Yo Ehara

An Analytical Study of the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formulae to Explain Their Robustness over Time 

Proc. of PACLIC (to appear), Dec, 2024  Peer-reviewedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author

Course Concepts: How Readable Are They for ESL Learners? 

Proc. of Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2023 (poster), Jul, 2023  Peer-reviewed

Measuring Similarity between Manual Course Concepts and ChatGPT-generated Course Concepts 

Proc. of Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2023 (poster), Jul, 2023  Peer-reviewed

Innovative Software to Efficiently Learn English through Extensive Reading and Personalized Vocabulary Acquisition 

Proc. of AIED 2023 (Industry & Innovation Track), Jul, 2023  Peer-reviewed

Evaluating Deep Transfer Learning Models for Assessing Text Readability for ESL Learners 

Proc. of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) Work-In-Progress-Poster, Nov, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Neural Language Model-based Readability Assessment of Computer Science Introductory Texts for English-as-a-Second Language Learners 

Proc. of CogSci 2022 (poster full paper), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Selecting Reading Texts Suitable for Incidental Vocabulary Learning by Considering the Estimated Distribution of Acquired Vocabulary 

Proc. of EDM 2022 (poster), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Assessing Readability of Learning Materials on Artificial Intelligence in English for Second Language Learners 

Proc. of AIED 2022 (poster), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Distributional Estimation of Personalized Second-Language Vocabulary Sizes with Wordlists that the Learner is likely to Know 

Proc. of AIED 2022 (poster), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Analyzing Semantically Distinctive English Word Usages in Computer Science for English-as-a-Second-Language Learners 

ACM ITiCSE ’22 (Core Rank A): Proc. of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2 (poster), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Predicting Second Language Learners’ Actual Knowledge using Self-perceived Knowledge 

Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022, Core Rank A, short paper), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

No Meaning Left Unlearned: Predicting Learners’ Knowledge of Atypical Meanings of Words from Vocabulary Tests for Their Typical Meanings 

Proc. of EDM 2022: the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (short paper), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

An Intelligent Interactive Support System for Word Usage Learning in Second Languages 

Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022, Core Rank A, full paper, acceptance rate 20%), Jul, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Analyzing Readability of Scientific Abstracts for English-as-a-Second-Language Learners 

Companion Proc. of Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK, Core Rank A) 2022, Mar, 2022  Peer-reviewedLast author

Analyzing Correlation between Word Difficulty Levels Assigned by Language Teachers and those by Language Learners 

Companion Proc. of Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) 2022, Mar, 2022  Peer-reviewed

Lightweight Unsupervised Automatic Readability Assessment Toolkit for Second Language Learners 

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), (full paper acceptance rate 20%), Nov, 2021  Peer-reviewed

To What Extent Does Lexical Normalization Help English-as-a-Second Language Learners to Read Noisy English Texts? 

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2021), EMNLP 2021 workshop, Nov, 2021  Peer-reviewed

To What Extent Can English-as-a-Second Language Learners Read Economic News Texts? 

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP), EMNLP 2021 workshop, 62-68, Nov, 2021  Peer-reviewed

Uncertainty-aware Personalized Readability Assessments for Second Language Learners 

Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Full Paper （採択率28.5%）, Dec, 2019  Peer-reviewed