PACLIC'12 --THE 12TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON
LINGUISTICS, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
FEBRUARY 18-20, 1998
http://sunzi.iss.nus.sg:1996/paclic12/
paclic12@iss.nus.sg
Attached below are papers to be presented at the
conference. For further information, please check
the web page and/or email us.
Guo Jin
For PACLIC12
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Opening Ceremony (9:00--9:30am, 18 Feb 98)
Tea Break (9:30--10:00am, 18 Feb 98)
Session I
Grammar (10:00am--12:30pm, 18 Feb 98)
1. Daeho Chung:
Ettehkey 'How' as a Small Clause Head.
2. Beom-mo Kang:
Three Kinds of Korean Reflexives: A Corpus Linguistic
Investigation on Grammar and Usage.
3. York Chung-Ho Yang & June-Jei Kuo:
The Chinese Temporal Coverbs, Postpositions, Coverb-
Postposition Pairs, and Their Temporal Logic.
4. Jie Xu:
Grammatical Devices in the Processing of [+Wh] and
[+Focus]
5. Lian-Cheng Chief:
Mandarin Intransitive Reflexive Verbs and the
Unaccusative Hypothesis (Mandarin Intransitive
Reflexive Verbs).
Session II
Syntax and Phonology (2:00pm-- 5:30pm, 18 Feb 98)
1. Masahiro Oku:
Analyzing Embedded Noun Phrase Structures Derived
from Japanese Double-Nominal-Case Construction.
2. Akira Ikeya and Masahito Kawamori:
The Two Kinds of Japanese Negative Nai in Terms of
their NP1 Licensing Condition.
3. Chiharu Uda Kikuta:
A Multiple Inheritance Analysis of the Internally-
Headed Relative Clause in Japanese.
4. Yoshie Yamashita:
The Acquisition of Functional Categories: Data from
Japanese.
5. Seiichiro Inaba:
Moras, Syllables, and Feet in Japanese.
6. Seok-keun Kang:
English Nasal-Final Prefixes and Uniform Exponence.
Session III
Lexicon and Semantics (9:00am--12:30pm, 19 Feb 98)
1. Jae-Il Yeom & Ik-Hwan Lee:
Common Grounds as Multiple Information States.
2. Yibin Ni:
Co-Interpretation Network in English Discourse.
3. Cornelia Maria Verspoor:
Predictivity vs. Stipulativity in the Lexicon.
4. Dan-Hee Yang, Ik-Hwan Lee & Mansuk Song:
On Using Case Prototypicality as a Semantic Primitive.
5. Hiroaki Nakamura & Takeshi Fujita:
Case Alternations in Potential Constructions in
Japanese and Their Semantic Implications.
6. Kiyoshi Ishikawa:
On Plural Anaphora.
Session IV
Keynote Speeches (2:00pm--4:30pm, 19 Feb 98)
1. Jhing-fa Wang:
Experience on the Development of Spoken Language
System based on Continuous Speech Recognition.
2. K. P. Mohanan:
A Topic on Theoretical Linguistics to be Announced
Special Workshop: (5:00pm--6:00pm, 19 Feb 98)
1. Yasuhito Tanaka & Kenji Kita:
Machine-Readable Dictionary Headwords.
2. Charles Lee:
The Advantages of 3D-Trees in Modelling Human
Sentence Processing.
3. Young-Soog Chae:
An Improvement of Korean Proof-Reading System Using
Corpus and Collocation Rules (A Korean Proof-Reading
System Using Multiple Dictionaries and a Corpus).
4. Shun Ha Sylvia Wong & Peter Hancox:
An Investigation into the Use of Argument Structure
and Lexical Mapping Theory for Machine Translation.
5. Kok Wee Gan:
Using A Semantic Classification in Parsing Chinese:
Some Preliminary Results.
6. Yong-Beo Kim:
Adjunct Roles and External Predication.
7. Mariko Saiki:
On the Underlying Representation of the Tough
Construction in English.
8. Minako Nakayasu:
Tense and the Speaker's Attitude in English.
Session V
Language Modelling (9:00am--1:00pm, 20 Feb 98)
1. Guodong Zhou & Kim-Teng Lua:
MI-Trigger-Based Language Modelling.
2. Zhao-Ming Gao & Harold Somers:
Extracting Recurrent Phrases and Terms from
Texts Using a Purely Statistical Method.
3. Haizhou Li & Baosheng Yuan:
Chinese Word Segmentation.
4. Julia Hockenmaier & Chris Brew:
Error-Driven Learning of Chinese Word Segmentation.
5. Yujie Zhang & Kazuhiko Ozeki:
Automatic Bunsetsu Segmentation of Japanese Sentences
Using a Classification Tree.
6. Kenneth Lau & Robert Luk:
Word-Sense Classification by Hierarchical Clustering.
7. Zhao-Ming Gao:
A High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel
Chinese-English Corpora (Automatic Acquisition of a
High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel
Chinese-English Corpora).
Session VI
Parsing and Processing (2.00pm-- 5:30pm, 20 Feb 98)
1. Joe Zhou:
Surrogator: A Simple Yet Efficient Document
Condensation System.
2. Haodong Wu:
A Computational Method for Resolving Ambiguities in
Coordinate Structures.
3. Simin Li & Y. Itoh:
On Removing Ambiguity in Text Understanding.
4. June-Jei Kuo:
An Automatic Chinese Document Revision System Using
the Bit and Character Mask Approach.
5. Yasuo Koyama:
Japanese Kana-to-Kanji Conversion Using Large Scale
Collocation Data.
6. Hanmin Jung et al:
Syntactic Verifier as a Filter to Compound Unit
Recognizer