Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation Rachel Edita O. Roxas November 2008

The University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College, Cebu City, Philippines

De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines The Discourse of Print Advertising in the Philippines: Generic Structures and Linguistic Features Danilo Dayag From archive to corpus: transcription and annotation in the creation of signed language corpora Trevor Johnston Scalar Implicatures: Pragmatic Inferences or Grammar? Chungmin Lee NIST 2007 Language Recognition Evaluation: From the Perspective of IIR Haizhou Li Bin Ma Kong-Aik Lee Khe-Chai Sim Hanwu Sun Rong Tong Donglai Zhu Changhuai You A Call for Executable Linguistics Research Adam Pease Some Challenges of Advanced Question-Answering: an Experiment with How-to Questions Patrick Saint-Dizier How Even Revises Expectation in a Scalar Model: Analogy with Japanese Mo Sachiko Shudo Toward a Global Infrastructure for the Sustainability of Language Resources Gary Simons Steven Bird A Rule-based Morpho-semantic Analyzer of the Japanese Verb Phrases of Simple Sentences Yukiko Sasaki Alam Constituent Structure for Filipino: Induction through Probabilistic Approaches Danniel Alcantara Allan Borra Who’s Missing in the Group? Argument Sharing in Core Cosubordinate Construction in Filipino Aquiles Bazar III Towards a Model for the Prediction of Chinese Novel Verbs Paul Chang Kathleen Ahrens Natural Language Generation of Museum Object Descriptions based on User Model Hsiao Wei Chen Mary Grace Lim Patricia Bea Perez Joanna Patricia Reyes Nathalie Rose Lim Source of Individuation in Mandarin Chinese, a Classifier Language Pierina Cheung Peggy Li David Barner How to Overcome the Domain Barriers in Pattern-Based Machine Translation System Sung-Kwon Choi Ki-Young Lee Yoon-Hyung Roh Oh-Woog Kwon Young-Gil Kim Multi-Engine Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Bengali Asif Ekbal Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Incorporation of WordNet Features to n-gram Features in a Language Modeler Kathleen Go Solomon See An Ontology of Chinese Radicals: Concept Derivation and Knowledge Representation based on the Semantic Symbols of the Four Hoofed-Mammals Chu-Ren Huang Ya-Jun Yang Sheng-Yi Chen Typology of Comparatives Satomi Ito Unsupervised Chinese Verb Metaphor Recognition Based on Selectional Preferences Yuxiang Jia Shiwen Yu Korean Parsing Based on the Applicative Combinatory Categorial Grammar Juyeon Kang Jean-Pierre Descles Stress Processing Sensitivity in Reading Korean and English Words Yongsoon Kang Seunghyun Baek Mira Yim A Preliminary Study on the Impact of Lexical Concreteness on Word Sense Disambiguation Oi Yee Kwong Constructing an Ontology of Coherence Relations: An example of ‘causal relation’ Hae-Yun Lee Sueun Jun An Improved Corpus Comparison Approach to Domain Specific Term Recognition Xiaoyue Liu Chunyu Kit Extending an Indonesian Semantic Analysis-based Question Answering System with Linguistic and World Knowledge Axioms Rahmad Mahendra Septina Dian Larasati Ruli Manurung An Implementation of a Flexible Author-Reviewer Model of Generation using Genetic Algorithms Ruli Manurung Graeme Ritchie Henry Thompson Semantic Change of the Selected Cebuano Words Rowanne Marie Maxilom On Japanese Desiderative Constructions Akira Ohtani Mark Steedman Generating Story Reviews Using Phrases Expressing Emotion Hiroshi Ota Kazuhide Yamamoto Integrating Prosodics into a Language Model for Spoken Language Understanding of Thai Siripong Potisuk Using a Word-Space Model to Determine the Relevance of Messages in Anchored Asynchronous Online Discussions Rodolfo Raga Jennifer Raga Erick Bonus Raymund Sison Trend-based Document Clustering for Sensitive and Stable Topic Detection Yoshihide Sato Harumi Kawashima Hidenori Okuda Masahiro Oku Sentiment Sentence Extraction Using a Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Structure and a Bootstrap Approach Kazutaka Shimada Daigo Hashimoto Tsutomu Endo An Effective Speech Understanding Method with a Multiple Speech Recognizer based on Output Selection using Edit Distance Kazutaka Shimada Satomi Horiguchi Tsutomu Endo The Relationship between Semantic Similarity and Subcategorization Frames in English: A Stochastic Test Using ICE-GB and WordNet Sanghoun Song Jae-Woong Choe Automatic Bilingual Lexicon Extraction for a Minority Target Language Eileen Pamela Tiu Rachel Edita Roxas Using ‘Low-cost’ Learning Features for Pronoun Resolution Ramon Cuevas Ivandre Paraboni Natural Language Database Interface for the Community Based Monitoring System Krissanne Kaye Garcia Ma. Angelica Lumain Jose Antonio Wong Jhovee Gerard Yap Charibeth Cheng Controlled Korean for Korean-English MT Munpyo Hong Chang-Hyun Kim Statistical Analysis on Large Scale Chinese Short Message Corpus and Automatic Short Message Error Correction Rile Hu Yuezhong Tang Chen Li Xia Wang Contrastive Approach towards Text Source Classification based on Top-Bag-of-Word Similarity Chu-Ren Huang Lung-Hao Lee Extracting Troubles from Daily Reports based on Syntactic Pieces Yoshifumi Kakimoto Kazuhide Yamamoto What is Needed the Most in MT-Supported Paper Writing Chang Hyun Kim Oh-Woog Kwon Young Kil Kim Semantic Structures of Polysemous Psych-adjectives in Korean: A Conceptual Semantics Approach Ilkyu Kim Sign language and Computing in a Developing Country: A Research Roadmap for the Next Two Decades in the Philippines Liza Martinez Ed Peter Cabalfin Unsupervised Approach for Dialogue Act Classification Kiyonori Ohtake Automatically Extracting Templates from Examples for NLP Tasks Ethel Ong Bryan Anthony Hong Vince Andrew Nuñez Recognizing Coordinate Structures for Machine Translation of English Patent Documents Yoon-Hyung Roh Ki-Young Lee Sung-Kwon Choi Oh-Woog Kwon Young-Gil Kim A Morphological Analyzer for Filipino Verbs Robert Roxas Gersam Mula Chunking with Max-Margin Markov Networks Tang Buzhou Wang Xuan Wang Xiaolong