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• 01 Natural Language Processing
• 02 Text Embeddings
• 03 Automatic Prompt Optimization
• 04 Text Simplification

// International Conferences (4)

1. 01
   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)
2. 02
   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.

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3. 03
   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.

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4. 04
   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.

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// Domestic Conferences (Japan) (4)

1. 05
   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)

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2. 06
   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)

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3. 07
   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)

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4. 08
   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 (2)

1. 09
   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)
2. 10
   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)

// Machine Learning & Data Analysis (2)

• 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 (7)

• 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 (1)

• 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]

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  • OPEN Issue #4 Outdated version badge in the README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  • OPEN Issue #14 Outdated declaration-check fixtures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

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• MIC-organized National CTF Contest 2026
  Nationwide (in-person): 10thMatsuyama 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 / 14Prize: JPY 30,000
• Geek CAMP 2026 Hackathon Vol. 2 — Supporterz Award
  Rank: 5 / 12Prize: 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