Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Hai Zhao (Editor)



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Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Hai Zhao

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Two-level Word Class Categorization Model in Analytic Languages and Its Implications for POS Tagging in Modern Chinese Corpora
Renqiang Wang | Changning Huang

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A Review of Corpus-based Statistical Models of Language Variation
Yao Yao

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Translation of Unseen Bigrams by Analogy Using an SVM Classifier
Hao Wang | Lu Lyu | Yves Lepage

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Machine Translation Experiments on PADIC: A Parallel Arabic DIalect Corpus
Karima Meftouh | Salima Harrat | Salma Jamoussi | Mourad Abbas | Kamel Smaili

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Surrounding Word Sense Model for Japanese All-words Word Sense Disambiguation
Kanako Komiya | Yuto Sasaki | Hajime Morita | Minoru Sasaki | Hiroyuki Shinnou | Yoshiyuki Kotani

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Computing Semantic Text Similarity Using Rich Features
Yang Liu | Chengjie Sun | Lei Lin | Xiaolong Wang | Yuming Zhao

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Mechanical Turk-based Experiment vs Laboratory-based Experiment: A Case Study on the Comparison of Semantic Transparency Rating Data
Shichang Wang | Chu-Ren Huang | Yao Yao | Angel Chan

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Discourse Relation Recognition by Comparing Various Units of Sentence Expression with Recursive Neural Network
Atsushi Otsuka | Toru Hirano | Chiaki Miyazaki | Ryo Masumura | Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Toshiro Makino | Yoshihiro Matsuo

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Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation Classification
Shu Zhang | Dequan Zheng | Xinchen Hu | Ming Yang

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Distant Supervision for Entity Linking
Miao Fan | Qiang Zhou | Thomas Fang Zheng

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Toward Algorithmic Discovery of Biographical Information in Local Gazetteers of Ancient China
Chao-Lin Liu | Chih-Kai Huang | Hongsu Wang | Peter K. Bol

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Fast and Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction
Sho Takase | Naoaki Okazaki | Kentaro Inui

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Reducing Lexical Features in Parsing by Word Embeddings
Hiroya Komatsu | Ran Tian | Naoaki Okazaki | Kentaro Inui

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High-order Graph-based Neural Dependency Parsing
Zhisong Zhang | Hai Zhao

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A Dynamic Syntax Modelling of Postposing in Japanese Narratives
Tohru Seraku

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Unsupervised and Lightly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Othman Zennaki | Nasredine Semmar | Laurent Besacier

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Identifying Prepositional Phrases in Chinese Patent Texts with Rule-based and CRF Methods
Hongzheng Li | Yaohong Jin

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Japanese Sentiment Classification with Stacked Denoising Auto-Encoder using Distributed Word Representation
Peinan Zhang | Mamoru Komachi

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Is Wikipedia Really Neutral? A Sentiment Perspective Study of War-related Wikipedia Articles since 1945
Yiwei Zhou | Alexandra Cristea | Zachary Roberts

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A Comprehensive Filter Feature Selection for Improving Document Classification
Nguyen Hoai Nam Le | Bao Quoc Ho

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Sentiment Analyzer with Rich Features for Ironic and Sarcastic Tweets
Piyoros Tungthamthiti | Enrico Santus | Hongzhi Xu | Chu-Ren Huang | Kiyoaki Shirai

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Thai Stock News Sentiment Classification using Wordpair Features
Ponrudee Netisopakul | Apinan Chattupan

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Sentiment Classification of Arabic Documents: Experiments with multi-type features and ensemble algorithms
Amine Bayoudhi | Hatem Ghorbel | Lamia Hadrich Belguith

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The Invertible Construction in Chinese
Yan Cong | Chu-Ren Huang | Lian-Hee Wee

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Pan’s (2001) puzzle revisited
Hyunjun Park

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English Right Dislocation
Kohji Kamada

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A Comparative Study on Mandarin and Cantonese Resultative Verb Compounds
Helena Yan Ping Lau | Sophia Yat Mei Lee

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Complex-NP Islands in Korean: An Experimental Approach
Yong-hun Lee | Yeonkyung Park

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Two Types of Multiple Subject Constructions (MSCs) in Korean
Ji-Hye Kim | Eunah Kim | James Yoon

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A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language
Ye Kyaw Thu | Vichet Chea | Andrew Finch | Masao Utiyama | Eiichiro Sumita

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English to Chinese Translation: How Chinese Character Matters
Rui Wang | Hai Zhao | Bao-Liang Lu

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Well-Formed Dependency to String translation with BTG Grammar
Xiaoqing Li | Kun Wang | Dakun Zhang | Jie Hao

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Large-scale Dictionary Construction via Pivot-based Statistical Machine Translation with Significance Pruning and Neural Network Features
Raj Dabre | Chenhui Chu | Fabien Cromieres | Toshiaki Nakazawa | Sadao Kurohashi

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Annotation and Classification of French Feedback Communicative Functions
Laurent Prévot | Jan Gorisch | Sankar Mukherjee

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Automatic conversion of sentence-end expressions for utterance characterization of dialogue systems
Chiaki Miyazaki | Toru Hirano | Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Toshiro Makino | Yoshihiro Matsuo

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Auditory Synaesthesia and Near Synonyms: A Corpus-Based Analysis of sheng1 and yin1 in Mandarin Chinese
Qingqing Zhao | Chu-Ren Huang | Hongzhi Xu

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System Utterance Generation by Label Propagation over Association Graph of Words and Utterance Patterns for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
Hiroshi Tsukahara | Kei Uchiumi

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The Cross-modal Representation of Metaphors
Yutung Chang | Kawai Chui

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Writing to Read: the Case of Chinese
Qi Zhang | Ronan Reilly

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Design of a Learner Corpus for Listening and Speaking Performance
Katsunori Kotani | Takehiko Yoshimi

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Understanding Infants’ Language Development in Relation to Levels of Consciousness: An Approach in Building up an Agent-based Model
Helena Hong Gao | Can Guo

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Pivot-Based Topic Models for Low-Resource Lexicon Extraction
John Richardson | Toshiaki Nakazawa | Sadao Kurohashi

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A Corpus-Based Study of zunshou and Its English Equivalents
Ying Liu

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Self Syntactico-Semantic Enrichment of LMF Normalized Dictionaries
Imen Elleuch | Bilel Gargouri | Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou

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When Embodiment Meets Generative Lexicon: The Human Body Part Metaphors in Sinica Corpus
Ren-feng Duann | Chu-Ren Huang

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Degree Variables by Choose Degree in Izyooni ‘than’-Clauses
Toshiko Oda

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Not Voice but Case Identity in VP Ellipsis of English
Myungkwan Park | Sunjoo Choi

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A Statistical Modeling of the Correlation between Island Effects and Working-memory Capacity for L2 Learners
Euhee Kim | Myungkwan Park

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De-verbalization and Nominal Categories in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-driven study in both Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin
Jiajuan Xiong | Chu-Ren Huang

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Zero Object Resolution in Korean
Arum Park | Seunghee Lim | Munpyo Hong

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An Improved Hierarchical Word Sequence Language Model Using Directional Information
Xiaoyi Wu | Yuji Matsumoto

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Neural Network Language Model for Chinese Pinyin Input Method Engine
Shenyuan Chen | Hai Zhao | Rui Wang

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Real-time Detection and Sorting of News on Microblogging Platforms
Wenting Tu | David Cheung | Nikos Mamoulis | Min Yang | Ziyu Lu

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Trouble information extraction based on a bootstrap approach from Twitter
Kohei Kurihara | Kazutaka Shimada

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Using Twitter Data to Infer Personal Values of Japanese Consumers
Yinjun Hu | Yasuo Tanida

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Distant-supervised Language Model for Detecting Emotional Upsurge on Twitter
Yoshinari Fujinuma | Hikaru Yokono | Pascual Martínez-Gómez | Akiko Aizawa

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Hybrid Method of Semi-supervised Learning and Feature Weighted Learning for Domain Adaptation of Document Classification
Hiroyuki Shinnou | Liying Xiao | Minoru Sasaki | Kanako Komiya

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Paraphrase Detection Based on Identical Phrase and Similar Word Matching
Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son | Yusuke Miyao | Isao Echizen

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Multi-aspects Rating Prediction Using Aspect Words and Sentences
Takuto Nakamuta | Kazutaka Shimada

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Understanding Rating Behaviour and Predicting Ratings by Identifying Representative Users
Rahul Kamath | Masanao Ochi | Yutaka Matsuo

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Cross-lingual Pseudo Relevance Feedback Based on Weak Relevant Topic Alignment
Xuwen Wang | Qiang Zhang | Xiaojie Wang | Junlian Li

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Corpus annotation with a linguistic analysis of the associations between event mentions and spatial expressions
Jin-Woo Chung | Jinseon You | Jong C. Park

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Recognizing Complex Negation on Twitter
Junta Mizuno | Canasai Kruengkrai | Kiyonori Ohtake | Chikara Hashimoto | Kentaro Torisawa | Julien Kloetzer | Kentaro Inui

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Topic Model for Identifying Suicidal Ideation in Chinese Microblog
Xiaolei Huang | Xin Li | Tianli Liu | David Chiu | Tingshao Zhu | Lei Zhang

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Predicting Sector Index Movement with Microblogging Public Mood Time Series on Social Issues
Yujie Lu | Jinlong Guo | Kotaro Sakamoto | Hideyuki Shibuki | Tatsunori Mori