English

Kanade Nonomura 野々村 奏

Affiliation
First-year master’s student, Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Mathematical and Computer Science Program, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University
Email
nonomura[at]ai.cs.ehime-u.ac.jp

I study natural language processing, with a particular focus on text embeddings. I am also interested in putting these technologies into practice.

[GitHub] [Qiita] [ACL Anthology]
Kanade Nonomura
  • lt
  • kaigi
  • 分離
  • 多言語文埋め込み
  • 大規模言語モデル
  • chrome
  • embeddings
  • hotate
  • language
  • multilingual
  • rails
  • ruby
  • sentence
  • web
  • アンバサダー
  • スカラシップ
  • ブクスペ
  • ブックマーク
  • 主催
  • 判定
  • 宇宙空間
  • 意味要素
  • 拡張機能
  • 検証
  • 登壇
  • 相談
  • 解析
  • 言語処理
  • 言語要素
  • 課題
  • 週間
  • 題目
  • ai
  • hack
  • 検索
  • 総務省主催
  • annotated
  • bias
  • components
  • corpus

Research Interests

Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Text Embeddings, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Text Simplification

Publications

International Conferences

  • Optimizing Task Instructions with Soft Prompts for Prompt-Based Text Embedding Models
    Kanade Nonomura, Satoru Katsumata, Jiro Nishitoba, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, In Proceedings of the 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2026), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2026. (to appear)
  • Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Cross-lingual Similarity Estimation
    Kanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, In Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), pp.385–394, San Diego, California, United States, July 2026. [PDF]
  • Disentangling Meaning and Language Components in Diverse Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
    Kanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Student Research Workshop) (ACL SRW 2026), pp.1169–1176, San Diego, California, United States, July 2026. [PDF]
  • HOTATE: A Japanese Dialogue Corpus Annotated with Responses of Private Thoughts and Public Statements
    Yuko Toda, Daisuke Maekawa, Kota Manabe, Eito Yoneyama, Kanade Nonomura, Yuki Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, In Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), pp.2987–2995, Mallorca, Spain, May 2026. [PDF]

Domestic Conferences (Japan)

  • Disentangling Meaning and Language Components in Diverse Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
    Kanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, The 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2026), 4yin-b-54, June 2026. (in Japanese) [PDF]
  • HOTATE: Building a Dialogue Corpus of Private Thoughts and Public Statements
    Yuko Toda, Daisuke Maekawa, Kota Manabe, Eito Yoneyama, Kanade Nonomura, Yuki Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026), pp.1748–1752, March 2026. (in Japanese) [PDF]
  • Analyzing Loss Functions for Disentangling Meaning and Language in Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
    Kanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026), pp.3842–3846, March 2026. (in Japanese) [PDF]
  • Prompt Design for Large Language Models to Obtain Japanese Sentence Embeddings
    Kanade Nonomura, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, The 88th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan, pp.281–282, March 2026. (in Japanese), Student Encouragement Award [PDF]

Symposia

  • Toward Continuous Control of Sentence Difficulty Based on Embedding Norms of Large Language Models
    Kanade Nonomura, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase, The 21st Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies Symposium (YANS 2026), August 2026. (in Japanese)
  • A Study on Disentangling Meaning and Language Components in Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
    Kanade Nonomura, Risa Kondo, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, The 20th Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies Symposium (YANS 2025), September 2025. (in Japanese)

Hackathons & Competitions

Machine Learning & Data Analysis

  • YANS 2026 Hackathon
    August 2026
    Worked on detecting hallucinations by checking whether citations in papers are consistent with the cited content. [Site]
  • YANS 2025 Hackathon
    September 2025
    Competed to improve mathematical problem-solving accuracy through preference tuning. [Site]

Software Development

  • 技育展2026
    October 2026
    Presented Bukusupe, a Chrome extension for exploring bookmarks as stars in space, at the online preliminary round. Selected to advance to the in-person finals. [Site] [Store] [GitHub]
  • HACK SONIC 2026 Autumn
    September 2026
    Developed Bukusupe, a Chrome extension that turns bookmarks into stars in space, letting users find pages by exploring galaxies and creating constellations.，2nd place among 11 entries selected through preliminary screening [Site] [Report] [Store] [GitHub] [ProtoPedia] [Speaker Deck] [毎日新聞Web]
  • AI HACK 2026
    September 2026
    Developed a 3D AI assistant that students can consult freely, with support for finding school information and organizing their concerns. [Qiita] [GitHub]
  • U-22 Programming Contest 2026
    August 2026
    Developed Gomisapo, a waste-sorting app that supports ambiguous search queries. [Site] [GitHub] [ProtoPedia] [Qiita]
  • Geek CAMP 2026 Hackathon Vol. 4
    July–August 2026
    Developed a mobile app with shared accountability: breaking a promise creates a “squat debt” for your teammates.，Grand Prize [Site] [GitHub] [Speaker Deck]
  • Geek CAMP 2026 Hackathon Vol. 2
    April 2026
    Developed a desktop app that analyzes user activity to assess, visualize, and notify users about their focus.，Supporterz Award [Site] [GitHub]
  • Geek CAMP 2025 Hackathon Vol. 8
    July 2025
    Developed a web app for easy collaborative data annotation. [Site] [GitHub]

Security

  • MIC-organized National CTF Contest 2026
    October 2026
    Participated in a cybersecurity competition organized by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, solving cryptography, web, networking, and forensics challenges to capture hidden flags.，10th nationwide (in-person) / 2nd at the Matsuyama venue [Site]

Open source contributions

  • DSPy 38830 Issue 1 / PR 1
    Reported an inconsistency in GEPA’s automatic evaluation budget and proposed a fix aligned with the evaluation flow. [GitHub]
    Issue and pull request details
    • [Bug] GEPA auto_budget does not reflect the current reflective evaluation loop Issue #10245 Open
    • fix(gepa): align GEPA auto budget with evaluation costs PR #10246 Open
  • Nyxis 306 Issue 9 / PR 7
    Reported bugs and submitted fixes for Cedar syntax compatibility, Linux builds, and dependency tests in a Lean-based web framework. [GitHub]
    Issue and pull request details
    • Outdated version badge in the README Issue #4 Open
    • Inconsistent CR line endings in Cedar schema parsing Issue #6 Open
    • Incorrect hex decoding in the PostgreSQL dependency test Issue #8 Open
    • JWT dependency test uses the old HTTP API Issue #10 Open
    • False positives in the Handler Effects check Issue #12 Open
    • Outdated declaration-check fixtures Issue #14 Open
    • Parser accepts block comments unsupported by Cedar Issue #16 Open
    • Lean sysroot linking issue in Linux builds Issue #17 Open
    • Missing libcrypto_shim.so at runtime on Linux Issue #18 Open
    • Update the README version badge PR #5 Open
    • End line comments at CR for Cedar compatibility PR #7 Open
    • Fix hex decoding in the libpq smoke test PR #9 Open
    • Update the JWT dependency check to the current HTTP API PR #11 Open
    • Fix Bulletin Board comments that trigger false positives PR #13 Open
    • Update declaration-check fixtures to the current Startup API PR #15 Open
    • Fix libpq linking on Linux while preserving the Lean sysroot PR #19 Open
  • Spinel 2284 PR 1
    Submitted a fix to correctly report crashes and timeouts during confirmation runs of spinel diff. [GitHub]
    PR #10285 Merged
  • MTEB 3479 PR 1
    Submitted documentation improvements clarifying technical requirements for reproducible evaluation result submissions. [GitHub]
    PR #5735 Open
  • sentence-transformers 19230 PR 3
    Submitted PRs for pinned documentation source links, an embedding export evaluator, and standalone Router-route export. [GitHub]
    Issue and pull request details
    • [fix] Pin documentation source links to the build commit PR #4280 Merged
    • [feat] Add an evaluator for exporting sentence embeddings PR #4281 Open
    • [feat] Export a Router route as a standalone SentenceTransformer PR #4282 Closed
  • marimo 23376 Issue 3 / PR 1
    Reported bugs in notebook layout saving, glob pattern expansion, and sorting filenames containing Unicode digits, and submitted a fix for filename sorting. [GitHub]
    Issue and pull request details
    • Saving layouts for distinct notebook names can overwrite another notebook layout Issue #11475 Open
    • marimo check glob patterns skip root-level files and cross directory boundaries Issue #11474 Open
    • File browser fails to list directories containing Unicode digit filenames Issue #11472 Open
    • fix: handle Unicode digits in filename sorting PR #11555 Open
  • RustXNG 616 PR 1
    Submitted a fix and regression tests to prevent unit conversion from returning incorrect results for malformed numbers. [GitHub]
    PR #20 Closed

Tech Events

  • Kaigi Effect
    October 2026
    Participated in a Kaigi on Rails 2026 follow-up event organized by Sonic Garden. Compared and evaluated the performance of PostgreSQL alone and PostgreSQL with Valkey Sorted Sets using a game leaderboard.
  • アンバサLTだぁ！
    October 2026
    Gave a lightning talk titled “Perspectives Learned from an Ad Hoc Team.”
  • Geek Festival 2026 Autumn — Student Ambassador
    September–October 2026
    Serving as a student ambassador for Geek Festival 2026 Autumn, a tech conference for students organized by Supporterz. [Site]
  • DevFest Meetup #2 — Lightning Talks in Kobe
    September 2026
    Gave a lightning talk titled “Building a Transparent, Stylish Development Environment with Ghostty + Neovim.” [Site] [Speaker Deck]
  • Kaigi on Rails 2026 Scholarship
    September 2026
    Selected for Sonic Garden’s scholarship program for students. [Site]
  • Shimane Prefecture-organized Ruby Camp 2024 Summer
    August 2024
    Participated in a four-day software development camp organized by Shimane Prefecture. Developed a card game using Ruby’s Gosu library. [Site] [GitHub]
Conference attendance (5)
  • Kaigi on Rails 2026
    October 2026
    Attended conference talks in Tokyo. [Site]
  • 技育祭2026【秋】
    October 2026
    Attended conference talks at the Tokyo venue. [Site]
  • PHPカンファレンス愛媛2026
    October 2026
    Attended conference talks in Matsuyama, Ehime. [Site]
  • 技育祭2026【九州】
    June 2026
    Attended conference talks in Fukuoka. [Site]
  • 技育祭2026【東海】
    April 2026
    Attended conference talks in Nagoya. [Site]

Internships

  • LY Corporation
    ML Engineer ｜ August–September 2026 (6 weeks)
    Improved AI-generated answers in Yahoo! JAPAN Search.
  • Retrieva, Inc.
    Researcher ｜ February–March 2026 (7 weeks)
    Researched automatic prompt optimization for text embedding models. [Zenn]

Event Planning & Organization

  • University Student Planning Team — 2026 Community Experience & Exchange Program for Foreign Residents
    May 2026–present
    Planning and organizing exchange events to help foreign residents settle into the community, alongside young staff from Ehime Prefecture’s Chuyo Regional Bureau and local university students. [Site]

Achievements

  • MIC-organized National CTF Contest 2026
    Nationwide (in-person): 10th Matsuyama venue: 2nd
  • HACK SONIC 2026 Autumn — 2nd Place
    2nd place among 11 entries selected through preliminary screening
  • Geek CAMP 2026 Hackathon Vol. 4 — Grand Prize
    Rank: 1 / 14 Prize: JPY 30,000
  • Geek CAMP 2026 Hackathon Vol. 2 — Supporterz Award
    Rank: 5 / 12 Prize: JPY 5,000
  • Student Encouragement Award, 88th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (March 2026)
    Award recipients in session: 2 / 7 (28.6%)
  • Outstanding Third-Year Student, Applied Information Engineering Course, Faculty of Engineering, Ehime University
  • Passed the Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination