New research started in April 2022 by Prof. Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, as a collaborative research between NII and LINE Corporation.

Research Leader	Title/Affiliation	Program Name	Summary
Shin'ichi SATOH	Professor, Digital Content and Media Science Research Division, National Institute of Informatics	Practical media content production based on AI

Two new researches started in November (by Prof. Aramaki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology) and December (by Prof. Minematsu, the University of Tokyo), 2021.
Based on the preliminary studies conducted till March 2022, both researches are expanded and will continue until March 2023.

Research Leader	Title/Affiliation	Program Name	Summary
Eiji ARAMAKI	Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Institute of Research Initiative, Nara Institute of Science and Technology	Development of a Natural Language Processing Platform for Monitoring Drug Safety
Nobuaki MINEMATSU	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo	（2021.Dec-2022.Mar） "Speech information processing using non-air-conducted speech" （2022.Apr-2023.Mar） "Sequential observation and modeling of L2 listening breakdown based on shadowing"

Top 4 researches started from April 2020.
The bottom one started from October 2020.
All were initially planned until March 2021, but Top 4 are extended until March 2023.

Research Leader	Title/Affiliation	Program Name	Summary
Hayato YAMANA	Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University	An Imitation-Resistant Passive Authentication Method and its Applications
Naoki YOSHINAGA	Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo	Research and Development of Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems for Understanding and Improving Speakers' Conditions
Yasuyuki MATSUSHITA	Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University	Intelligent 3D Point Cloud Processing
Koji YATANI	Associate Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo	（2020.Apr-2022.Mar） "Mixed-initiative approaches for visual performance support" （2022.Apr-2023.Mar） “Multimodal Interactive Machine Learning and Its Applications”
Shin'ichi SATOH	Professor, Digital Content and Media Science Research Division, National Institute of Informatics	Weakly-Supervised Learning for End-To-End Speech Recognition	Detail

On October, 2019, the following 3 researches have been started as collaborative researches between research leader's affiliated organization, NII and LINE Corporation.
The one by Prof. Kawahara ended on March 2022, but others continue until March 2023.

Research Leader	Title/Affiliation	Program Name	Summary
Sadao KUROHASHI	Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University	Construction of knowledge-based neural dialogue infrastructure
Tatsuya KAWAHARA	Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University	Robust Audio Scene Analysis for Advanced Spoken Dialogue Systems	Detail
Tetsunori KOBAYASHI	Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University	Advanced research on group conversation