-to-end generalized entity matching framework
Jin Wang, Yuliang Li, Wataru Hirota, Eser Kandogan
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management. 2022
Machamp: A generalized entity matching benchmark
Jin Wang, Yuliang Li, Wataru Hirota
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 2021
Emu: Enhancing multilingual sentence embeddings with semantic specialization
Wataru Hirota, Yoshihiko Suhara, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2020
A method for cluster analysis of single-cell gene expression data using the Pachinko Allocation Model
Wataru Hirota, Mitsuhiro Eto, Shigeto Senoo, Hideo Matsuda
IPSJ SIG Technical Report (Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving, MPS). 2018
Asymmetric integration of single-cell transcriptomic data using latent dirichlet allocation and procrustes analysis
Mitsuhiro Eto, Wataru Hirota, Shigeto Seno, Hideo Matsuda
2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 2018