Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (2021)

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Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 83 papers

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Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Kaibao Hu | Jong-Bok Kim | Chengqing Zong | Emmanuele Chersoni

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Under the Microscope: Interpreting Readability Assessment Models for Filipino
Joseph Marvin Imperial | Ethel Ong

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SEPP: Similarity Estimation of Predicted Probabilities for Defending and Detecting Adversarial Text
Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son | Seira Hidano | Kazuhide Fukushima | Shinsaku Kiyomoto

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A Comprehensive Analysis of PMI-based Models for Measuring Semantic Differences
Taichi Aida | Mamoru Komachi | Toshinobu Ogiso | Hiroya Takamura | Daichi Mochihashi

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Exploring sentiment constructions: connecting deep learning models with linguistic construction
Shu-Kai Hsieh | Yu-Hsiang Tseng

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A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Question Answering on Research Articles
Komal Gupta | Tirthankar Ghosal | Asif Ekbal

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An Empirical Performance Analysis of State-of-the-Art Summarization Models for Automatic Minuting
Muskaan Singh | Tirthankar Ghosal | Ondrej Bojar

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Data Augmentation to Address Out of VocabularyProblem in Low Resource Sinhala English Neural Machine Translation
Aloka Fernando | Surangika Ranathunga

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“Prickly Voice” or “Smelly Voice”? Comprehending novel synaesthetic metaphors
Yin Zhong | Kathleen Ahrens

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Translation for professionals: corpus-based study of translation universals in computing
Huang Baorong

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Island effects in Vietnamese relativization: A formal judgment study
Quyen Nguyen

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Lexical Meanings of Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese
Hiroko Kimura | Chigusa Morita

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Examine persuasion strategies in Chinese on social media
Yu-Yun Chang | Po-Ya Angela Wang | Han-Tang Hung | Ka-Sîng Khóo | Shu-Kai Hsieh

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Exploring Conditional Text Generation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Siva Uday Sampreeth Chebolu | Franck Dernoncourt | Nedim Lipka | Thamar Solorio

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Aspect or Manner? A Study of Reduplicated Adverbials in Mandarin Chinese
Siaw-Fong Chung | Chu-Ren Huang

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Inter-clausal Anaphora in Chinese Conditionals: a Multi-factorial Analysis
Shunting Chen | Pascal Amsili | Yiming Liang

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A multidimensional analysis: speaking style of learner speech across proficiency levels
Tingting Cheng

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Variation across Everyday Conversations: Factor Analysis of Conversations using Semantic Categories of Functional Expressions
Yuya Chiba | Ryuichiro Higashinaka

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Dependency Enhanced Contextual Representations for Japanese Temporal Relation Classification
Chenjing Geng | Fei Cheng | Masayuki Asahara | Lis Kanashiro Pereira | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Applying Masked Language Models to Search for Suitable Verbs Used in Academic Writing
Chooi Ling Goh

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Using Distributional Principles for the Semantic Study of Contextual Language Models
Olivier Ferret

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A Comparative Study of Collocation Extraction Methods from the Perspectives of Vocabulary and Grammar: A Case Study in the Field of Journalism
Lulu Gu | Yue Pan | Pengyuan Liu

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A Corpus-based Lexical Semantic Study of Mandarin Verbs of “Tui” and “La”
Sun Han | Huang Chu-Ren

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Unpredictable Attributes in Market Comment Generation
Yumi Hamazono | Tatsuya Ishigaki | Yusuke Miyao | Hiroya Takamura | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Grammatical Error Correction via Supervised Attention in the Vicinity of Errors
Hiromichi Ishii | Akihiro Tamura | Takashi Ninomiya

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Can Monolingual Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Improve NMT for Distant Language Pairs?
Hwichan Kim | Mamoru Komachi

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Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause
Renkui Hou | Chu-Ren Huang | Kathleen Ahrens

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Various Errors Improve Neural Grammatical Error Correction
Shota Koyama | Hiroya Takamura | Naoaki Okazaki

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Construction of MBTI Personality Estimation Model Considering Emotional Information
Ryota Kishima | Kazuyuki Matsumoto | Minoru Yoshida | Kenji Kita

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Analyzing Semantic Changes in Japanese Words Using BERT
Kazuma Kobayashi | Taichi Aida | Mamoru Komachi

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Automatic Analysis of Linguistic Features in Journal Articles of Different Academic Impacts with Feature Engineering Techniques
Siyu Lei | Ruiying Yang | Chu-Ren Huang

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HPSG/MRS-Based Natural Language Generation Using Transformer
Sanghoun Song Gyu-Min Lee

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Improving Adversarial Text Generation with n-Gram Matching
Shijie Li | Massimo Piccardi

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Spatial-temporal attributes in verbal semantics: A corpus-based lexical semantic study of discriminating Mandarin near synonyms of “tui1” and “la1”
Qiangmei Liang | Chu-Ren Huang

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The Paradox of Subject-Oriented Resultative Compounds in Taiwan Southern Min
Huei-Ling Lin

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Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-speech Tagging via Two-stage Span Labeling
Duc-Vu Nguyen | Linh-Bao Vo | Ngoc-Linh Tran | Kiet Nguyen | Ngan Nguyen

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Machine Learning Approach for Depression Detection in Japanese
Yutaka Miyaji Yuka Niimi

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KC4Align: Improving Sentence Alignment method for Low-resource Language Pairs
Ha Nguyen Tien | Dat Nguyen Huu | Huong Le Thanh | Vinh Nguyen Van | Minh Nguyen Quang

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Native Language Identification and Reconstruction of Native Language Relationship Using Japanese Learner Corpus
Mitsuhiro Nishijima | Ying Liu

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ALICE++: Adversarial Training for Robust and Effective Temporal Reasoning
Lis Pereira | Fei Cheng | Masayuki Asahara | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Schizophrenia Through the Lens of Chinese Classifier: A Preliminary Study
Edward Ruoyang Shi

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Natural Language Inference using Neural Network and Tableau Method
Ayahito Saji | Daiki Takao | Yoshihide Kato | Shigeki Matsubara

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Talking with the Theorem Prover to Interactively Solve Natural Language Inference
Atsushi Sumita | Yusuke Miyao | Koji Mineshima

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Knowledge Grounded Multimodal Dialog Generation in Task-oriented Settings
Deeksha Varshney | Asif Ekbal Anushkha Singh

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Study of Near Synonymous Mental-State Verbs: A MARVS Perspective
Yuan Tao

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Deep Speaker Verification Model for Low-Resource Languages and Vietnamese Dataset
Dat Vi Thanh | Thanh Pham Viet | Trang Nguyen Thi Thu

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Understanding Advanced Level Academic Writing on Syntactic Complexity
Miao Wang | Wander Lowie

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Investigating effects of gender identity on interpreters’ styles: A case study of multidimensional analysis
Xiaoshu Yuan | Yunzhang Shi | Hongyu Wan

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A quantitative investigation of English adnominal modifiers
Tsy Yih | Haitao Liu

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A MARVS Analysis of Two Chinese Near-Synonymous Verbs of Jumping Based on Chinese Corpora
Yingying Peng

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Learning Sense-Specific Static Embeddings using Contextualised Word Embeddings as a Proxy
Danushka Bollegala Yi Zhou

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Readability and Linearity
Yo Ehara

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Covering a sentence in form and meaning with fewer retrieved sentences
Yuan Liu | Yves Lepage

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Stronger Baseline for Robust Results in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Wei Yang | Jun Ogata

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Holistic interpretation in locative alternation – Evidence from self-paced reading
Rui Cao

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Multi-tasking Dialogue Comprehension with Discourse Parsing
Yuchen He | Zhuosheng Zhang | Hai Zhao

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A Corpus-based Gender Study of Hedges in Spoken British English
Ruofan Du

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The Annotation of Antonym Information in the ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’
Sachi Kato | Masayuki Asahara | Nanami Moriyama | Makoto Yamazaki Asami Ogiwara

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Incorporating Semantic Textual Similarity and Lexical Matching for Information Retrieval
Hiroki Iida | Naoaki Okazaki

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Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation on Taiwan Hakka Polysemy with Neural Network Models: A Case Study of BUN, TUNG and LAU
Huei-Ling Lai | Hsiao-Ling Hsu | Jyi-Shane Liu | Chia-Hung Lin | Yanhong Chen

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A Sentiment Analysis of Men’s and Women’s Speech in the BNC64
Yong-Hun Lee | Ji-Hye Kim

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Evaluating a How-to Tip Machine Comprehension Model with QA Examples collected from a Community QA Site
Tingxuan Li | Shuting Bai | Fuzhu Zhu | Takehito Utsuro

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Syntactic Distribution of the Semantic Classes of Dative Verbs in English and Cantonese: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Ziying Li | Hanjung Lee

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A Corpus-based Analysis of Prosodic Pauses in bă, gěi and ràng Constructions in Taiwan Mandarin
Chihkai Lin

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A Corpus-based Lexical Semantic Study of Mandarin Verbs of zhidao and liaojie
Yi Liu

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Three Types of Average Dependency Distances of Sentences in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
Masanori Oya

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PS-GAN: Feature augmented text generation in Telugu
Pratyusha Musunuru | Varshit Battu

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Whose change of state do resultative adverbalised adjectives describe in Japanese locative-alternating constructions?
Masataka Ogawa | Takeshi Kishiyama

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ViVQA: Vietnamese Visual Question Answering
Khanh Quoc Tran | An Trong Nguyen | An Tran-Hoai Le | Kiet Van Nguyen

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Monolingual versus multilingual BERTology for Vietnamese extractive multi-document summarization
Huy Quoc To | Kiet Van Nguyen | Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen | Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen

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Animosity and suffering: Metaphors of BITTERNESS in English and Chinese
Gabor Parti | Andreas Liesenfeld | Chu-Ren Huang

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Analysis of Text-Semantics via Efficient Word Embedding using Variational Mode Decomposition
Rohith Ramakrishnan | Anirudh Vadakedath | U Vamsi Krishna | Premjith B | K.P Soman

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Science Mapping of Publications in Natural Language Processing in the Philippines: 2006 to 2020
Rachel Edita O. Roxas | Joseph Marvin Imperial | Angelica H. De La Cruz

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Construction and Evaluation of Japanese Sentence-BERT Models
Naoki Shibayama | Hiroyuki Shinnou

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Verbal Semantics as Eventive Information: The Case of Verb “制服” and “制約” in Chinese Gigaword Corpus
Zhan Wang | Ming Ming Chiu

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Study of Similarity Measures as Features in Classification for Answer Sentence Selection Task in Hindi Question Answering: Language-Specific v/s Other Measures
Devika Verma | Ramprasad Joshi | Shubhamkar Joshi | Onkar Susladkar

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A Hybrid PSO-GA for Extractive Text Summarization
Bui Thi Mai Anh | Nguyen Thi Thu Trang | Tran Thi Dinh | Nguyen Thi Hoai

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From Near-synonyms to Divergent Viewpoint Foci: A Corpus-based MARVS Driven Account of Two Verbs of Attention
Ziqian Wang | Chu-Ren Huang

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Metaphor Development in Public Discourse Using an ARIMA Time Series Analysis Approach
Winnie Huiheng Zeng | Dennis Tay | Kathleen Ahrens