Kana
Maruyama

Publications

Bridging Perceptual Gaps in Food NLP: A Structured Approach Using Sensory Anchors

ACL, 2025
Kana Maruyama, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Tarek R Besold

Understanding how humans perceive and describe food is essential for NLP applications such as semantic search, recommendation, and structured food communication. However, textual similarity often fails to reflect perceptual similarity, which is shaped by sensory experience, …

Literature-based Hypothesis Generation: Predicting the evolution of scientific literature to support scientists

AI4X, 2025
Tarek R Besold, Uchenna Akujuobi, Samy Badreddine, Jihun Choi, Hatem ElShazly, Frederick Gifford, Chrysa Iliopoulou, Kana Maruyama, Kae Nagano, Pablo Sanchez Martin, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Alessandra Toniato, Christoph Wehner

Science is advancing at an increasingly quick pace, as evidenced, for instance, by the exponential growth in the number of published research articles per year [1]. On the one hand, this poses anincreasingly pressing challenge: Effectively navigating this ever-growing body o…

Link prediction for hypothesis generation: an active curriculum learning infused temporal graph-based approach

AIR, 2024
Uchenna Akujuobi, Priyadarshini Kumari, Jihun Choi, Samy Badreddine, Kana Maruyama, Sucheendra K Palaniappan*, Tarek R Besold

Over the last few years Literature-based Discovery (LBD) has regained popularity as a means to enhance the scientific research process. The resurgent interest has spurred the development of supervised and semi-supervised machine learning models aimed at making previously imp…

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March 29, 2024 | Life at Sony AI

Celebrating the Women of Sony AI: Sharing Insights, Inspiration, and Advice

In March, the world commemorates the accomplishments of women throughout history and celebrates those of today. The United States observes March as Women’s History Month, while many countries around the globe observe International…

In March, the world commemorates the accomplishments of women throughout history and celebrates those of today. The United States …

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