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Daisuke Kawahara

6 accepted papers

2026

VIR-Bench: Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Understanding of MLLMs via Travel Video Itinerary Reconstruction

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced video understanding capabilities, opening new possibilities for practical applications. Yet current video benchmarks focus largely on indoor scenes or short-range outdoor activities, leaving the challenges associ

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2025

Constructing Multimodal Datasets from Scratch for Rapid Development of a Japanese Visual Language Model

NAACL 2025system demonstrations

To develop high-performing Visual Language Models (VLMs), it is essential to prepare multimodal resources, such as image-text pairs, interleaved data, and instruction data. While multimodal resources for English are abundant, there is a significant lack of corresponding resources for non-English lan…

2025

Leveraging High-Resource English Corpora for Cross-lingual Domain Adaptation in Low-Resource Japanese Medicine via Continued Pre-training

EMNLP 2025

Limited low-resource language corpora in professional domains like medicine hinder cross-lingual domain adaptation of pre-trained large language models (PLMs). While abundant English medical corpora could complement this scarcity, the effective mixture of English and target language, including machi

2023

Kanbun-LM: Reading and Translating Classical Chinese in Japanese Methods by Language Models

ACL 2023findings

Recent studies in natural language processing (NLP) have focused on modern languages and achieved state-of-the-art results in many tasks. Meanwhile, little attention has been paid to ancient texts and related tasks. Classical Chinese first came to Japan approximately 2,000 years ago. It was graduall…