Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (2024)

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Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 152 papers

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Nathaniel Oco | Shirley N. Dita | Ariane Macalinga Borlongan | Jong-Bok Kim

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Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing On Minority Languages: A Systematic Review
Rachel Edita Roxas

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Leveraging Knowledge from Translation Memory for Globally and Locally Guiding Neural Machine Translation
Ruibo Hou | Hengjie Liu | Yves Lepage

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Using Large Language Models for education managements in Vietnamese with low resources
Duc Do Minh | Vinh Nguyen Van | Thang Dam Cong

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A New Dataset and Empirical Evaluation for Vietnamese Food Recommendation System
An Tran | Thanh Dang | Hong Dang | Tin Huynh

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Advancing Vietnamese Information Retrieval with Learning Objective and Benchmark
Vinh Nguyen | Nam Tran | Long Nguyen | Dien Dinh

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Comparative Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Patient Visit Recommendations
Pei-Ying Yang | Shin-En Peng | Shih-Chuan Chang | Yung-Chun Chang

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A study of Vietnamese readability assessing through semantic and statistical features
Hung Tuan Le | Long Truong To | Manh Trong Nguyen | Quyen Nguyen | Trong-Hop Do

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Evaluating LlaMA-2’s Adaptation to Social Context in Japanese Emails via Fine-Tuning
Muxuan Liu | Tatsuya Ishigaki | Yusuke Miyao | Hiroya Takamura | Ichiro Kobayashi

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Construction of a Japanese Dialog Corpus Annotated with Speakers’ Intimacy
Takuto Miura | Kiyoaki Shirai | Hideaki Kanai | Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn

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Nuanced Multi-class Detection of Machine-Generated Scientific Text
Shiyuan Zhang | Yubin Ge | Xiaofeng Liu

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Using Multitask Learning with Pre-trained Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in the Hospitality Industry
Xuan-Yu You | Shih-Chuan Chang | Sheng-Mao Hung | Chih-Hao Ku | Yung-Chun Chang

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Assessing the Performance of an Incremental Natural Language Understanding Model for Noisy Slot Filling
Hannah Regine Fong | Ethel Ong

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Word Boundary Decision: An Efficient Approach for Low-Resource Word Segmentation
Yu Wang | Chu-Ren Huang

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KoGEC : Korean Grammatical Error Correction with Pre-trained Translation Models
Taeeun Kim | Youngsook Song | Semin Jeong

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Prompt Engineering with Large Language Models for Vietnamese Sentiment Classification
Dang Van Thin | Duong Ngoc Hao | Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

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Text Data Augmentation Method Using Filtering Indicators based on Multiple Perspectives
Haruto Uda | Kazuyuki Matsumoto | Minoru Yoshida

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Synergizing Logical Reasoning, Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Multi-Agent LLM System
Adam Kostka | Jaroslaw Chudziak

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Exploring Large Language Models for PERMA-based Psychological Well-being Assessment
Julianne Andrea Vizmanos | Ethel Ong

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Generating Character Relationship Maps for a Story
Taichi Uchino | Danushka Bollegala | Naiwala P.Chandrasiri

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Enhancing Image Clustering with Captions
Yuanyuan Cai | Satoshi Kosugi | Kotaro Funakoshi | Manabu Okumura

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Pragmatic Competence Evaluation of Large Language Models for the Korean Language
Dojun Park | Jiwoo Lee | Hyeyun Jeong | Seohyun Park | Sungeun Lee

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MERE: A Deep Learning Architecture Using Multi-Fragment Ensemble for Relation Extraction
Hoang-Quynh Le | Duy-Cat Can

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Utilizing Geographic Entity Information for PLM-based Document Geolocation Models
Yuya Yamamoto | Takashi Inui

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RICoTA: Red-teaming of In-the-wild Conversation with Test Attempts
Eujeong Choi | Younghun Jeong | Soomin Kim | Won Ik Cho

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A Novel Interpretability Metric for Explaining Bias in Language Models: Applications on Multilingual Models from Southeast Asia
Lance Calvin Lim Gamboa | Mark Lee

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Pretraining and Updates of Domain-Specific LLM: A Case Study in the Japanese Business Domain
Kosuke Takahashi | Takahiro Omi | Kosuke Arima | Tatsuya Ishigaki

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Generation of Diverse Responses to Reviews of Accommodations Considering Complaints about Multiple Aspects
Kiyoaki Shirai | Yuta Murakoshi | Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn

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Analysis of cross-linguality of XL-WSD dataset: A comparative study of Japanese and Dutch
Naranbuuvei Ganbat | Soma Asada | Kanako Komiya

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Detection of Polysemy and Ambiguity in Japanese Adjectives Using Corpora
Takumi Osawa | Takehiro Teraoka

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LPLS: A Selection Strategy Based on Pseudo-Labeling Status for Semi-Supervised Active Learning in Text Classification
Chun-Fang Chuang | Dongyuan Li | Satoshi Kosugi | Kotaro Funakoshi | Manabu Okumura

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Legal Information Retrieval through Embedding Models and Synthetic Question Generation: Insights from the Philippine Tax Code
Matthew Roque | Nicole Abejuela | Shirley Chu | Melvin Cabatuan | Edwin Sybingco

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Large Language Models For Second Language English Writing Assessments: An Exploratory Comparison
Zhuang Qiu | Peizhi Yan | Zhenguang Cai

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A Dual-Module Denoising Approach with Curriculum Learning for Enhancing Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Nguyen Van Doan | Dat Tran Nguyen | Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

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Enhancing Document-level Argument Extraction with Definition-augmented Heuristic-driven Prompting for LLMs
Tongyue Sun | Jiayi Xiao

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Gender and Dialect Classification for the Vietnamese Language
Tran Nguyen | Uyen Nguyen | Thinh Pham | Truc Nguyen | Binh T. Nguyen

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Fact-checking for online advertisement posts
Tam T. Nguyen | Hao Nguyen Thi Phuong | Truong Phu Le | Binh T. Nguyen

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Multi-modal CheapFakes Detection: Cross-Encoder for Fusing Visual and Textual Features
Thao Nguyen | My Dang | Suong Hoang | Dac Nguyen

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Multilingual Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in Large Language Models
So Young Lee | Russell Scheinberg | Amber Shore | Ameeta Agrawal

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Defining and Detecting Incomplete Ingredient Descriptions in Cooking Recipes
Masatoshi Tsuchiya | Daigo Kohno

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Emoji Prediction of Japanese X Posts by LLMs
Yijie Hua | Takehito Utsuro

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ViHerbQA: A Robust QA Model for Vietnamese Traditional Herbal Medicine
Quyen Truong | Long Nguyen | Dien Dinh

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EATT: Knowledge Graph Integration in Transformer Architecture
Phong Vo | Long Nguyen

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Multi-mask Prefix Tuning: Applying Multiple Adaptive Masks on Deep Prompt Tuning
Qui Tu | Trung Nguyen | Long Nguyen | Dien Dinh

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Contrastive Summarization of User Reviews: An Aspect-based Abstractive Approach
Hung-Manh Hoang | Duc-Loc Vu | Huong Nguyen-Thi-Thuy | Duy-Cat Can | Hoang-Quynh Le

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TECO: Improving Multimodal Intent Recognition with Text Enhancement through Commonsense Knowledge Extraction
Quynh-Mai Thi Nguyen | Lan-Nhi Thi Nguyen | Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

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A Viewpoints Embedded Diff-table System For Cross-sectional Insight Survey In a Research Task
Jinghong Li | Naoya Inoue | Shinobu Hasegawa

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Emotion Aggregation in Artistic Image Analysis: Effects of Label Distribution Learning
Ryuichi Takahashi | Yuta Sasaki | Yuhki Shiraishi | Jianwei Zhang

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Modified Iterative Matching and Translation Approach for Formality Style Transfer in a Low-Resource Setting
Kenneth Uriel Loquinte | Charibeth Cheng

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CIKMar: A Dual-Encoder Approach to Prompt-Based Reranking in Educational Dialogue Systems
Joanito Agili Lopo | Marina Indah Prasasti | Alma Permatasari | Yunita Sari

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Climate-NLI: A Model for Natural Language Inference and Zero-Shot Classification on Climate-Related Text
Faturahman Yudanto | Yunita Sari | Maeve Zahwa Adriana Crown Zaki

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Exploring Hallucinations in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Narrow Domains
Yan Pan | Davide Cadamuro | Georg Groh

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VHE: A New Dataset for Event Extraction from Vietnamese Historical Texts
Truc Hoang | Long Nguyen | Dien Dinh

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Unveiling the Truth: A Deep Dive into Claim Identification Methods
Shankha Shubhra Das | Pritam Pal | Dipankar Das

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Chain-of-Translation Prompting (CoTR): A Novel Prompting Technique for Low Resource Languages
Nidhi Kowtal | Tejas Deshpande | Raviraj Joshi

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CL-HumanEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Transfer though Code Generation
Miyu Sato | Yui Obara | Nao Souma | Kimio Kuramitsu

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Hybrid Neural-Rule Based Architectures for Filipino Stemming with Fine-Tuned BERT Variants
Angelica Anne Araneta Naguio | Rachel Edita Oñate Roxas

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JAPAGEN: Efficient Few/Zero-shot Learning via Japanese Training Dataset Generation with LLM
Takuro Fujii | Satoru Katsumata

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Human Performance in Incremental Dependency Parsing: Dependency Structure Annotations and their Analyses
Hiroki Unno | Tomohiro Ohno | Koichiro Ito | Shigeki Matsubara

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Effective Prompt-tuning for Correcting Hallucinations in LLM-generated Japanese Sentences
Haruki Hatakeyama | Masaki Shuzo | Eisaku Maeda

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Towards Building Efficient Sentence BERT Models using Layer Pruning
Anushka Shelke | Riya Savant | Raviraj Joshi

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Japanese Term Selection for Stock Price Fluctuation by Large Language Models
Shunsuke Nishida Takehito Utsuro

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Authorship Attribution in 19th-century Philippine Literature Using A Deep Learning Multi-label Classifier
Paolo Espiritu | Jason Jabanes | Charibeth Cheng

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Linguistic Feature-Based Clickbait Detection in Taiwanese News Headlines
Chiung-Wen Chang | Ching-Han Huang

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Modeling Personality Traits by Predicting Questionnaire Responses as an Alternative Approach to Filipino Automatic Personality Recognition
Alessandra Pauleen I. Gomez | Ibrahim D. Kahil | Shaun Vincent N. Ong | Edward P. Tighe

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Open-domain Named Entity Recognition for Low Resource Languages - A Case Study on Vietnamese
Viet Ngo Quang | Huong Le Thanh

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Human-Centric NLP or AI-Centric Illusion?: A Critical Investigation
Piyapath T Spencer

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ViConsFormer: Constituting Meaningful Phrases of Scene Texts using Transformer-based Method in Vietnamese Text-based Visual Question Answering
Nghia Nguyen | Tho Quan | Ngan Nguyen

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Immortal cows of Nouvelle France - Reflections around four variations on modern digital humanities techniques for Zooarcheology
Nicolas Delsol | Éric Drapeau | Samuel Laperle | Josiane Van Dorpe | Grégoire Winterstein

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Bridging the Linguistic Divide: Developing a North-South Korean Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation
Hannah Hyesun Chun | Chanju Lee | Hyunkyoo Choi | Charmgil Hong

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Changes in the Sentiments and Metaphors in COVID-19 News Discourse (2019-2024)
Yolanda Guan | Winnie Huiheng Zeng

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Enhancing ColBERT: A Method for Reducing Space Complexity and Accelerating Retrieval Speed
Hai Nguyen T. | Huong Le T.

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Clustering-driven Sentiment analysis for COVID-19 vaccination in Tunisia
Imen Hamed | Wala Rebhi | Narjes Bellamine Ben Saoud

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New Approach to Infer Image Content from Social Media User’s Posts: Based on Fine-Tuning Multimodal AI Model
Feriel Gammoudi | Salma Namouri | Mohamed Nazih Omri

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Mitigating Gender Bias in Large Language Models: An Evaluation Using Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Arati Mohapatra | Kavimalar Subbiah | Reshma Sheik | S Jaya Nirmala

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How Good Is Synthetic Data for Social Media Texts? A Study on Fine-Tuning Low-Resource Language Models for Vietnamese
Luan Thanh Nguyen

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Can we repurpose multiple-choice question-answering models to rerank retrieved documents?
Jasper Kyle Catapang

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Are large language models affected by politeness? Focusing on request speech acts in Korean
Gayeon Jung | Joeun Kang | Fei Li | Hansaem Kim

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KULTURE Bench: A Benchmark for Assessing Language Model in Korean Cultural Context
Xiaonan Wang | Jinyoung Yeo | Joon-Ho Lim | Hansaem Kim

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GUIT-AsTourNE: A Dataset of Assamese Named Entities in the Tourism Domain
Bhargab Choudhury | Vaskar Deka | Shikhar Kumar Sarma

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Do LLMs Implicitly Determine the Suitable Text Difficulty for Users?
Seiji Gobara | Hidetaka Kamigaito | Taro Watanabe

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ElliottAgents: A Natural Language-Driven Multi-Agent System for Stock Market Analysis and Prediction
Jaroslaw A. Chudziak | Michal Wawer

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A Comparative Study of Chart Summarization
An Chu | Thong Huynh | Long Nguyen | Dien Dinh

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L3Cube-IndicQuest: A Benchmark Question Answering Dataset for Evaluating Knowledge of LLMs in Indic Context
Pritika Rohera | Chaitrali Ginimav | Akanksha Salunke | Gayatri Sawant | Raviraj Joshi

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An Analytical Study of the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formulae to Explain Their Robustness over Time
Yo Ehara

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A Linguistic Analysis on Negation and Emotion Shift
PuiHang Li | SophiaYatMei Lee

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UPERF:Urdu Proximity Enhanced Retrieval Framework
Samreen Kazi | Shakeel Khoja

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Development Of A Multi-Lingual Chatbot For Physical and Mental Health Monitoring Of Children
Judith Azcarraga | Kate Justine Ermitano | Steven Castro | Mark Adrian Escobar

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Competencies in the International Language Tests and the Language Education Curriculum: Navigating the Foundation of Prospective ESL Teachers for Certification
Roxan T. Bayan | Boyet L. Batang

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From Rules to Meaning Making: Teaching Grammar through Discourse Analysis as an Approach
Allan Jay Esteban

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Lexico-syntactic features of ab initio pilots’ and controllers’ aeronautical English: A corpus linguistic investigation of aviation communication in the Philippine airspace
Ramsey Ferrer | Shirley Dita

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Age does matter: A generational comparison on the morphological and lexical variations of Tagalog nominal and pronominal systems in Bataan
Lemuel Fontillas

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Comparison of Miratives in Mandarin Chinese: A Preliminary Study
Jiun-Shiung Wu | Yu-Chien Hsu

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Identity or Competency? Exploring the Impact of Demographic and Professional Factors on English Faculty Competencies
Bernadette Bagalay

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Analyzing the Linguistic Generalizations of Filipino Bilingual Children to Bare and Un- Form of Verbs
Jennifer Santos

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Address forms, politeness, and framing among multicultural students in an Indonesian university
Muhammad Jawad Yuwono | Wulandari Santoso

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Automatic Extraction of Relationships among Motivations, Emotions and Actions from Natural Language Texts
Fei Yang

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Assigning Impression Rating Information to the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’
Sachi Kato | Masayuki Asahara

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Conceptual Metaphors as Legitimization Tools in the Inaugural Speech of President Rodrigo Duterte
Mycah Amelita C. Chavez

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Chinese Language in Chinese Communities at BINUS University: Language Shift, Maintenance, and Identity
Jessica Djolin Niti | Maria Tamarina Prawati

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Probability Distributions of Sounds and Phonotactics in Taiwan Mandarin Syllables
I-Ping Wan | Chiung-Wen Chang | Chainwu Lee | Pu Yu

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Cross-Linguistic Variances of Dependency Distances in Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus
Masanori Oya

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“Say What?” Influence of Perceived Self-Confidence in English of Senior High School Students on their Willingness to Communicate in English
Mark Joseph B. Zapanta

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Exploring Sibilant Merge Patterns for Speaker Profiling in Taiwan
Yu-Leng Lin | Bruce Xiao Wang

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RydeeNLP: Optimizing Japanese Learning with Lexical Simplification and Adaptive Translation
Yusuke Satani | Peilong Li

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Tupleised co-occurrence measures vs LLM word embeddings for corpus linguistics: The case of English light verb construction detection
Ryan Ka Yau Lai

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Case Particle Omission in Nominative-Accusative Dependency in Japanese
Mina Sugimura | Yoichi Miyamoto | Chigusa Morita

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Semantics Outperforms Prosody in Emotional Speech Processing: Evidence from a Complex Stroop Experiment
Jing Qi | Kaile Zhang | Gang Peng

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Cognitive Constraints and Experience Mold Speech Rhythm: Evidence from Thai Speech Cycling
Francesco Burroni | Komtham Domrongchareon

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Towards a token-by-token whole-spectrum approach to sound change using deep learning: A case study of Khmer coda palatalization
Sothornin Mam | Francesco Burroni | Sireemas Maspong

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Mandarin speakers prefer explicit visual cues in learning Cantonese tones: an eye-tracking study
Yuqin Shu | Yi Weng | Ran Tao | Gang Peng

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Analyzing the Gendered Power Dynamics in Addressing Practices: A Corpus-based Approach
Xin Luo | Chu-Ren Huang

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The Influence of Language on Personality Traits: A Multi-modal Study Among Chinese-English Bilinguals
Mingxi Lu | Ran Tao

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Effect of Rap Music Context on Lexical Tone Normalization
Yujia Tian | Yanyuan Ye | Mingxi Lu | Fanlu Jia | Ran Tao

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Japanese kana-questions as non-intrusive questions
Hitomi Hirayama

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Mental Representation of Mandarin Tone 3: an Integrated Phonetic and Phonological Reflection
Yanyuan Ye | Gang Peng

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Frequency and Congruency: A New Perspective on Motion Verb and Path Expression Co-occurrence
Yuzo Morishita

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The Entailment Relationship Between Transparent Perceptual Reports and Opaque Infinitival Complements: An Approach Without Possible Worlds
Yu Tomita

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Comparing Gender Bias in Lexical Semantics and World Knowledge: Deep-learning Models Pre-trained on Historical Corpus
Yingqiu Ge | Jinghang Gu | Chu-Ren Huang | Lifu Li

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Polarity Questions in Cebuano
Christine Jane Aquino

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Decomposing Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin:A Preliminary Study
Tong Wu

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Comparing Professional and Common Literary Critics Using Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Yiheng Yang | Chu-Ren Huang | Yong Wang

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Developing a Sandhi Lexicon (SandhiLex) for Sinhala: Understanding and Formalizing Morphophonology of Sinhala Language
Chamila Liyanage | Randil Pushpananda

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A Comparable Corpus-Driven Study on Dative Variation in Mandarin Chinese and the Pedagogical Implications
Menghan Jiang | Chu-ren Huang

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The Evolving Use of WAR Metaphors in Businesswomen-focused Media Discourse
Yanlin Li | Jing Chen | Kathleen Ahrens | Chu-Ren Huang

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An Investigation of ISO-TimeML Applied to Vietnamese
Ha My Linh | Pham Thi Duc | Le Ngoc Toan | Nguyen Thi Minh Huyen

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Developing an Up-to-date Academic Word List for Public Health Emergencies of International Concern: The Case of Mpox
Longxing Li

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Disambiguating Low-registered Tones in Taiwan Southern Min
Jarry Chia-Wei Chuang

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Coreference Resolution for Vietnamese Narrative Texts
Hieu-Dai Tran | Duc-Vu Nguyen | Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

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Extracting Filipino Spelling Variants
Nathaniel Oco | Leif Romeritch Syliongka | Raquel Sison-Buban | Joel Ilao

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Revisiting Leti metathesis: a use case for boolean monadic recursive schemes
Gérard Avelino

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Kinaray-a Discourse Particles
Marie Claire Duque Cruz | Marvin C. Casalan

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Morphological and Syntactic Characteristics of Adjectives in Philippine English: A Corpus-Based Description
Luvee Hazel Aquino | Christine Jane Aquino

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THE LEXICAL CATEGORIES OF THE TINONANON-MONOßU
Jerson Catoto | Joveth Jay Montaña

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A Multidimensional Analysis of U.S. Diplomatic Discourse on the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Textual and Emotional Dimensions Using Plutchik’s Wheel
Xiao Shanshan | Muhammad Afzaal

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Syntactic cues may not aid human parsers efficiently in predicting Japanese passives
Masataka Ogawa

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The language of police reports: A forensic linguistic analysis
Marvin Casalan

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Belief revision and formation in grammar: The Japanese inferential evidential ‘no’
Lukas Rieser

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Attitudinal evaluation of university students’ online comments on their teachers: Insights from Appraisal Theory
Kristine D. de Leon