Journal Articles

  • Deep entity matching: Challenges and opportunities
    Yuliang Li, Jinfeng Li, Yoshihiko Suhara, Jin Wang, Wataru Hirota, Wang-Chiew Tan
    Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ). 2021

Conference & Workshop Papers

  • 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

Preprints

  • Why Expert Alignment Is Hard: Evidence from Subjective Evaluation
    Tzu-Mi Lin, Wataru Hirota, Tatsuya Ishigaki, Lung-Hao Lee, Chung-Chi Chen
    arXiv preprint. 2026

Patents

  • Systems and methods for generalized entity matching
    Jin Wang, Yuliang Li, Wataru Hirota
    US Patent 12,547,843. 2026
  • Systems and methods for multilingual sentence embeddings
    Wataru Hirota, Yoshihiko Suhara, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
    US Patent 12,393,779. 2025