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RESEARCH

International Conferences

Jul. 2024

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Towards Human-Level Evaluation: Assessing the Potential of GPT-4 in Automated Evaluation and Feedback Generation on Japanese Essays

@ IIAI-AAI 2024

Sayaka Nakamoto, Yoshi Okamoto, Takashi Nakakouchi, and Kazutaka Shimada

Jul. 2023

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Automated Scoring of Logical Consistency of Japanese Essays

@ AIED 2023, Late Breaking Results

Sayaka Nakamoto and Kazutaka Shimada

Domestic Conferences (in Japanese)

Mar. 2025

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日本語小論文に対するLLM を用いた建設的フィードバックの
生成と分析

@ 言語理解とコミュニケーション研究会 (NLC) 

中本さや香,嶋田和孝

Mar. 2024

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日本語小論文に対する採点およびフィードバックの生成

@ 言語処理学会 年次大会 (NLP) 2024

中本さや香,嶋田和孝,岡本芳明,中河内孝

Sep. 2022

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小論文自動採点のための文書力スコア推測

@ 2022年度電子情報通信学会九州支部学生会講演会

中本さや香,嶋田和孝

Thesis (in Japanese)

Mar. 2025

Master's

日本語小論文の汎用自動採点システムの構築および
LLMを用いたフィードバック生成

九州工業大学大学院 (Graduated School, Kyushu Institute of Technology

中本さや香

Mar. 2022

Bachelor's

機械学習に基づく日本語小論文の文書力および論理性の自動採点

九州工業大学 (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

中本さや香

Mar. 2020

Associate's
(KOSEN)

Pythonを用いた「やさしい日本語」変換アプリケーションの開発

呉工業高等専門学校 (The National Institute of Technology, Kure)

中本さや香

Experiences

Jul. 2023 - Sep. 2024
Part-time

株式会社 COMPASS

AI Engineering / LLM Applications at R&D team.

COMPASS Inc. is one of the keenest companies in EdTech in Japan.

I experienced employing the LLM (Large Language Models) and machine learning to analyse students' ability to enhance their study experiences. I also developed internal tools for educational materials teams to improve their working environment.

See blogs we have published: 

「LLMを活用して問題間の類似度を推定した話」link

​「実践プロンプトエンジニアリング -データに基づく改善サイクルの回し方-」link

Apr. 2018 - Dec. 2018
Gap Student
(Teaching Assistant)

Radford College

Design and Technology

Radford College is a sister school of the NIT, Kure College, and is located in Canberra, Australia.
I worked there as a teaching assistant in Design & Technology department. Helping students with their programming was a great experience for me. 

Also, I did homestays during my stay in Australia.

Jan. 2019 - Feb. 2019
Gap Student
(Internship)

The University of Canberra

Industrial Design / Information Technology

I stayed in a laboratory of industrial design and learned 3D modeling using Creo.
I designed a raspberry pi case for the work of students in the School of Information Technology. 
 

Education History

Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2021
Associate Student (KOSEN)

The National Institute of Technology, Kure College

Electrical Engineering and Information Science

I studied electrical circuits, communication engineering, algorithms, and programming for 5 years.
As my thesis, I developed a system that can transform normal Japanese into easy Japanese for foreigners. 

I belonged to the international communication club and was a leader in my 3rd year. In the club, we hosted many events with international students.

Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2023
Bachelor Student

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Undergraduate School of Computer Science
Department of The Artificial Intelligence

After 5 years at the NIT, Kure College, I transferred to Kyushu Institute of Technology.

I studied IT and AI there and got interested in Natural Language Processing.

My graduate thesis was about automated essay scoring using SVR / BERT. I got an award for my presentation.

I belonged to the Japanese tea ceremony club and the international club.

Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2025
Master Student

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Graduated School of Computer Science
Department of The Artificial Intelligence

I focused on exploring LLMs for not only Automated Essay Scoring but also Automated Feedback Generation in the master's degree.

Sayaka Nakamoto

sayaka-nakamoto [at] outlook.jp

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