October 2025: 'Dissecting GraphRAG: A Modular Analysis of Knowledge Structuring for Factoid Question Answering' (Nishida et al.) accepted by TACL; August 2025: 'Post Persona Alignment for Multi-Session Dialogue Generation' (Yi-Pei Chen, Noriki Nishida, Hideki Nakayama, Yuji Matsumoto) accepted by EMNLP 2025 Findings; June 2025: 'MA-COIR: Leveraging Semantic Search Index and Generative Models for Ontology-Driven Biomedical Concept Recognition' (Shanshan Liu, Noriki Nishida, Rumana Ferdous Munne, Narumi Tokunaga, Yuki Yamagata, Kouji Kozaki, Yuji Matsumoto) accepted by ACL-SRW 2025; May 2025: 'Do Multimodal Large Language Models Truly See What We Point At? Investigating Indexical, Iconic, and Symbolic Gesture Comprehension' (Noriki Nishida, Koji Inoue, Hideki Nakayama, Mayumi Bono, and Katsuya Takanashi) accepted by ACL 2025; March 2025: Gave a talk titled 'Choosing to Conduct Research at a National Research Institute in This Era' at the SOKENDAI Career Path Support Seminar; December 2024: 'Zero-Shot Entailment Learning for Ontology-Based Biomedical Annotation Without Explicit Mentions' (Munne et al.) accepted by COLING 2025; July 2024: 'Mention-Agnostic Information Extraction for Ontological Annotation of Biomedical Articles' (El Khettari and Nishida et al.) accepted by BioNLP 2024 co-located with ACL 2024; April 2024: 'Weakly Supervised Named Entity Recognition Using Thesaurus with Hierarchical Structure' (Shibahara et al.) accepted by Journal of Natura Language Processing; February 2024: 'Recent Trends in Personalized Dialogue Generation: A Review of Datasets, Methogolodies, and Evaluations' (Chen et al.) accepted by LREC-COLING 2024!
Research Experience
December 2023 - Present: Research Scientist, RIKEN AIP; April 2022 - March 2025: Part-Time Lecturer, University of Tsukuba; July 2020 - June 2021: Visiting Researcher, The University of Tokyo; April 2020 - November 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN AIP; April 2018 - March 2020: Young Research Fellow (DC2), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; November 2014 - August 2015: Part-Time Software Engineer, Logarhythm Inc.
Education
March 2020, Ph.D. of Information Science and Technology, Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. Thesis title: 'Unsupervised Induction of Natural Language Discourse Structure Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory.' Advisor: Hideki Nakayama. March 2017, Master of Information Science and Technology, Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
Background
Research interests include natural language processing, knowledge acquisition (information extraction, knowledge base organization, information retrieval, question answering, etc.), expansion and management of external knowledge systems for large language models, and (multimodal) discourse analysis.