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This paper examines the projection of prosody and syntactic structure in conversation, while trying to find out which side is more powerful when there is a conflict between prosodic expression and syntactic structures. The central task of this paper is to look at the phonetic performance of the collaborative construction …...

Question answering is an essential task in nat- ural language processing. According to our review, the datasets for this task often contain short answers. We raise a research question of whether state-of-the-art models can perform well when a longer answer is needed. We pro- pose a dataset that contains much …...

In this work, we construct an imbalanced Chinese multi-label text classification dataset, IMCM. The imbalance is mainly reflected in: (1) The degree of discrimination among labels is different. (2) The distribution of labels is moderately imbalanced. Then, we adopt sev- eral methods for multi-label classification and conduct thorough evaluation of …...

Concerning the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs), studies on head-initial languages con- sistently reported a preference for subject- gapped RCs, but the issue of subject-object asymmetry is still a controversial one in re- search on the acquisition of RCs in head-final languages. Using written corpus data, this study investigated the …...

In this paper, we conducted an aspect-based sentiment analysis using Google Maps user reviews of Indonesia’s tourism destinations which are Borobudur and Prambanan Temple. The aspects we used are Attractions, Amenities, Accessibility, Image, Price and Human Resources. The dataset obtained is in code- mixed language. We applied five machine learning …...

In this paper, we present a statistical and machine learning approach to the acoustic discrimination of a cross-linguistically unusual phonological contrast, initial geminates vs. singletons in Pattani Malay. We show that the only statistically significant difference between geminates and singletons is the duration of the consonant itself. No differences in …...

Episodic memory and semantic memory are two subsystems of declarative memory which is considered to be related to language ability. We investigated the interdependence of the episodic and semantic memory and their association with syntactic complexity in two groups of Chinese older adults with higher and lower education levels. The …...

This paper describes the construction of an English-Chinese Parallel Corpus of wine reviews and elaborates on one of its applications – i.e. an E-C bilingual oenology term bank of wine tasting terms. The corpus is sourced from Decanter China, containing 1211 aligned wine reviews in both English and Chinese with …...

Detecting metaphors is challenging due to the subtle ontological differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical expres- sions. Neural networks have been widely adopted in metaphor detection and become the main stream technology. However, linguistic insights have been less utilized. This work proposes a linguistically enhanced model for metaphor detection extending one …...

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) technology has been applied to support systems and teaching materials for learning Japanese in the second language acquisition. Research on Japanese language learning using language resources and techniques related to NLP is divided into two main types: “dictio- nary/corpus” and “learning-support system”. While …...

This paper presents the results of a Cantonese lexical tone normalization experiment. Two non-linguistic (i.e., music and nonspeech) context conditions were used in addition to a speech context condition to elicit listen- ers’ normalization of level tones following contexts with fundamental frequency alter- ations. Participants showed clear tone normal- ization …...

Typical systems for analyzing users’ opinions from online product reviews have been re- searched and developed successfully. How- ever, it is still hard to obtain sufficient user opinions when many reviews consist of short messages. This problem can be solved with an active opinion acquisition (AOA) framework that has an …...

For evaluation of pre-trained models like bidi- rectional encoder representations from trans- formers (BERT), task-based approaches are frequently adopted and there is a possibility that meta parameters for fine-tuning influence results of the evaluations. However, task- based approaches for languages, except En- glish, have a problem- there is no common …...

Due to the lack of explicit end-of-sentence marker in Thai, Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs) are usually preferred over sentences as the basic linguistic units for processing Thai language. However, some segmented EDUs lack of structural or se- mantic information. To obtain a well-form unit, which represents a complete idea, this …...

Analyzing the sentiments of legal opinions available in Legal Opinion Texts can facili- tate several use cases such as legal judgement prediction, contradictory statements identi- fication and party-based sentiment analysis. However, the task of developing a legal do- main specific sentiment annotator is challeng- ing due to resource constraints such …...

In this paper, we describe our efforts in estab- lishing a simple knowledge base by building a semantic network composed of concepts and word relationships in the context of disasters in the Philippines. Our primary source of data is a collection of news articles scraped from various Philippine news websites. …...

This study proposes the idea that the difference between the syntactic structures of a sentence and its translation pair in another language can be numerically represented by their Euclidean distance, calculated on the basis of the degree centralities and closeness centralities of the syntactic dependency trees of the sentences. The …...

The present work compares performance among several deep learning models, of which task is to clasify nativeness of English sentences. The current study constructs 4 models, each using different deep learning networks: RNN, LSTM, BERT and XLNet. We use 3 test suites to evaluate the four models: (i) 8 test …...

In this paper, we construct simultaneously multi-layer corpus annotation of 7 linguistic layers as a gold set. And we design the val- idation procedure using the gold set and re- port the results of a validation procedure for other large-scale corpus annotation of 7 lin- guistic layers. Furthermore, we present …...

Research on providing machine translation systems for unseen language pairs is gaining increasing attention in recent years. However, the quality of their systems is poor for most language pairs, especially for less-common pairs such as Khmer-Vietnamese. In this paper, we show a simple iterative training- generating-filtering-training process that uti- lizes …...