2023 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP)


18-20 November 2023, Singapore



Technical Program


Day 1: Saturday, 18 Nov 2023

08:30-09:00

S1: Opening Session

09:00-10:30

O1: Natural Language Inference

Chair: Dr. Ridong Jiang

O1.1 9 Research on Recognition Textual Entailment with Integrated Attention Mechanism and Lexical Information

Dequan Zheng, Haochen Liu, Feng Yu

O1.2 20 MCSSpell:Optimal Path Selection of Candidate Characters by Integrating Multimodal Information and Copy Mechanism for Chinese Spelling Correction

Qing Zhang, Cheng Yang, Jianyong Duan, Hao Wang, Li He, Jie Liu

O1.3 35 Relevance of Language-Specific Training on Image Caption Synthesis for Low Resource Assamese Language

Pankaj Choudhury, Prithwijit Guha, Sukumar Nandi

O1.4 28 RADM-DRE: Retrieval Augmentation for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Diffusion Model

Qing Zhang, Qingsong Yuan, Jianyong Duan, Yuhang Jiang, Hao Wang, Zhengxin Gao, Li He, Jie Liu

O1.5 77 Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations based on Multi-turn MRC with Position-aware GCN

Chen Liu, Changyong Niu, Jinge Xie, Yuxiang Jia, Hongying Zan

O1.6 78 Pipeline Chain-of-Thought:A prompt method for large language model relation extraction

Hangtian Zhao, Hakiz Yilahun, Askar Hamdulla

O1.7 58 Analysis of Semantic Relations of Mongolian Multi-category Words Based on Collocation-- Taking Mongolian Literature Corpus as an Example

Yinhua Hai

10:30-11:00

S2: Tea Break

11:00-12:00

O2: Machine Translation

Chair: Prof. Rong Tong

O2.1 15 Multi-Task Self-Supervised Learning Based Tibetan-Chinese Speech-to-speech Translation

Rouhe Liu, Yue Zhao, Xiaona Xu

O2.2 29 Thai-English Neural Machine Translation Method with Local and Global Syllable Feature

Ming Xiong, Ruimin Liu

O2.3 30 Prompt-Based Translation of Chinese into Taiwanese Mandarin Braille

Deborah Watty, Micah Kitsunai, Shu-Kai Hsieh

O2.4 69 Joint Modeling of Chinese Minority Language Translation Tasks

Yifan Guo, Hongying Zan, Hongfei Xu

O2.5 70 Improving Chinese-centric Low-resource Translation Using English-centric Pivoted Parallel Data

Xiaoying Wang, Lingling Mu, Hongfei Xu

O2.6 86 English-Manipuri Cross-lingual Embedding: A Preliminary Study

Deepen Naorem, Okram Jimmy Singh, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah

12:00-13:30

S3: Lunch

13:30-14:30

O3: Diverse Aspects of Prosody

Chair: Prof. I-ping Wan

O3.1 6 Utilizing Word Embedding Representations in Word Sense Analysis of Japanese Spelling Variants

Tomoki Okugawa, Takashi Inui

O3.2 31 Fast and Accurate Resume Parsing Method Based on Multi-task Learning

Yuhai Liang, Zhicheng Lin, Shi Xin, Haigang Ma

O3.3 33 Compression Models via Meta-Learning and Structured Distillation for Named Entity Recognition

Qing Zhang, Zhan Gao, Mei Zhang, Jianyong Duan, Hao Wang, Li He

O3.4 63 Singaporean Conversational English-Malay Code-Switching Speech: An Analysis Based on Code-switching Points and Part-of-Speech

Kshitij Gupta, Chaiyasait Prachaseree, Thi Nga Ho, Kyaw Zin Tun, Jia Xin Koh, Ying Ying Tan, Eng Siong Chng, Chalapathi GSS

14:30-15:00

S4: Tea Break

15:00-15:50

O4: Text Summarization and Understanding

Chair: Prof. Yan Li

O4.1 21 Multilingual Symptom Prediction by Simultaneous Learning using BERT

Chencheng Zhu, Niraj Pahari, Kazutaka Shimada

O4.2 73 Deciphering Storytelling Events: A Study of Neural and Prompt-Driven Event Detection in Short Stories

Chaitanya Kirti, Ayon Chattopadhyay, Ashish Anand, Prithwijit Guha

O4.3 76 Chinese Long Text Summarization Generation Based on Multi-task Re-ordering and Smooth Gating Control

Bingfei Zhao, Hongying Zan, Chengzhi Niu, Kunli Zhang

O4.4 87 Contrastive Hierarchical Discourse Graph for Vietnamese Extractive Multi-Document Summarization

Tu-Phuong Mai, Quoc-An Nguyen, Duy-Cat Can, Hoang-Quynh Le

15:50-17:00

O5: Linguistics I

Chair: Prof. Takashi Inui

O5.1 10 The Sound Change of “足” in Zhengzhou Dialect

Xiaochuan Song, Junjie Zhang

O5.2 16 Modeling and Case Analysis of Biological System Interpretation Based on Logical Meaning

Shiwen Yang

O5.3 17 The Study on the Mixed Phonological Structural Features of the Lueyang Dialect in Southern Shaanxi

Yan Li

O5.4 26 Pronunciation Variants in Thai Preschool Children Learning Mandarin

Marc Allassonnière-Tang, I-ping Wan

O5.5 34 Comparative Analysis of Language Models for Linguistic Examination of Ancient Chinese Classics: A Case Study of Zuozhuan Corpus

Yiqin Zhang, Sanhong Deng, Qi Zhang, Dongbo Wang, Hongcun Gong

O5.6 39 A Statistical Study on the Number of Senses and Its Effects on English-Chinese One-to-Many Translation-Equivalent Word Pair Processing

Jia Li, Quanbei Zhao

17:00-21:00

E1: City Tour


Day 2: Sunday, 19 Nov 2023

09:00-10:00

K1: Keynote Speech 1

Title: Navigating Challenges in LLMs: Problems and Directions

Speaker: Prof Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Chair: Dr. Lei Wang

10:00-10:30

S5: Tea Break

10:30-12:00

O6: Linguistics II

Chair: Dr. Yanfeng Lu

O6.1 41 Comparing Human and GPT Model in Chinese Tourist Text Simplification

Yue Xu, Shaojie Geng, Liangjie Yuan, Wei Wei, Zhimin Wang

O6.2 42 Exploration of the Generation of Water Metaphors in Chinese

Baoshuang Mao, Zhimin Wang

O6.3 43 An Empirical Research of Non-core Argument Case Markers Under Semantic Events

Chengwen Wang

O6.4 44 Investigating the Utilizing of Durational and Spectral Cues in the Perception of English /ɪ-i:/ Contrast by Chinese Listeners

Yuhang Pei, Jian Gong

O6.5 46 Comparison of Word Co-occurrence Networks Based on Chinese and Mongolian Political Corpus

Annaer, Baiyila Dahu

O6.6 54 Autonomy/Dependence Alignment:A Cognitive Study of “N+V” Compound Words in Mongolian

Qing Mei, S. Loglo, Jinyu Liu, Ni Han, Aruhan

O6.7 56 A Study Of Refusal Language Socialization

Xun Duan, Yuxin Hao

O6.8 1 Research On Cantonese Final Particle 「啫」

Zhuhan Xiu

12:00-13:30

S6: Lunch

13:30-14:30

O7: Spoken Dialogue

Chair: Dr. Ridong Jiang

O7.1 13 A New Dataset and Parsing Model for Chinese Multiparty Dialogue Discourse Structure

Yuru Jiang, Yu Li, Weikai He, Jie Chen, Yanchao Yu, Yangsen Zhang

O7.2 37 Improving Speaker Diarization for Low-Resourced Sarawak Malay Language Conversational Speech Corpus

Mohd Zulhafiz Rahim, Sarah Samson Juan, Fitri Suraya Mohamad

O7.3 50 Encoding Paraphrase Information Generated by ChatGPT and Introducing Interrogative Word Control Mechanism for Question Generation

Fangfang Wang, Jian Zhang, Huaqiang Yuan

O7.4 55 A Two-stage Distillation Method: Teach model to answer questions after comprehending the document

Ruiqing Sun, Ping Jian

O7.5 80 ChatVQG: A VQG dataset containing diversified conversational questions and guiding information for proactive chatting with the elderly

Yuyang Tao, Yuru Jiang, Mengyuan Li, Yangsen Zhang

14:30-15:00

S7: Tea Break

15:00-16:00

O8: Large Language Model

Chair: Dr. Qinyi Wang

O8.1 22 Enhancing Math Word Problem Solving through Salient Clue Prioritization: A Joint Token-Phrase-Level Feature Integration Approach

Junyi Xie, Jiefeng Ma, Xinnan Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Jun Du

O8.2 27 Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models through Topic-Based Vector Database

Yi Zhang, Zhongyang Yu, Wanqi Jiang, Yufeng Shen, Jin Li

O8.3 32 Exploring Bias Evaluation Techniques for Quantifying Large Language Model Biases

Junheng He, Nankai Lin, Menglan Shen, Dong Zhou, Aimin Yang

O8.4 79 Chinese Stylistic Competence:Evaluation Method and Datasets of Large Language Model’s Performance

Liwei Zhou, Gaoqi Rao

16:00-17:30

O9: Linguistics III

Chair: Dr. Sarah Samson Juan

O9.1 3 Sarcasm Detection in Arabic Text using Contextualized Models

Youssef Mansour, Ashraf Elnagar

O9.2 57 Korean-Centered Cross-Lingual Parallel Sentence Corpus Construction Experiment

Danxin Cui, Yude Bi

O9.3 51 Southern Min Infixation: An Inter-disciplinary Encoding

Yishan Huang

O9.4 61 Segmental-Tonal Alignment Constraints in Southern Min

Yishan Huang

O9.5 65 Covarying adverbs in post-modal position: A collostructional approach

Zhuo Zhang, Meichun Liu

O9.6 85 The Phonetic System and Characteristics of Wuqi Dialect

Yanmei Liu

18:30-21:00

E2: Banquet


Day 3: Monday, 20 Nov 2023

09:00-10:00

K2: Keynote Speech 2

Title: Speech Processing in the Era of GPT

Speaker: Prof Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China

Chair: Dr. Minghui Dong

10:00-10:30

S8: Tea Break

10:30-12:00

O10: Text Classification

Chair: Thi Nga Ho

O10.1 14 Prompt Learning for Low-Resource Multi-Domain Fake News Detection

Zitao Peng, Nankai Lin, Yongmei Zhou, Dong Zhou, Aimin Yang

O10.2 45 Towards the Creation of the Filipino Wordnet: A Two-Way Approach

Briane Paul Samson, Charibeth Cheng, Unisse Chua, Dan John Velasco, Axel Alba, Trisha Gail Pelagio, Bryce Anthony Ramirez, Robi Jeanne Bangonon, Christine Deticio, Sharmaine Gaw, Danielle Kirsten Sison, Criscela Ysabelle A. Racelis, James Kevin Lin, Mark Edward Gonzales, Phoebe Clare Ong

O10.3 52 A Prompt Learning-Based Framework for Similar Case Matching

Changyong Fan, Nankai Lin, Aimin Yang, Yongmei Zhou, Dong Zhou

O10.4 64 Circumstance-aware Graph Neural Network for Legal Judgment Prediction

Wenjing Pan, Yuan Chen, Zhiheng Liu, Xia Li, Zhuopeng Xu

O10.5 72 Cost-Sensitive LapSVM for Question Classification

Liwei Yuan, Ying Chen, Lei Su

O10.6 75 A Multi-Model-based Approach to Corpus Text Pre-Screening

Zuhao Wu, Yude Bi

12:00-13:30

S9: Lunch

13:30-14:30

O11: Speech Processing and Text Sentiment

Chair: Dr. Changhuai You

O11.1 5 Front-End Fusion and Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Decoding Module based Myanmar Speech Recognition

Jian Cui, Jian Yang

O11.2 18 A Dual Target Neural Network Method for Speech Enhancement

Changhuai You, Minghui Dong, Lei Wang

O11.3 19 Rating Prediction of Multi-aspect Reviews Using Simultaneous Learning

Masaki Takeo, Shinnosuke Kawasaki, Kazutaka Shimada

O11.4 23 Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction via Affective Knowledge and Enhanced Graph Attention Networks

Zepeng Wang, Nankai Lin, Yongmei Zhou, Dong Zhou, Jigang Wang, Weifeng Huang

14:30-15:00

S10: Tea Break

15:00-16:00

O12: Language Education

Chair: Dr. Chunlei Pan

O12.1 40 Exploring the Differentiation of Near-Synonyms in Smart-Technologies Framework

Juan Li

O12.2 48 Research on News Text Clustering for International Chinese Education

Liangjie Yuan, Huizhou Zhao, Zhimin Wang

O12.3 59 Effects of Phonetic Training with Noise on EFL learners’ English Vowel Reception Thresholds

Yuyao Qin, Jian Gong

16:00-16:30

S11: Closing Session


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