Subject: paclic12 call for participation

paclic ' 12 - - the 12th pacific asia conference on linguistics , information and computation national university of singapore february 18-20 , 1998 http : / / sunzi . iss . nus . sg : 1996 / paclic12 / paclic12 @ iss . nus . sg attached below are papers to be presented at the conference . for further information , please check the web page and / or email us . guo jin for paclic12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - opening ceremony ( 9 : 00 - - 9 : 30am , 18 feb 98 ) tea break ( 9 : 30 - - 10 : 00am , 18 feb 98 ) session i grammar ( 10 : 00am - - 12 : 30pm , 18 feb 98 ) 1 . daeho chung : ettehkey ' how ' as a small clause head . 2 . beom - mo kang : three kinds of korean reflexives : a corpus linguistic investigation on grammar and usage . 3 . york chung - ho yang & june - jei kuo : the chinese temporal coverbs , postpositions , coverb - postposition pairs , and their temporal logic . 4 . jie xu : grammatical devices in the processing of [ + wh ] and [ + focus ] 5 . lian - cheng chief : mandarin intransitive reflexive verbs and the unaccusative hypothesis ( mandarin intransitive reflexive verbs ) . session ii syntax and phonology ( 2 : 00pm - - 5 : 30pm , 18 feb 98 ) 1 . masahiro oku : analyzing embedded noun phrase structures derived from japanese double - nominal - case construction . 2 . akira ikeya and masahito kawamori : the two kinds of japanese negative nai in terms of their np1 licensing condition . 3 . chiharu uda kikuta : a multiple inheritance analysis of the internally - headed relative clause in japanese . 4 . yoshie yamashita : the acquisition of functional categories : data from japanese . 5 . seiichiro inaba : moras , syllables , and feet in japanese . 6 . seok - keun kang : english nasal - final prefixes and uniform exponence . session iii lexicon and semantics ( 9 : 00am - - 12 : 30pm , 19 feb 98 ) 1 . jae - il yeom & ik - hwan lee : common grounds as multiple information states . 2 . yibin ni : co - interpretation network in english discourse . 3 . cornelia maria verspoor : predictivity vs . stipulativity in the lexicon . 4 . dan - hee yang , ik - hwan lee & mansuk song : on using case prototypicality as a semantic primitive . 5 . hiroaki nakamura & takeshi fujita : case alternations in potential constructions in japanese and their semantic implications . 6 . kiyoshi ishikawa : on plural anaphora . session iv keynote speeches ( 2 : 00pm - - 4 : 30pm , 19 feb 98 ) 1 . jhing - fa wang : experience on the development of spoken language system based on continuous speech recognition . 2 . k . p . mohanan : a topic on theoretical linguistics to be announced special workshop : ( 5 : 00pm - - 6 : 00pm , 19 feb 98 ) 1 . yasuhito tanaka & kenji kita : machine - readable dictionary headwords . 2 . charles lee : the advantages of 3d - trees in modelling human sentence processing . 3 . young - soog chae : an improvement of korean proof - reading system using corpus and collocation rules ( a korean proof - reading system using multiple dictionaries and a corpus ) . 4 . shun ha sylvia wong & peter hancox : an investigation into the use of argument structure and lexical mapping theory for machine translation . 5 . kok wee gan : using a semantic classification in parsing chinese : some preliminary results . 6 . yong - beo kim : adjunct roles and external predication . 7 . mariko saiki : on the underlying representation of the tough construction in english . 8 . minako nakayasu : tense and the speaker 's attitude in english . session v language modelling ( 9 : 00am - - 1 : 00pm , 20 feb 98 ) 1 . guodong zhou & kim - teng lua : mi - trigger - based language modelling . 2 . zhao - ming gao & harold somers : extracting recurrent phrases and terms from texts using a purely statistical method . 3 . haizhou li & baosheng yuan : chinese word segmentation . 4 . julia hockenmaier & chris brew : error - driven learning of chinese word segmentation . 5 . yujie zhang & kazuhiko ozeki : automatic bunsetsu segmentation of japanese sentences using a classification tree . 6 . kenneth lau & robert luk : word - sense classification by hierarchical clustering . 7 . zhao - ming gao : a high - precision translation lexicon from parallel chinese - english corpora ( automatic acquisition of a high - precision translation lexicon from parallel chinese - english corpora ) . session vi parsing and processing ( 2 . 00pm - - 5 : 30pm , 20 feb 98 ) 1 . joe zhou : surrogator : a simple yet efficient document condensation system . 2 . haodong wu : a computational method for resolving ambiguities in coordinate structures . 3 . simin li & y . itoh : on removing ambiguity in text understanding . 4 . june - jei kuo : an automatic chinese document revision system using the bit and character mask approach . 5 . yasuo koyama : japanese kana - to - kanji conversion using large scale collocation data . 6 . hanmin jung et al : syntactic verifier as a filter to compound unit recognizer
