Preprint

Shintaro Sakai, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Akira Matsui, “Quantifying Gender Stereotypes in Japan between 1900 and 1999 with Word Embeddings”, arxiv, 2025.

Long-Jing Hsu, Shintaro Sakai, Weslie Khoo, Hiroki Sato, Manasi Swaminathan, Katherine M. Tsui, David J.Crandall, Selma Šabanovic, “Translation Gummy, or Lost in Translation? Cross-Cultural Conversations with a LLM-Powered Robot in Japan and the U.S.”, 2025, (Under peer-review at ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction)

Shintaro Sakai, Jisun An, Migyeong Kang, Haewoon Kwak, “Somatic in the East, Psychological in the West?: Investigating Clinically-Grounded Cross-Cultural Depression Symptom Expression in LLMs”, arxiv, 2025.

Journal Paper

Kaisla Kajava, Ana Paula Gonzalez Torres, Antti Rannisto, Shintaro Sakai, “Justifying AI regulation: Examining multi-stakeholder responses to the AI Act”, Telematics and Informatics, 2025.

Non-archival Conferences

Shintaro Sakai, “Evaluating the impact of lexical gender bias on gender bias measurement with word embeddings”, The New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA 2023), 2023, (Poster).

Shintaro Sakai, Yasuhiro Suzuki, “Evaluating the Quality of Word Embedding Trained on Wikipedia Articles”, The 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2023), 2023, (Poster).

Shintaro Sakai, “Evaluating Semantic Changes in the Concept of Happiness with Diachronic Word Embeddings”, The 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2023), 2023, (Poster).