Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation Ryo Otoguro Kiyoshi Ishikawa Hiroshi Umemoto Kei Yoshimoto Yasunari Harada November 2010

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Institute of Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Processing, Waseda University PodCastle: A Spoken Document Retrieval Service Improved by Anonymous User Contributions Masataka Goto Jun Ogata The Future Role of Language Resources for Natural Language Parsing (We Won't Be Able to Rely on Pierre Vinken Rorever... or Will We Have to?) Julia Hockenmaier The Acquisition of Word Order in a Topic-prominent Language: Corpus Findings and Experimental Investigation Thomas Hun-Tak Lee How and Why Two Strangers Can Co-create a Story: An Application of the `Ba'-Theory Based Approach to the Discourse Sachiko Ide Situated Language: Case of Japanese Hideyuki Nakashima Listening In Stanley Peters Basic Units of Lexicons and Ontologies: Words, Senses and Concepts Hee-Rahk Chae A Morphosyntactic Analysis of the Pronominal System of Philippine Languages Shirley N. Dita Statistical Translation Model Based On Source Syntax Structure Qun Liu Yang Liu Haitai Mi Lexical Semantics-Syntactic Model for Defining and Subcategorizing Attribute Noun Class Xiaopeng Bai Hui Wang Benglish Verbs: A Case of Code-mixing in Bengali Shishir Bhattacharja Enhanced Genre Classification through Linguistically Fine-Grained POS Tags Alex Chengyu Fang Jing Cao Identifying Emotional Expressions, Intensities and Sentence Level Emotion Tags Using a Supervised Framework Dipankar Das Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Decision Theory and Discourse Particles: A Case Study from a Large Japanese Sentiment Corpus Christopher Davis Finding Appropriate Subset of Votes Per Classifier Using Multiobjective Optimization: Application to Named Entity Recognition Asif Ekbal Sriparna Saha Md. Hasanuzzaman Experimental Approach to Reference in Discourse: Working Memory Capacity and Language Comprehension in Russian Olga Fedorova Ekaterina Delikishkina Anna Uspenskaya A Computational Model of Language Generation Applied to Japanese Wh-questions Jason Ginsburg Chains in Syntax and Morphology Thomas Gross Feature Subset Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Named Entity Recognition Md. Hasanuzzaman Sriparna Saha Asif Ekbal Developing Punjabi Morphology, Corpus and Lexicon Muhammad Humayoun Aarne Ranta Effective Use of Linguistic Features for Sentiment Analysis of Korean Hayeon Jang Hyopil Shin Word Order and NP Structure in Korean: A Constraint Based Approach Jong-Bok Kim Nam-Guen Lee Yae-shiek Lee Evidentials and Epistemic Modal in Korean: Evidence from Their Intractions Chungmin Lee Implementation of Korean Syllable Structures in the Typed Feature Structure Formalism Gyu-hyung Lee Ye-seul Park Yong-hun Lee Focus Types and Subject-Object Asymmetry in Korean Case Ellipsis: A New Look at Focus Effects Hanjung Lee Haejeong Choi eSpatialML: An Event-Driven Spatial Annotation Framework Kiyong Lee Jonathan Webster Alex Chengyu Fang Domain-Independent Novel Event Discovery and Semi-Automatic Event Annotation Hao Li Xiang Li Heng Ji Yuval Marton Developing an Online Indonesian Corpora Repository Ruli Manurung Bayu Distiawan Desmond Darma Putra Topicalization and Truth Conditions: A Categorial Account Hiroaki Nakamura Unsupervised Classification of Biomedical Abstracts Using Lexical Association Jonathon Read Jonathan Webster Alex Chengyu Fang Licensing Nominals in the Multiple Nominative Constructions in Korean: A Mereological Perspective Byong-Rae Ryu Combination of 3 Types of Speech Recognizers for Anaphora Resolution Kazutaka Shimada Noriko Tanamachi Tsutomu Endo Syntactic and Semantic Discrepancies among the Verbs for `kill' in English, Chinese and Thai Kingkarn Thepkanjana Satoshi Uehara Expanding Chinese Sentiment Dictionaries from Large Scale Unlabeled Corpus Hongzhi Xu Kai Zhao Likun Qiu Changjian Hu Representing Events in Japanese Complex Predicates Yoshie Yamamori Fault-Tolerant Learning for Term Extraction Yuhang Yang Hao Yu Yao Meng Yingliang Lu Yingju Xia Syntactically Complex Demonstratives and Sortal Inherency Richard Zuber On Automated Hyperonym Hierarchy Construction Using an Internet Search Engine Sergey Afonin An Ontological Analysis of Japanese and Chinese Kinship Terms Songiy Baik Hee-Rahk Chae GRASP: Grammar- and Syntax-based Pattern-Finder for Collocation and Phrase Learning Mei-hua Chen Chung-chi Huang Shih-ting Huang Jason S. Chang Mitigating Problems in Analogy-based EBMT with SMT and vice versa: A Case Study with Named Entity Transliteration Sandipan Dandapat Sara Morrissey Sudip Kumar Naskar Harold Somers Why the English Easiest Type Became the Hardest in Russian, or Russian Adults' Comprehension of before and after sentences Olga Fedorova Simpler Is Better: Re-evaluation of Default Word Alignment Models in Statistical MT Mark Fishel The TXM Platform: Building Open-Source Textual Analysis Software Compatible with the TEI Encoding Scheme Serge Heiden Using Corpus-based Linguistic Approaches in Sense Prediction Study Jia-Fei Hong Sue-Jin Ker Chu-Ren Huang Kathleen Ahrens Synthetic Compounds in Mandarin Shuang Hong The Specialized Vocabulary of Modern Patent Language: Semantic Associations in Patent Lexis Darren Hsin-hung Lin Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh The KOLON System: Tools for Ontological Natural Language Processing in Korean Juliano Paiva Junho Yumi Jo Hyopil Shin An Approach toward Register Classification of Book Samples in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese Wakako Kashino Manabu Okumura A Computational Treatment of Korean Serial Verb Constructions Jong-Bok Kim Jaehyung Yang Sanghoun Song A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Event-Event Relation Identification Anup Kumar Kolya Asif Ekbal Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Arguments for Parallel Distributed Parsing: Toward the Integration of Lexical and Sublexical (Semantic) Parsings Kow Kuroda Scrambling of Wh-phrases in Japanese Paul Law A Comparative Study on the Aspectual Classification of Korean and Japanese Verbs in Relation to `-ess-' `-essess-' in Korean and `sudeni'in Japanese Younghee Lee Byong-Rae Ryu A Modular Architecture for the Wide-Coverage Translation of Natural Language Texts into Predicate Logic Formulas Yusuke Miyao Alastair Butler Kei Yoshimoto Jun'ichi Tsujii Toward a Unified Computational Model of Quantificational Scope Readings Prakash Mondal CCG of Japanese Sentence-final Particles Sumiyo Nishiguchi A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Japanese Benefactives: The Case of the Yaru-Construction Akira Otani Mark Steedman Typed Dependency Relations for Syntactic Analysis of Thai Sentences Siripong Potisuk Exploiting a Multilingual Web-based Encyclopedia for Bilingual Terminology Extraction Fatiha Sadat Language Homogeneity in the Japanese Wikipedia Karl-André Skevik Incorporate Credibility into Context for the Best Social Media Answers Qi Su Helen Kai-yun Chen Chu-Ren Huang A Query Focused Multi Document Automatic Summarization Pinaki Bhaskar Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Through Low-Cost Annotation to Reliable Parsing Evaluation Marek Grác Miloš Jakubíček Vojtěch Kovář A Look into the Acquisition of English Motion Event Conflation by Native Speakers of Chinese and Japanese Ryan Spring Stage/Individual-level Predicates, Topics and Indefinite Subjects Shuiying Yao How Well Conditional Random Fields Can be Used in Novel Term Recognition Xing Zhang Yan Song Alex Chengyu Fang Clitics in Arabic Language: A Statistical Study Fahad Alotaiby Salah Foda Ibrahim Alkharashi AUTOLEX: An Automatic Lexicon Builder for Minority Languages Using an Open Corpus Evan Liz Cantoja Buhay Marie Joy Padilla Evardone Hansel Baguio Nocon Davis Muhajereen Dimalen Rachel Edita Roxas Improving Information Extraction Using Knowledge Model Yue Chen Finding Emotion Holder from Bengali Blog Texts---An Unsupervised Syntactic Approach Dipankar Das Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Terminological Ontology and Cognitive Processes in Translation Fumiko Kano Glückstad Detection of Users Suspected of Pretending to Be Other Users in a Community Site by Using Messages Submitted to Non-Target Categories Naoki Ishikawa Ryo Nishimura Yasuhiko Watanabe Masaki Murata Yoshihiro Okada Detecting Nasty Comments from BBS Posts Tatsuya Ishisaka Kazuhide Yamamoto Using Various Features in Machine Learning to Obtain High Levels of Performance for Recognition of Japanese Notational Variants Masahiro Kojima Masaki Murata Jun'ichi Kazama Kow Kuroda Atsushi Fujita Eiji Aramaki Masaaki Tsuchida Yasuhiko Watanabe Kentaro Torisawa Korean Kes-Relative Clauses as Stages Sang-hee Park Finite State Morphology and Sindhi Noun Inflections Mutee U Rahman Muslim Mohammad Iqbal Bhatti The Acquisition of Imperfective Aspect Marking in Korean as a Second Language by Japanese Learners Ju-Yeon Ryu Kaoru Horie Yasuhiro Shirai Multi-aspects Review Summarization Based on Identification of Important Opinions and their Similarity Ryosuke Tadano Kazutaka Shimada Tsutomu Endo Generation of Summaries that Appropriately and Adequately Express the Contents of Original Documents Using Word-Association Knowledge Kazuki Takigawa Masaki Murata Masaaki Tsuchida Stijn De Saeger Kazuhide Yamamoto Kentaro Torisawa Adjectival Modification to Nouns in Mandarin Chinese: Case Studies on ``cháng+noun'' and ``adjective+tú shū gu n'' Shan Wang Chu-Ren Huang Compositional Operations of Mandarin Chinese Perception Verb ``kàn'': A Generative Lexicon Approach Shan Wang Chu-Ren Huang Workshop on Advanced Corpus Solutions Janne Bondi Johannessen Degrees of Orality in Speech-like Corpora: Comparative Annotation of Chat and E-mail Corpora Eckhard Bick Parallel Suffix Arrays for Corpus Exploration Johannes Goller Fast Syntactic Searching in Very Large Corpora for Many Languages Miloš Jakubíček Adam Kilgarriff Diana McCarthy Pavel Rychlý A Multilingual Speech Resource: The Nordic Dialect Corpus Janne Bondi Johannessen Joel Priestley Anders Nøklestad Dialect Corpora Taken Further: The DynaSAND Corpus and Its Application in Newer Tools Jan Pieter Kunst Franca Wesseling Advanced Corpus Solutions for Humanities Researchers James Wilson Anthony Hartley Serge Sharoff Paul Stephenson Entity Coherence in Comparable Learner Corpora: Seeking Pedagogical Insights Mitsuko Yamura-Takei Miho Fujiwara Etsuko Yoshida The Use of a Cultural Protocol for Quantifying Cultural Variations in Comparing Verb Semantic between Chinese and French Hintat Cheung Yann Desalle Karine Duvignau Bruno Gaume Chunhan Chang Pierre Magistry Towards the Global SentiWordNet Amitava Das Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Towards an Automatic Measurement of Verbal Lexicon Acquisition: The Case for a Young Children-versus-Adults Classification in French and Mandarin Yann Desalle Shu-Kai Hsieh Bruno Gaume Hintat Cheung Graph Representation of Synonymy and Translation Resources for Crosslinguistic Modelisation of Meaning Benoît Gaillard Yannick Chudy Pierre Magistry Shu-Kai Hsieh Emmanuel Navarro Exploring Chinese Verbal Lexicon Developmental Trend with Semantic Space Ching-Fen Pan Computational Modeling of Verb Acquisition, from a Monolingual to a Bilingual Study Laurent Prévot Chun-Han Chang Yann Desalle Cross-sortal Predication and Polysemy Petr Šimon Chu-Ren Huang Verb Use in Chinese Children: Extensibility of Instrument Te-Hsin Wu Natural Language Production in Database Semantics Roland Hausser Change of Location and Change of State: How Telicity is Attained Chungmin Lee Various Evidentials in Korean Kyung An Song A Note on Pseudo-comparatives like ``John is rich like X!'' and ``Like X, John is rich!'' Benjamin T'sou