The 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
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Thursday, 29 October
15:00-19:00Welcome and registration
Friday, 30 October
08:30-09:30Registration09:30-10:00Opening ceremony10:00-11:00Keynote talk 111:00-11:15Coffee break11:15-12:00Oral Session 1A/1B12:00-13:15Lunch13:15-14:00Invited talk 114:00-14:05Coffee break14:05-15:20Oral Session 2A/2B15:20-15:30Coffee break15:30-17:00Oral Session 3A/3B
Saturday, 31 October
09:00-10:00Keynote talk 210:00-10:15Coffee break10:15-11:15Oral Session 4A/4B11:15-13:00Poster Session 112:00-13:15Lunch13:15-14:00Invited talk 214:00-14:15Coffee break14:15-15:15Oral Session 5A/5B15:15-17:00City tour
Sunday, 1 November
09:00-10:00Keynote talk 310:00-10:15Coffee break10:15-11:15Oral Session 6A/6B11:15-13:00Poster Session 212:00-13:15Lunch13:15-14:00Oral Session 7A/7B14:00-14:15Coffee break14:15-15:30Oral Session 8A/8B15:30-17:00Close ceremony
Full conference program
| Thursday, 29 October, 2015 | |
| 15:00–19:00 | Welcome and registration |
| Friday, 30 October, 2015 | |
| 08:30–09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30–10:00 | Opening ceremony |
| 10:00–11:00 | Keynote Talk 1 |
| Building Chinese Discourse Corpus with Connective-driven Dependency Tree Structure Zhou Guodong | |
| 11:00–11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15–12:00 | Session 1A: Machine Translation 1 co-chairs: Atsushi Otsuka and Shu Zhang |
| <#25> | Translation of Unseen Bigrams by Analogy Using an SVM Classifier
Hao Wang, Lu Lyu and Yves Lepage |
| <#47> | Machine Translation Experiments on PADIC: A Parallel Arabic DIalect Corpus
Karima Meftouh, Salima Harrat, Salma Jamoussi, Mourad Abbas and Kamel Smaili |
| 11:15–12:00 | Session 1B: Sementics co-chairs: Hiroya Komatsu and Hai Zhao |
| <#169> | Surrounding Word Sense Model for Japanese All-words Word Sense Disambiguation
Kanako Komiya, Yuto Sasaki, Hajime Morita, Minoru Sasaki, Hiroyuki Shinnou and Yoshiyuki Kotani |
| <#104> | Computing Semantic Text Similarity Using Rich Features
Yang Liu, Chengjie Sun, Lei Lin, Xiaolong Wang and Yuming Zhao |
| <#193> | 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 and Angel Chan |
| 12:00–13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15–14:00 | Invited Talk 1 |
| Two-level Word Class Categorization Model in Analytic Languages and Its Implications for POS Tagging in Modern Chinese Corpora Wang Renqiang | |
| 14:00–14:05 | Coffee break |
| 14:05–15:20 | Session 2A: Information Extraction 1 co-chairs: Peinan Zhang and Yiwei Zhou |
| <#175> | 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 and Yoshihiro Matsuo |
| <#185> | Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation Classification
Shu Zhang, Dequan Zheng, Xinchen Hu and Ming Yang |
| <#66> | Distant Supervision for Entity Linking
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou and Thomas Fang Zheng |
| <#162> | Toward Algorithmic Discovery of Biographical Information in Local Gazetteers of Ancient China
Chao-Lin Liu, Chih-Kai Huang, Hongsu Wang and Peter K. Bol |
| <#203> | Fast and Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction
Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui |
| 14:05–15:20 | Session 2B: Syntax co-chairs: Cong Yan and Hyunjun Park |
| <#105> | Reducing Lexical Features in Parsing by Word Embeddings
Hiroya Komatsu, Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui |
| <#83> | High-order Graph-based Neural Dependency Parsing
Zhisong Zhang and Hai Zhao |
| <#2> | A Dynamic Syntax Modelling of Postposing in Japanese Narratives
Tohru Seraku |
| <#18> | Unsupervised and Lightly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Othman Zennaki, Nasredine Semmar and Laurent Besacier |
| <#202> | Identifying Prepositional Phrases in Chinese Patent Texts with Rule-based and CRF Methods
Hongzheng Li and Yaohong Jin |
| 15:20–15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30–17:00 | Session 3A: Sentiment and Text mining 1 co-chairs: Rui Wang and Xiaoqing Li |
| <#33> | Japanese Sentiment Classification with Stacked Denoising Auto-Encoder using Distributed Word Representation
Peinan Zhang and Mamoru Komachi |
| <#124> | Is Wikipedia Really Neutral? A Sentiment Perspective Study of War-related Wikipedia Articles since 1945
Yiwei Zhou, Alexandra Cristea and Zachary Roberts |
| <#43> | A Comprehensive Filter Feature Selection for Improving Document Classification
Nguyen Hoai Nam Le and Bao Quoc Ho |
| <#50> | Sentiment Analyzer with Rich Features for Ironic and Sarcastic Tweets
Piyoros Tungthamthiti, Enrico Santus, Hongzhi Xu, Chu-Ren Huang and Shirai Kiyoaki |
| <#109> | Thai Stock News Sentiment Classification using Wordpair Features
Ponrudee Netisopakul and Apinan Chattupan |
| <#206> | Sentiment Classification of Arabic Documents: Experiments with multi-type features and ensemble algorithms
Amine Bayoudhi, Hatem Ghorbel and Lamia Hadrich Belguith |
| 15:30–17:00 | Session 3B: Linguistic 1 co-chairs: Laurent Prévot and Chiaki Miyazaki |
| <#94> | The Invertible Construction in Chinese
Cong Yan |
| <#48> | Pan's (2001) puzzle revisited
Hyunjun Park |
| <#42> | English Right Dislocation
Kohji Kamada |
| <#51> | A Comparative Study on Mandarin and Cantonese Resultative Verb Compounds
Helena Yan Ping Lau and Sophia Yat Mei Lee |
| <#69> | Complex-NP Islands in Korean: An Experimental Approach
Yong-Hun Lee and Yeonkyung Park |
| <#187> | Two Types of Multiple Subject Constructions (MSCs) in Korean
Ji-Hye Kim, Eunah Kim and James Yoon |
| Saturday, 31 October, 2015 | |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote Talk 2 |
| Research Activities for Translating Asian Languages Sumita Eiichiro | |
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15–11:15 | Session 4A: Machine Translation 2 co-chairs: Yutung Chang and Ronan Reilly |
| <#177> | A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language
Ye Kyaw Thu, Vichet Chea, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita |
| <#219> | English to Chinese Translation: How Chinese Character Matters
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu |
| <#168> | Well-Formed Dependency to String translation with BTG Grammar
Xiaoqing Li, Kun Wang, Dakun Zhang and Jie Hao |
| <#178> | 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 and Sadao Kurohashi |
| 10:15–11:15 | Session 4B: Dialogue and spoken language co-chairs: John Richardson and Ying Liu |
| <#68> | Annotation and Classification of French Feedback Communicative Functions
Laurent Prévot, Jan Gorisch and Sankar Mukherjee |
| <#205> | Automatic conversion of sentence-end expressions for utterance characterization of dialogue systems
Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino and Yoshihiro Matsuo |
| <#173> | Auditory Synaesthesia and Near Synonyms: A Corpus-Based Analysis of sheng1 and yin1 in Mandarin Chinese
Qingqing Zhao, Chu-Ren Huang and Hongzhi Xu |
| <#181> | System Utterance Generation by Label Propagation over Association Graph of Words and Utterance Patterns for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
Hiroshi Tsukahara and Kei Uchiumi |
| 11:15–13:00 | Poster Session 1 |
| 12:00–13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15–14:00 | Invited Talk 2 |
| How to model language variation and what does the model tell us? Yao Yao | |
| 14:00–14:15 | Coffee break |
| 14:15–15:15 | Session 5A: NLP applications 1 co-chairs: Toshiko Oda and Sunjoo Choi |
| <#142> | The Cross‐modal Representation of Metaphors
Yutung Chang and Kawai Chui |
| <#41> | Writing to Read: the Case of Chinese
Qi Zhang and Ronan Reilly |
| <#58> | Design of a Learner Corpus for Listening and Speaking Performance
Katsunori Kotani and Takehiko Yoshimi |
| <#49> | Understanding Infants’ Language Development in Relation to Levels of Consciousness: An Approach in Building up an Agent-based Model
Helena Hong Gao and Can Guo |
| 14:15–15:15 | Session 5B: Lexical semantics and Language resources co-chairs: Arum Park and Xiaoyi Wu |
| <#213> | Pivot-Based Topic Models for Low-Resource Lexicon Extraction
John Richardson, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi |
| <#214> | A Corpus-Based Study of zunshou and Its English Equivalents
Ying Liu |
| <#32> | Self Syntactico-Semantic Enrichment of LMF Normalized Dictionaries
Imen Elleuch, Bilel Gargouri and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou |
| <#216> | When Embodiment Meets Generative Lexicon: The Human Body Part Metaphors in Sinica Corpus
Ren-Feng Duann and Chu-Ren Huang |
| 15:15–17:00 | City tour |
| Sunday, 1 November, 2015 | |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote Talk 3 |
| New approaches to sentence processing: a cognitive perspective Philippe Blache | |
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15–11:15 | Session 6A: Linguistic 2 co-chairs: Wenting Tu and Kazutaka Shimada |
| <#9> | Degree Variables by Choose Degree in Izyooni ‘than’-Clauses
Toshiko Oda |
| <#38> | Not Voice but Case Identity in VP Ellipsis of English
Myungkwan Park and Sunjoo Choi |
| <#37> | A Statistical Modeling of the Correlation between Island Effects and Working-memory Capacity for L2 Learners
Euhee Kim and Myungkwan Park |
| <#196> | De-verbalization and Nominal Categories in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-driven study in both Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin
Jiajuan Xiong and Chu-Ren Huang |
| 10:15–11:15 | Session 6B: NLP applications 2 co-chairs: Rui Wang and Liying Xiao |
| <#161> | Zero Object Resolution in Korean
Arum Park, Seunghee Lim and Munpyo Hong |
| <#30> | An Improved Hierarchical Word Sequence Language Model Using Directional Information
Xiaoyi Wu and Yuji Matsumoto |
| <#106> | Neural Network Language Model for Chinese Pinyin Input Method Engine
Shenyuan Chen, Hai Zhao and Rui Wang |
| 11:15–13:00 | Poster Session 2 |
| 12:00–13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15–14:00 | Session 7A: NLP and Web 1 co-chairs: Kazutaka Shimada and Rahul Kamath |
| <#15> | Real-time Detection and Sorting of News on Microblogging Platforms
Wenting Tu, David Cheung, Nikos Mamoulis, Min Yang and Ziyu Lu |
| <#27> | Trouble information extraction based on a bootstrap approach from Twitter
Kohei Kurihara and Kazutaka Shimada |
| <#16> | Using Twitter Data to Infer Personal Values of Japanese Consumers
Yinjun Hu and Yasuo Tanida |
| 13:15–14:00 | Session 7B: Text mining 2 co-chairs: Junta Mizuno and Xiaolei Huang |
| <#39> | Distant-supervised Language Model for Detecting Emotional Upsurge on Twitter
Yoshinari Fujinuma, Hikaru Yokono, Pascual Martínez-Gómez and Akiko Aizawa |
| <#64> | Hybrid Method of Semi-supervised Learning and Feature Weighted Learning for Domain Adaptation of Document Classification
Hiroyuki Shinnou, Liying Xiao, Minoru Sasaki and Kanako Komiya |
| <#110> | Paraphrase Detection Based on Identical Phrase and Similar Word Matching
Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Yusuke Miyao and Isao Echizen |
| 14:00–14:15 | Coffee break |
| 14:15–15:30 | Session 8A: Information Extraction 2 and Information Retrieval co-chairs: Masao Utiyama and Hao Wang |
| <#12> | Multi-aspects Rating Prediction Using Aspect Words and Sentences
Takuto Nakamuta and Kazutaka Shimada |
| <#55> | Understanding Rating Behaviour and Predicting Ratings by Identifying Representative Users
Rahul Kamath, Masanao Ochi and Yutaka Matsuo |
| <#45> | Cross-lingual Pseudo Relevance Feedback Based on Weak Relevant Topic Alignment
Xuwen Wang and Zhang Qiang |
| <#212> | Corpus annotation with a linguistic analysis of the associations between event mentions and spatial expressions
Jin-Woo Chung, Jinseon You and Jong C. Park |
| 14:15–15:30 | Session 8B: NLP and Web 2 co-chairs: Kanako Komiya and Yang Liu |
| <#170> | Recognizing Complex Negation on Twitter
Junta Mizuno, Canasai Kruengkrai, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Julien Kloetzer and Kentaro Inui |
| <#62> | Topic Model for Identifying Suicidal Ideation in Chinese Microblog
Xiaolei Huang, Xin Li, Tianli Liu, David Chiu, Tingshao Zhu and Lei Zhang |
| <#166> | Predicting Sector Index Movement with Microblogging Public Mood Time Series on Social Issues
Yujie Lu, Jinlong Guo, Kotaro Sakamoto, Hideyuki Shibuki and Tatsunori Mori |
| 15:30–17:00 | Close ceremony |