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We would like to thank the invited and plenary speakers, who will enlighten us on a wide range of topics: Dr. Keh-Jiann Chen and Dr. Anna Korhonen on lexical semantics, Prof. Dafydd Gibbon and Prof. Helen Meng on speech technology, Prof. Noriko Kando on system evaluation, Prof. Ik-Hwan Lee on formal semantics, and Dr. Ming Zhou on Chinese couplet and quatrain generation. PACLIC 23 is also pleased to co-locate with a lecture series on LANGUAGE: Its Neurocognitive Bases, which will climax with a dialogue between Prof. Sydney Lamb and Prof. William Wang on 5th December. My job would have been impossible without the help of many individuals. I am very much indebted to Prof. Benjamin T'sou, the Conference Chair, for his long-term unfailing support and particularly his unswayed confidence in my role for this conference. I am also most grateful to Prof. Chu-Ren Huang, the Conference Co-Chair, for his significant help in promoting the conference. My heartfelt thanks also goes to Prof. Jonathan Webster, the Program Committee Advisor, for his advice and generous departmental support. I would also like to thank the PACLIC Steering Committee, particularly Prof. Jae-Woong Choe, the Committee Chair, and Prof. Yasunari Harada, the Digital Archivist; as well as previous PACLIC organizers, including Prof. Rachel Edita Roxas, Prof. Hee-Rahk Chae, and Prof. Tingting He, for sharing their experience. The concerted effort of the devoted and resourceful Local Organization Team is the major force putting the whole conference in shape, and the credit goes to Tom Lai, the co-convenor,", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "Y09-1000", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [ { "text": "PACLIC 23 will span three days from 3rd to 5th December 2009, featuring invited talks, plenary talks, regular paper presentations, and a poster session. We would like to thank the invited and plenary speakers, who will enlighten us on a wide range of topics: Dr. Keh-Jiann Chen and Dr. Anna Korhonen on lexical semantics, Prof. Dafydd Gibbon and Prof. Helen Meng on speech technology, Prof. Noriko Kando on system evaluation, Prof. Ik-Hwan Lee on formal semantics, and Dr. Ming Zhou on Chinese couplet and quatrain generation. PACLIC 23 is also pleased to co-locate with a lecture series on LANGUAGE: Its Neurocognitive Bases, which will climax with a dialogue between Prof. Sydney Lamb and Prof. William Wang on 5th December. My job would have been impossible without the help of many individuals. I am very much indebted to Prof. Benjamin T'sou, the Conference Chair, for his long-term unfailing support and particularly his unswayed confidence in my role for this conference. I am also most grateful to Prof. Chu-Ren Huang, the Conference Co-Chair, for his significant help in promoting the conference. My heartfelt thanks also goes to Prof. Jonathan Webster, the Program Committee Advisor, for his advice and generous departmental support. I would also like to thank the PACLIC Steering Committee, particularly Prof. Jae-Woong Choe, the Committee Chair, and Prof. Yasunari Harada, the Digital Archivist; as well as previous PACLIC organizers, including Prof. Rachel Edita Roxas, Prof. Hee-Rahk Chae, and Prof. Tingting He, for sharing their experience. The concerted effort of the devoted and resourceful Local Organization Team is the major force putting the whole conference in shape, and the credit goes to Tom Lai, the co-convenor,", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Abstract", "sec_num": null } ], "body_text": [ { "text": "Hong Kong, and, in particular, the City University of Hong Kong are pleased to welcome PACLIC again for the third time: the first was in 1995 and the second in 2001. Since our last PACLIC in Hong Kong, Language, Information and Computation, the principal concerns of PACLIC have increasingly impacted on human life and society, ranging from research underlying search engines to work on speech technology and mobile phone access. Interests in this field have blossomed considerably, with many truly global and regional conferences having been held in the Pacific Rim. They include ACL and IJCNLP (International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing), the flagship conference of the recently established Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), of which PACLIC is a member.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface: Conference Chair", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The 145 submissions to the 23rd PACLIC have more than doubled the number of submissions in each of the recent conferences, thereby showing a tremendous expansion of interests. It also shows the drawing power of PACLIC as a successful regional conference, which is reflected by the 50th place it holds out of 701 conferences in the area of AI and Machine Learning according to the Computer Science Conference Ranking Website. The acceptance rate of 40% for oral presentation and 25% for poster session continues the tradition of rigorous review process for PACLIC.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface: Conference Chair", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "We are very grateful that the 23rd PACLIC has brought together a hundred presenters, as well as a large group of invited speakers with diverse background: Dr. Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica, Taipei), Professor Dafydd Gibbon (Universit\u00e4t Bielefeld), Professor Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo), Dr. Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge), Professor Ik-Hwan Lee (Sangmyung University), Professor Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Dr. Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface: Conference Chair", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The success of PACLIC has come about as a result of cultivation by many scholars over nearly a quarter of a century. They include Professor Akira Ikeya from Tokyo and Professor Byung-Soo Park from Seoul. For the 23rd PACLIC, we are especially pleased to see a special co-located event: A Dialogue between Professor Sydney Lamb and Professor William Wang. The two distinguished scholars have been keen observers and influential contributors on Language, Information and Computation since the 1960's when a paradigmatic shift in their related studies became evident with the advent of the computer and the additional availability of new frontiers in languages and linguistics.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface: Conference Chair", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The number and breadth of submissions to PACLIC conferences as well as the diversity of authorship have been on an upward trend since the inauguration of the series in 1995. However it expands, PACLIC is certainly proud to remain one of the few which manage to maintain a healthily balanced and symbiotic co-existence of formal linguists and computational linguists, and continue to emphasize the synergy of theoretical analysis and computer processing of language among researchers in the Pacific Asia region. 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Invited and Plenary Talks
A Step toward Compositional Semantics: E-HowNet a Lexical Semantic Representation System
Keh-Jiann Chen and Shu-
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