Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (2020)


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Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

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Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Minh Le Nguyen | Mai Chi Luong | Sanghoun Song

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Contextual Characters with Segmentation Representation for Named Entity Recognition in Chinese
Baptiste Blouin | Pierre Magistry

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Improving Sequence Tagging for Vietnamese Text using Transformer-based Neural Models
The Viet Bui | Thi Oanh Tran | Phuong Le-Hong

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A new look at Pattani Malay Initial Geminates: a statistical and machine learning approach
Francesco Burroni | Sireemas Maspong | Pittayawat Pittayaporn | Pimthip Kochaiyaphum

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Sketching the English Translations of Kumārajīva’s The Diamond Sutra: A Comparison of Individual Translators and Translation Teams
Xi Chen | Vincent Xian Wang | Chu-Ren Huang

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Exploiting weak-supervision for classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Mandarin Conversations
Xin-Yi Chen | Laurent Prévot

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Pay Attention to Categories: Syntax-Based Sentence Modeling with Metadata Projection Matrix
Won Ik Cho | Nam Soo Kim

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Metaphoricity Rating of Chinese KIND Metaphor Expressions
Siaw-Fong Chung | Meng-Hsien Shih | Yu-Hsiang Shen | Wei-Ting Tseng

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Latent Topic Refinement based on Distance Metric Learning and Semantics-assisted Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Tran-Binh Dang | Ha-Thanh Nguyen | Le-Minh Nguyen

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TDP – A Hybrid Diacritic Restoration with Transformer Decoder
Trung Duc Anh Dang | Thi Thu Trang Nguyen

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Construction of a VerbNet style lexicon for Vietnamese
Ha My Linh | Le Van Cuong | Nguyen Thi Minh Huyen

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Utilizing Bert for Question Retrieval on Vietnameses E-commerce Sites
Thi-Thanh Ha | Van-Nha Nguyen | Kiem-Hieu Nguyen | Kim-Anh Nguyen | Tien-Thanh Nguyen

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Language change in Report on the Work of the Government by Premiers of the People’s Republic of China
Renkui Hou | Chu-Ren Huang | Kathleen Ahrens

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From Sense to Action: A Word-Action Disambiguation Task in NLP
Shu-Kai Hsieh | Yu-Hsiang Tseng | Chiung-Yu Chiang | Richard Lian | Yong-fu Liao | Mao-Chang Ku | Ching-Fang Shih

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On the syntax of negative wh-constructions in Korean
Okgi Kim

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Generation and Evaluation of Concept Embeddings Via Fine-Tuning Using Automatically Tagged Corpus
Kanako Komiya | Daiki Yaginuma | Masayuki Asahara | Hiroyuki Shinnou

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Towards a Linguistically Motivated Segmentation for a Simultaneous Interpretation System
Youngeun Koo | Jiyoun Kim | Jungpyo Hong | Munpyo Hong | Sung-Kwon Choi

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Towards Computational Linguistics in Minangkabau Language: Studies on Sentiment Analysis and Machine Translation
Fajri Koto | Ikhwan Koto

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Vowel Effects on L2 Perception of English Consonants by Advanced Learners of English
Yizhou Lan

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Predicting gender and age categories in English conversations using lexical, non-lexical, and turn-taking features
Andreas Liesenfeld | Gábor Parti | Yuyin Hsu | Chu-Ren Huang

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Simple is Better! Lightweight Data Augmentation for Low Resource Slot Filling and Intent Classification
Samuel Louvan | Bernardo Magnini

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Dialog policy optimization for low resource setting using Self-play and Reward based Sampling
Tharindu Madusanka | Durashi Langappuli | Thisara Welmilla | Uthayasanker Thayasivam | Sanath Jayasena

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Learning to Describe Editing Activities in Collaborative Environments: A Case Study on GitHub and Wikipedia
Edison Marrese-Taylor | Pablo Loyola | Jorge A. Balazs | Yutaka Matsuo

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A Multilingual Linguistic Domain Ontology
Mariem Neji | Fatma Ghorbel | Bilel Gargouri | Nada Mimouni | Elisabeth Métais

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Iterative Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Less-Common and Zero-Resource Language Pairs
Minh Thuan Nguyen | Phuong Thai Nguyen | Van Vinh Nguyen | Minh Cong Nguyen Hoang

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Enhancing Quality of Corpus Annotation: Construction of the Multi-Layer Corpus Annotation and Simplified Validation of the Corpus Annotation
Youngbin Noh | Kuntae Kim | Minho Lee | Cheolhun Heo | Yongbin Jeong | Yoosung Jeong | Younggyun Hahm | Taehwan Oh | Hyonsu Choe | Seokwon Park | Jin-Dong Kim | Key-Sun Choi

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Syntactic similarity of the sentences in a multi-lingual parallel corpus based on the Euclidean distance of their dependency trees
Masanori Oya

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Plausibility and Well-formedness Acceptability Test on Deep Neural Nativeness Classification
Kwonsik Park | Sanghoun Song

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A Simple Disaster-Related Knowledge Base for Intelligent Agents
Clark Emmanuel Paulo | Arvin Ken Ramirez | David Clarence Reducindo | Rannie Mark Mateo | Joseph Marvin Imperial

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Effective Approach to Develop a Sentiment Annotator For Legal Domain in a Low Resource Setting
Gathika Ratnayaka | Nisansa de Silva | Amal Shehan Perera | Ramesh Pathirana

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Deriving confirmation and justification — an expectative, compositional analysis of Japanese ‘yo-ne’
Lukas Rieser

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Combining Thai EDUs: Principle and Implementation
Chanatip Saetia | Supawat Taerungruang | Tawunrat Chalothorn

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Evaluation of Pretrained BERT Model by Using Sentence Clustering
Naoki Shibayama | Rui Cao | Jing Bai | Wen Ma | Hiroyuki Shinnou

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Music and speech are distinct in lexical tone normalization processing
Ran Tao | Gang Peng

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Construction of Associative Vocabulary Learning System for Japanese Learners
Takehiro Teraoka | Tetsuo Yamashita

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A corpus-based comparative study of light verbs in three Chinese speech communities
Benjamin K Tsou | Ka-Fai Yip

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Sensorimotor Enhanced Neural Network for Metaphor Detection
Mingyu Wan | Baixi Xing | Qi Su | Pengyuan Liu | Chu-Ren Huang

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A Parallel Corpus-driven Approach to Bilingual Oenology Term Banks: How Culture Differences Influence Wine Tasting Terms
Vincent Xian Wang | Xi Chen | Songnan Quan | Chu-Ren Huang

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Corpus-based Comparison of Verbs of Separation “Qie” and “Ge”
Nga-In Wu | Chu-Ren Huang | Lap-Kei Lee

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Association between declarative memory and language ability in older Chinese by education level
Chenwei Xie | Yun Feng | William Shi-Yuan Wang

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A corpus-based analysis of Chinese relative clauses produced by Japanese and Thai learners
Yike Yang

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Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Indonesia’s Tourism Destinations Based on Google Maps User Code-Mixed Reviews (Study Case: Borobudur and Prambanan Temples)
Dian Arianto | Indra Budi

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Imbalanced Chinese Multi-label Text Classification Based on Alternating Attention
Hongliang Bi | Han Hu | Pengyuan Liu

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How State-Of-The-Art Models Can Deal With Long-Form Question Answering
Minh-Quan Bui | Vu Tran | Ha-Thanh Nguyen | Le-Minh Nguyen

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Prosody Features of Collaborative Construction in Mandarin Conversation
Yue Guan

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ILP-based Opinion Sentence Extraction from User Reviews for Question DB Construction
Masakatsu Hamashita | Takashi Inui | Koji Murakami | Keiji Shinzato

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Composing Word Vectors for Japanese Compound Words Using Bilingual Word Embeddings
Teruo Hirabayashi | Kanako Komiya | Masayuki Asahara | Hiroyuki Shinnou

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Exploring Discourse on Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: A Case Study of Near-Synonym of HOMOSEXUAL in Opposing Stances
Han-Tang Hung | Shu-Kai Hsieh

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A Simple and Efficient Ensemble Classifier Combining Multiple Neural Network Models on Social Media Datasets in Vietnamese
Huy Duc Huynh | Hang Thi-Thuy Do | Kiet Van Nguyen | Ngan Thuy-Luu Nguyen

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Text Mining of Evidence on Infants’ Developmental Stages for Developmental Order Acquisition from Picture Book Reviews
Miho Kasamatsu | Takehito Utsuro | Yu Saito | Yumiko Ishikawa

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Expressing the Opposite: Acoustic Cues of Thai Verbal Irony
Nimit Kumwapee | Sujinat Jitwiriyanont

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Identifying Authors Based on Stylometric measures of Vietnamese texts
Ho Ngoc Lam | Vo Diep Nhu | Dinh Dien | Nguyen Tuyet Nhung

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Marking Trustworthiness with Near Synonyms: A Corpus-based Study of “Renwei” and “Yiwei” in Chinese
Bei Li | Chu-Ren Huang | Si Chen

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Empirical Study of Text Augmentation on Social Media Text in Vietnamese
Son Luu | Kiet Nguyen | Ngan Nguyen

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Attention-based Domain Adaption Using Transfer Learning for Part-of-Speech Tagging: An Experiment on the Hindi language
Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya | Vikrant Kumar | Arpit Mehta | Anil Kumar Singh

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Understanding Transformers for Information Extraction with Limited Data
Minh-Tien Nguyen | Dung Tien Le | Nguyen Hong Son | Bui Cong Minh | Do Hoang Thai Duong | Le Thai Linh

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A Study on Seq2seq for Sentence Compressionin Vietnamese
Thi-Trang Nguyen | Huu-Hoang Nguyen | Kiem-Hieu Nguyen

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Indirectly Determined Comparison and Difference: The Case of Japanese
Toshiko Oda

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Extraction of Novel Character Information from Synopses of Fantasy Novels in Japanese using Sequence Labeling
Yuji Oka | Kazuaki Ando

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Redefining Verbal Nouns in Japanese: From the Perspective of Polycategoriality
David Y. Oshima | Midori Hayashi

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Speech Recognition for Endangered and Extinct Samoyedic languages
Niko Partanen | Mika Hämäläinen | Tiina Klooster

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Neural Machine Translation from Historical Japanese to Contemporary Japanese Using Diachronically Domain-Adapted Word Embeddings
Masashi Takaku | Tosho Hirasawa | Mamoru Komachi | Kanako Komiya

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Improving Semantic Similarity Calculation of Japanese Text for MT Evaluation
Yuki Tanahashi | Kyoko Kanzaki | Eiko Yamamoto | Hitoshi Isahara

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Predicative multi-word expressions in Persian
Jens Fleischhauer

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Forms and Meanings of Lexical Reduplications in Cantonese: a corpus study
Charles Lam

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Abstract Meaning Representation for MWE: A study of the mapping of aspectuality based on Mandarin light verb jiayi
Lu Lu | Nianwen Xue | Chu-Ren Huang

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Formulatic Language of Vietnamese Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis
Hien Pham | Giang Nguyen Thi

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The Framework of Multiword Expression in Indonesian Language
Totok Suhardijanto | Rahmad Mahendra | Zahroh Nuriah | Adi Budiwiyanto

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Bilingual Multi-word Expressions, Multiple-correspondence, and their cultivation from parallel patents: The Chinese-English case
Benjamin K. Tsou | Ka Po Chow | John Lee | Ka-Fai Yip | Yaxuan Ji | Kevin Wu