Proceedings of the 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Edited by Ryo Otoguro, Mamoru Komachi and Tomoko Ohkuma

ISSN: 2619-7782

Entire volume [pdf (30MB)]

Cover, Foreword, Committee and Table of Contents [pdf]

Regular papers

A Gold Standard Dependency Treebank for Indonesian Language
Ika Alfina, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Mohamad Ivan Fanany and Heru Suhartanto [pdf]
Investigating an Effective Character-level Embedding in Korean Sentence Classification
Won Ik Cho, Seok Min Kim and Nam Soo Kim [pdf]
Incorporating Chains of Reasoning over Knowledge Graph for Distantly Supervised Biomedical Knowledge Acquisition
Qin Dai, Naoya Inoue, Paul Reisert, Ryo Takahashi and Kentaro Inui [pdf]
Epistemic marker, event type and factivity in emotion expressions
Xuefeng Gao, Chu-Ren Huang and Sophia Yat-Mei Lee [pdf]
AMR Normalization for Fairer Evaluation
Michael Wayne Goodman [pdf]
A CCG-based Compositional Semantics and Inference System for Comparatives
Izumi Haruta, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki pdf]
A Type-Theoretical Approach to Register Classification
Renkui Hou and Chu-Ren Huang pdf]
Modeling the Idiomaticity of Chinese Quadra-syllabic Idiomatic Expressions
Shu-Kai Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang Tseng and Chiung-Yu Chiang [pdf]
V-gei Double Object Construction and Extra Argument in Mandarin
Yu-Yin Hsu and Teng Qu [pdf]
Re-examining Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Long-Distance Bound Caki-casin in Korean: An Experimental Study
Ji-Hye Kim and Yong-Hun Lee [pdf]
The persuade-construction in Korean controls nothing
Juwon Lee and Sanghoun Song [pdf]
Pretrained language model transfer on neural named entity recognition in Indonesian conversational texts
Rezka Leonandya and Fariz Ikhwantri [pdf]
Long-distance dependencies in continuation grammar
Cara Su-Yi Leong and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [pdf]
On Null Clausal Complements in Taiwan Southern Min
Huei-Ling Lin [pdf]
A Community Detection Method Towards Analysis of Xi Feng Parties in the Northern Song Dynasty
Qianying Liu, Qiyao Wang, Wending Chen and Daisuke Kawahara [pdf]
Analysis of Reply-Tweets for Buzz Tweet Detection
Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yuta Hada, Minoru Yoshida and Kenji Kita [pdf]
Evaluating the suitability of human-oriented text simplification for machine translation
Rei Miyata and Midori Tatsumi [pdf]
Building Cendana: a Treebank for Informal Indonesian
David Moeljadi, Aditya Kurniawan and Debaditya Goswami [pdf]
Simulating Segmentation by Simultaneous Interpreters for Simultaneous Machine Translation
Akiko Nakabayashi and Tsuneaki Kato [pdf]
Attention mechanism for recommender systems
Xuan-Huy Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen [pdf]
Identifying Adversarial Sentences by Analyzing Text Complexity
Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Tran Phuong Thao, Seira Hidano and Shinsaku Kiyomoto [pdf]
Phi-Agreement by C in Japanese: Evidence from Person Restriction on the Subject
Miki Obata and Mina Sugimura [pdf]
Towards the Non-predicate Modification Analysis of the Expressive Small Clause in Japanese
Kenji Oda [pdf]
Syntax and Semantics of Numeral Classifiers in Japanese
Atsushi Oho [pdf]
An emoticon is well worth a few empathetic words
Juan Pablo Rodriguez Gomez, Tomoko Iizuka, Edson T. Miyamoto, Changyun Moon and Kaoruko Ouchi [pdf]
Utilization of histories by country in question-answering system to solve world history essay type questions
Kotaro Sakamoto, Yuta Fukuhara, Madoka Ishioroshi, Kosuke Ohya, Keigo Iwasaki, Hideyuki Shibuki and Tatsunori Mori [pdf]
Over-sampling Methods for Polarity Classification of Imbalanced Microblog Texts
Kiyoaki Shirai and Yunmin Xiang [pdf]
Thai Learners of English are Sensitive to Number-Agreement Violations
Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn and Edson T. Miyamoto [pdf]
May and Can Constructions in Spoken Corpus: A Constructionist Approach
Tsi-Chuen Tsai and Huei-Ling Lai [pdf]
On the Effectiveness of Low Rank Matrix Factorization for LSTM Model Compression
Genta Indra Winata, Andrea Madotto, Jamin Shin, Elham J. Barezi and Pascale Fung [pdf]
Prospective Result of Causative Predicates: A Uniform Analysis
Yusuke Yagi [pdf]
Probabilistic Measures for Diffusion of Linguistic Innovation: As Seen in the Usage of Verbal ``Nok'' in Thai Twitter
Nozomi Yamada and Pittayawat Pittayaporn [pdf]
Thai Legal Term Correction using Random Forests with Outside-the-sentence Features
Takahiro Yamakoshi, Vee Satayamas, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Takahiro Komamizu, Asanee Kawtrakul and Katsuhiko Toyama [pdf]
A Corpus of Sentence-level Annotations of Local Acceptability with Reasons
Wonsuk Yang, Jung-Ho Kim, Seungwon Yoon, Chaehun Park and Jong C. Park [pdf]
Explicit Contextual Semantics for Text Comprehension
Zhuosheng Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Zuchao Li and Hai Zhao [pdf]
Chinese--Japanese Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Using Sub-character Level Information
Longtu Zhang and Mamoru Komachi [pdf]
FTA: a novel feature training approach for classification
Wanwan Zheng and Mingzhe Jin [pdf]

Poster papers

Bi-directional Decoder Model with Efficient Fine-tuning of Embedding for Named Entity Recognition
Panuwat Assawinjaipetch, Kiyoaki Shirai, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and Sanparith Marukatat [pdf]
Making Metaphors: A Quantitative Analysis of Metaphor Production and Interpretation in Japanese Using a Multimodal Task
Brian Birdsell, Natsuko Tatsuta and Hiroaki Nakamura [pdf]
Multiple Pivots in Statistical Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages
Sari Dewi Budiwati and Masayoshi Aritsugi [pdf]
Semi-supervised learning for all-words WSD using self-learning and fine-tuning
Rui Cao, Jing Bai, Wen Ma and Hiroyuki Shinnou [pdf]
A Reinforced Improved Attention Model for Abstractive Text Summarization
Yu Chang, Hang Lei, Xiaoyu Li and Yiming Huang [pdf]
Semantic Distance and Creativity in Linguistic Synaesthesia
Emmanuele Chersoni, Francesca Strik Lievers and Chu-Ren Huang [pdf]
Investigating Mandarin Negative Terms: An Evaluation of Semantic-Pragmatic Meanings and Metaphorical Mechanisms
Siaw-Fong Chung, Yi-Ling Tseng, Heng-Chia Liao and Man-Hua Huang [pdf]
Mapping distributional to model-theoretic semantic spaces: a baseline
Franck Dernoncourt [pdf]
Intrinsic Evaluation of Grammatical Information within Word Embeddings
Daniel Edmiston and Taeuk Kim [pdf]
A Continuation-based Analysis of Contrastive Wa in Japanese
Hitomi Hirayama [pdf]
Effects of Prosodic Focus on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Chongming Chinese
Yitian Hong, Si Chen, Yike Yang and Bei Li [pdf]
Web Page Segmentation for Non Visual Skimming
Judith Jeyafreeda, Stéphane Ferrari, Fabrice Maurel, Gaël Dias and Emmanuel Giguet [pdf]
Automatic Speech Act Classification of Korean Dialogue based on the Hierarchical Structure of Speech Act Categories
Youngeun Koo, Jiyoun Kim and Munpyo Hong [pdf]
Investigation of Mandarin Clickbait Headlines: A Case Study of Biàn Zhèyàng
Chi-Ling Lee, Siaw-Fong Chung and Hui-Wen Liu [pdf]
On the "Easy" Task of Evaluating Chinese Irony Detection
An-Ran Li, Emmanuele Chersoni, Rong Xiang, Chu-Ren Huang and Qin Lu [pdf]
Towards Better Ad Experience: Click Prediction Leveraging Sequential Networks Derived Specifically From User Search Behaviors
Shengzhe Li, Tomoko Izumi, Yu Kuratake, Jiali Yao, Jerry Turner, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi [pdf]
Cantonese turn-initial particles: annotation of discourse-interactional functions in dialog corpora
Andreas Liesenfeld [pdf]
Are TERRORISM and kongbu zhuyi translation equivalents? A corpus-based investigation of meaning, structure and alternative translations
Lily Lim [pdf]
L1 and L2 Processing of Chinese Separable VO Compounds
Junghwan Maeng [pdf]
Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives in Cape Verdean Creole: A View from Markedness
Chigusa Morita and Miki Obata [pdf]
Japanese Daily Utterance Styles: A Factor Analysis based on Balanced Corpus
Hajime Murai [pdf]
A Speaker Accent Recognition System for Filipino Language
Batman Odulio, Justin Raphael Ariaso, Karl Adrian Cruz, Mico Ian Orjalo, Ramon Rodriguez, Angelica Dela Cruz and Manolito Octaviano Jr [pdf]
A corpus-based investigation of collexemes for active-passive alternation in the English part of an English-Japanese parallel corpus
Masanori Oya [pdf]
Korean-to-Chinese Machine Translation using Chinese Character as Pivot Clue
Jeonghyeok Park and Hai Zhao [pdf]
Adapting Neural Machine Translation for English-Vietnamese using Google Translate system for Back-translation
Nghia Luan Pham and Van Vinh Nguyen [pdf]
Re-unifying Floating Numeral Quantifiers and Secondary Predicates in Japanese
Hideaki Yamashita [pdf]