O-COCOSDA2003/PACLIC17

Preliminary Program (2-9-2003)

 

Oct 1, 2003 Wednesday (First Day)

0830-0930

Registration

0930-1000

Opening and welcome speeches

1000-1030 Tea
1030-1200 Keynote 1
Overview of the East-Asian Activities on Speech Corpora and Assessment
 
Shuichi ITAHASHI, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Keynote 2
Focus-Marking in Chinese and Malay: A Comparative Perspective
 
Jie XU, Department of Chinese Studies , National University of Singapore

1200-1330 Lunch
1330-1530 AST O-COCOSDA

Error Identification and Correction in Chinese Speech Input Post-processing, L.Y.L. Cheung, B.K.Tsou, T.B.Y.Lai, LISRC, City University of Hong Kong

Learning of Word Boundaries In Continuous Speech Using Time Delay Neural Networks
, Colin Keng-Yan TAN, Kim-Teng LUA, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Dialog Input Assessment in a Diverse-Task Environment Using Belief Functions, Hong-I Ng, Kim-Teng Lua, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Use of Linguistic Information of Accent Phrases for Automatic Extraction of F0 Contour Generation Process Model Parameters, Keikichi Hirose*, Yusuke Furuyama*, Shuichi Narusawa**, Nobuaki Minematsu**, Hiroya Fujisaki***, *Dept. of Frontier Informatics, School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, **Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
***Prof. Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Linguistics-1 PACLIC

A Constraint-Based Analysis of Association With Focus in Japanese, Yusuke Kubota, Department of Language and Information Science, University of Tokyo

On the Event Structure of Indirect Passives in Japanese, Naoyuki Ono, Tohoku University, Japan

An Event-based Interpretation of the Japanese Honorific Constructions Using RRG Operations, Akira Ishikawa, Department of English Language and Studies, Sophia University, Japan

Multiple Nominative Constructions in Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications, Masahiro Akiyama, Ehime University, Japan


1530-1600 Tea
1600-1800 SDC-1 O-COCOSDA

TAICAR - A Collection of In-Car Mandarin Speech Database in Taiwan, Jhing-Fa Wang, Hsien-Chang Wang and Chung-Hsien Yang, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Information Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

Thai Speech Corpus for Speech Recognition, Sawit Kasuriya, Virach Sornlertlamvanich,Patcharika Cotsomrong, Supphanat Kanokphara, and Nattanun, Information Research and Development, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand

Construction of Large-Scale Shanghai Putonghua
Speech Corpus for Chinese Speech Recognition
, Jing Li, Fang Zheng, Zhenyu Xiong, and Wenuhu Wu, Tsinghua University, China

DIMSU: A Speech Database with Pitch Marks, RenZyun Cheng, MingJie Tian, Yuang-Chin Chiang, Ren-yuan Lyu, Chang Gung University,TaoYuan

NLP-1 PACLIC

Automatic Learning of Stemming Rules for the Indonesian Language, Lily Suryana Indradjaja, Stephane Bressan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

A Simplified Latent Semantic Indexing Approach for Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval, Liu Yi, Lu Haiming, Lu Zengxiang, Wang Pu, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China

An integrated approach for Chinese word segmentation, Guohong Fu, K.K. Luke, Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Korean Phrase Structure Grammar and Its Implementations into the LKB system, Jong-Bok Kim, School of English, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Jaehyung Yang, School of Computer Engineering, Kangnam University, Korea

Porting Gramars between Typologically Similar Languages: Japanese to Korean, Roger Kim, Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University
 

 

 

Oct 2, 2003 Thursday (Second Day)

0900-1020 Keynote 3
Making Full Use of Speech Corpora
 
Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University
1020-1050 Tea
1050-1210

Keynote 4
Virtual Linked Lexical Knowledge Base for Causality Reasoning
Choi, Key-Sun  , KAIST, Korterm

1210-1330 Lunch
1330-1530 SIO-1 O-COCOSDA

An In-Car Speech Corpus for Singapore English
, Cuntai Guan, Thomas Choy, Bin Ma, Jun Xu, Haizhou Li, Min Zhang, Infotalk Technology, Republic of Singapore

Emotion Analysis and Processing in Chinese Speech Synthesis
, Tao Jianhua, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 100080

A modified RPE-LTP coding technique for Mandarin Speech
, Z.Q. Ding,  E.C. Tan, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technologyical University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639790

Thai Tagged Speech Corpus for Speech Synthesis
, Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung,Virongrong Tesprasit, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, nformation R&D Division, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, 112 Thailand Science Park, Phahon Yothin Road, Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 Thailand.
 

Linguistics-2 PACLIC

Mandarin Chinese Shenme in Interaction, Fuhui Hsieh, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University

The Semantics of Shapes: A Study based on Mandarin Quan1zi5, Cui-xia Weng and Chu-ren Huang, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Stock Markets as Ocean Water: A Corpus-based, Comparative Study of Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish, Chung, Siaw Fong, Ahrens, Kathleen, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Sung, Ya-hui, Free China Christian College, Association Christ's College, Taiwan

Subject Positions and Derivational Scope Calculation in Minimalist Syntax: A phase-based approach, Yukiko Ueda, Meiji-Gakuin University, Japan

 

1530-1600 Tea
1600-1800 SIO-2 O-COCSDA

Thai Speech Database for Speech Recognition (NECTEC-ATR Thai Speech Database),  Sawit Kasuriya, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Patcharika Cotsomrong, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Genichiro Kikui and Yoshinori sagisaka

Evaluation of Mandarin and English speech intelligibility using CDRT and DRT
, Z. Q. Ding, E. C. Tan*, I. V. McLoughlin and D. Shi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prosody Model For Indonesian TTS Using "Contour Pitch Theory" and "Fujisaki Model", Arry Akhmad Arman, Hammam Riza, Electrical Engineering Dept. Institut Tecknologi Bandung Bandung 40132, Indonesia; Language Technology Center BPPT, Jakarta, Indonesia

Data-Driven Construction of Distance Tables for Cantonese Unit Selection Synthesis, Jin-Hui Yang Zhi-Wei Shuang Ren-Hua Wang, iFly Speech Laboratory, China
 

NLP-2 PACLIC

Context-rule Model for POS tagging, Yu-Fang Tsai, Keh-Jiann Chen, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Chinese Word Segmentation based on Contextual Entropy, Jin Hu Huang, David Powers, School of Informatics and Engineering, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia

Topic Segmentaiton for Short Texts, Tao-Hsing Chang, Chia-Honag Lee, Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung Univeristy, Taiwan

Cross-Lingual Text Filtering Based on Text Corcepts and KNN, Li Shaozi, Su Weifeng, Li Tangqiu, Chen Huowang, School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, and Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, China

1400-1600 Poster Session 1 for PACLIC

Using Mutual Information to Identify New Features for Text Documents of Various Domains, GUO Zhi Li, IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China

Applicability Analysis of Corpus-derived Paraphrases toward Example-based Paraphrasing, Kiyonori Ohtake, ATR spoken language Translation Research Laboratories, Japan, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

A Word Selection Model Based on Lexical Semantic Knowledge in English Generation, CHEN Yi-Dong, LI Tang-Qiu, ZHENG Xu-Ling, Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, China

Corpus-Based Ontology Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation, Sin Jae Kang, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University, Advanced Information Technology Research Center, Korea

On Intra-page and Inter-page Semantic Analysis of Webpages, Jun Wang, Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd., Beijing, Jicheng Wang, Gangshan Wu, Institute of Multimedia Computing, Nanjing University, China, Hiroshi Tsuda, Fujisu Laboratories, Ltd., Japan
 

1900

Banquet

 

 

Oct 3, 2003  Friday (Third Day)

0900-1020 SIO-3 O-COCSDA

Hybrid Acoustic Models Construction for an Embedded Cantonese Speech Recognition System, Wang Heng, Zhang Yaxin, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China

Study on Long-time Average Power Spectrum of Speech for Forensic Speaker Identification, Cuiling Zhang, NanKai University, China Criminal Police College,  China

MLP-Based Utterance Verification For In-Car Speech Recognition, Shih-Chieh Chien, Tai-Hwei Hwang, and Sen-Chia Chang, Industrial Technology Research Institute, HsinChu

Reducing Language Model Size By Importance-Based Pruning And Rank-Based Quantization, Genqing WU and Fang ZHENG, Tsinghua University, China
 

Linguistics-3 PACLIC

The Semantics of Onomatopoeic Speech Act Verbs, I-Ni Tsai and Chu-ren Huang, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Mandarin Adverbial Jiu in Discourse, Fuhui Hsieh, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

A Synchronous Corpus-Based Study of Verb-Noun Fluidity in Chinese, Oi Yee Kwong and Benjamin K. Tsou, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Non-Monotonic Negativity, Sumiyo NISHIGUCHI, Department of English Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Japan and Department of Linguistics, UCLA, USA
 

1020-1050

Tea

1050-1210 PSOL O-COCOSDA

A collection of onomatopoeias in Japanese sports
, Yoshitaka Fujino Masao Kikkawa, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo

Intonation Patterns in Thai Questions with and without Final Particles, Auyeung, Puangpen, Tumtavitikul, Apiluck, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

The Influence of the Voiced/Unvoiced Attribute of Consonant on Suprasegments of Monosyllable, Xiangchun Li, Limin Du, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080,Beijing, China

A Non-Dictionary Approach for Thai Syllable Segmentation Using Prediction by Partial Matching, Ohm Sornil and Paweena Chaiwanarom, Department of Computer Science The National Institute of Development Administration Bangkok 10240, Thailand

Analysis of pronunciation errors in Japanese speech uttered by Korean towards development of Japanese CALL system, Oh Pyo Kweon, Motoyuki Suzuki, Akinori Ito and Shozo Makino, Tohoku University, Japan

Intonation Knowledge For Declarative Telugu Sentences, P.N.Girija and M.Neeraja, University of Hyderabad
 

NLP-3 PACLIC

The SVM With Uneven Margins and Chinese Document Categorization, Li Yao yong, John Shawe-Taylor, Department of Computer Science, University of London, UK

The development of Tagged Uighur Corpus and its Applications, Yusop Aibaidula, Department of Computer Science, Xinjiang Normal University, China, Lua Kim Teng, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

A Vector-Based Algorithm for Chinese Text Classification, Luo Changri, He Tingting, Department of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, China

A Large-scale Lexical Semantic Knowledge Base of Chinese, Wang Hui, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Yu Shiwen, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, China

1210-1330

Lunch

1330-1530 SDC-2 O-COCOSDA

An evaluation of J-TOBI on the Japanese multext prosodic corpus, Shigeyoshi KITAZAWA, Shinya KIRIYAMA, Toshihiko ITOH, Nick CAMPBELL, Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku,Hamamatsu, 432-8011, Japan, ATR Human Information Science Research Labs.Seika-cho, Hikari-dai, Kyoto 619-02, Japan

An Advanced Japanese Speech Corpus for In-car Spoken Dialogue Research, Yuki Irie, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Shigeki Matsubara,  Itsuki Kishida, Yukiko Yamaguchi,  Kazuya Takeda, Fumitada Itakura, and Yasuyoshi Inagaki,Center for Integrated Acoustic Information Research, Nagoya University, Japan

Bilingual Speech Dialogue Corpus for Simultaneous Machine Interpretation Research, Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Nobuo Kawaguchi and Yasuyoshi Inagaki, Nagoya University, Prefectural University, Japan

Collecting Mandarin Speech Databases for Prosody Investigations, Chiu-yu Tseng, Yun-Ching Cheng, Wei-Sha Lee and Feng-Lan Huang, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
 

NLP-4 PACLIC

An Effective Combination of Different Order N-Grams, Sen Zhang, Na Dong, Speech Group, INRIA-LORIA, France

Efficient Methods for Multigram Compound Discovery, Wu Horng Jyh, Paul, Mustard Technology Pte Ltd, Singapore, Ng Hong I, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Gong Ruibin, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Translation template Learning based on Hidden Markov Modeling, Nguyen Minh Le, Akari Shimazu, Susumu Horiguchi, Graduate School of Information Science, JAIST, Japan

News-oriented keyword indexing with maximum entropy principle, Li Sujian, Wang Houfeng, Yu Shiwen, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Xin Chengsheng, The Information Center of People’s Daily, China


1530-1600

Tea

1600-1800 Linguistics-4 PACLIC

Modeling verb Order in Complex Multi-Verbal Predicate Constructions, Olivia S.-C. Lam, Adams B. Bodomo, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The Structure of Spatial Expressions in Saisiyat, Tsai, Pei-Shu, Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

A Constraint-Based Grammar of Case: To Correctly Predict Case Phrases Occurring without Their Head Verb, Hiroki Koga, Department of Foreign Languages, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan

The Drift of Negative Factors and the Recognition of Semantic Pattern of Huaiyi Sentences in Mandrain, Xiao Guozheng, Guo Tingting, Department of Chinese Linguistics, Wuhan University, China

 

 

NLP-5 PACLIC

Extracting Chinese Multi-Word Units from Large-Scale Balanced Corpus, LIU Jianzhou, HE Tingting, Department of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, LIU Xiaohua, Center of Modern Educational Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

A New Sentence Reduction based on Decision Tree Model, Nguyen Minh Le, Susumu Horiguchi, Graduate School of Information Science, JAIST, Japan

Japanese Parser on the basis of LFG Formalism and its Evaluation, Hiroshi Masuichi, Tomoko Ohkuma, Hiroki Yoshimura, Corporate Research Group, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. Yasunari Harada, School of Law, Waseda University, Japan

A Statistical Approach to Chinese-to-English Back-Transliteration, Chun-Jen Lee, Telecommunication Labs, Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd, Taiwan & Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Jason S. Chang, Jyh-Shing Roger JANG, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

On the Sentence Category Transfer of Action-effect
Sentences in Chinese-English Machine Translation,

Keliang ZHANG,Language Knowledge Processing Lab
Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

1400-1600 Poster Session 2 for PACLIC17

TOWARD A MULTI-OBJECTIVE CORPUS FOR VIETNAMESE LAGUAGE, Vu Hai Quan, Pham Nam Trung, Nguyen Duc Hoang Ha, Huynh Bao Toan, Le Hoai Bac, Hoang Kiem, Vietnam Natitional Universiy at HCMCT, HoChiMinh city, Vietnam

Using Zero Anaphora Resolution to Improve Text Categorization, Ching-Long Yeh, Yi-Chun Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taiwan

Dependency of Long-Distance Reflexives, Hyeran Lee, Institute of Continuing Education, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Voicing Constraint and Segmental-Tonal Neighborhood Effects on Clusters in Thai, Rattima Nitisaroj, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA

The treatment of Japanese Focus Particles based on Lexical-Functional Grammar, Tomoko OHKUMA , Hiroshi MASUICHI , Hiroki YOSHIMURA , Corporate Research Group, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Yasunari HARADA, School of Law, Waseda University

Empty Category and the Effect of Teaching in Sentence Processing, Kawasaki, Takako, Ishikawa, Kiyoshi, Hosei University, Japan

1605-1620

Closing Ceremony

 

 

One-day City Tour (Saturday, 4-10-2003)
Details to be announced.