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There are some cases where the non- Japanese buyers are unable to find products they want through the Japanese shopping Web sites because they require Japanese queries. We propose to transliterate the inputs of the non-Japanese user, i.e., search queries written in English alphabets, into Japanese Katakana to solve this …...

In this paper, we introduce a tripartite scheme for the classification of intransitive verbs for Hindi and claim it to be a more suitable model of classification than the classical binary unac- cusative/unergative classification. We develop a multi-class SVM classifier based model for automatic classification of intransitive verbs into proposed …...

Japanese dare-mo has been widely acknowledged to be an NPI, furthermore, a “strict” NPI in the sense of Giannakidou (2011) as it seems to be licensed only in an “antiveridical” environment, specifically, with a clausemate negation. However, there is a type of positive sentences in which dare-mo can appear, i.e. …...

Existing treebanks of Mandarin Chinese such as the Sinica Treebank, the Harbin Institute of Technology Treebank, and the Penn Chinese Treebank, parse Chinese serial verb constructions incorrectly or inconsistently in terms of headedness, i.e. which verb to be assigned with the label of syntactic and/or semantic “head”. Aspectual markers in …...

Mainstream word sense disambiguation systems have relied mostly on supervised approaches. Complex interactions have been observed between learning algorithms and knowledge sources, but the factors underlying such phenomena are under- explored. This calls for more qualitative analysis of disambiguation results, possibly from an inter-disciplinary perspective. The current study thus preliminarily …...

In this paper, we propose a scheme for anaphora annotation in Hindi Dependency Treebank. The goal is to identify and han- dle the challenges that arise in the annotation of reference relations in Hindi. We identify some of the issues related to anaphora anno- tation specific to Hindi such as …...

Paraphrase generation in any language has gained much attention and importance in the study of Natural Language Processing. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on Thai language paraphrase generation for the sentence level. Six sentence paraphrasing techniques for Thai are proposed and illustratively explained. In addition, the Thai–sentence Paraphrase …...

Unlike most Western languages, there are no typographic boundaries between words in written Japanese and Chinese. Word seg- mentation is thus normally adopted as an ini- tial step in most natural language processing tasks for these Asian languages. Although word segmentation techniques have improved greatly both theoretically and practically, there …...

Most of Japanese slang words such as Waka- mono Kotoba are analyzed as “unknown word” or segmented wrongly by the morpho- logical analysis system. These problems are causing negative effect on sentiment analysis in text. These words generally have many va- rieties of notations and conjugations, and they lack versatility. …...

This paper introduces a new approach to solve the Chinese Pinyin-to-character (PTC) con- version problem. The conversion from Chi- nese Pinyin to Chinese character can be re- garded as a transformation between two dif- ferent languages (from the Latin writing sys- tem of Chinese Pinyin to the character form of …...

Reordering is of essential importance for phrase based statistical machine translation (SMT). In this paper, we would like to present a new method of reordering in phrase based SMT. We inspired from (Xia and Mc- Cord, 2004) using preprocessing reorder- ing approaches. We used shallow pars- ing and transformation rules …...

In this paper, we proposed a Vietnamese named entity question answering (QA) model. This model applies an analytical question method using CRF machine learning algorithm combined with two automatic answering strategies: indexed sentences database-based and Google search engine-based. We gathered a Vietnamese question dataset containing about 2000 popular “Who, Whom, …...

Conventional rule-based machine translation system suffers from its weakness of fluency in the view of target language generation. In particular, when translating English spoken language to Korean, the fluency of translation result is as important as adequacy in the aspect of readability and understanding. This problem is more severe in …...

Employing higher-order subtree structures in graph-based dependency parsing has shown substantial improvement over the accuracy, however suffers from the inefficiency increasing with the order of subtrees. We present a new reranking approach for dependency parsing that can utilize complex subtree representation by applying efficient subtree selection heuristics. We demonstrate the …...

This paper describes the creation of a gram- mar to automatically detect agreement errors (gender and number) in Spanish texts written by Japanese learners. The grammar has been written using the Constraint Grammar formal- ism (Karlsson et al., 1995), and uses as input the morphosyntactic analysis provided by the Spanish …...

Product names with a temporal cue in a product review often refer to several product instances purchased at different times. Previous approaches to product entity recognition and temporal information analysis do not take into account such temporal cues and thus fail to distinguish different product instances. We propose to formulate …...

In this paper we conduct a detailed exami- nation of the tough construction in Japanese with the main focus on some types of nom- inative case particles ga. They are correlated with the difference not only in the nominative- genitive case alternation but also in the seman- tic or pragmatic …...

Public opinion analysis for micro-blog post is a new trend, and wherein emotional tendency analysis on micro-blog topic is a hot spot in the sentiment analysis. According to the characteristics of contents and the various relations of Chinese micro-blog post, we construct the dictionaries of sentiment words, internet slang and …...

Numeral classifiers present a challenge to suc- cessful machine translation. We investigate two numeral classifier languages: Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of classifier translations between these two languages to better understand differences in classifier usage. Keywords – numeral classifier, sortal, translation, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, con- …...

This paper argues against the view that Japanese indirect passives are restricted with respect to the base verb that they take. Specifically, it argues that, despite its initial plausibility, the oft-proposed generalization that unaccusatives cannot appear in indirect passives is too strong and the alleged distribution is a tendency at …...