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Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead

21st International Conference, ICCPOL 2006, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006. Proceedings

  • Yuji Matsumoto
  • Richard W. Sproat
  • Kam-Fai Wong
  • Min Zhang
Conference proceedings ICCPOL 2006

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4285)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 4285)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Information Retrieval/Document Classification/QA/ Summarization I

    1. Answering Contextual Questions Based on the Cohesion with Knowledge
      Tatsunori Mori, Shinpei Kawaguchi, Madoka Ishioroshi
      Pages 1-12
    2. Segmentation of Mixed Chinese/English Document Including Scattered Italic Characters
      Yong Xia, Chun-Heng Wang, Ru-Wei Dai
      Pages 13-21
    3. Using Pointwise Mutual Information to Identify Implicit Features in Customer Reviews
      Qi Su, Kun Xiang, Houfeng Wang, Bin Sun, Shiwen Yu
      Pages 22-30
    4. Using Semi-supervised Learning for Question Classification
      Nguyen Thanh Tri, Nguyen Minh Le, Akira Shimazu
      Pages 31-41
    5. Query Similarity Computing Based on System Similarity Measurement
      Chengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqin Xu, Xinning Su
      Pages 42-50

  3. Machine Translation I

    1. An Improved Method for Finding Bilingual Collocation Correspondences from Monolingual Corpora
      Ruifeng Xu, Kam-Fai Wong, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li
      Pages 51-62
    2. A Syntactic Transformation Model for Statistical Machine Translation
      Thai Phuong Nguyen, Akira Shimazu
      Pages 63-74
    3. Word Alignment Between Chinese and Japanese Using Maximum Weight Matching on Bipartite Graph
      Honglin Wu, Shaoming Liu
      Pages 75-84
    4. Improving Machine Transliteration Performance by Using Multiple Transliteration Models
      Jong-Hoon Oh, Key-Sun Choi, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 85-96

  4. Information Retrieval/Document Classification/ QA/Summarization II

    1. Clique Percolation Method for Finding Naturally Cohesive and Overlapping Document Clusters
      Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Yunqing Xia, Ruifeng Xu
      Pages 97-108
    2. Hybrid Approach to Extracting Information from Web-Tables
      Sung-won Jung, Mi-young Kang, Hyuk-chul Kwon
      Pages 109-119
    3. A Novel Hierarchical Document Clustering Algorithm Based on a kNN Connection Graph
      Qiaoming Zhu, Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Peifeng Li, Peide Qian
      Pages 120-130

  5. Poster Session 1

    1. The Great Importance of Cross-Document Relationships for Multi-document Summarization
      Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang, Jianguo Xiao
      Pages 131-138
    2. The Effects of Computer Assisted Instruction to Train People with Reading Disabilities Recognizing Chinese Characters
      Wan-Chih Sun, Tsung-Ren Yang, Chih-Chin Liang, Ping-Yu Hsu, Yuh-Wei Kung
      Pages 139-148
    3. Discrimination-Based Feature Selection for Multinomial Naïve Bayes Text Classification
      Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang, Xijuan Zhang
      Pages 149-156
    4. A Comparative Study on Chinese Word Clustering
      Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang
      Pages 157-164
    5. Populating FrameNet with Chinese Verbs Mapping Bilingual Ontological WordNet with FrameNet
      Ian C. Chow, Jonathan J. Webster
      Pages 165-172
    6. Collecting Novel Technical Terms from the Web by Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term
      Takehito Utsuro, Mitsuhiro Kida, Masatsugu Tonoike, Satoshi Sato
      Pages 173-180
    7. Building Document Graphs for Multiple News Articles Summarization: An Event-Based Approach
      Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Kam-Fai Wong
      Pages 181-188
    8. A Probabilistic Feature Based Maximum Entropy Model for Chinese Named Entity Recognition
      Suxiang Zhang, Xiaojie Wang, Juan Wen, Ying Qin, Yixin Zhong
      Pages 189-196
    9. Correcting Bound Document Images Based on Automatic and Robust Curved Text Lines Estimation
      Yichao Ma, Chunheng Wang, Ruwei Dai
      Pages 197-204
    10. Cluster-Based Patent Retrieval Using International Patent Classification System
      Jungi Kim, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee
      Pages 205-212
    11. Word Error Correction of Continuous Speech Recognition Using WEB Documents for Spoken Document Indexing
      Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
      Pages 213-221
    12. Extracting English-Korean Transliteration Pairs from Web Corpora
      Jong-Hoon Oh, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 222-233

  6. Word Segmentation/Chunking/Abbreviation Expansion/Writing-System Issues

    1. From Phoneme to Morpheme: Another Verification Using a Corpus
      Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Zhihui Jin
      Pages 234-244
    2. Chinese Abbreviation Identification Using Abbreviation-Template Features and Context Information
      Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang
      Pages 245-255
    3. Word Frequency Approximation for Chinese Using Raw, MM-Segmented and Manually Segmented Corpora
      Wei Qiao, Maosong Sun
      Pages 256-267
    4. Identification of Maximal-Length Noun Phrases Based on Expanded Chunks and Classified Punctuations in Chinese
      Xue-Mei Bai, Jin-Ji Li, Dong-Il Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee
      Pages 268-276
    5. A Hybrid Approach to Chinese Abbreviation Expansion
      Guohong Fu, Kang-Kuong Luke, Min Zhang, GuoDong Zhou
      Pages 277-287
    6. Category-Pattern-Based Korean Word-Spacing
      Mi-young Kang, Sung-won Jung, Hyuk-chul Kwon
      Pages 288-298
    7. An Integrated Approach to Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
      Maosong Sun, Dongliang Xu, Benjamin K. Tsou, Huaming Lu
      Pages 299-309
    8. Kansuke: A Kanji Look-Up System Based on a Few Stroke Prototypes
      Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Julian Godon
      Pages 310-320
    9. Modelling the Orthographic Neighbourhood for Japanese Kanji
      Lars Yencken, Timothy Baldwin
      Pages 321-332
    10. Reconstructing the Correct Writing Sequence from a Set of Chinese Character Strokes
      Kai-Tai Tang, Howard Leung
      Pages 333-344

  7. Machine Translation II

    1. Expansion of Machine Translation Bilingual Dictionaries by Using Existing Dictionaries and Thesauruses
      Takeshi Kutsumi, Takehiko Yoshimi, Katsunori Kotani, Ichiko Sata, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 345-354
    2. Feature Rich Translation Model for Example-Based Machine Translation
      Yin Chen, Muyun Yang, Sheng Li, Hongfei Jiang
      Pages 355-362
    3. Dictionaries for English-Vietnamese Machine Translation
      Le Manh Hai, Nguyen Chanh Thanh, Nguyen Chi Hieu, Phan Thi Tuoi
      Pages 363-369

  8. Poster Session 2

    1. Translation Selection Through Machine Learning with Language Resources
      Hyun Ah Lee
      Pages 370-377
    2. Acquiring Translational Equivalence from a Japanese-Chinese Parallel Corpus
      Yujie Zhang, Qing Ma, Qun Liu, Wenliang Chen, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 378-386
    3. Deep Processing of Korean Floating Quantifier Constructions
      Jong-Bok Kim, Jaehyung Yang
      Pages 387-394
    4. Compilation of a Dictionary of Japanese Functional Expressions with Hierarchical Organization
      Suguru Matsuyoshi, Satoshi Sato, Takehito Utsuro
      Pages 395-402
    5. A System to Indicate Honorific Misuse in Spoken Japanese
      Tamotsu Shirado, Satoko Marumoto, Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 403-413
    6. A Chinese Corpus with Word Sense Annotation
      Yunfang Wu, Peng Jin, Yangsen Zhang, Shiwen Yu
      Pages 414-421
    7. Multilingual Machine Translation of Closed Captions for Digital Television with Dynamic Dictionary Adaptation
      Sanghwa Yuh, Jungyun Seo
      Pages 422-429
    8. Acquiring Concept Hierarchies of Adjectives from Corpora
      Kyoko Kanzaki, Qing Ma, Eiko Yamamoto, Tamotsu Shirado, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 430-441
    9. Pronunciation Similarity Estimation for Spoken Language Learning
      Donghyun Kim, Dongsuk Yook
      Pages 442-449
    10. A Novel Method for Rapid Speaker Adaptation Using Reference Support Speaker Selection
      Jian Wang, Zhen Yang, Jianjun Lei, Jun Guo
      Pages 450-456
    11. Using Latent Semantics for NE Translation
      Boon Pang Lim, Richard W. Sproat
      Pages 457-465
    12. Chinese Chunking with Tri-training Learning
      Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara
      Pages 466-473

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2006, held in Singapore in December 2006, colocated with ISCSLP 2006, the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

The 36 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, document classification, questions and answers, summarization, machine translation, word segmentation, chunking, abbreviation expansion, writing-system issues, parsing, semantics, and lexical resources.

Keywords

Chinese characters case-based reasoning cognition computational linguistics document classification email categorization handwriting indexing information extraction machine learning machine translation parsing semantics speech recognition verification

Editors and affiliations

  • Yuji Matsumoto
    • 1
  • Richard W. Sproat
    • 2
  • Kam-Fai Wong
    • 3
  • Min Zhang
    • 4
  1. 1.Graduate School of Information ScienceNara Institute of Science and TechnologyTakayama, Ikoma, NaraJapan
  2. 2.Dept of ECEUniversity of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignUrbanaUSA
  3. 3.Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering ManagementThe Chinese University of Hong KongShatin, N.T., Hong Kong
  4. 4.State Key Lab of Intelligent Tech. & Sys.Tsinghua University 

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/11940098
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-49667-0
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-49668-7
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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