Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing

Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing Robust Semantics for Semantic Parsing Mark Steedman Social Media Understanding by Word Cloud Timeline Virach Sornlertlamvanich Registerial Cartography: Context-based Mapping of Text Types and their Rhetorical-relational Organization Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Discourse for Machine Translation. Bonnie Webber Relating Keywords to the Top Ten News of the Year in Korean Newspapers Jae-Woong Choe Word Sense Induction for Machine Translation Min Zhang Setting Syntactic Parameters with Implicit Negative Evidence: The Case of Zero-derived Causatives in English Isaac Gould Pseudo-Passives as Adjectival Passives Kwang-Sup Kim Phonological Suppression of Anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean Myung-Kwan Park Finding The Best Model Among Representative Compositional Models Masayasu Muraoka Sonse Shimaoka Kazeto Yamamoto Yotaro Watanabe Naoaki Okazaki Kentaro Inui Semantic Frame-based Statistical Approach for Topic Detection Yung-Chun Chang Yu-Lun Hsieh Cen-Chieh Chen Chad Liu Chun-Hung Lu Wen-Lian Hsu Zero-Shot Learning of Language Models for Describing Human Actions Based on Semantic Compositionality of Actions Hideki Asoh Ichiro Kobayashi Partial Case-Marking in Japanese Stripping/Sluicing: A Dynamic Syntax Account Tohru Seraku A Corpus-Based Quantitative Study of Nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English Ying Liu Alex Chengyu Fang Naixing Wei Machine-guided Solution to Mathematical Word Problems Bussaba Amnueypornsakul Suma Bhat The So-called Person Restriction of Internal State Predicates in Japanese in Contrast with Thai Satoshi Uehara Kingkarn Thepkanjana Investigation Into Using the Unicode Standard for Primitives of Unified Han Characters Henry Larkin Taking Antonymy Mask off in Vector Space Enrico Santus Qin Lu Aless ro Lenci Chu-Ren Huang Improvement of Statistical Machine Translation using Charater-Based Segmentationwith Monolingual and Bilingual Information Vipas Sutantayawalee Peerachet Porkaew Prachya Boonkwa Sitthaa Phaholphinyo Thepchai Supnithi Topic-based Multi-document Summarization using Differential Evolution forCombinatorial Optimization of Sentences Haruka Shigematsu Ichiro Kobayashi Mapping between Lexical Tones and Musical Notes in Thai Pop Songs Chawadon Ketkaew Pittayawat Pittayaporn Emphasized Accent Phrase Prediction from Text for Advertisement Text-To-Speech Synthesis Hideharu Nakajima Hideyuki Mizuno Sumitaka Sakauchi Using Tone Information in Thai Spelling Speech Recognition Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn Proadpran Punyabukkana Atiwong Suchato Automatically Building a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis on Indonesian Tweets Alfan Farizki Wicaksono Clara Vania Bayu Distiawan Mirna Adriani Automatic News Source Detection in Twitter Based on Text Segmentation Takashi Inui Masaki Saito Mikio Yamamoto Sentiment Lexicon Interpolation and Polarity Estimation of Objective and Out-Of-Vocabulary Words to Improve Sentiment Classification on Microblogging Yongyos Kaewpitakkun Kiyoaki Shirai Masnizah Mohd How Mutual Knowledge Constrains the Choice of Anaphoric Demonstratives in Japanese and English David Yoshikazu Oshima Eric McCready The Influence of Givenness and Heaviness on OSV in Japanese Satoshi Imamura Annotating Article Errors in Spanish Learner Texts: Design and Evaluation of an Annotation Scheme M. Pilar Valverde-Ibanez Akira Ohtani Needle in a Haystack: Reducing the Costs of Annotating Rare-Class Instances in Imbalanced Datasets Emily Jamison Iryna Gurevych Hybrid Approach to Zero Subject Resolution for multilingual MT - Spanish-to-KoreanCases - Arum Park Munpyo Hong Improving Statistical Machine Translation Accuracy Using Bilingual Lexicon Extractionwith Paraphrases Chenhui Chu Toshiaki Nakazawa Sadao Kurohashi Incrementally Updating the SMT Reordering Model Shachar Mirkin TakeTwo: A Word Aligner based on Self Learning Jim Chang Jian-Cheng Wu Jason Chang Frequency-influenced Choice of L2 Sound Realization and Perception: Evidence from Two Chinese Dialects Yizhou Lan The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marking Suying Yang Readability of Bangla News Articles for Children Zahrul Islam Rashedur Rahman Focusing on a Subset of Scripts Enhances the Learning Efficiency of Second Language Writing System Ching-Pong Au Yuk-Man Cheung Charles Chen Jr. Transition-based Knowledge Graph Embedding with Relational Mapping Properties Miao Fan Qiang Zhou Emily Chang Thomas Fang Zheng Retrieval Term Prediction Using Deep Belief Networks Qing Ma Ibuki Tanigawa Masaki Murata Word-level Language Identification in Bi-lingual Code-switched Texts Harsh Jhamtani Suleep Kumar Bhogi Vaskar Raychoudhury An Example-Based Approach to Difficult Pronoun Resolution Canasai Kruengkrai Naoya Inoue Jun Sugiura Kentaro Inui A Unified Analysis to Surpass Comparative and Experiential Aspect Charles Lam A Quantitative View of Short Utterances in Daily Conversation: A Case Study of Thats right, Thats true and Thats correct Yanjiao Li Alex Chengyu Fang Jing Cao A Listenability Measuring Method for an Adaptive Computer-assisted Language Learningand Teaching System Katsunori Kotani Shota Ueda Takehiko Yoshimi Hiroaki Nanjo Prosodic Differences Between Declaratives and Polar Questions In Fataluku Tyler Heston Recognition of Sarcasms in Tweets Based on Concept Level Sentiment Analysis and Supervised Learning Approaches Piyoros Tungthamthiti Shirai Kiyoaki Masnizah Mohd CHULA TTS: A Modularized Text-To-Speech Framework Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn Supadaech Chanjaradwichai Proadpran Punyabukkana Atiwong Suchato Modeling Structural Topic Transitions for Automatic Lyrics Generation Kento Watanabe Yuichiroh Matsubayashi Kentaro Inui Masataka Goto Influence of Information Structure on Word Order Change and Topic Marker WA in Japanese Satoshi Imamura Yohei Sato Masatoshi Koizumi On the Functional Differences between the Discourse Particles Ne and Yone in Japanese. David Yoshikazu Oshima The Centre and Periphery of Discourse Connectives Magdal ena Rysov a Katerina Rysov a Toward a Discourse Theory for Annotating Causal Relations in Japanese Kimi Kaneko Daisuke Bekki On-line Summarization of Time-series Documents using a Graph-based Algorithm Satoko Suzuki Ichiro Kobayashi Adjacency Pair Recognition in Wikipedia Discussions using Lexical Pairs Emily Jamison Iryna Gurevych A Hierarchical Word Sequence Language Model Xiaoyi Wu Yuji Matsumoto An Analysis of Radicals-based Features in Subjectivity Classification on Simplified Chinese Sentences Ge Xu Churen Huang A Semantics for Honorifics with Reference to Thai Eric McCready Disunity in Cohesion: How Purpose Affects Methods and Results When AnalyzingLexical Cohesion Stuart G. Towns Richard Watson Todd Topics are Conditionals: A Case Study from Exhaustification Over Questions Yurie Hara Detecting the Untranslatable Colloquial Expressions of Japanese Verbs in Cross-Language Instant Messaging Yuchang Cheng Masaru Fuji Tomoki Nagase Minoru Uegaki Isaac Okada A Keyword-based Monolingual Sentence Aligner in Text Simplification Chung-Chi Huang Automatic Detection of Comma Splices John Lee Chak Yan Yeung Martin Chodorow Predicting the Use of BA construction in Mandarin Chinese Discourse: A ModelingStudy with Two Verbs Yao Yao Guo1 and Guo2 in Chinese Temporal System Qiu Zhuang Su Qi A Non-local Attachment Preference in the Production and Comprehension of ThaiRelative Clauses Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn Edson T. Miyamoto Theeraporn Ratitamkul Heeyoun Cho Encoding Generalized Quantifiers in Dependency-based Compositional Semantics Yubing Dong Ran Tian Yusuke Miyao On Common Ground, Context and Information Structure: The Case of Counter-Expectation in Thai Upsorn Tawilapakul Semantics and Pragmatics of Cantonese Polar Questions: an inquisitive approach Yurie Hara On the Argument Structures of the Transitive Verb 'annoy; be annoyed; bother to do': A Study Based on Two Comparable Corpora Jiajuan Xiong Chu-Ren Huang The Semantics of khn3 and lo1 in Thai Compared to up and down in English: A Corpus-based Study Junyawan Suwannarat Theeraporn Ratitamkul Constructions: a New Unit of Analysis for Corpus-based Discourse Analysis Samia Touileb Andrew Salway Noun Paraphrasing Based on a Variety of Contexts Tomoyuki Kajiwara Kazuhide Yamamoto Sentential Paraphrase Generation for Agglutinative Languages Using SVM with a String Kernel Hancheol Park Gahgene Gweon Ho-Jin Choi Jeong Heo Pum-Mo Ryu K-repeating Substrings: a String-Algorithmic Approach to Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Textual Data Yusuke Matsubara Koiti Hasida