Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (2014)


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

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

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Robust Semantics for Semantic Parsing
Mark Steedman

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Social Media Understanding by Word Cloud Timeline
Virach Sornlertlamvanich

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Registerial Cartography: Context-based Mapping of Text Types and their Rhetorical-relational Organization
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

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Discourse for Machine Translation.
Bonnie Webber

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Relating Keywords to the Top Ten News of the Year in Korean Newspapers
Jae-Woong Choe

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Word Sense Induction for Machine Translation
Min Zhang

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Setting Syntactic Parameters with Implicit Negative Evidence: The Case of Zero-derived Causatives in English
Isaac Gould

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Pseudo-Passives as Adjectival Passives
Kwang-sup Kim

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Phonological Suppression of Anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean
Myung-Kwan Park

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Finding The Best Model Among Representative Compositional Models
Masayasu Muraoka | Sonse Shimaoka | Kazeto Yamamoto | Yotaro Watanabe | Naoaki Okazaki | Kentaro Inui

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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

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Zero-Shot Learning of Language Models for Describing Human Actions Based on Semantic Compositionality of Actions
Hideki Asoh | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Partial Case-Marking in Japanese Stripping/Sluicing: A Dynamic Syntax Account
Tohru Seraku

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A Corpus-Based Quantitative Study of Nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English
Ying Liu | Alex Chengyu Fang | Naixing Wei

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Machine-guided Solution to Mathematical Word Problems
Bussaba Amnueypornsakul | Suma Bhat

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The So-called Person Restriction of Internal State Predicates in Japanese in Contrast with Thai
Satoshi Uehara | Kingkarn Thepkanjana

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Investigation Into Using the Unicode Standard for Primitives of Unified Han Characters
Henry Larkin

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Taking Antonymy Mask off in Vector Space
Enrico Santus | Qin Lu | Alessandro Lenci | Chu-Ren Huang

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Improvement of Statistical Machine Translation using Charater-Based Segmentationwith Monolingual and Bilingual Information
Vipas Sutantayawalee | Peerachet Porkaew | Prachya Boonkwan | Sitthaa Phaholphinyo | Thepchai Supnithi

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Topic-based Multi-document Summarization using Differential Evolution forCombinatorial Optimization of Sentences
Haruka Shigematsu | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Mapping between Lexical Tones and Musical Notes in Thai Pop Songs
Chawadon Ketkaew | Pittayawat Pittayaporn

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Emphasized Accent Phrase Prediction from Text for Advertisement Text-To-Speech Synthesis
Hideharu Nakajima | Hideyuki Mizuno | Sumitaka Sakauchi

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Using Tone Information in Thai Spelling Speech Recognition
Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn | Proadpran Punyabukkana | Atiwong Suchato

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Automatically Building a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis on Indonesian Tweets
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Clara Vania | Bayu Distiawan | Mirna Adriani

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Automatic News Source Detection in Twitter Based on Text Segmentation
Takashi Inui | Masaki Saito | Mikio Yamamoto

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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

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How Mutual Knowledge Constrains the Choice of Anaphoric Demonstratives in Japanese and English
David Yoshikazu Oshima | Eric McCready

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The Influence of Givenness and Heaviness on OSV in Japanese
Satoshi Imamura

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Annotating Article Errors in Spanish Learner Texts: Design and Evaluation of an Annotation Scheme
M. Pilar Valverde Ibañez | Akira Ohtani

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Needle in a Haystack: Reducing the Costs of Annotating Rare-Class Instances in Imbalanced Datasets
Emily Jamison | Iryna Gurevych

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Hybrid Approach to Zero Subject Resolution for multilingual MT - Spanish-to-KoreanCases -
Arum Park | Munpyo Hong

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Improving Statistical Machine Translation Accuracy Using Bilingual Lexicon Extractionwith Paraphrases
Chenhui Chu | Toshiaki Nakazawa | Sadao Kurohashi

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Incrementally Updating the SMT Reordering Model
Shachar Mirkin

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TakeTwo: A Word Aligner based on Self Learning
Jim Chang | Jian-Cheng Wu | Jason Chang

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Frequency-influenced Choice of L2 Sound Realization and Perception: Evidence from Two Chinese Dialects
Yizhou Lan

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The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marking
Suying Yang

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Readability of Bangla News Articles for Children
Zahrul Islam | Rashedur Rahman

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Focusing on a Subset of Scripts Enhances the Learning Efficiency of Second Language Writing System
Ching-Pong Au | Yuk-Man Cheung | Charles Chen Jr.

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Transition-based Knowledge Graph Embedding with Relational Mapping Properties
Miao Fan | Qiang Zhou | Emily Chang | Thomas Fang Zheng

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Retrieval Term Prediction Using Deep Belief Networks
Qing Ma | Ibuki Tanigawa | Masaki Murata

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Word-level Language Identification in Bi-lingual Code-switched Texts
Harsh Jhamtani | Suleep Kumar Bhogi | Vaskar Raychoudhury

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An Example-Based Approach to Difficult Pronoun Resolution
Canasai Kruengkrai | Naoya Inoue | Jun Sugiura | Kentaro Inui

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A Unified Analysis to Surpass Comparative and Experiential Aspect
Charles Lam

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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

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A Listenability Measuring Method for an Adaptive Computer-assisted Language Learningand Teaching System
Katsunori Kotani | Shota Ueda | Takehiko Yoshimi | Hiroaki Nanjo

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Prosodic Differences Between Declaratives and Polar Questions In Fataluku
Tyler Heston

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Recognition of Sarcasms in Tweets Based on Concept Level Sentiment Analysis and Supervised Learning Approaches
Piyoros Tungthamthiti | Kiyoaki Shirai | Masnizah Mohd

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CHULA TTS: A Modularized Text-To-Speech Framework
Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn | Supadaech Chanjaradwichai | Proadpran Punyabukkana | Atiwong Suchato

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Modeling Structural Topic Transitions for Automatic Lyrics Generation
Kento Watanabe | Yuichiroh Matsubayashi | Kentaro Inui | Masataka Goto

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Influence of Information Structure on Word Order Change and Topic Marker WA in Japanese
Satoshi Imamura | Yohei Sato | Masatoshi Koizumi

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On the Functional Differences between the Discourse Particles Ne and Yone in Japanese.
David Yoshikazu Oshima

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The Centre and Periphery of Discourse Connectives
Magdaléna Rysová | Kateřina Rysová

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Toward a Discourse Theory for Annotating Causal Relations in Japanese
Kimi Kaneko | Daisuke Bekki

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On-line Summarization of Time-series Documents using a Graph-based Algorithm
Satoko Suzuki | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Adjacency Pair Recognition in Wikipedia Discussions using Lexical Pairs
Emily Jamison | Iryna Gurevych

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A Hierarchical Word Sequence Language Model
Xiaoyi Wu | Yuji Matsumoto

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An Analysis of Radicals-based Features in Subjectivity Classification on Simplified Chinese Sentences
Ge Xu | Churen Huang

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A Semantics for Honorifics with Reference to Thai
Eric McCready

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Disunity in Cohesion: How Purpose Affects Methods and Results When AnalyzingLexical Cohesion
Stuart G. Towns | Richard Watson Todd

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Topics are Conditionals: A Case Study from Exhaustification Over Questions
Yurie Hara

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Detecting the Untranslatable Colloquial Expressions of Japanese Verbs in Cross-Language Instant Messaging
Yuchang Cheng | Masaru Fuji | Tomoki Nagase | Minoru Uegaki | Isaac Okada

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A Keyword-based Monolingual Sentence Aligner in Text Simplification
Chung-Chi Huang

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Automatic Detection of Comma Splices
John Lee | Chak Yan Yeung | Martin Chodorow

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Predicting the Use of BA construction in Mandarin Chinese Discourse: A Modeling Study with Two Verbs
Yao Yao

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Guo1 and Guo2 in Chinese Temporal System
Zhuang Qiu | Qi Su

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A Non-local Attachment Preference in the Production and Comprehension of ThaiRelative Clauses
Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn | Edson T. Miyamoto | Theeraporn Ratitamkul | Heeyoun Cho

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Encoding Generalized Quantifiers in Dependency-based Compositional Semantics
Yubing Dong | Ran Tian | Yusuke Miyao

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On Common Ground, Context and Information Structure: The Case of Counter-Expectation in Thai
Upsorn Tawilapakul

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Semantics and Pragmatics of Cantonese Polar Questions: an inquisitive approach
Yurie Hara

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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

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The Semantics of khn3 and lo1 in Thai Compared to up and down in English: A Corpus-based Study
Junyawan Suwannarat | Theeraporn Ratitamkul

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Constructions: a New Unit of Analysis for Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
Samia Touileb | Andrew Salway

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Noun Paraphrasing Based on a Variety of Contexts
Tomoyuki Kajiwara | Kazuhide Yamamoto

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Sentential Paraphrase Generation for Agglutinative Languages Using SVM with a String Kernel
Hancheol Park | Gahgene Gweon | Ho-Jin Choi | Jeong Heo | Pum-Mo Ryu

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K-repeating Substrings: a String-Algorithmic Approach to Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Textual Data
Yusuke Matsubara | Koiti Hasida