Takuma Sato

🏫 Education

🔍 Main Interests

• Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics
  • Pragmatic reasoning abilities of language models
  • Computational cognitive modeling of pragmatic reasoning
  • Evaluation and improvement of benchmarks based on psychometric theory
  • Discourse relations with procedural meaning

💻 Technologies Experienced With

• Python
• TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Next.js
  • React.js
  • ReactNative
• Rust
• Ruby on Rails
• C++
• Other Technologies
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • git (Github)

📕 Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Takuma Sato, Seiya Kawano, and Koichiro Yoshino. 2025. Pragmatic Theories Enhance Understanding of Implied Meanings in LLMs, To appear in Proceedings of IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India. [Preprint PDF]
• Takuma Sato, Ai Kubota, and Koji Mineshima. 2025. Is Partial Linguistic Information Sufficient for Discourse Connective Disambiguation? A Case Study of Concession, In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 977–990, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF]
• Hirohane Takagi, Shoji Moriya, Takuma Sato, Manabu Nagao, and Keita Higuchi. 2025. A Framework for Efficient Development and Debugging of Role-playing Agents with Large Language Models, In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 70–88. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712119. [PDF]
• 高木洋羽, 守屋彰二, 佐藤拓真, 永尾学, 樋口啓太. 2025.「大規模言語モデルを用いたロールプレイエージェントの効率的な開発と動作検証のためのフレームワーク」, INTERACTION 2025.
• Ai Kubota, Takuma Sato, Takayuki Amamoto, Ryota Akiyoshi, and Koji Mineshima. 2024. Annotation of Japanese Discourse Relations Focusing on Concessive Inferences, In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 1215–1224, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. [PDF]

Non peer-reviewed

• Takuma Sato, Saku Sugawara "Evaluating Evaluation: On Construct Validity in Language Model Evaluation", JSAI 2025 National Convention, Organized Session "Technical and Social Perspectives of Datasets and Benchmarks", Osaka, May 2025 [oral]
• Takuma Sato, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino "Improving In-context Learning through Pragmatic Theories", IPSJ SIG-NL 263, March 2025
• Takuma Sato, Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino "Toward Building a Dataset for Practical Pragmatic Reasoning Evaluation", JSAI SIG-SLUD, Dialogue System Symposium #15 (102nd SLUD Meeting), November 2024
• Takuma Sato, Ai Kubota, Koji Mineshima "How Does BERT Judge Concessive Discourse Relations? Using Attention and Part-of-Speech as Clues", NLP2024, Kobe, March 11-15, 2024
• Takuma Sato, Ai Kubota, Koji Mineshima "Can Entailment and Sentiment Polarity Capture Concessive Discourse Relations?", NLP2023, Okinawa, March 13-17, 2023
• Ai Kubota, Takuma Sato, Takayuki Amamoto, Ryota Akiyoshi, Koji Mineshima "Japanese Discourse Relation Annotation Focusing on Concessive Inferences", NLP2023, Okinawa, March 13-17, 2023《Committee Member's Special Award》

💰 Grants

🏢 Work Experience

National Institute of Informatics (NII) : 2024年10月 ~ now

Preferred Networks Inc. : 2024年10月 ~ 2024年12月

RIKEN Guardian Robot Project : 2024年10月

Preferred Networks Inc. : 2024年8月 ~ 2024年9月

LabBase Inc. : 2023年10月 ~ 2024年7月

Ann Inc. : 2021年9月 ~ 2023年3月

🎖️ Certifications

🙌 Other Interests

• Music Production
  • Synthesizer
  • Guitar
  • Piano
• Video Production
  • Adobe AfterEffects
• Tennis