The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 33)
Future University Hakodate, Japan, September 13–15, 2019

Day 1: September 13th
8:50–9:00
9:00–10:00
10:00–10:30
10:30–11:45

Opening
Keynote talk 1 (Auditorium)
Reciprocity and anaphoric relations
Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
Coffee (Room: 367&368)
Oral 1A (Room: 593)
V-gei Double Object Construction and Extra Argument in Mandarin
Yu-Yin Hsu and Teng Qu
The persuade-construction in Korean controls nothing
Juwon Lee and Sanghoun SongRe-examining Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Long-Distance
Bound Caki-casin in Korean: An Experimental Study
Ji-Hye Kim and Yong-Hun Lee

12:10–14:30
14:30–15:45

15:45–16:15
16:15–17:15

Oral 1B (Room: 594)
On the Effectiveness of Low Rank Matrix Factorization for LSTM ModelCompression
Genta Indra Winata, Andrea Madotto, Jamin Shin, Elham J. Barezi and Pascale Fung
Pretrained language model transfer on neural named entity recognition inIndonesian conversational texts
Rezka Leonandya and Fariz Ikhwantri
FTA: a novel feature training approach for classification
Wanwan Zheng and Mingzhe JinLunch (Room: 367&368)& Poster session 1 (Museum) (see page 2)
Oral 2A (Room: 593)
Oral 2B (Room: 594)
Investigating an Effective Character-level Embedding in Korean Sentence
May and Can Constructions in Spoken Corpus: A Constructionist Approach
Classification
Tsi-Chuen Tsai and Huei-Ling Lai
Won Ik Cho, Seok Min Kim and Nam Soo Kim
On Null Clausal Complements in Taiwan Southern Min
A Corpus of Sentence-level Annotations of Local Acceptability with ReasonsHuei-Ling Lin
Wonsuk Yang, Jung-Ho Kim, Seungwon Yoon, Chaehun Park and Jong. C. ParkTowards the Non-predicate Modification Analysis of the Expressive Small
AMR Normalization for Fairer Evaluation
Clause in JapaneseMichael Wayne GoodmanKenji OdaCoffee (Room: 367&368)
Invited talk (Auditorium)
Non-dichotomy Answering Systems to Polar Questions: An Experiment Based Study
Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)

1Poster session 1
P1-1: A Speaker Accent Recognition System for Filipino Language

P1-9: Multiple Pivots in Statistical Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages

Batman Odulio, Angelica Dela Cruz, Ramon Rodriguez and Manolito Octaviano Jr
P1-2: On the “Easy” Task of Evaluating Chinese Irony Detection
An-Ran Li, Emmanuele Chersoni, Rong Xiang, Chu-Ren Huang and Qin LuSari Dewi Budiwati and Masayoshi Aritsugi
P1-10: Re-unifying Floating Numeral Quantifiers and Secondary Predicates in Japanese
Hideaki Yamashita

P1-3: Web Page Segmentation for Non Visual Skimming
Judith Jeyafreeda, Stéphane Ferrari, Fabrice Maurel, Gaël Dias and Emmanuel Giguet
P1-4: Adapting Neural Machine Translation for English-Vietnamese using Google
Translate system for Back-translation
Pham Nghia Luan and Nguyen Van Vinh
P1-5: Making Metaphors: A Quantitative Analysis of Metaphor Production and Interpretation in Japanese Using a Multimodal Task
Brian Birdsell, Natsuko Tatsuta and Hiroaki Nakamura

P1-11: Korean-to-Chinese Machine Translation using Chinese Character as Pivot Clue
Jeonghyeok Park and Hai Zhao
P1-12: A Continuation-based Analysis of Contrastive Wa in Japanese
Hitomi Hirayama
P1-13: Investigating Mandarin Negative Terms: An Evaluation of Semantic-Pragmatic
Meanings and Metaphorical Mechanisms

P1-6: Automatic Speech Act Classification based on the Hierarchical Structure of Speech
Act Categories
Youngeun Koo, Jiyoun Kim and Munpyo HongSiaw-Fong Chung, Yi-Ling Tseng, Heng-Chia Liao and Man-Hua Huang
P1-14: Japanese Daily Utterance Styles: A Factor Analysis based on Balanced Corpus
Hajime Murai

P1-7: A Reinforced Improved Attention Model for Abstractive Text Summarization
Yu Chang, Hang Lei, Xiaoyu Li and Yiming Huang
P1-8: Investigation of Mandarin Clickbait Headlines: A Case Study of Biàn Zhèyàng

P1-15: Are TERRORISM and kongbu zhuyi translation equivalents? A corpus-assisted investigation of meaning, structure and alternative translations
Lily Lim

Chi-Ling Lee, Siaw-Fong Chung and Hui-Wen Liu2

Day 2: September 14th
9:00–10:00
10:00–10:30
10:30–12:10

Keynote talk 2 (Auditorium)
Parsing complex sentences
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology/Riken AIP)
Coffee (Room: 367&368)
Oral 3A (Room: 593)
Long-distance dependencies in continuation grammar
Cara Su-Yi Leong and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
A CCG-based Compositional Semantics and Inference System for Comparatives
Izumi Haruta, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki
Building Cendana: a Treebank for Informal IndonesianDavid Moeljadi, Aditya Kurniawan and Debaditya Goswami

12:10–13:30
13:30–14:45

14:45–15:15
15:15–16:15

Oral 3B (Room: 594)
Chinese–Japanese Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Using
Sub-character Level Information
Longtu Zhang and Mamoru Komachi
Evaluating the suitability of human-oriented text simplification for machinetranslation
Rei Miyata and Midori Tatsumi
Simulating Segmentation by Simultaneous Interpreters for Simultaneous
Machine Translation
Akiko Nakabayashi and Tsuneaki Kato

A Gold Standard Dependency Treebank for Indonesian Language
Ika Alfina, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Mohamad Ivan Fanany and Heru Suhartanto
Lunch (Room: 367&368)
Oral 4A (Room: 593)
Oral 4B (Room: 594)
A Type-Theoretical Approach to Register Classification
Attention mechanism for recommender systems
Renkui Hou and Chu-Ren Huang
Xuan-Huy Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen
Prospective Result of Causative Predicates: A Uniform Analysis
Explicit Contextual Semantics for Text Comprehension
Yusuke Yagi
Zhuosheng Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Zuchao Li and Hai Zhao
Utilization of histories by country in question-answering system to solve
Epistemic marker, event type and factivity in emotion expressions
world history essay type questions
Xuefeng Gao, Chu-Ren Huang and Sophia Yat-Mei Lee
Kotaro Sakamoto, Yuta Fukuhara, Madoka Ishioroshi, Kosuke Ohya, Keigo Iwasaki,
Hideyuki Shibuki and Tatsunori Mori
Coffee (Room: 367&368)
Keynote talk 3 (Auditorium)
Conversational moves that build rapport, in people and social agents
Justine Cassell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Banquet*
Genova, Mt. Hakodate (https://334.co.jp/eng/eng-facilities/#restaurant)* A shuttle bus to the restaurant departs from the university at 17:00.

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Day 3: September 15th
9:00–10:00
10:00–10:30
10:30–12:10

Keynote talk 4 (Auditorium)
Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
Junichi Tsujii (Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST)
Coffee (Room: 367&368)
Oral 5A (Room: 593)
Phi-Agreement by C in Japanese: Evidence from Person Restriction on theSubject
Miki Obata and Mina Sugimura
Syntax and Semantics of Numeral Classifiers in JapaneseAtsushi Oho
Modeling the Idiomaticity of Chinese Quadra-syllabic Idiomatic Expressions
Shu-Kai Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang Tseng and Chiung-Yu Chiang
An emoticon is well worth a few empathetic words
Juan Pablo Rodriguez Gomez, Tomoko Iizuka, Edson T. Miyamoto, Changyun Moon andKaoruko Ouchi

12:10–14:30
14:30–15:45

15:45–16:00

Lunch (Room: 367&368)& Poster session 2 (Museum) (see page 5)
Oral 6A (Room: 593)
Thai Learners of English are Sensitive to Number-Agreement Violations
Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn and Edson T. Miyamoto
Probabilistic Measures for Diffusion of Linguistic Innovation: As Seen in theUsage of Verbal “Nok” in Thai Twitter
Nozomi Yamada and Pittayawat Pittayaporn
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
Closing

Oral 5B (Room: 594)
Analysis of Reply-Tweets for Buzz Tweet Detection
Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yuta Hada, Minoru Yoshida and Kenji Kita
Over-sampling Methods for Polarity Classification of Imbalanced Microblog
Texts
Kiyoaki Shirai and Yunmin Xiang
Leveraging Multilingual Resources for Language Invariant Sentiment Analysis
Allen J Antony, Arghya Bhattacharya, Jaipal Singh Goud and Radhika Mamidi
Corpus Creation and Analysis of Telugu-English Code-Mixed Social Media
Texts for Emotion Prediction
Vamshi Krishna Srirangam, Appidi Abhinav Reddy, Koushik Reddy Sane and Manish
Shrivastava

Oral 6B (Room: 594)
Incorporating Chains of Reasoning over Knowledge Graph for Distantly
Supervised Biomedical Knowledge Acquisition
Qin Dai, Naoya Inoue, Paul Reisert, Ryo Takahashi and Kentaro Inui
Identifying Adversarial Sentences by Analyzing Text Complexity
Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Tran Phuong Thao, Seira Hidano and Shinsaku Kiyomoto
A Community Detection Method Towards Analysis of Xi Feng Parties in theNorthern Song Dynasty
Qianying Liu, Qiyao Wang, Wending Chen and Daisuke Kawahara

A satellite workshop, the 27th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP-27), takes place on Day 3. See page 6 for details.

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Poster session 2P2-1: Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives in Cape Verdean Creole: A View from Marked- P2-6: Cantonese turn-initial particles: annotation of discourse-interactional functions
nessin dialog corporaAndreas Liesenfeld

Chigusa Morita and Miki ObataP2-2: Intrinsic Evaluation of Grammatical Information within Word Embeddings

P2-7: Semi-supervised learning for all-words WSD using self-learning and fine-tuning
Rui Cao, Jing Bai, Wen Ma and Hiroyuki Shinnou

Daniel Edmiston and Taeuk Kim
P2-3: A Better Ad Experience: Click Prediction Leveraging Sequential Networks Derived
Specifically From User Search Behaviors

P2-8: L1 and L2 Processing of Chinese Separable VO Compounds
Junghwan Maeng

Shengzhe Li, Tomoko Izumi, Yu Kuratake, Jiali Yao, Jerry Turner, Daisuke Kawahara and P2-9: Mapping distributional to model-theoretic semantic spaces: a baseline
Sadao Kurohashi
Franck Dernoncourt
P2-4: Bi-directional Decoder Model with Efficient Fine-tuning of Embedding for Named P2-10: Semantic Distance and Creativity in Linguistic Synaesthesia
Entity Recognition
Emmanuele Chersoni, Francesca Strik Lievers and Chu-Ren Huang
Panuwat Assawinjaipetch, Kiyoaki Shirai, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and SanparithP2-11: Arabic dialect sentiment analysis with ZERO effort—Case study: Algerian dialect
Marukatat
Imane Guellil, Azouaou Faical and Marcelo Mendoza
P2-5: A corpus-based investigation of collexemes for active-passive alternation in theEnglish part of an English-Japanese parallel corpus
P2-12: Effects of Prosodic Focus on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Chongming Chinese
Masanori Oya

Yitian Hong, Si Chen, Yike Yang and Bei Li

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The 27th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP-27)
September 15, 201912:30–12:40
12:40–12:45
12:45–13:10
13:10–13:35
13:35–14:00
14:00–14:30
14:30–14:35
14:35–15:35

15:35–15:40

Preparations and registration
Opening remarks
Yasunari Harada
Liguistic Landscapes of Heterotopia: from Cyberpunk Imagery of 1980’s toCity Views of Babel 2020
Yasunari Harada and Miwa Morishita
New Directions in Communication Sciences: Linguistics of BA
Katagiri Yasuhiro
Development of a Japanese Corpus with Syntactic and Semantic Annotations
Kei Yoshimoto
Invited Talk
The Journey of Natural Language Processing in the Philippines
Rachel Edita O. Roxas and Manolito V. Octaviano
Short break
Panel Discussion
Future Directions of Theoretical Linguistics, Language Sciences and Language
Thechnology Applications
Chair: Chu-Ren Huang
Speakers: Justine Cassell, Mary Dalrymple and Yuji Matsumoto
Closing remarks
Chu-Ren Huang

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