Conference Program
DAY 1 (Thursday, 1 February 2001)
08:30 — 09:00 Registration
09:00 — 09:15 Opening
09:15 — 10:15 Keynote Speech: "Building a Large Lexical Databank Which Provides Deep Semantics"
Charles J. Fillmore, Charles Wooters and Collin F. Baker, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley
10:15 — 11:15 "A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Synonym Pairs: An Approach based on The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics"
Kathleen Ahrens, National Taiwan University and Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica
"Inferring Semantics from Collocation Clusters to Represent Verbs and Nouns"
Bowen Hui, University of Toronto
11:15 — 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 — 12:10 "A Parallel Interpretation of Floated Quantifiers and Adverbials"
Masahiro Kobayashi and Kei Yoshimoto, Tohoku University
"What else to quantify?"
Michiyuki Sato, Sophia University
12:10 — 12:30 Introduction to the LIVAC Corpus
12:30 —14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:30 "Asymmetry, Zero Morphology and Tractability"
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University du Quebec a Montreal and Sandiway Fong, NEC Research Institute
"Emphatic Particles and their Scopal Interactions in Japanese"
Akira Ishikawa, Sophia University
"Japanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord"
Masahito Kawamori, NTT Research Laboratories and Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University
15:30 — 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 — 16:45 "Towards a Conceptual Representation of Lexical Meaning in WordNet"
Jen-nan Chen, Ming Chuan University and Sue J. Ker, Soochow University
"Forming an Integrated Lexical Resource for Word Sense Disambiguation"
Di Yee Kwong, City University of Hong Kong
16:45 — 17:45 "Some Principles of Automated Natural Language Information Extraction"
Gregers Koch, Copenhagen University
"A Structure-Shared Trie Compression Method"
Thanasan Tanhermhong, Thanaruk Theeramunkong and Wirat Chinnan, Thammasat University
17:45 — 18:30 Organizing Committee Meeting
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DAY 2 (Friday, 2 February 2001)
09:00 – 10:00 "Processing Local Coherence of Discourse in Centering Theory"
Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan, City University of Hong Kong
"Temporal Structure on Discourse Level within the Controlled Information Packaging Theory"
Ik-Hwan Lee and Minhaeng Lee, Yonsei University 10:00 — 11:00 "Highlighting Utterances in Chinese Spoken Discourse"
Shu-Chuan Tseng, Academia Sinica
"A Decidable Linear Logic for Speech Translation"
Tsutomu Fujinami, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
11:00 –11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:20 "Building domain-independent text generation system"
XinYu Deng, Sadao Kurohashi and Jun-ichi Nakamura, Kyoto University
"Vowel Shortening and Surface Ternary Feet: Ternary Rhythm Through Strict Binary Footing"
Seiichiro Inaba, San Jose State University
"Mappings From The Source Domain of Plant in Mandarin Chinese"
Vicky Tzuyin Lai and Kathleen Ahrens, National Taiwan University
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 "Floating Quantifiers and Lexical Specification of Quantifier Retrieval"
Eun-Jung Yoo, Seoul National University
"Pragmatic Inference with Conditionals and Concessives in Japanese"
Yasunari Harada and Kumiko Honda, Waseda University
"On the Semantics of Japanese Particles wa and mo and Their Interaction with Quantifiers"
Ryoya Okabe, Sophia University
15:30 –15:50 Tea Break
15:50 – 16:50 "Nominal Markers and Word Order in Korean"
Sae-Youn Cho, Honam University and Jong-Joo Choe, Chosun University
"Thai Classifiers and the Structure of Complex Thai Nominals"
Pornsiri Singhapreecha, Thammasat University
16:50 – 17:50 "Negation, VP Ellipsis, and VP Fronting in English: A Construction-HPSG Analysis"
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University
"Feature Percolation, Movement and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Pied-Piping"
Jeong-Me Yoon, Myongji University
DAY 3 (Saturday, 3 February 2001)
09:00 – 10:00 "Gerundive Complements in English: A Constraint-Based Analysis"
Byung-Soo Park, Kyung Hee University
"An HPSG Account of the Hierarchical Clause Formation in Japanese: HPSG-Based Japanese Grammar for Practical Parsing"
Takashi Miyata, Akira Ohtani, Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Yuji Matsumoto, Osaka Gakuin University
10:00 – 10:40 "The Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause as a Marked Head-Complement Structure"
Chiharu Uda Kikuta, Doshisha University
"Distributional Properties and Endocentricity of English Gerunds"
Yong-Beom Kim, Kwangwoon University
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 "Robust N-gram Based Syntactic Analysis Using Segmentation Words"
Nobuo Inui and Yoshiyuki Kotani, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
"Recursive Top-down Fuzzy Match: New Perspectives for Memory-based Parsing"
Oliver Streiter, Academia Sinica
12:00 – 12:10 Closing
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