This is Zhiyang Qi (斉 志揚). I’m currently a PhD student at The University of Electro-Communications under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Michimasa Inaba. My research direction is about dialogue systems. My recent work is about how to adapt dialogue systems to different users.

I am also interested in the following content:

• Utilizing LLMs to assist counselors in conversations.
• Developing AI for the Werewolf game.
• Participating in various dialogue system-related competitions.

Warmly welcome any academic cooperation and discussion!!

🔥 News

• 2025.06:  📄 A journal paper has been accepted by the Journal of Natural Language Processing!
• 2025.06:  🤗 KokoroChat is now publicly available on GitHub and Hugging Face!
• 2025.05:  📑 A long paper has been accepted to ACL 2025 main conference — see you in Vienna!
• 2025.01:  📑 I submitted a Japanese paper to NLP2025, which will be held in Nagasaki from March 10 to 14.
• 2024.11:  📖 I have presented an international conference report about SIGDIAL2024 at the 15th Dialogue System Symposium.
• 2024.08:  📑 Two long papers have been accepted by the AIWolfDial2024 workshop at INLG 2024!!
• 2024.07:  📑 Long paper submitted to SIGDIAL2024 has been accepted!!

📖 Educations

• 2023.04 - Now, Ph.D. candidate in Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications.
• 2021.04 - 2023.03, M.S. in Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, B.S. in Software Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology.

🤖 Competition Experience

• 2024.09 The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System at INLG 2024 (Team: UEC-IL — English Track: 1st/5, Japanese Track: 2nd/8)
• 2023.12 対話システムライブコンペティション6 シチュエーショントラック (Team: UECIL — 3rd/9)
• 2023.09 Natural Language Division of 5th International AIWolf Contest held at INLG 2023 (Team: sUper_IL — 1st/9)
• 2022.09 Protocol Division of 4th International AIWolf Contest held at IEEE Conference on Games 2022 (Team: sUper_IL — 3rd/49)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.09 The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System at INLG 2024 [award slide]
  • Best Win Rate and Game Action Award (Team: sUper_IL, Japanese and English Track)
  • Best Subjective Evaluation Award (Team: UEC-IL, English Track)
• 2024.09 第19回YANSシンポジウム ハッカソン YANS運営委員特別賞
• 2023.12 対話システムライブコンペティション6 シチュエーショントラック 優秀賞

📝 Publications

Journals

• JNLP Adapting Spoken Dialogue Systems to Low-Resource User Groups through Data Augmentation with a Focus on Dialogue Act Flow and Style
  Zhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba.
  Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.32, No.4, 2025.
• TALLIP Collection and Analysis of Travel Agency Task Dialogues with Age-Diverse Speakers
  Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Chiba, Zhiyang Qi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazunori Komatani, Yusuke Miyao, and Takayuki Nagai.
  ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol.23, No.9, pp.1-23, 2024.

International Conferences (Refereed)

• SIGDIAL 2025 Key Challenges in Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: Insights from a Large Competition-Based Dataset
  Shiki Sato, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Yuta Sasaki, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, Tetsuro Takahashi, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
• SIGDIAL 2025 Analyzing Dialogue System Behavior in a Specific Situation Requiring Interpersonal Consideration
  Tetsuro Takahashi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Masato Komuro, Ryosaku Makino, Shiki Sato, Yuta Sasaki, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka.
• ACL 2025 KokoroChat: A Japanese Psychological Counseling Dialogue Dataset Collected via Role-Playing by Trained Counselors
  Zhiyang Qi, Takumasa Kaneko, Keiko Takamizo, Mariko Ukiyo, and Michimasa Inaba.
• IWSDS 2025 DSLCMM: A Multimodal Human-Machine Dialogue Corpus Built through Competitions
  Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tetsuro Takahashi, Shinya Iizuka, Sota Horiuchi, Michimasa Inaba, Zhiyang Qi, Yuta Sasaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Shoji Moriya, Shiki Sato, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Hirofumi Kikuchi, and Mayumi Usami.
• AIWolfDial 2024 Enhancing Dialogue Generation in Werewolf Game Through Situation Analysis and Persuasion Strategies
  Zhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba.
• AIWolfDial 2024 Enhancing Consistency of Werewolf AI through Dialogue Summarization and Persona Information
  Yoshiki Tanaka, Takumasa Kaneko, Hiroki Onozeki, Natsumi Ezure, Ryuichi Uehara, Zhiyang Qi, Tomoya Higuchi, Ryutaro Asahara, and Michimasa Inaba.
• YRRSDS 2024 Utilizing Large Language Models for Customized Dialogue Data Augmentation and Psychological Counseling
  Zhiyang Qi.
• SIGDIAL 2024 Data Augmentation Integrating Dialogue Flow and Style to Adapt Spoken Dialogue Systems to Low-Resource User Groups
  Zhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba.
• IWSDS 2024 Dialogue System Live Competition Goes Multimodal: Analyzing the Effects of Multimodal Information in Situated Dialogue Systems
  Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tetsuro Takahashi, Michimasa Inaba, Zhiyang Qi, Yuta Sasaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Shoji Moriya, Shiki Sato, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Hirofumi Kikuchi, and Mayumi Usami.
• INLG 2023 AIWolfDial 2023: Summary of Natural Language Division of 5th International AIWolf Contest
  Yoshinobu Kano, Neo Watanabe, Kaito Kagaminuma, Claus Aranha, Jaewon Lee, Benedek Hauer, Hisaichi Shibata, Soichiro Miki, Yuta Nakamura, Takuya Okubo, Soga Shigemura, Rei Ito, Kazuki Takashima, Tomoki Fukuda, Masahiro Wakutani, Tomoya Hatanaka, Mami Uchida, Mikio Abe, Akihiro Mikami, Takashi Otsuki, Zhiyang Qi, Kei Harada, Michimasa Inaba, Daisuke Katagami, Hirotaka Osawa, and Fujio Toriumi.

Preprints

• arXiv EmoStage: A Framework for Accurate Empathetic Response Generation via Perspective-Taking and Phase Recognition
  Zhiyang Qi, Keiko Takamizo, Mariko Ukiyo, and Michimasa Inaba.
• arXiv Enhancing Consistency in Multimodal Dialogue System Using LLM with Dialogue Scenario
  Hiroki Onozeki, Zhiyang Qi, Kazuma Akiyama, Ryutaro Asahara, Takumasa Kaneko, and Michimasa Inaba.

Non-refereed

• SLUD 対話システムライブコンペティション7. 人工知能学会 第103回言語・音声理解と対話処理研究会 (2025)
  佐藤志貴, 佐々木裕多, 岩田伸治, 山崎天, 小室允人, 守屋彰二, 大萩雅也, 菊池浩史, 楊潔, 邊土名朝飛, 斉志揚, 児玉貴志, 李晃伸, 西川寛之, 牧野遼作, 港隆史, 境くりま, 船山智, 船越孝太郎, 宇佐美まゆみ, 稲葉通将, 高橋哲朗, 東中竜一郎.
• ANLP 話者スタイル抽出と対話フロー生成に基づく対話データ拡張手法. 言語処理学会 第31回年次大会 (NLP2025)
  斉志揚, 稲葉通将.
• ANLP Tabidachi: 旅行代理店タスク対話コーパス. 言語処理学会 第31回年次大会 (NLP2025)
  稲葉通将, 千葉祐弥, 斉志揚, 東中竜一郎, 駒谷和範, 宮尾祐介, 長井隆行.
• YANS SNSカウンセラー育成のためのリアルタイム対話支援システムの構築. 言語処理学会 第19回言語処理若手シンポジウム (YANS2024)
  斉志揚, 稲葉通将.
• SLUD 対話システムライブコンペティション6. 人工知能学会 第99回言語・音声理解と対話処理研究会 (2023)
  東中竜一郎, 高橋哲朗, 稲葉通将, 斉志揚, 佐々木裕多, 船越孝太郎, 守屋彰二, 佐藤志貴, 港隆史, 境くりま, 船山智, 小室允人, 西川寛之, 牧野遼作, 菊池浩史, 宇佐美まゆみ.
• SLUD 第三者のペルソナを用いたマルチモーダル対話システム. 人工知能学会 第99回言語・音声理解と対話処理研究会 (2023)
  朝原隆太朗, 小野関宏己, 斉志揚, 金子拓正, 秋山一馬, 上原隆一, 樋口智哉, 稲葉通将.
• SLUD 類似度と一貫性を考慮してシナリオを選択する用例ベース対話システム. 人工知能学会 第93回言語・音声理解と対話処理研究会 (2021)
  斉志揚, 秋山一馬, 稲葉通将.

Report

• SLUD SIGDIAL2024国際会議報告: 斉志揚, 田中義規 (@第15回対話システムシンポジウム)