Pacling 2009: Accepted Papers

• Automatic Word Segmentation using Three Types of Dictionaries,
  Shinsuke Mori and Hiroki Oda
• Shallow Parsing with Apache UIMA,
  Graham Wilcock
• Application of Event Semantics to Qualia Structure of Nouns for Disambiguation of Japanese Postposition No,
  Sumiyo Nishiguchi
• Automatic Evaluation of Foreign Language Reading Proficiency based on Reading Time and Linguistic Features,
  Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, and Hitoshi Isahara
• Comparable Local Learner Corpora: Raising Discourse Awareness,
  Mitsuko Yamura-Takei, Miho Fujiwara, and Etsuko Yoshida
• Identification among Similar Languages Using Statistical Hypothesis Testing,
  Masahiro Shibata, Yoichi Tomiura, and Takaaki Mizuta
• A Fine-Grained Novelty Evaluation Algorithm,
  Xiangdong An, Nick Cercone, and Dawn Jutla
• Estimating Elliptical Words with Associative Information from Verbs,
  Takehiro Teraoka, Jun Okamoto, and Shun Ishizaki
• Constructing a Semantic Interpreter Using Distributional Analysis,
  Michael Glass, Ken Barker, Rekha Kumar, Guhan Ravi, and Bruce Porter
• Number Sense Disambiguation,
  Stuart Moore, Sabine Buchholz, and Anna Korhonen
• How Reliable are Coupled Machine Translation Systems?
  Istvan Varga and Shoichi Yokoyama
• Deeper than Words: Morph-based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation,
  Mark Fishel
• Applying Grammatical Feature Analyses in Multilingual Compound Noun Translation,
  Khanh Ho Bao Vo, Kiyoko Uchiyama, and Shun Ishizaki
• Translation of Noun Phrase from English to Thai using Phrase-based SMT with CCG Reordering Rules,
  Peerachet Porkaew, Taneth Ruangrajitpakorn, Kanokorn Trakultaweekoon, and Thepchai Supnithi
• Capturing Constructional Polysemy via Frames and Frame-to-Frame Relations: A Lexical Analysis of Quotative TO Constructions,
  Seiko Fujii
• Incremental Text Structuring with Word Clusters,
  Minh Quang Nhat Pham, Minh Le Nguyen, and Akira Shimazu
• Text Preprocessing Algorithms,
  Viatcheslav Yatsko, Evgeny Larchenko, Mikhail Starikov, and Timur Vishnyakov
• Determinising the Output of Dependency Parser by Extending Grammar Rules with Weights,
  Jacek Maciejewski, Rafal Rzepka, and Kenji Araki
• Japanese-Russian Lexicographic Workstation DStudio,
  Cyrill Demich and Alexander Kostyrkin
• Analyzing the Scope of Conditions in Texts: A Discourse-Based Approach,
  Amanda Bouffier and Thierry Poibeau
• A Very Modular Humor Enabled Chat-Bot for Japanese,
  Jonas Sjobergh and Kenji Araki
• Gesturing in Alignment and Conversational Activity,
  Kristiina Jokinen
• A Semi-supervised Model for Table-of-Contents Generation,
  Cuong Viet Nguyen, Minh Le Nguyen, and Akira Shimazu
• Thai Text Simplification using Binary Classification,
  Thepchai Supnithi, Nichapha Tanomsingh, Karnjanich Kitkasiwat, Peerachet Porkaew, Dhanon Leenoi, and Ponrudee Netisopakul
• Supervised Approaches to Complex Question Answering,
  Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, and Shafiq R. Joty
• Comparing an Integrated QA system performance - A Preliminary Model,
  Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Sarah M. Taylor, and Jonathan L. Smith
• Development of English-Writing Support Systems,
  Qing Ma, Ryota Mori, and Masaki Murata
• Exploring Learning Satisfaction for Rural Elementary Students in a Taiwanese Proverbs Teaching Unit,
  Szu-Hsin Lee
• Automatic Semantic Role Labeling based on Japanese FrameNet - A Progress Report
  Hayato Tagami, Shinsuke Hizuka, and Hiroaki Saito
• Example-Assignment to WordNet Thesaurus and its Application to WSD,
  Nik Adilah Hanin Binti Zahri, Fumiyo Fukumoto
• Browsing Japanese FrameNet with FrameSQL,
  Hiroaki Sato
• Unknown Word Acquisition by Reasoning Word Meanings Incrementally and Evolutionarily,
  Hiroyuki Kameda and Chiaki Kubomura
• Automatic Extraction of Evaluation Expression by Contextual Analysis,
  Miho Itoh and Minoru Harada
• Effective Construction and Expansion of a Sentiment Corpus Using an Existing Corpus and Evaluative Criteria Estimation,
  Ryosuke Tadano, Kazutaka Shimada, and Tsutomu Endo
• Extraction of Political Activity of Assemblyman from Minutes of Municipal Assemblies Using the Political Category,
  Keiichi Takamaru, Hideyuki Shibuki, Yasutomo Kimura, Dai Hasegawa, Hokuto Ototake, and Kenji Araki
• Affecting Corpora:Experiments with Automatic Affect Annotation System - A Case Study of the 2channel Forum -
  Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, and Kenji Araki
• Transformation Rules and Monte-Carlo Sampling: a Different Approach for Statistical Paraphrase Generation,
  Jonathan Chevelu, Thomas Lavergne, Yves Lepage, and Thierry Moudenc
• A Measure of Funniness, Applied to Finding Funny Things in WordNet,
  Jonas Sjobergh and Kenji Araki
• Crossing Word Borders Towards Phrasal Pun Generation Engine,
  Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, and Kenji Araki
• Pipeline Bootstrapping for Information Extraction,
  John Chen and Rohini K. Srihari
• Query Expansion Method Using Answer Candidates and the Effect of Combining Their Results on Web Question-Answering,
  Madoka Ishioroshi, Akira Kanai, and Tatsunori Mori
• Speech Understanding in a Multiple Recognizer with an Anaphora Resolution Process,
  Kazutaka Shimada, Akira Uzumaki, Mai Kitajima, and Tsutomu Endo
• Resolving Direct and Indirect Anaphora for Japanese Definite Noun Phrases,
  Naoya Inoue, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, and Yuji Matsumoto
• Multi-Factor Evaluation of Speech Recognition Accuracy for Better Dialogue System Design,
  Jonathan Webster, Alex C. Fang, Xiao-yue Liu, and Wei-gang Li
• A Semantic Representation of Utterance Modality within Universal Networking Language,
  Mutsuko Tomokiyo and Takenori Makino
• Modeling Slang-style Word Formation for Retrieving Evaluative Information,
  Atsushi Fujii
• A Speed-up Technique of Keyword Suggestion for Document Retrieval in Information Devices by using Augmented Double-Array,
  Takeyuki Aikawa, Takenori Kawamata, Takashi Mikami, and Yasuhiro Takayama
• Constructing a Scientific Blog Corpus for Information Credibility Analysis,
  Eric Nichols, Koji Murakami, Kentaro Inui, and Yuji Matsumoto
• Evaluating Linguistic Features for Clinical Relation Extraction,
  Yefeng Wang and Jon Patrick